Farmworker
Employer
2717 DUBLIN EASTMAN RD
DEXTER, GA 31019
United States
Job description
Employees will be expected to perform work activities related to planting, weeding, cultivating, harvesting, and packing onions. Workers will be expected to harvest, clip, bag, and/or load produce. Pull Onion Plants: Workers will pull 100 plants; place them together and put rubber bands around the bundle. According to the maturity of the plants, the supervisor may vary the number of plants per bundle. Workers will cut tops and place bundles into field bags. There are 3,000 plants per field bag. Workers must bundle the correct number of plants and put the correct number of bundles into bags. Plant Onions: Workers will pick up plant bundles and take off rubber bands. Workers will put one plant into each hole made by the pegger. In most cases a plant bed will be 100 feet long and four rows wide, with plants being 4 inches apart. There will be cases where a plant bed will be 100 feet long and four rows wide with plants being 4.5 inches apart. Before they start a field, workers will be advised what plant distance they will be planting and the correspondent piece rate applicable. Workers must be careful to place the plant all the way into the hole made by the pegger. Walker: The walkers will walk fields and count bundled bags produced by each worker. They will also examine the quality of onion planting and report to supervisor. Loader: Workers will load field bags of onion plants onto the truck to be transported to the field where the onions are planted. Throwing: Workers will give the bundles of onions gathered in the seedbeds to the workers in the fields to be transplanted. General Activities During Operations General: All Crops: During field operations, workers may be required to operate forklifts, drive a truck, pull weeks, move irrigation pipe, clean and repair housing, and perform farm and field sanitation.
Special Requirements
Employer will conduct drug test upon accident. There will be no charges for the drug test to the employee. If worker refuses or test positive, this will be a probable cause for employment termination.ditional Information Regarding Job Qualifications/Requirements