Farmworkers, Laborers, Crop
Employer
Packing House and field-764 Lawson Road
Lyons, GA 30436
United States
Job description
Perform manual labor to plant, harvest, pack and stage onions, corn, broccoli, pecans and blackberries. Transplant, harvest and pack dry onions, salad onions and onion plants. Maintain and harvest pecan crops. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning or pruning crops. Walk through assigned row while bending and reaching to pick ripe blackberries by hand without bruising or damaging the fruit or bush. Workers must use care to pick bushes clean of all berries of the correct color and size that are suitable for shipment to fresh fruit markets, as instructed by their supervisor. Blackberries will be picked, graded and packed into clam shell containers in flat trays according to supervisors instructions ensuring that there are no leaks. Once flat trays of clamshells are full, workers will carry two or three trays at one time to trailers located in the fields at the end of the rows where fruit is inspected for quality and weight. Blackberries may also be harvested into five gallon buckets which are then carried to the end of the rows for inspection and dumping. Workers must continuously check harvested berries when placing into clamshells or buckets. Defective and low quality fruit will not be accepted and must be discarded. Defective berries include, but are not limited to those that are green, red or leakers. Buckets and trays will be inspected to insure berries are free of defects, and if accepted, workers will have their card scanned for each completed flat. Workers must harvest fruit of desired size, ripeness and use care when harvesting not to damage berries or bushes. Clean fields when harvest activities are complete. Workers will walk down rows, bending to prune and remove floricanes that are done producing fruit and tipping runners using hand pruners.Remove sticks from pecan orchard. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, shears and wheel barrows. Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment. Pick up old pecans in the field to be hauled off. Remove unwanted weeds by hand in orchard. Operate tractors to harvest crop. Operate forklifts and other equipment. Cut and move broken branches. Pull, bundle, bag and throw bags of onions onto wagon that is moving through the field. Ride on wagon and toss out bundles of onions to be planted. Place onion plant into predug hole and cover up hole with hand. Open fields by moving onions from one row to another row to open up a driveway for the machinery. Hand harvest onions. Clip top and bottom of onion, place in bucket, once bucket is full worker will carry to dumper. Count and check onions. Dumper will empty bucket and give the harvester back the empty bucket with a token/ticket. Onions are unloaded at the packing house to be graded and packed. Workers will also peel onions if machine doesnt peel onion correctly and freeze. Workers will also peel salad onions by hand or with scissors. Pull corn off of stalk and place into crate. Once 48-ear crate is full, close lid and twist wire to hold closed. Take crate to worker on wagon and worker on wagon will take crate and stack on wagon. Worker will receive a token for every 48-ear crate. Grade, sort or classify harvested products on an assembly line according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel, smell and quality to ensure correct processing and usage. Discard inferior or defective products and or foreign matter while leaving acceptable products on conveyer for further processing. Place products in containers according to grade and mark grades on containers. Close containers/boxes and record grade and/or identification numbers. Measure, weigh and count products and materials. Stack boxes/containers onto pallet. Assemble boxes and build pallets.
Special Requirements
Three months of verifiable farmwork experience required. Work outside in extreme weather conditions including hot, cold and/or wet weather. Walk, sit, bend, stoop, reach, push and pull for extended periods of time. Lift, carry and load up to 50 lbs. Must be 18 or older. Employer is a drug-free workplace. Drug testing is conducted post-hire at the employers expense and is not part of the interview process.