Farm Laborers
Employer
8564 Old Scottland Rd
Shippensburg, PA 17257
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Workers will plant, harvest, stake, transplant, load, and grade various types of fruit and vegetables. Workers will have some duties in a greenhouse. The worker will be required to use various hand tools provided by the employer. Worker will safely operate tractors, transplanter and other farm vehicles as directed. General farm work tasks the worker must be able to perform include: field cleanup including pulling weeds, maintain crops, laying plastic, gathering plastic, picking up trash, and pulling and palletizing stakes. Fruits and vegetables will include, but are not limited to strawberries, strawberry plugs and cuttings, sweet corn, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, sugar peas, beans, and ornamental flowers. Job includes working in the fields and greenhouses and doing general agriculture repair on the farm, farm buildings and equipment. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending and lifting up to 40 pounds for long periods of time indoors/outdoors in all weather conditions. 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. Workers must be able to communicate in English and by line of sight. The employer reserves the right to pay production bonuses to workers.
Special Requirements
Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. All new workers will be subject to a training period of up to two days during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker if the employer reasonably finds worker's performance to be unacceptable. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.
The employer may discipline the worker, including brief suspension of work activities/employment for a set period determined by the supervisor or termination of employment.