Farm Workers

Job description

Plant, cultivate, harvest, and pack beans, squash, tomatoes, corn, pecans, and sod, and harvest peanuts by hand or machine. Operate machinery in connection with the ginning of cotton.
Walk through assigned row while bending and reaching to harvest squash, beans, tomatoes, and corn making sure that plant is picked clean of correct size and maturity. Operate ginning machinery. Press, sample, module feed and rake loose cotton. Load and unload cotton bales. Load cotton seed. Load cotton modules, bring them to the feeder, un-tarp modules, move bales from press to bale slab. Tie, tag and bag bales of cotton as they come out of the press. Remove a sample of the cotton from each bale per supervisor's instructions. Roll USDA Government Samples. Load bales into vehicles for transport. Clear blockages, clean lint filters, and pick up cotton on yard. Transport cotton on yard. Harvest peanuts and transport peanuts on yard. Plant, cultivate, and prune pecan trees. Maintain pecan orchards by spraying, fertilizing, and mowing. Harvest, clean, grade and pack pecans. Obtain pecan samples. Transport pecans on yard. Plant, cultivate, and harvest a variety of sod and grass. Assist in soil preparation, including removing rocks, roots, limbs, stumps, trees, and other debris. Operate tractors, mowers and specialized agricultural equipment to plant, cultivate, mow, harvest, and palletize sod. Lift, carry, load and stack onto pallets by hand or machine. Manually lay and/or remove plastic and/or drip tape. Count, load, and unload products and/or materials. Clean and maintain containers, materials, supplies, and work areas. Perform farm and shed sanitation duties. Clean around farm and buildings including pulling weeds and raking. Dig ditches. Participate in irrigation activities. Lay irrigation pipes. Set up, install, and operate irrigation equipment. Operate, repair, clean and maintain farm equipment, machinery, and vehicles. 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 drive the bus or other vehicles to 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.

There will be 2 shifts ocurring for the entire contract. The first shift will begin at 7:00am and end at 3:00pm. The second shift will begin at 8:00am and end at 4:00pm.
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

Two months verifiable farm work experience required. Work in extremely hot, cold and/or wet conditions. Walk, bend, sit, reach, stoop, stand, push/pull, perform repetitive movements, and lift and carry 50 pounds. Must be 18 or older. Drug testing is conducted post-hire at the employer's expense and is not part of the interview process.