Farmworkers And Laborers

Job description

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will fulfill the following duties to harvest and maintain fruit:

Operating Harvest Farm Equipment: The worker is required to operate harvest transport equipment from work site or farm destination during scheduled workdays. The workers are required to preform a maintained record and logs of all inspections required of equipment operating. The workers are required to maintained equipment clean and use materials to maintain harvest transport equipment properly clean.

Harvesting trials of organic plants (tomato-Pepper): Pulling peppers/tomatoes into trail containers and place on harvest equipment.

Vegetation clean-up: The worker is required to pick up vegetation off the ground and place on equipment by hand and tossing into machine to collect. The worker will monitor the cleanliness of the containers and remove any additional trash from produce inside the harvest containers and toss unwanted trash into a container. As containers reach full capacity, the harvest if needed, will place additional container (weighing approximately 60 - 80 lbs.) and continue the process.

General Specifications and Physical Requirements of the Job:
The majority of the workday is spent on one’s feet, constantly in movement, and outdoors. Workers are rarely in one place for any period of time. It is estimated that 20% of the time will be spent field packing, 10% growing and maintaining, and 70% harvesting the products. All of the packing is done on in the field, as indicated as secondary agriculture under the FLSA definition of agriculture. Workers must be able to stand, walk, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, lift and carry items weighing in range from 5 to 35 pounds during the course of performing all required job specifications.

Special Requirements

Drug/Alcohol Testing: E-Berry Harvest may conduct criminal background and/or drug screening at the employer's expense on all new applicants post-employment. Failure to pass criminal background check and/or drug screening is grounds for termination.