Farm Workers

Job description

Plant, cultivate, harvest, and pack greens, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, cabbage, corn, cucumbers, herbs, beets, eggplant, and broccoli. Harvest and pack blueberries. Pollinate and detassel corn. Cultivate and harvest cotton.
Pre-harvest duties include tilling soil, planting, re-planting, cultivating, weeding, using shears, knives and other various cultivation tools. Determine product sustainability for harvest based on size, degree of maturity or market standards. Walk through assigned row while bending and reaching to harvest product of correct size and maturity. Harvest product using tools such as knives, clippers and shears. Harvested product will be placed in a bucket, carried to dumper, dumped into bin, or placed directly into bin.
Pollinate corn by placing bag over tassel and securing with a clip. Remove bags after the pollination process and detassel corn. Detassel corn by walking through corn fields, reaching to pull off the tassel of the corn plant and throwing it to the ground by hand. Walk throughout fields, bending down to pull rogue plants, weeds and volunteer corn plants. Long-sleeve shirts and long pants are recommended to minimize contact with the plants and thereby reducing the exposure to cuts and scrapes caused by the corn plants.
Install irrigation equipment, including laying and connecting pipes and hoses. Dig and maintain irrigation ditches, field roads and right-of-ways. Install or remove items required in plasticulture. Install or remove stakes, wire, netting or string using hammers, wire clippers and other tools. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from ground or trellises. Train vines or plants on strings or trellises. Harvest produce using tools such as knives, clippers and shears. Operate agricultural equipment to plow, harrow, plant, cultivate, or harvest crops. Grade, sort, wash, select, label or pack harvested products into bags or boxes. Ice greens. Crops may be harvested and field packed or packed in the shed. Stack boxes onto pallets, transport vehicles or trailers. Count and check harvested products. Clean and maintain materials, containers, facilities, fields, work areas, grounds, and equipment.
Workers who apply for and obtain an FLC or FLC employee certificate of registration with driving authorized by the USDOL Wage and Hour Division during the employment period may transport workers and may be offered additional work hours. Assist with Good Agricultural Practices policies.
Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.
Employer attests that it has sent (or will promptly send) original surety bond to CNPC.
Employer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker’s Sabbath or federal holidays. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time.

Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur anytime throughout the season. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and different tasks on different days.

TERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a two day introductory period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks.

Special Requirements

Three months of verifiable vegetable harvesting experience required. Perform prolonged walking, bending, pushing, pulling, stooping, heavy lifting and carrying up to 55 lbs. repeatedly. Perform repetitive movements. Work outside in inclement weather, especially extreme cold, heat and/or wet weather for extensive periods of time. Must be 18 or older. Employer is a drug free work place. Drug testing is conducted post-hire at the employer's expense and is not part of the interview process. Negative results are required before starting work.