Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
8130 Glover Road
Sodus, NY 14551
United States
Job description
Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest plants, nursery trees, and apple tree fruits.
Use hand tools, such as step ladders, straight ladders (up to 16 feet), shovels, hoes, pruning shears, stem clippers, and knives.
Duties may include: by hand/manually tilling soil, weeding, transplanting, pruning tree fruits, harvesting fruits and crops. Cleaning, packing and loading harvested products.
May be needed to perform other various farm duties, or any other necessary tasks.
Apples injured by bruising during picking/harvesting shall not exceed 1% (WNY) for fresh and 1% (WNY) for processing.
Productivity must be at least 4 bins stem clipped (80 bushels) fresh market and/or 5 bins fresh market (100 bushels) 6 bins (120 bushels) processing fruit per day. Workers must meet the productivity standards on a daily basis. Workers who do not meet productivity standards on a daily basis will be provided with additional training. Employer may terminate worker, with appropriate notice, if worker fails to meet listed productivity standards after appropriate training or break-in period.
Employer will furnish to workers, without cost all tools and equipment required in the performance of the duties assigned. Workers should report for work with their own suitable work clothing and foot wear. Field temperature may range from below 0 to 90+ F, with possible wet morning conditions.
Due to both worker safety and food safety concerns, workers must be able to speak and understand basic English to follow directions and communicate safety threats to the farm owner, other workers, and supervisors.
*Employer will provide 1 days orientation training specific to their farm and/or allow 1 days work to reach production standards.
Workers must be able to demonstrate that they have the skills described and are physically able to perform said work.
**Workers referred against this order must have a minimum of 3 months experience in performing tasks described in the order.
Special Requirements
None, as 8a contains our complete job description