Field Workers, Van Drivers

Job description

Field Workers: to perform the following duties on all row crop vegetables. 

CAL VAN/VAN DRIVER SPECIFICATIONS: 
1. Employee may drive Cal Van (not busses) over the road.  
2. Employee picks up workers from different housing sites/pick up points and takes them to an assigned work site and at the end of the workday takes them back to the housing site/pick up point. 
3. Employee will also work in the assigned crew 
4. In order to drive a Cal Van, Employees must possess standard valid drivers’ license (state issued) and must be able to pass Class B Physical exam and register as an FLCE driver. 
 
All employees in this position (H-2A as well as corresponding domestic workers), will be given the opportunity to obtain a driver’s license (DL) and register as an FLCE driver on a voluntary basis.  The DL and FLCE Certificate are not a pre-hire job requirement.  No job applicant will be denied an employment opportunity due to a lack of a DL or FLCE Certificate at the time of application and/or hiring.   Further, no worker (H-2A or corresponding domestic worker) will be terminated for failure to obtain a DL or FLCE Certificate.   

Mechanical Vegetable Harvest  
Positions: Sorters, Machine Operators, Box / Tote Makers, Tractor Drivers, Stackers/Loaders, General Labor 
Under the direction of the supervisors or crew boss, a General Labor field worker walks in uneven furrows in front of the machine cleaning out beds to ensure quality of product. Field workers (Sorters) stand on top of a machine and sort machine-harvested product for quality and debris as it falls into toates on a conveyor. Tote makers ride on trailer next to harvest machine assembling cardboard boxes or plastic totes. Tractor drivers and machine operators run equipment such as tractors, harvest machinery and forklifts. Stackers/Loaders receive full totes from harvest machine and stack and secure on pallets of finished product.  

Transplant: 
Field workers to perform the following duties: Field workers work on the transplanting machine platform and/or walk on uneven furrows behind a transplanting machine. As the machine moves, the workers working on the machine platform manually load trays of product into the transplanting machine to be inserted automatically by the machine into the soil. As the machine moves forward, under the direction of the field supervisor, the workers walking behind the machine on uneven furrows and have to carry trays of product.  As field worker walk, they have to look for gaps not filled in by the transplanting machine. If there are gaps or product not transplanted correctly by the machine, the field worker has to manually grab the product from tray, the workers then bend at the waist and inserts (plants it) in the bed (on soil).

Special Requirements

Requirements: 3-months row crop cleaning experience and harvesting experience to avoid crop damage and personal injury. Written verification of experience is required. Must be able to use shears, clippers, hoe, and other agricultural tools, no smoking, illegal drugs, alcohol, or weapons of any sort in the housing or work fields. Ability to communicate in English or Spanish is encouraged for training and safety purposes. Workers must be able to physically perform the work stated herein.