Fieldwork And Irrigation

Job description

Crops: Watermelons, Broccoli, Cabbages, Cantaloupes, Carrots, Cauliflower, Pumpkins

Fieldwork and Irrigation: Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, in-field transporting and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities. Maintain work locations and equipment and sites where required. Workers with proper licensure may be asked to transport other farm workers.

Agricultural Equipment Operator: Drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops. May operate computer programs to operate machinery or to track inventory. May perform post-harvest tasks such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning. Maintain work locations and equipment and sites where required. Minor mechanical maintenance if required.

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

Must have 3 months verifiable experience in farm work. Applicants must furnish verifiable job references or comparable third-party documentation from recent employers to establish acceptable prior experience. This requirement will be applied equally to all new foreign and domestic candidates.
In order to operate agricultural equipment, workers must have a valid, insurable drivers license or be eligible to apply for the same at no cost to the worker. Must have clean MVR.