Agricultural Equipment Operators/farm Worker/nursery Worker

Job description

BLUEBERRY Harvest: The workers will hand harvest blueberries at the location indicated by the supervisor. Workers pick blueberries from bushes. Workers will pick according to grade, color, and size by grasping berries with fingers and removing berries so as not to harm adjacent berries and buds, bruise the picked berries, or drop green or ripe fruit. Workers will place berries into flats or trays.

The workers will perform duties on the blueberry machine harvesters. Workers will sort fruit according to grade, color, and size by grasping berries with fingers and removing them from the sorting lines. Workers will lift and stage empty and full flats of berries to and from pallets. Workers will secure pallets of fruit for safe transport.

See addendum C, A.2A / A.2B Workers Needed, A.6-A.7 Anticipated Days and Hours of Work per week, A.8A Job Duties 1.1, A.8A Job Duties 1.2, A.8A Job Duties 1.3, A.8A Job Duties 1.4, A.8A Job Duties 1.5, A.8A Job Duties 1.6, A.8A Job Duties 1.7, A.8A Job Duties 1.8, A.9 Additional Crop or Agricultural Activities and Wage Offer Information

Special Requirements

2) Worker must possess 1 months of verifiable experience of blueberry & fruit and vegetable packing. This is an application for sweet corn, green beans, tall, fescue, wheat, blueberries, strawberries, squash, and pumpkins.
4g) Work may take place when temperatures are below freezing and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
4h) May require extensive pulling and/or pushing of tools, wheelbarrows, fruit containers, etc.
4i) May require worker to sit and/or walk for extensive periods of time while sorting, picking, examining, weeding, transporting, pruning, etc.
4j) Workers will be required to stoop and/or bend over while performing farm labor such as weeding, irrigating, pruning, picking, removing debris, etc.
4k) There will be repetitive movements while performing most of the farm labor duties, for example picking, sorting, pruning, shoveling, weeding, etc.

See Addendum C, B.6 Job Qualifications and Requirements 1.1, B.6 Job Qualifications and Requirements 1.2