Farm Worker
Employer
900 North 2nd St.
Floydada, TX 79235
United States
Job description
Pumpkin Pyle grows and harvests about 850 acres of pumpkins, corn, squash, gourds and hay for wholesale. Employees will work in the field: cutting and packing produce, corn and hay in the fields. Employees will work in the company's produce storage facilities (owned and controlled by Pumpkin Pyle), where they will be required to pass a forklift certification test through an OSHA agent to be allowed to operate a forklift in order to move agricultural products (pumpkins, corn, squash, gourds, and hay) and load trucks with same. Employees will have to learn names of produce varieties through a translator, as well as clean, label/sticker with PLU numbers, and pack produce for shipment according to employer's specifications. Employees may be asked to help with produce storage facility preparations at the beginning and ending of the season, including daily cleaning and sanitation.
Special Requirements
Workers with a clean MVR and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be requested to operate employer-owned trucks or other multi-purpose vehicles to haul tools, supplies, crops, and transport workers (whether on or off farm) to and from the worker housing to the farm properties and occasionally around the farm properties during the workday including on public roads to reach the fields where work will be performed; and/or may transport workers to the grocery store, bank, or laundry facilities on an as needed basis. No applicants or workers will be rejected for not possessing a drivers license or who may be unwilling to drive company vehicles. Such duties are completely optional and may be declined by the worker at his or her sole discretion.