Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop

Job description

Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor.
A Corn puller will first be taken to designated field ready to be cut and harvested for that day. Once the corn puller is properly ready for work, the corn puller will line up in corn rows designated for him to pull. The worker will then proceed to stand in his or her area and bend over to each corn stalk and snap off ears of corn that are available to pull with his hands. After snapping off ears of corn, he will inspect them and then throw them onto tables that are located on the corn harvesting machine that will be moving behind the corn pullers as they continue to move forward in their designated rows. Everyday there will be different corn orders, there will be days when it will contain certain specifications on what needs to be cut, for example when dealing with first and secondary ears of corn etc depending on what the corn stalks have on them. The worker will be pulling corn, always keeping in mind that he will always have to meet company quality standards. Meeting these standards is a very important part of the job and the corn puller will have three to four days to train for these quality standards and the quantity of work expected from them and any other co-worker doing the same job. A corn pullers should harvests a minimum of 50 boxes of corn per hour in order to be able to move along with the machinery that will be continually advancing behind them; we expect any new corn puller to meet the same minimum within the first 5 days of work.
A Corn packer will line up in the correct spot in the machine wing, and be ready to pack the corn that will be thrown onto their table by corn pullers; workers will inspect the corn looking for defects and size and pack them into wooden crates or plastic containers. Crates or containers must be packed with 48 ears of corn unless specified differently by the supervisor. There will be different daily orders to complete specified by the supervisor, every day it will be explained what needs to be packed and not, each packer will be trusted to mark their crate or container with their crew colored crayon, marking the containers they pack will help keep up with their pieces and field back track purposes. The worker will be packing corn, always keeping in mind that he will always have to meet company quality standards. Meeting these standards is a very important part of the job, the worker will have three to four days to train for these quality standards and the quantity of work expected from them and any other co-worker doing the same job.
Tomatoes and Pumpkins: Once at the picking location, doing a row at a time, workers will move down the rows plucking the vegetables from the plants and putting them in a container. Once the container is full the worker will take the container to the truck and dump the content. The worker will go back to his picking area and fill his container up again, repeating the process through the work day.
Melons: the worker will walk down the melon field rows where the melon will be harvested. The worker will first cut the vine off the melon with a small knife and turn the melon over. The worker will bend over harvesting the ripe melon from the ground and tossing the melon to the worker next to him and this worker will toss the melon to the next worker and so on, until the melon is then tossed to the person inside the truck who will place the melon on the floor.
Packing: When the truck is full, it will be taken to the packing house where the workers will unload the watermelon and put it in a conveyer belt that will transport the watermelon into the packing house where it will be separated by size, labeled and packed.

Note: The packing house is located inside the Farm and more than 50% of the product processed is produced by the Fixed Site Employer.

Special Requirements

This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning.