Farmworker / Laborer

Job description

FARMWORKERS AND LABORERS:
Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest fruits, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.

PLANTING TREES:
Planting trees is a manual process in establishing an orchard to produce high quality fruit.
Planting tasks are but not limited to:
1) Plant Trees.
2) Clearing property.
3) Installing Trellis.
4) Installing Irrigation System.
5) Spreading composted materials.
6) Planting may be performed from a mechanized platform and/or from the ground.

See Addendum C, A.8a for more Job Duties information.

Special Requirements

2) Worker must possess 3 months of tree fruit experience.
4e) Must be able to lift and/or load 60lbs.
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)