Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
Highway 8 & 9 intersection
Calhoun City, MS 38916
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Sweet potatoes – use and riding of mechanical digging equipment to dig potatoes. May harvest sweet potatoes by hand with use of bucket. May be asked to drive tractor while pulling digger. Must be able to sort and grade potatoes by size, quality, or type. May also divine plants by hand in front of potato harvester. Load and unload boxes on trucks, trailers, and sweet potato harvester with skid steer. Workers may be asked to clear ground of rocks, sticks and roots by hand and clear brush and trees with chain saw. Manually weeding fields by hand/using hand tools & other farm tools. Use wood to build & repair boxes for digger with the use of nail guns/ hammers. Drain water from fields with hand tools & shovels when needed. Maintain, & clean all hand tools, and mechanical equipment prior to and after use. Workers must be able to work with minimum supervision.
Special Requirements
Applicants must be 18 years old and older. Three (3) months experience needed in riding mechanical diggers, sorting, and grading sweet potatoes. Safety training for use of farm equipment & tractors will be provided. The ability of an employee to safely operate machinery will be left to the discretion of management. To ensure the safety of all employees, those interested in operating machinery must be able to communicate with & adequately follow instructions given by management. Management reserves the right to restrict employees from operational duties who do not show proficiency to effectively communicate with management & may therefore place other employees safety at risk. All tools, supplies and equipment will be provided at no cost to workers. Work in extreme weather conditions. The majority of the workday is spent on ones feet. Worker must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach & lift.