Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
1550 NE 208th St
Okeechobee, FL 34972
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Workers will plant, cultivate, and harvest corn, grass, and soybeans for animal feed. Job duties include, but are not limited to, the following: shovel, level, haul, spread rock, dig holes, ditches, and trenches, mowing and trimming grass. Use hand tools such as shovels, trawls, hoes, grass trimmer, mower, pruning hooks, pruning shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil, transplanting, thinning, or pruning crops and spraying insecticide, fungicide, and herbicide with an air blast sprayer on tractor and 4-wheeler. May also construct, repair, and maintain fences and farm buildings and irrigation system repairs and maintenance. Detasseling seed corn, remove rogue plants, weeds, and volunteer corn plants from seed corn production fields. Detassel Corn – Must be able to walk miles per day while pulling all tassels from plants within the designated female rows, including tassels on tiller/sucker plants. Tassels will be pulled as they emerge and before shedding pollen. Rogueing – Workers will remove all rogues or off-type plants from within and between seed cornrows. Clean-Up Detasseling – Workers will be required to clean up all tassels or part tassels that remain from plants after detasseling machines have covered the designated female rows. Workers may also be required to husk, sort during harvest. Workers will perform seed corn receiving, silage, sorting, and dryer load out duties as it pertains to harvest seen corn crop and kernels. Clear ground of rocks, sticks, and roots by hand, Clear brush & trees with a chainsaw or related hand tools. May use the following equipment: tractor, cultivator, cutting heads, choppers, silage baggers, silage wagons & trailers, mini excavators, skid steers, hand saws, RTV’s, grease guns, air compressors & attachments, shovels, rakes, sprayers, seed drills, hand tools, battery operated hand tools, combine, lagoon pump, lagoon crawler, and liquid manure wagons. Workers duties will include the spreading of fertilizer or liquid manure. Workers may also clean and organize the shop, irrigate crops, and fix fences, cut, and rake. Workers may also be mixing spray chemicals and loading them into the sprayer and spraying the High Cycle Sprayer. Drain water from fiends with hand tools and shovels when needed. Repair, maintain, and clean all hand tools & mechanical equipment prior to and after use. OFLC Administrator publishes new AEWR rates yearly and we reserve the right to adjust our job order to the new published rate with the exception of decreases. Raises and bonuses may be offered to any seasonal workers, at the employer’s discretion, based on individual factors including but not limited to performance, experience, number of hours worked in the season, number of season worked with the company, adherence to work rules and ability to follow supervisor’s instructions.
Special Requirements
Must be 18 years or older. The employer may conduct a criminal background check on all new applicants for employment. Safety training for use of farm equipment & tractors will be provided. Workers should come prepared wearing appropriate clothing and footwear for the environmental and working conditions described. Cell phone can only be used during breaks, emergencies, and to communicate with supervisor when needed. Must be able to work with minimum supervision. Must be able to work outdoors in direct sunlight and weather conditions will be hot and humid, raining, and exposed to pollen the entire day while performing their require job duties. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, and lift. Lifting requirement is 5-60 lbs. All tools, supplies, and equipment will be provided at no cost to the worker. The ability of an employee to safely operate machinery will be left to the discretion of management. To ensure t