Harvesting Farm Labor/worker

Job description

The farm work position includes duties associated farm labor tasks for production of tomatoes. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds along with time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes adherence to instruction given in regard to proper procedures & technics based on operation of the machinery to be used to complete each task.

• Repack - Sorting previously stored (colored) tomatoes and discarding decayed/damaged tomatoes. Replace discarded tomatoes. Exchange tomatoes to a dry box as needed.
• Dump – Monitor bin dumper during production run. Clean out dump tanks as instructed.
• PreGrade- Sort tomatoes by hand to their respective location
• Grade – Sort tomatoes by hand to their respective location
• Box Maker – Feed material into their respective machines to form boxes and lids. Add glue to glue pots at regular intervals.
• Box Filler – Monitor fillers and ensure all are working properly. Pull off boxes that are overweight or underweight. Clear jams.
• Stacker – Manually stack boxes (25 lbs) onto wooden pallets.
• Forklift Driver – Operate Forklift for the purposes of unloading, loading, or to transport for one area to another.
• Checker – Generate and apply tags and assign cooling room location for storage of full pallets. Computer input.
• Clam Packer- Manually put clams in the box
• Box Pusher – Ensure that empty boxes are fed into the filler box chutes off the line circles all box filler chutes.
• Scooper- Scoop tomatoes in the hopper
• Janitorial- Sanitize the packinghouse throughout the day and at the end of the day.
• Shipping- Load pallets into trucks, handle the shipping documents, and process information in the system.
• Harvesting tomatoes- Using a 24 quart bucket the employee will hand pick “harvest” mature tomatoes from the plant by twisting the fruit from the vine (also remove calyz and stem from tomato) and place fruit into the bucket.  The types of tomatoes to harvest will be rounds, romas, cherries, and grapes.  Harvesting process will be repeated until the tomato bucket is full.  The harvester will lift the bucket and place on shoulder and stand upright.  The harvester will walk the filled bucket at a brisk pace to the field truck and toss filled buckets (by lifting bucket from their shoulder with both hands) to the harvest dumper.  The harvester will receive a token for each filled bucket of tomatoes.  Tokens will serve as a count of buckets harvested.  Repeat process.   
• Harvest Dumper-Harvest dumper is required to stand on the back of a flatbed truck and catch buckets of tomatoes (approximately 34 lbs).   The dumper will empty the contents of the bucket into various types of harvesting containers/trays that are stacked on pallets on the bed of the truck.  Dumper will place a token inside the bucket and return empty bucket back to the harvester on the ground.  The harvest dumper will serve as quality control and ensure that tomato in buckets meets the company’s quality standard.  The dumper will monitor the cleanliness of the containers/trays and remove any addition vegetation from produce inside the harvest containers/trays and toss unwanted vegetation onto the ground.  As containers/trays reach full capacity, the harvest dumper will stack additional empty containers on top of the full container and continue with the process.