Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
Jeff Barnes LLC- 3314 E Hwy 42 W
Wilson , NC 27893
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will perform the following task.
Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will perform the following task. Sweet Potatoes: Workers will transplant, pull weeds, and harvest sweet potatoes in the fields indicated. Transplanting sweet potatoes plants into the soil by hand and machine. Pulling weeds by hand in sweet potatoes fields. The worker will pick the potatoes up by hand into buckets. These buckets will be carries to a truck in the fields with empty bin boxes.
Tobacco Planting: Transplanting tobacco plants into the ground by hand. Suckering and Topping
tobacco by hand. Worker will remove the tobacco plant from trays by hand and drop it in the ground. Remove weed by hand from the tobacco fields along with any suckers that might be growing in the plant.
Tobacco Harvesting: Harvest tobacco by hand (workers will pull 3 or 4 leaves at a time from each plant and put it in a trailer.) Once it reaches the barn, the worker will place the tobacco in boxes to prepare for the heating process. After curing process the worker will remove the tobacco and bale it by filling a metal container to desired weight that will compact the leaves together into bales.
Bucket Unloading: Worker will be standing inside the plastic or wood boxes and receiving full buckets of sweet potatoes from the other workers that harvesting and unloading buckets full of sweet potatoes into the plastic or wood boxes. Workers are required to lift and carry at least 35 pounds.
Sweet Potatoes and Vegetable Hand Picker: Picking sweat potatoes by hand. Filling buckets completely. Carrying filled bucket to truck. Walking long distances, in hot or cold weather conditions. Toping Sweet Potatoes
Special Requirements
EB Harvesting may conduct a Drug/Alcohol test or conduct a criminal background post-employment at the employer's expense. Per the Department of Labor O-Net survey for job code 45.2092.02, Job Zone 1, SVP <4.0, the employer requires 1 month verifiable harvesting experience. Workers must have a valid drivers license or obtain one within 30 days.