Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
1352 Gregory Street
Augusta, AR 72006
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Clearing ground of rocks, sticks & roots by hand, clear brush and trees with chain saw. General Field & fence maintenance. Use wood to build and repair boxes for digger. Manually weeding fields by hand or using hand tools. May drive tractor while pulling mechanical digger and implements including: hipper disk, dual, chisel plow, bush hog and any other equipment related to cultivating, harvesting, crops. Participate in irrigation activities. Set up, operate, and repair irrigation systems. Drain water from fields with hand tools and shovel when needed. The workers may use or operate the following tools and equipment: Skid loader, digger, forklift, nail gun, power washer, drill, hoes, shovels, sickle cutter. -All tools, supplies and equipment will be provided at no cost to workers. Work in extreme weather conditions. Must be able to work with minimum supervision. May clean potato shed/Storage, warehouse which is located on the farm. Harvesting Sweet Potatoes: Use of mechanical digging equipment to dig potatoes. May harvest sweet potatoes by hand with use of buckets. Must be able to sort, grade & pack potatoes by size quality or type. Load and unload boxes on trucks trailers or sweet potatoes harvesters. Perform minor repairs, maintain and clean all hand tools and mechanical equipment prior to and after use. Repair barns, or potato shed located on farm. Workers may be asked to operate tractor, pulling mechanical digger. May also operate skid loader to load and unload trucks and trailers. May transport workers to fields and grocery store.
Special Requirements
Must be 18 years or older. The company may conduct criminal background checks. Three months experience needed in mechanical diggers, sorting and grading sweet potatoes. Valid drivers license required to operate company vehicles. Workers may be offered more than the standard hours of work in a single workday. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Hours of work may increase/decrease depending on crop yield and or weather and can occur at anytime throughout the season. The lifting requirement is 5-60 lbs. The majority of the workday is spent on ones 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. Work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold and other natural elements.