Farmworker

Job description

Crops/Commodities: fruit including, but not limited to berries.
Primary duties (performed the majority of workdays):
Blueberry Harvesting: Each worker will be assigned a picking badge for identification and for clocking in and out during the workday. The worker will keep the picking badge throughout the workday. Each worker will be given 2-4 buckets. Workers will move down assigned rows picking all ripe berries, placing them in buckets. Once full, each bucket weights approximately 6 lbs. When buckets are filled, the worker will immediately carry the bucket to the picking wagon. At the picking wagon, workers will dump each filled bucket into a lug where the worker will sort through the harvested berries and remove any berries that do not meet the company's quality/food safety standards. Each lug will then be inspected by the workers supervisor to see if worker is following the companies operating procedures and quality control requirements. The worker will receive credit for the bucket picked once the Supervisor has inspected and approved the lug. Any lugs that are not approved by the Supervisor will be returned to the worker to be re-graded. Workers may also be required to field pack blueberries into clam shells at the picking wagon. Based upon work performance, advancement is a possibility. Harvester may receive disciplinary notice if quality continues to be an issue. At the end of the workday, workers will present their picking badge to the Supervisor to clock out and to get credit for the full amount of production that the worker picked during the day.

Blueberry Farm Clean-Up: Workers will be required to perform miscellaneous blueberry farm clean-up work. These activities include pruning, repair and/or replace irrigation equipment, hoop/tunnel maintenance, plastic installation and removal, removal of debris and other general blueberry farm clean-up work as required.

Blueberry Hand Labor Worker: The positions main objective is to be responsible in handing food products and following directions for proper cleanliness standards. Workers may be required to work at night.

Weeding: Workers will walk down rows of planted crops using a garden hoe to remove weeds from growing around and within the plants. Care must be exercised as to not dig up or harm the adjacent vegetable plants. Worker must be able to walk, bend, kneel, stoop and stand for long periods of time and work at a steady and efficient pace. Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe/pickaxe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as directed by the farm manager and or/crew supervisor.

General Farm Labor: Some of the work required from the worker to be performed that is incidental to farming crops listed in this application may be described as performing and cultivation duties, planting strawberries, weeding or hoeing crops, cleaning, and racks, setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment.

Special Requirements

Jobs are offered working on a fruit farm handling manual and mechanized tasks associated with commodity production. Workers must be able to perform manual and mechanized tasks with accuracy and efficiency. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 100 lbs. Employer-paid pre-employment and post-hire drug testing required. Criminal background check required.