Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
33.723714, -89.27357
Calhoun City, MS 38916
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Clearing ground of rocks sticks & roots by hand, clear brush and trees with chain saw. General field & fence maintenance. Prepare ground for planting. Use wood to repair boxes for digger. Manually weeding fields by hand or using hand tools. Participate in irrigation activities. Set up, operate, and repair irrigation systems. Drain water from fields with hand tools and shovel when needed. Load & unload boxes on trucks trailers or sweet potato harvesters. Repair, maintain and clean all hand tools and mechanical equipment prior to and after use. Repair already existing barns, or potato shed. The workers will use tools like hoes, hammers, air gun. Workers may be asked to operate vehicles, farm equipment, drive all tractors (in the field), and implements on farm including hipper, disk, dual, chisel plow, potato trans planter, bush hog, skid steer, forklift, potato digger, water trailer, to water plants, and any other equipment related to planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops. Safety training for use of farm equipment and tractors will be provided. The ability of an employee to safely operate machinery will be left to the discretion of management. To ensure the safety of all employees, those interested in operating machinery must be able to communicate with and adequately follow instructions given by management. Management reserves the right to restrict employees from operational duties who do not show proficiency to effectively communicate with management and may therefore place other employees’ safety in risk. Workers may be asked to do welding and torch work when needed. Planting Sweet Potatoes - Covering potatoes with use of bedding machine & cover, punch holes, and remove plastic and paper from plant beds. Cut slips by hand with knife, and place in boxes to load & unload onto trucks. Walk behind potato trans planter and fill in slips by hand. Riding mechanical trans planter and loading slips in planting cups devining plants by hand. Workers will also perform plant dipping. Harvesting Sweet Potatoes: Use of mechanical digging equipment to dig potatoes. Load diggers by hand. May harvest sweet potatoes by hand with use of buckets. Must be able to sort, grade & pack potatoes by size quality or type. Load and unload boxes on trucks trailers or sweet potatoes harvesters. Repair, maintain and clean all hand tools and mechanical equipment prior to and after use. Make minor repairs to barns or potato shed. Workers may be asked to operate tractor, pulling mechanical digger. May also operate skid loader to load and unload trucks and trailers. May drive the company’s vehicles to transport workers to fields and grocery store. Raises and bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker, at the employer’s discretions, based on individual factors including but not limited to, performance, experience, number of hours worked in the season, number of seasons worked with the company, adherence to work rules and ability to follow supervisor instructions.
Special Requirements
Valid drivers license required to drive the companys vehicles. Must be 18 years or older. Three (3) months experience needed for hand cutting sweet potato slips and use of mechanical trans planter. Employer may conduct Background Checks to all new applicants at the (Owner's Expense). All tools, supplies and equipment will be provided at no cost to workers. The lifting requirement is 5-60 lbs. Work in extreme weather conditions. Must be able to work with minimum supervision. The majority of the workday is spent on ones feet and outdoors. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, and lift. Work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold and other natural elements.