Farmworker
Employer
28055 S Busco LN
Canby, OR 97013
United States
Job description
1. Planting, pruning, shearing, tree side shaping, top straightening, culturing Christmas trees and tagging for inventories, cutting away dead and excess branches from trees, using machetes, handsaws, clippers, shears.
2. Water, root-feed seedlings, herbicide application, tree spraying with backpack sprayer and fertilizing as directed by supervisors, in order to comply with the company's maintenance program to protect the fields from diseases, insects, pests, and environmental problems.
3. Trim jagged stumps, clear sites and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs; cable, brace, tie bolts, stake trees and branches.
4. Transplant and remove trees and shrubs, hoeing weeds, cutting and burning dead trees.
5. Worker should be able to push up to 75 lbs, and be able to lift up to 65 lbs.
6. Harvest trees and prepare them for shipment; harvest includes packing trees, bailing, and loading into trucks.
7. Operate farm equipment used in harvest, including balers, elevators, small tractors and other automated devices. Work in cold, wet or hot weather; field work and farm clean up tasks to include picking up the garbage around fields, harvest landings, shop and offices.
8. Drive tractors, spray and mix chemicals and fertilizers, operate of agricultural equipment (worker will receive proper training to be in compliance with state laws that require additional training for individuals handling pesticides/herbicides, etc.); perform general repair of agricultural equipment; pack crop into containers; all job activity will be limited to the farm.
Special Requirements
This job requires a minimum of 1 month of verifiable experience working on a Christmas tree farm, handling both manual and machine tasks associated with Christmas tree planting, culturing, maintenance and harvest.