Farm Worker

Job description

Cutting Watermelon: This job entails making significant decisions based on size, color, and ripeness following predefined standards. Compliance with important food safety and quality standard operating procedures is necessary, along with the ability to work rapidly and consistently in collaboration with fellow workers. Instructions will be provided for each task, and performance standards will be communicated to the worker. Workers will be allocated a row or series of rows and tasked with selecting and harvesting produce based on outlined criteria demonstrated by managers, such as size, color, and ripeness. They will be responsible for grading and discarding poor-quality, rotting, and/or overly ripe produce in the field . Workers must be able to maintain the premium quality of work required to complete work requirements all the time. Workers must not alter the quantity or quality of work performed. For workers who are assigned as cutters, the supervisor on duty will explain what the warehouse is asking for that day including the requested size, weight, and sugar level of the Watermelon. From there they will have to carry out their work following the instructions of the supervisor. Cutting any other type of watermelon that was not instructed by the supervisor/ Employer is NOT allowed. The only watermelon that is allowed to be cut will be any considered “Quality 1 Watermelon” which is not ripe enough, rotten, bitten by animals, etc. Cutters who do not meet the quality standard will be given 2 documented warnings.

Loading Watermelon: For the workers who are assigned in the loading area, their task will be to load the watermelon previously chosen and cut ONLY by the cutters. You are not allowed to cut watermelon from the ground or load any watermelon that has not been previously picked and cut by the authorized cutter. You are not allowed to hit or damage the watermelon when they are being loaded into the trailers. It also entails making significant decisions based on size, color, and ripeness following predefined standards. Compliance with important food safety and quality standard operating procedures is necessary, along with the ability to work rapidly and consistently in collaboration with fellow workers. Instructions will be provided for each task, and performance standards will be communicated to the worker. Workers will be allocated a row or series of rows and tasked with selecting and harvesting produce based on outlined criteria demonstrated by managers, such as size, color, and ripeness. They will be responsible for grading and discarding poor-quality, rotting, and/or overly ripe produce in the field.

Packing Shed, on the farm: Workers must perform extremely careful work with each watermelon that passes through the unloading conveyor belt for unloading, cleaning, labeling, and classifying by size, weight, color, etc. They will then pack them into boxes that go directly to the store, always following the orders of the supervisor or the on-duty managers. Workers may also drive a Forklift and/or Ag equipment.

General Farm Work: Workers will perform general field duties to include but not limited to irrigation (will be in charge of checking the irrigation system and irrigation schedule), laying plastic, putting and pulling tape out, cleaning ditches, fixing fences, fixing leaks, general farm cleaning (picking trash from fields and roads).