Strawberry Harvester

Job description

Crops: Strawberry
This position works under close supervision of the harvest crew leader. This position safely and efficiently harvests strawberry crop either by ground or with the assistance of a Harvest Pro machine. This position may perform other general labor work. This is a non-managerial position and works under the close supervision of the crew leader.
• Harvests fresh, juice and / or freezer depending on grower requests.
• Properly grades and sorts strawberries according to size and quality.
• Packages suitable fruit in required packaging container and box.
• Inspects strawberry fruit for signs of disease and insect manifestation.
• Cleaning of plants by disregarding inferior strawberries onto row floor.
• Reports all safety problems, incidents, and injuries to foreman immediately.
• Complies with all Company Policies, including observing appropriate lunch and restperiods.
Crop Maintenance/Weeder: The Weeder is responsible for manually removing weeds, cultivating, planting, transplanting, deflowering, crop removal, shoveler, bed up labor and all other duties as assigned with all berry crops. This is a non-managerial position and may performother general labor work, works under the close supervision of the crew leader.
Plant cleaning: weeding using long-handled hoes and by hand, pulling plastic, pulling of drip tape, plant/field maintenance, cleaning of old and new vegetative on plant bed. Plant bed will be classified as Medium or High according to the number of runners and new/old vegetative growth present during performing work tasks. Employer complies with the California health and safety rules applicable to hand weeding.
Workers may occasionally and/or sporadically perform duties associated with and directly related to the primary duties.
Essential Job Duties:
• Weeds and cultivates crop using both hands.
• Removes dry leaf debris from crop using both hands.
• Removes by hand the plastic layering from the crop.
• Applies Persimilis to crop.
Performs general ranch/field clean up:
• Complies with all Company Policies, including observing appropriate lunch and restperiods.
• Use of hand tools such as blade or knife to cut weeds.
• Use of hand tools such as blade or knife to cut runners.
Checker/Puncher: This position is responsible for berries quality and tracking harvest boxes picked by crew members. This position may perform other general work. This is a non-managerial position and works under the general supervision of the crew leader.
Essential Job Duties:
• Tracks boxes picked by using an electronic system scanner.
• Visually observes the quality of product picked and the pack style.
Works with the stacker to keep pallets moving and ready for pick up by forklift driver.
• Checks fellow coworkers in and out of work period using an electronic time systemscanner.
• Must not accept product from harvest until the required quality is meet.
• Assist in repacking product rejected by cooler.
• Records daily harvest totals.
• Reports all safety problems, incidents, and injuries to foreman immediately.
• May assist crew leader with office documents, i.e.: filling out new hire packets and dailyfield report. All such work is performed on a farm and is performed in conjunction with and incidental to the farming operations.

Continued on Addendum C.

Special Requirements

Must be able to keep up at a reasonable pace with the rest of the crew. Able to read safety signs. The employee is frequently required to walk, bend neck and waist, twist neck, repetitive grasping and fine manipulation with both hands, and reaching above shoulder level.Knowledgeable of electronic scanning systems to keep track of boxes and employee time.Reports all safety problems, incidents, and injuries to foreman immediately . Complies with all Company Policies, including observing appropriate lunch and rest periods.


See Addendum C.