Farmworker

Job description

Crops/Commodities:
vegetables.
Workers will be working in a vegetable greenhouse facilitity unloading, placing, consolidating, moving, loading and shipping in the most efficient manner while taking into considerations specifications, presentation and quality. Workers will be required to work in the most efficient way, understanding metrics, standards, processes, and time frames to get the job done at the same time making safety their top priority for themselves and others. Employees must be able to handle 50lbs and be able to do repetitive work. Employees that show an aptitude to drive equipment will be trained and certified to drive our farm tractor or warehouse forklift.

Shipping Vegetable Trailers:
Loading vegetable orders from the greenhouse into the shipping trailers. The trailer capacities are 847, 910, 924, 938 & 981. The vegetable trays get placed into the trailers to then ship to the customer. Employee will need to understand how to read order numbers, varieties and different sized trays. The tray sizes used for shipping vegetables are 72s, 128s, 242s & 392s. Each variety loading in the trailer must have a colored ribboned, map and a signed pulled sheet by the crew leader.

Beat Out Line (Trailers & Bins):
Unloading empty trays from the trailers that come back from the farmers field after they have transplanted their seedlings. The tray sizes used for shipping vegetables are 72s, 128s, 242s & 392s. Trays must be passed thru the beating machine for beat out, classified and palletized. There are few quality specs for separating trays on pallets, these are new, old and half used trays. All trays palletized must be strapped and put away in the north shade house. All broken trays that have a certain percentage of missing cells will be thrown away. Please refer to SOP for specifics per tray count. The upmh are 240 trays per man hour, this means we should be able to
unload two trailers per hour. A crew of 7 people should be able to unload two trailers an hour for 1680 trays. A crew of 7 people should be able to unload 14 large bins @ 117 each in an hour

Shipping Vegetable Bins:
Loading vegetable orders from the greenhouse into the shipping bins. The bin capacities are 45s, 99s & 117s. The vegetable trays get placed into the bins to then ship to the customer. Employee will need to understand how to read order numbers, varieties and different sized trays. The tray sizes used for shipping vegetables are 72s, 128s, 242s & 392s. Each variety loading into the bins must have a colored ribboned, map and a signed pulled sheet by the crew leader.

Shading Houses:
Two teams of two workers will be loading flatbed trailers with folded shade, placing folded shade on roofs of greenhouses, and unfolding the shade along the length of the greenhouses. This will all be done from the ground or from a flatbed trailer with railing. When shade has been removed from houses, it will have to be loaded onto the flatbed trailer and moved to an empty field to fold and tie up. Stacking Seed-Trays: Two workers will be needed to stack seeded EPS trays onto a pallet at a specific # of trays high. They will be stacking all-day and the only workers stacking trays. Poly Replacement: Pushing/steering plastic/poly deployer for replacement
of plastic roofs. Will need 6 workers just to push the poly deployer 150' at a time while replacing the double layer poly.

Placement:
Unloading flatbed loads of seeded vegetable pallets/trays into the greenhouse. The vegetable trays get placed inside the greenhouse for growing. Will need to understand how to read order numbers, varieties and different sized trays. Trays used for seeding are 72s, 128s, 242s & 39s. The materials used from placement will then have to be consolidated and sent back to the seed house for reuse.

Crop Mowing:
Celery requires weekly mowing during its grow time in order to bulk up the plant barrel.

Special Requirements

Jobs are offered working at a nursery or greenhouse handling manual and mechanized tasks associated with commodity production. Workers must be able to perform manual and mechanized tasks with accuracy and efficiency. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 50 lbs. Employer-paid pre-employment and post-hire drug testing required. Criminal background check required.