Field Worker

Job description

The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, harvesting of onions. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.

Onion
Workers will plant, transplant, cultivate and harvest and pack vegetables. Workers will be required to remove weeds by hand or with a hoe. Workers will bend and stoop to pick and grade vegetables according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately fifty (50) lbs. and empty into field bin or load onto trailer. May be required to pull and discard culls as directed by supervisor. Pickers will take care not to bruise or scar produce. Pre-harvest activities may include staking, tying, transplanting and pruning. Workers will stand on feet for long periods of time. Workers are required to work in fields when plants are wet with dew or rain. Tasks include washing and grading produce, handling bags of soil in a greenhouse, moving trays and loading products. Support daily of greenhouse operations which includes covering of greenhouses and cleaning. Hauling of water will be required.

Workers may also be required to remove old or damaged plastic and irrigation drip tape along with any other trash, rocks or debris from the planting areas. Workers will assist in preparation of field areas prior to installation of new plastic and drip tape. Workers will also be responsible for irrigation installation, servicing and operation, spraying crops, fixing drainage tile, shovel work, weed pulling, hoeing and plastic installation to ensure the health of the crops.
General duties include weeding, tree and brush removal, lawn care,cleaning, demo and cleaning up old buildings, repair and maintenance on buildings and equipment, general painting, power washing and polishing, hand digging drainage ditches, gardening and spreading mulch, baling hay and straw, grain drying, stacking hay and straw, Additionally workers will be responsible for cleaning livestock pens and feeding animals, grain bin maintenance and cleaning,and tillage work.

Special Requirements

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