Farmworker/laborer

Job description

FARM LABORER: Worker will be required to use employer provided hoe or knife to remove weeds around plants as directed by supervisor. Worker will be careful not to damage the surrounding plants. Worker will conduct field clean-up which includes picking up rocks, brush, and sticks. Worker will be required to use employer provided saw or back hoe to trim farm trees and brush. Worker will load brush, sticks and rocks on wagons to remove from growing area as instructed by supervisor. Worker will use power and hand saws, crow bars, hammers, air nailer to remove broken parts from bins and pallets and replace them with good pieces. Worker will be required to lift up to 70 lbs.

1. Field Planting/Seeding: Worker will carefully hand transplant plants with employer-provided hand-shovel. Plants shall be handled with care as not to break, damage or bruise the plant, while removing it from the tray and planting plant in the center of the predetermined hole. The plant shall be placed into the ground, so the root structure is entirely coved with ground soil. Plants will be centered in the hole as to not touch the sides of the plastic to prevent burning of the plant.

2. Plants may be planted mechanically with a planter and the worker will ride the machine and place plants in the drops as the machine moves along the row.

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Special Requirements

Job requires worker to complete tasks in General Farm Labor, Hand Harvest and Sorting/Packing of Peppers, Cabbage, Sweet Corn, Hard Shell Squash, Pumpkin, Pie Pumpkin, Molokhia and Potatoes.

Experience Requirement: 2 verifiable months commercial vegetable or fruit hand harvest experience required. Applicants must furnish job references from employers of the last 5 years establishing acceptable prior experience.

Drug Testing not utilized as preemployment tool.