Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop
Employer
15342 CO. Road 721 S
Okeechobee, FL 34974
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor.
PLANTING: All crops. Worker will plant and/or replant as needed. These tasks will include repetitive and physically demanding shovel work. Worker may lift up to 60lbs. Worker may be required to ride a mechanical planter (training will be provided). Worker may be required to hand plant using tools such as a spade or hand trowel.
Cabbage: The cabbage Cutters will line up in designated cabbage rows. Workers will bend over each cabbage to cut. After cutting the cabbage, workers will inspect and trim. Workers will then put the cabbage in a bag and put the bag on a stainless steel table that will be continually pushed behind the cutters as they proceed on their rows. Workers should be able to keep up with the machine.
Kale: Workers will unload packing supplies from equipment. Workers will hand harvest. Pick multiple rows at a time and don't change rows until they get to the other end of the field. Worker will be required to selectively pick only leaves of a certain grade, color and/or size as instructed by the supervisor and discard leaves that do not meet grade standards. Workers will remove any weeds manually by hand that may be in the bunch before continuing. Worker cuts greens with a knife or may break the leaves off by hand according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity. Worker makes uniform bunches, secures bunch together with rubber band or twist ties according to order specifications, places bunches of greens into a container. Worker may place an identification tag on the bunch. For loose or loose with no stem, worker cuts greens with a knife or maybe directed to break leaves off by hand according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place leaves in a container. If a container is a box, worker makes the box. Worker closes container after packing and loads container onto wagon/trailer. Defective fruit that do not meet grade standards, as directed by supervisor, will be picked and thrown on ground. Worker may also work on packing equipment where the worker would stand on the back of a harvesting machine and ensure that boxes are filled to the proper level with loose greens. Worker will make the box. Worker will then give the full box to another worker where it will be stacked on a wagon/trailer. Workers will be required to stoop, bend and lift up to 30 pounds for long periods of time. Workers will be terminated immediately if seen intentionally destroying, defacing or causing damage to produce or crops.
Lettuce: The Lettuce Cutters will line up in designated lettuce rows. Workers will bend over each lettuce to cut. After cutting the lettuce, workers will inspect and trim. Workers will then put the lettuce in a bag and put the bag on a stainless steel table that will be continually pushed behind the cutters as they proceed on their rows.
General Field Maintenance: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on work site property, on structures utilized in the work site operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair.
Special Requirements
This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning.