Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
NE Quarter of Jackson Road & Old Airport Road intersection
Pontotoc, MS 38863
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Must be able to work with minimum supervision and in extreme weather conditions. Duties may vary from time to time. Preparing the ground for planting. Clearing ground of rocks, sticks, & roots by hand, clear brush and trees with chain saw. General field & fence Maintenance. Use wood to build and repair boxes for digger. Manually weeding fields by hand or using hand tools. Drain water from fields with hand tools and shovel when needed. Load & unload boxes on trucks, trailers, or sweet potato transplanters and/or harvesters. Repair, maintain, and clean all hand tools and mechanical equipment prior to and after use. Build or repair barns or potato sheds. Workers may be asked to operate skid steer, tractor (pulling mechanical digger), and skid-loader (to load & unload trucks & trailers). Worker may be asked to do welding & torch work when needed. May transport workers to field and/or grocery. Soybeans, Peas, Sweet Corn, Watermelons, and Tomatoes: Workers may plant/harvest peas, sweet corn, watermelons, and tomatoes. Workers may use hand tools such as knives to harvest product from plant. Workers may shell peas with a pea sheller. Workers may be asked to drive semi-truck to haul soybeans and corn. Sweet Potatoes: Covering potatoes with use of bedding machine & covering with plastic. Pulling plastic from covered potatoes. Cut slips by hand with knife, place in boxes to load & unload onto trucks and trailers. Walk behind potato transplanter and fill in slips by hand. Riding mechanical transplanter and loading slips in planting cups. Divining plants by hand. Use of mechanical digging equipment to dig potatoes. May harvest sweet potatoes by hand with use of buckets. Must be able to sort, grade, & pack potatoes by size, quality, or type. Workers may be asked to drive semi-truck to haul sweet potatoes to storage areas, located on and off farm and operate farm equipment-driving in-field trucks/ATV’s, skid-steers, forklifts, or tractors using implements including hipper disk, dual, chisel, plow, bush-hog, gravity- flow buggy, potato trans-planter or potato harvester. Raises and bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker, at the employer’s discretion, based on individual factors including but not limited to performance, experience, number of hours worked in the season, number of seasons worked with the company, adherence to work rules & ability to follow supervisor instructions.
Special Requirements
Applicants must be 18 years or older. Three months of experience required in hand cutting slips, use of mechanical transplanter, grading/sorting/loading harvested products, & use of mechanical harvesting & cultivating equipment. Valid Drivers License required-if asked to drive vehicles and CDL required to drive semi-truck. Lifting requirement of 5-60 lbs. The employer may conduct a criminal background check on all new applicants at the employers expense. All tools, supplies, & equipment will be provided at no cost to workers. Safety training for use of farm equipment & tractors will be provided. To ensure the safety of all employees, those interested in operating machinery must be able to communicate with & adequately follow instructions given by management. Management reserves the right to restrict employees from operational duties who do not show a proficiency to effectively communicate with management & may therefore place other employees safety at risk.