Canopy Installer
Employer
B & W Quality Growers - 17825 79th Street
Fellsmere, FL 32948
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Worker must have general understanding of tools and farm equipment.
Canopy Installation – General Laborer: Workers will perform duties inside and outside of canopies to assemble canopy structures (similar to greenhouses). Duties Include: Installing culverts for field drainage. Installing, removing, and reinstalling sprinklers or irrigation during bed preparation. Basic irrigation maintenance. Making sandbags, cleaning and maintaining equipment and tools. Groundwork, including digging, shoveling, laying irrigation lines, installing irrigation pipes, connecting PVC, and building beds. Loading and unloading canopy materials. Installing or removing plastic coverings. Canopy assembly includes landing trusses and using hand tools to bolt metal components together. During assembly, canopy maintenance and repairs may include replacing worn or faulty, bended poles, posts, fan motors, replacing broken or worn plastics and curtains. Grounds clean up includes cleaning and maintaining work area, removing debris from bed preparation process, cleaning growing area, and finishing row ends. While most duties are manual, some operators will operate lifts, forklifts, and tractors to assist with assembly. A general understanding of tools and farm equipment is required. Workers must be able to lift 50 pounds and must be able to perform duties in outdoor working conditions.
Special Requirements
Criminal background checks and/or drug screenings may be done post-employment at the employers expense and at the employers discretion. Due to communal living arrangements where workers entitled to free housing will reside in close proximity to one another with limited residential supervision, and due to food safety considerations, employer may, at its discretion, conduct criminal background checks on all applicants offered employment in order to minimize the occurrence of crimes among residents.
Three (3) months experience assembling similar structures or farm Labor.