Farm Worker

Job description

Crops/Commodities: Vegetables/garden crops, including but not limited to herbs, squash, cucumbers, pumpkins, peppers, green onions, zucchini, melons, and sweet corn.

Plants, cultivates, harvests and packs vegetables, including cantaloupes, cucumbers, eggplants, green beans, jalapeño peppers, chile peppers, bell peppers, pickling cucumbers, pumpkins, sweet corn, watermelons, winter squash, yellow squash and zucchini. Works on planter, plants roots, seeds and bulbs. May spread plastic or other ground covering. Cultivates, hand weeds and thins plants. Transplants plants, riding on transplanter or by hand. May stake/tie plants, trellis/prune plants, and set poles and wires for vine plants. Picks, cuts, lifts, or pulls crop to harvest them. Work may include planting and cultivating. Assist with irrigation and fertilization.

Considerable stooping and kneeling are required. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. May operate hand-operated equipment. May assist with general farm building maintenance. Employees will receive instruction from supervisor and will be required to accurately and adequately select cull and premium produce and distinguish size specifications. Workers must follow all food safety standards. Workers must be able to distinguish horticultural plants from weeds.

In addition, workers may be required to perform variable tasks such as the following: irrigation, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation and other tasks related to general farming.

Work may also include mechanized field work using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators and other equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate/maintain agricultural equipment with or without direction.

Special Requirements

We require two months of recent and verifiable experience within the past two years in agricultural field work, handling both
manual and mechanized tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities. This position requires a minimum of two months for the employee to get a full understanding of the job and responsibilities. Must be able to understand work & safety instructions in English or Spanish, the languages spoken and written in the workplace.