Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
33.67831, -89.329134
Bellefontaine, MS 39737
United States
Job description
Duties may vary from time to time. Clearing ground of rocks, sticks, & roots by hand, clear brush and trees. General field & fence maintenance. Manually weeding fields by hand or using hand tools (machete, hoes, etc.) Use wood to build and repair boxes for digger with the use of nail guns or hammer. Drain water from fields with hand tools and shovel when needed. Work in extreme weather conditions. Must be able to work with minimum supervision. Sweet Potatoes - Use of mechanical digging equipment to dig potatoes. Ride the mechanical digger to harvest and grade potatoes. May operate tractor to dig potatoes in sweet potato fields. May harvest sweet potatoes by hand with use of buckets. Must be able to sort, grade, and pack potatoes by size, quality, or type. May operate skid loader. Load and unload boxes on trucks, trailers, or sweet potato harvesters. The workers may be asked to operate farm equipment such as forklift, skid loader and the tractor to dig potatoes in sweet potato fields.
Special Requirements
All tools, supplies, and equipment will be provided at no cost to workers. Applicants must be 18 years or older. Three (3) months experience needed for mechanical diggers and sorting and grading sweet potatoes. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. The company may conduct background checks on all new applicants for employment at the employer's expense. Workers may be offered more than the standard hours of work in a single day. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Hours of work may increase/decrease depending on crop yield and/or weather conditions and can occur at any time throughout the season. The majority of the workday is spent on one's feet and outdoors. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, and lift. The lifting requirement is 5-60 lbs.