Farmworker/laborer
Employer
17985 Armada Center Road
Armada, MI 48005
United States
Job description
GENERAL FARM LABOR: Worker will be required to hoe or pull weeds as directed by supervisor. For staking tomatoes and specialty variety peppers, workers will stake with 12 to 96 inch stakes by hand with stake pounders weighing up to 20 pounds. Workers may also stake with air driven machines. Worker will sprout young shoots on the tomato plant as needed for optimum plant potential. Workers will pull out of ground and pick up 12 to 96 inch in length tomato stakes and place them in approved container. Worker will hook up and repair vegetable and apple irrigation. Worker will repair, clean and sanitize harvest buckets, bags, bins, and equipment as instructed. Workers will conduct pruning activities. Workers will conduct various farm and field clean up tasks such as raking brush, picking up rocks and roots and mowing grass on farm property as directed.
Special Requirements
Job requires worker to complete tasks in Farm Labor and Hand Harvest of Apples, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Cherries, Christmas Trees, Corn, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Green Beans, Herbs, Peaches, Pea Pods, Pears, Peppers, Plums, Pumpkins, Raspberries, Squash, Strawberries, Tomatoes, Wild Flowers and Zucchini, and Packing of Apples.
Experience Requirement: 3 months of verifiable hand harvest experience in tree fruit required. Applicants must furnish job references from employers within the last 5 years establishing acceptable prior experience.
Drug test not used as pre-employment tool.