Farmworkers And Laborers

Job description

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will fulfill the following duties:

Shovel Work: Workers are required to use a shovel to dig in areas directed by supervision and place dirt in area required.

Lay Plastic (Drip): Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.

Planting (Manual): Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery unit and unloading trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Carrying plant trays and walking along plastic row ways and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil around hole to fill in space around the plant. Removing plants at walkways. Placing empty trays back onto plant delivery unit.

Staking: 24: -30" (Manual Stab & Drive): Using both hands gathering bundles of stakes from bed of field truck and carrying to place a stake on both side of the plant. Each stake must remain upright. Repeat process through entire rows and field. If using manual hammers, worker must place opening over stake and pound stake into the ground also 12" - 14". This task will include clean up and removal of broken stakes as needed. Paid per 100 ft.

Tying: Attaching a small box of string to one's waist with belt and in one hand using a tying stick in the other hand, attach string to the tying stick. Then take the tying stick and looping string around the pepper or cucumber stake and standing plants between stakes and pulling string tight to hold the plant up between stakes. Continue process for each plant stake and plant for entire plant field on both sides of the plant. This task will require the removal of empty boxes and trash from field at the end of the tying process.

Weeding/Hoeing: Workers is required to walk filed areas directed by management and hand pull weeds from fields and place at directed spots on field.

Harvest Dumper: Worker is required to stand on top of or on the side of, harvesting the containers and receive full harvest buckets that are being tossed to the harvest dumper from the harvesting employees. Buckets weigh with produce approximately 30 -32 lbs. when filled with product. Bucket with produce will be dumped into various types of harvesting containers. After harvest dumper receives and empties the contents into the appropriate container; the harvest dumper will return the empty bucket to the harvesting employee. The harvest dumper will monitor the cleanliness of the containers and remove any additional vegetation from produce inside the harvest containers and toss unwanted vegetation to the ground. As containers reach full capacity, the harvest dumper will stack, if needed, an additional harvest container on top of the full container and continue the process until reaching the requested height and weight limits of the harvest unit.

Special Requirements

E-Berry Harvest may conduct criminal background and/or illegal drug screening at the employer's expense on all new applicants post-employment. Failure to pass criminal background check and/or illegal drug screening is grounds for termination.