Farm Worker Supervisor

Job description

Agricultural crops/commodities include apples, peaches, blueberries, blackberries, pears, plums, nectarines, cherries, apricots, tomatoes, flowers.

Supervise, train, and assist employees in the following tasks:
-Pruning-use hand saw and loppers to cut off branches.
-Planting-use shovel to dig holes large enough to accommodate tree roots, back fill with soil, firm soil around tree.
-Thinning-use hands to remove excess fruit from branches.
-Weeding-use hands to pull weeds in berry rows, lay weeds to side of row.
-Picking berries-use hands to pick ripe blueberries/blackberries from bushes, place berries in 30 pound bucket, carry bucket (about 500 feet) to barn, weigh bucket, pour into 30 pound flats, put flats in cold storage in barn.
-Picking peaches and apples-hand pick ripe fruit, put in 40 pound picking bag, dump bag in bins located in orchard.
-Grading-remove culls and put in 40 pound discard boxes, put good fruit in 40 pound boxes, put boxes on pallets.
-Press apples into apple cider.
-Tractor and Forklift operation

More broadly, the duties the farm supervisor will perform are as follows:
- Assign work tasks, issue equipment, and communicate to coordinate overall work
- Monitor crop progress and report status to farmer or farm manager
- Provide training to workers on crop/farming techniques
- Maintain irrigation equipment
- Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs
- Maintain inventory/order materials as required by farmer or farm manager
- Plan/schedule work crews, equipment, or transportation for worksite(s)
- Drivers license required

- Repair and maintain farm vehicles, equipment, fences, and other structures.
- Load agricultural products into trucks, and drive trucks to market or storage facilities.
- Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
- Direct processing of crops including grading and cider pressing.
- Maintain cold room storage crop inventory inventory
- Operate and maintain agricultural equipment including tractors, forklifts, tractor-drawn machinery. Worker may attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, and harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. Worker may load containers and products using forklifts

Driving/trucking details:
-Use 14000 GVWR straight truck to transport crops between storage facilities or to local market(s).
-Use 37000 GVWR straight truck to transport crops between additional orchard property (2820 Creamery Rd) and main property with storage facility (3325 Creamery Rd).

Special Requirements

This job requires a minimum of 10 months of supervisory agricultural experience working in orchard/farming operation handling both manual and mechanized tasks associated with fruit production and harvest activities. Applicants must be able to
furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior
experience. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs. Clean driving record required. Must have or be able to obtain drivers license within 30 days following hire.