Farm Worker

Job description

Workers will be harvesting mature coffee cherries in orchards owned and maintained by Greenwell Farms, Inc. The harvest in process includes being able to stand for multiple hours, picking coffee cherries, and carrying in a waste basket. Pickers will need to empty their waste baskets into burlap bags; tie, lift, carry these bags to put them onto delivery trucks. Other tasks include the pruning of coffee trees, removing the weeds around the crop, planting and transplanting of coffee trees, the spraying of pesticides and other farm maintenance tasks such as cutting grass with a weed eater or machete, cutting trees with a chainsaw or handsaw, removing the overgrowth of grass, weeds, or other invasive plants in the coffee farms.

Periodically during the contract period, workers may be used as laborers in the pulp mill (where coffee cherry is pulped and dried into parchment). Their work there will include, unloading full coffee bags of coffee cherry, moving full coffee bags of coffee cherry around the mill, dumping coffee cherry into vats for processing, loading and unloading coffee driers, and general clean up around the mill.

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. Driving does not occur on a regular schedule. No applicants or workers will be rejected for not possessing a driver’s 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. The Employer can and will make alternative arrangements for the transportation of workers should the need arise.

Special Requirements

3 months verifiable experience working on a coffee farm required