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:

Pull Plastic With both hands, grab all plastic and drip tape; remove it from the plant beds or field. Gathering plastic and drip tape to the ends of the field and/or walkways. Repeat process throughout entire field.

Pick Up Plastic Pick up bails of plastic and load onto truck to be delivered and then unloaded at the designated drop off area. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.

Harvesting of Tomatoes (Round, Roma) Using a 24 quart bucket, remove mature tomatoes from the plant with both hands (also remove calyx and stem from tomato) and place into the bucket. Repeat the process on each plant until the tomato bucket is full. Then lift the bucket and place on your shoulder, stand upright and walk at a brisk 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 tomatoes into the bin and returns the bucket with a token in it. Save the token to keep count of how many buckets you pick. Repeat process. Excluding round tomato vine ripe harvesting

Harvest Dumper Harvest dumper is required to stand on top of; or on the side of, harvesting equipment and receive full harvest buckets that are being tossed to the harvest dumper from the harvesting employees. Buckets weigh approximately 32-35 lbs. when filled with product and will be dumped into various types of harvesting containers. After harvest dumper receives and empties the contents into the appropriate container; the harvest dumper will return the empty bucket to the harvesting employee placing a token inside the bucket for them to receive. The harvest dumper will monitor the cleanliness of the containers and remove any additional vegetation from produce inside the harvest containers and toss unwanted vegetation to the ground. As containers reach full capacity, the harvest dumper will stack, if needed, an additional container (weighing approximately 60 - 80 lbs.) on top of the full container and continue the process.

Packing/Field tasks The worker will be required to do the following tasks: Grading, Packing, box making, cleaning, sanitation, stacking, hand jack and forklift operation, dumping, strapping, repacking, stickering, trimming and cutting with knives and scissors.

General Specifications and Physical Requirements of the Job:
The majority of the workday is spent on one’s feet, constantly in movement, and outdoors. Workers are rarely in one place for any period of time. It is estimated that 20% of the time will be spent field packing, 10% growing and maintaining, and 70% harvesting the products. All of the packing is done on in the field, as indicated as secondary agriculture under the FLSA definition of agriculture. Workers must be able to stand, walk, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, lift and carry items weighing in range from 5 to 35 pounds during the course of performing all required job specifications.

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.