Farm Laborers

Job description

Lemon harvesters to perform the following duties:

All work is performed in the field on the farm.

Hand harvest of lemons by climbing a ladder and picking the fruit by hand and placing in a bag that can eventually way 50 pounds when full. Employee will then dump the bag of fruit into a bin; the process is repeated in the field on the farm. Employee will also prune and perform general farm labor.

Row boss: Worker is responsible for citrus row quality and row cleanliness. The Row Boss is the Foremans assistant. The row boss ensures that the workers are doing their exercises, washing their hands and carrying out their work. The row boss assists the Foreman with the scanning of the workers for start and end times and lunch and break time and also scans the individual bins of each worker. The row boss fills out documentation for Food Safety, Production and Quality Control. Over the course of the day the row boss does quality control reviews and constantly checks that the workers are using the sack and ladder properly. The row boss checks the bins with product, so people do not damage the product during the harvesting. In general, the row boss assists the Foreman with all of their responsibilities.

Special Requirements

1 month of citrus harvest experience is required. Cannot be color blind due to the need to distinguish colors of crops for proper ripeness and maturity, able to use shears, clippers and other agricultural tools, no smoking, illegal drugs, alcohol, or weapons of any sort in the housing or work fields. Proficiency in English or Spanish is required for training and safety purposes. Work is performed outdoors in open fields and can involve exposure to sun, wind, mud, dust, heat, cold and other elements of the normal field environment. Temperatures can range from 20 degrees F to over 100 degrees F during the period of employment. Workers should come prepared with appropriate clothing and footwear for the work and working conditions described.

See addendum C.