Farmworker/laborer
Employer
3114 Dutch Lane Rd.
Sodus, MI 49126
United States
Job description
Worker will be required to complete the following activities: general greenhouse work; seeding; lay plastic mulch; irrigation work; field planting; stake tomatoes/tomatillo/eggplant /specialty variety peppers; apply tying twine between tomato/tomatillo, eggplant and or pepper stakes; tunnel assembly and disassembly; hoe or pull weeds; vine and row cucumbers; sprout young shoots on eggplant and tomato/tomatillo plant; hand harvest to quality standards of green slicing cucumbers, roma tomatoes, tomatillo, eggplant, zucchini, summer squash, variety specialty peppers, pickles, berries, currants and asparagus; pack employer's produce only to food safety standards; conduct various field and farm clean up tasks such as, trimming trees, pulling stumps, picking up rocks and raking leaves; cut tying twine; remove from the ground plastic mulch, drip tape and stakes. Drive and operate tractor, forklift, and other farm equipment to perform farm tasks; drive employer provided vehicle to and from the worksite and to other locations, drive trucks to deliver employer's product to market and storage locations.
Pay will be hourly.
Special Requirements
Job requires worker to complete tasks in general farm labor, barn packing of and the hand harvest of: green slicing cucumbers, roma tomatoes, tomatillo, eggplant, zucchini, summer squash, variety specialty peppers, pickles, berries, currants and asparagus.
Experience Requirement: 3 verifiable months of commercial agricultural experience with a vegetable base required. Applicants must furnish job references from employers of the last 3 years establishing acceptable prior experience.
Worker must be able to perform job description duties in safe manner consistent with established safety procedures.
Worker agrees to drug testing as a condition of employment. Testing done at employers expense and not utilized as a pre-employment tool.