Farmworkers And Laborers

Job description

Field/Farm Worker: The Farm Worker performs general duties on the farm to ensure the overall quality of a farm is maintained by performing physical labor and operating machinery under the supervision of the ranch manager.

Essential Functions: • Plants, cultivates, harvests crops on the diversified-crop farm. • Rides on planter machine or manually planting by digging furrow and covering after seed drop. • Weeds or thin plants using hoe or gardening tools. • . • Positions, ties leaves, prunes limbs, runners, buds from vines, on plants such as cucumber (all cucurbits), beans or all vine crops to work towards market-quality development. • Sets irrigation line, checks for leaks, flushes out debris and repairs lines to irrigate seedlings for successful growth. • Harvests crops using appropriate methods, such as picking, pulling, cleaning, cutting, sorting, bagging, boxing, and transporting to the facility for market ready product finish. • May also drive and operate farm machines to grow and harvest any combination of crops the farm grows. • Helps to safely attach farm implements such as plow/harrow, disk, bed shaper, roll tiller, fertilizer hopper, seed driller/planter, manure/sand spreader and soil spreader.

Nursery Worker: The Nursery Worker performs general duties on the farm to ensure the overall quality of a farm is maintained by performing physical labor and operating machinery under the supervision of the ranch manager. Essential Functions: • Loads, unloads, prepares and sanitizes seedling trays • Screening and mixing of farm compost • Plants into seed bed either manually or semi-manually • Rides on planter machine to drop seedlings in furrow spouts. • Weeds or thin plants using hoe or gardening tools. • . • Positions, ties leaves, prunes limbs, runners, buds from vines, on plants such as cucumber (all cucurbits), beans or all vine crops to work towards market-quality development. • Harvests crops using appropriate methods, such as picking, pulling, cleaning, cutting, sorting, bagging, boxing, and transporting to the facility for market ready product finish. • May also drive and operate farm machines to grow and harvest any combination of crops the farm grows. • Helps to safely attach farm implements such as plow/harrow, disk, bed shaper, roll tiller, fertilizer hopper, seed driller/planter, manure/sand spreader and soil spreader.

Tractor Operator / Land Prep: The Tractor/Farm Equipment Operator contributes to the efficiency of the farming fields by driving and controlling farm equipment to till soil and to plant, cultivate and harvest crops. The Tractor/Farm Equipment Operator may also operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks. Essential Functions: • Operating tractors and other farm equipment safely and efficiently. • Performs inspections of tractors and attachments to ensure they are well lubricated and in good working condition. • Safely attaches farm implements such as plow/harrow, disk, bed shaper, roll tiller, fertilizer hopper, seed driller/planter, manure/sand spreader and soil spreader. • Determines and adjusts tractor speed and implements to fit condition of grounds such as the depth, row width and field markers. • Monitors machine operations to ensure optimum operations. • May need to use tractors to help transport materials and pull or push agricultural equipment. • Operating tractors and farm equipment to help prepare fields.

Special Requirements

3 months of verifiable prior farm work experience with corn, melon, cucumber, onion, zucchini, watermelon or pumpkin is required.
Drug test is employer-paid, post-hire, can be random or upon suspicion. Post-accident drug testing required. Any worker who declines to take or fails a mandatory drug test will be terminated.