Farmworkers And Laborers
Employer
Corteva Agriscience Utica Seed Production Facility - 3025 E. 8th Road
Utica, IL 61373
United States
Job description
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Work in extreme weather conditions. Must be able to work with minimum supervision. Clean-up Detasseling-Workers will be required to cleanup all tassels or part tassels that remain from plants after detasseling machines have covered the designated female rows. Workers may clean/maintain the fields from debris, clean around the packing house, clean machinery when going from 1 type of seed to another. Workers may stand in one place waiting on the dryer to finish so the truck can move and another can come. Workers may also be required to husk, sort during harvest. Workers will perform seed corn receiving, silage, Sorting and dryer load out duties as it pertains to harvest seed. corn crop and kernels. Workers will also manually harvest corn. Workers may also be required to husk, sort, grade, and pack during harvest from a conveyor belt system in the packing house. The packing house is located on the farm.
Special Requirements
Must be 18 years or older. The employer may conduct a criminal background check on all new applicants for employment. Must be able to work outdoors in direct sunlight and weather conditions will be hot and humid, raining and be exposed to pollen the entire day while performing their required job duties. Hours and days of work may vary due to weather conditions. The majority of the workday is spent on ones feet and outdoors. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time.