Farm Labor
Employer
234 Juniper Knoll Rd
Macdoel, CA 96058
United States
Job description
1.Type of Crop: Strawberry Plant Position Description: “Strawberry Plant Planter”
Work Description: Employees will be working on moving platforms while planting bare root strawberry plants in an outside strawberry nursery. Their duties will be focused on placing bare root plants on mechanized planting wheels to ensure a consistent and even planting of strawberry plants. This demanding work will require focused, disciplined, and repetitive eye hand coordination and physical activity. The personal equipment required to perform these duties consist of Tyvek suits and nitrile gloves. These items will be provided by the employer.
2.Type of Crop: Raspberry Plant Position Description: “Raspberry Root Planter”
Work Description: Employees will be working in an outside, raspberry nursery. Their duties will be focused on hand planting rows of raspberry root material. This demanding work will require extended periods of walking, bending or kneeling, focused, disciplined and repetitive eye hand coordination and physical activity. The personal equipment required to perform these duties consist of Tyvek suits and nitrile gloves. These items will be provided by the employer.
3.Type of Crop: Strawberry Plant Position Description: “Strawberry Row Tunnel Assembler”
Work Description: Employees will be working in an outside, strawberry nursery. They will be walking behind the strawberry planting machine. Their duties will be focused on final assembly of the strawberry plant row canopies. This work will require extended periods of walking, bending or kneeling, and repetitive eye hand coordination and physical activity. Attention to detail, disciplined focused and considerable physical activity will be required. The personal equipment required to perform these duties consist of Tyvek suits, hand trowel and medium grade gloves. These items will be provided by the employer
See Job Duties 1.2
Special Requirements
2) Worker must possess 3 months of Nursery Experience in Strawberry, and Raspberries 4e) Must be able to lift and/or load 60lbs. 4g) Work may take place when temperatures are below freezing and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. 4h) May require extensive pulling and/or pushing of tools, wheelbarrows, fruit containers, etc. 4i) May require worker to sit and/or walk intermittent periods of time while sorting, picking, examining,, weeding, transporting, pruning, etc. 4j) Workers will be required to stoop and/or bend over while performing farm labor such as weeding, irrigating, pruning, picking, removing debris, etc. 4k) There will be repetitive movements while performing most of the farm labor duties, for example picking, sorting, pruning, shoveling, weeding etc