Farmworkers And Laborers

Job description

Job Description
The farm work position includes duties associated with livestock production, maintenance of retail farm market, farm, field and shed maintenance, sanitation, and post-harvest cleanup as well as duties related to the deployment and maintenance of in-field irrigation. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers.

Job Specifications
Poultry: The worker will be expected to perform the various activities associated with the general care and maintenance of chickens. These duties will include, but are not limited, to: loading/unloading of live poultry, remove chicks from shipping cartons and place them in brooder houses; cleans and fills feeders and water containers. Once the chicks obtain their feathers, they are put into pasture as free range chickens. Once chickens are moved the worker may spray poultry houses with disinfectants. Worker will inspects poultry for diseases and removes weak, ill, and dead poultry from flock; selects, weighs, and crate chicken; and records totals packed or crated on shipping or storage document; maintains feeding and breeding reports; monitors feed, water, illumination, and ventilation systems; and cleans, adjusts, lubricates, and replaces systems parts, using hand tools; may cut off tips of beak.

Workers will feed, move and maintain egg producing hens. Workers will collect, process and pack eggs in preparation for sale.

Workers will be expected to perform various activities involved in the processing of the chickens for fresh/frozen market retail sale. The processing facility is located on the farm and the workers will only process chickens that have been raised by the employer. Workers will be expected to assist in the packing and packaging of orders for pickup on farm. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer.

Pigs: Employer purchases feeder piglets when they are 8 weeks old from a breeder. The pigs are grown over the course of 6 months. During this time, workers will need to feed the piglets, move them between paddocks, make any repairs to the electric fence, move shade structure and watering containers throughout the day. At 8 months old, the employer transports the pigs to a USDA processor. The meat is returned to the employer who keeps it in freezers located on the farm. The meat is sold from the employer to consumers.

Farm, Field, and Shed Sanitation: Workers may be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping and mopping floors, cleaning equipment and other similar farm and shed sanitation as part of SOPs and SSOPs within Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), Good Handling Practices (GHPs), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for Food Safety. This includes personal hygiene and handling the livestock in the field and shed with an emphasis on food safety, sanitizing all harvesting and packing equipment and keeping the fields and shed as clean as possible.

Other: Workers will be expected to assemble new livestock pens when needed. In addition, workers will be responsible for repairing any fencing used in the free-range chicken section along with the livestock pens. In addition, workers will be required to keep the free-range and livestock pen area clean, mowed and trimmed along with maintaining the vegetation around the farm grounds. Workers will be responsible for the transition of boxes to and from trucks, freezers, coolers and other storage areas.

Special Requirements

Employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post-employment and at the employer's expense.

Employer may conduct criminal background checks post-employment and at the employer's expense.