Farmworker/laborer

Job description

Job requires worker to complete tasks in general farm labor, hand harvest of bell peppers, specialty peppers, eggplant, squash, broccoli and tomatoes.

Farm Laborer: Worker must exercise caution at all times to not break or damage crops, plants, equipment, or harm other workers. Worker will be required to stoop, bend, and lift up to 60 pounds throughout the day.

Train Plants: Worker may be required to properly place plants back in strings if they are disturbed by the weather or if the stakes break. This will be done according to supervisor instructions.

Weeding: Worker will remove weeds on plastic beds by hand, as instructed by supervisor. Worker will be required to safely use a hoe to weed between plastic. Worker will be required to safely use hoe and clippers throughout the day. Worker will throw weeds onto ground.

General Farm Maintenance: Worker may be required to fix or repair plastic that is loose or damaged. Worker will dig ditches in plastic for drainage. Worker will install, repair and replace or remove irrigation lines as instructed by supervisor. Worker will be required to use shovel throughout the day.

General Field Clean-Up: Worker will clean field of plastic, trash, or crop-growing materials, as instructed by supervisor.

Seeding & Planting: Worker will perform hand tasks in Greenhouse to sow seed. Worker will take plants from flat and place into the ground where the root ball is completely covered. Worker will gently firm soil around the plant. This will be done either by sitting on a transplanter or by walking through the field. At times, this will be a replanting process where worker may have to remove a dead or damaged plant according to supervisor instructions.

Pay will be hourly.

Special Requirements

Experience Requirement: 2 verifiable months of commercial agricultural hand harvest experience in vegetable or fruit fields. Applicants must furnish job references from employers within the last 7 years establishing acceptable prior experience.

Season Commitment: Job offered requires worker be available for and worker agrees to work every day that work is available for entire employment period.

Drug testing may be required if worker is involved in workplace injury resulting in damage to property or injury to others. Worker agrees to testing as a condition of employment. Testing done at employers expense and not utilized as a pre-employment tool.

Worker must be able to perform job description duties in safe manner consistent with established safety procedures.