Farm Workers And Laborers

Job description

Transplant sweet potatoes: workers will hand cut all sweet potato slips required for that work day and hand load all boxes onto a field truck to be transported to the field. Workers will operate farm trucks and tractors from field to field. Workers will ride the mechanical transplanter careful placing each sweet potato plant in the wheel that plugs the plants in the ground. workers will have to get off each end and reload the sweet potato plants used and repeat this process throughout the workday. workers will be siting for long periods at a time. workers will also have to walk behind the mechanical transplanter plugging in the holes missed by the group of workers riding the transplanter.

General Farm Labor: workers will perform general farm labor around the farm like digging trenches, ditches there for workers will be required to lift 90 pounds since moving that dirt in a wheel barrow will weight 90 pound and pulling and chopping weeds. workers will be required to walk for long periods of time. will be exposed to extreme hot and rainy weather conditions. workers will uniformly get the row assigned to pull and chop weeds and will compete it without moving on to the next rows.

Special Requirements

Workers may be required to submit to a drug screen post hire at the employer's expense and will not be part of the interview process.