General Farm Worker

Job description

Workers will perform duties associated with and directly related to strawberry harvest work, such as harvesting, planting, pruning, irrigating, weeding with a longhandled hoe (4 ft or longer in length), cutting runners, cleaning runners, training plants, operating machinery and other agriculture activities including but not limited to picking and packing strawberries and blackberries in field for fresh market. Workers are required to distinguish quality and ripeness, pick, and place in tray/packing containers in the field along a machine. Once packing containers are full they will be stacked on the machine for transport. Work requires walking, bending and
repetitive hand and wrist movement. Employees will use 4 strawberry harvesting machines, they are operated by a hand remote control. The machines go in front of pickers. the machine does not pick strawberries it only holds empty and full boxes, but it does require one employee to operate it by remote control, stop-start, and turn.
The employee also picks but when the machine gets to the end of the row, he hits the stop button so they can unload full boxes and re-load empty boxes. The employee in charge of the hand control carries the control in a holster attached to his belt.
Moderate to cold climate, should be prepared to dress appropriately. Workers must have 1 month experience in picking and packing strawberries to minimize injury to workers and product. Once hired, worker may be required to take a random drug test at no cost to worker. Testing positively or failure to comply will result in immediate termination from employment. The results of such drug tests may be used in making lawful and job-related decisions as to worker's ability to perform his/her job duties
in a safe, coordinated and appropriate manner. detected substance abuse practices in a production environment are recognized as potential hindrances to the safe, timely and appropriate carrying out of such tasks as lifting, carrying, walking on uneven terrain, climbing trees, use of tools, chemicals and meeting individual or team 183.65production standards. Workers are required to do everything possible to avoid all loss or harm to selves and crops.