Farmworkers And Laborers

Job description

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will fulfill the following duties to harvest and maintain fruit:

Lay Plastic/Shovel Work: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.

Tying All Crops: Attaching a small box of string to one's waist with belt and in one hand using a tying stick in the other hand, attach string to the tying stick. Then take the tying stick and looping string around the pepper stake and standing pepper plant between stakes and pulling string tight to hold the plant up between stakes. Continue process for each pepper stake and plant for entire pepper field on both sides of the plant. This task will require the removal of empty boxes and trash from field at the end of the tying process.

Harvesting of Cucumbers Crops: Using a harvesting bucket, remove mature produce from the plant with both hands and place into the bucket. Repeat the process on each plant until the bucket is full. Then lift the bucket and place on your shoulder, stand upright and walk at a safe pace until you reach the truck with bins. Lift the bucket from your shoulder with both hands and hand it to the person next the bin. The person next to the bin, dumps the produce into the bin and returns the bucket. Repeat process.

Harvesting of Pepper Crops: Using a harvesting bucket, remove mature produce from the plant with both hands and place into the bucket. Repeat the process on each plant until the bucket is full. Then lift the bucket and place on your shoulder, stand upright and walk at a safe pace until you reach the truck with bins. Lift the bucket from your shoulder with both hands and hand it to the person next the bin. The person next to the bin, dumps the produce into the bin and returns the bucket. Repeat process.

Special Requirements

Drug/Alcohol Testing: E-Berry Harvest may conduct criminal background and/or drug screening at the employer's expense on all new applicants post-employment. Failure to pass criminal background check and/or drug screening is grounds for termination.