Farmworker And Laborer

Job description

The farm work position includes duties associated with the care and maintenance of cattle. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers.

Hay: Moving and stacking hay. Worker must make sure that the surface of the cut fodder has dried. Using a side-delivery rake, the worker will then turn the windrows over allowing the hay to dry completely. The worker will inspect the hay for no other foliage. Dried hay may be stored in stacks or in bales. A truck or trailer will be driven between the windrows, and will be used to gather the fodder for stacking. The workers will fork the hay onto the trailer. Ropes should be laid on the trailer bed before any hay is loaded, in order to unload the hay quickly.

Livestock: The worker will be expected to perform the various activities associated with the general care and maintenance of cattle. These duties will include, but are not limited, to: feeding cattle, nursing sick cattle, bagging and grinding of feed, loading and unloading of feed, stock feeding, tagging calves, and repairing of and maintenance of fences. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer.

This work requires adherence to important safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase nursery stock, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.

Vehicle and Equipment Operation: Vehicle operation may include tractors, trucks combine, planters, mowers, back-hoe, tree spade, hand tools, trailers, haytedders, UTVs, and excavators. Workers will be instructed how to safely operate any of the mentioned vehicles or equipment prior to use.

Farm, Field, Shed, and Equipment Maintenance: Workers may be responsible for building and removing temporary/permanent fences, picking up trash, debris removal, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping, raking, using blowers, cleaning of farm structures including barns, tractor shed, stables, housing structure, pumps, irrigation, wells, simple road work, fire breaks, prescribed fires, and mopping floors, and other similar farm and shed sanitation as part of SOPs and SSOPs within Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), Good Handling Practices (GHPs), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for Food Safety. This includes personal hygiene and handling the crops in the field and shed with an emphasis on food safety, sanitizing all harvesting equipment and keeping the fields and shed as clean as possible.

Special Requirements

Employer may conduct criminal backgrounds checks post employment and at the employer's expense.

Employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post employment and at the employer's expense.