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 cultivate/ harvest vegetables, leafy vegetables, and tomatoes.

Lay Plastic (Drip): Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs onto machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Workers are required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout the field.

Special Requirements

Criminal background checks and/or drug screenings may be done post-employment at the employers expense. Due to communal living arrangements where workers entitled to free housing will reside in close proximity to one another with limited residential supervision, and due to food safety considerations, employer may conduct criminal background checks on all applicants offered employment in order to minimize the occurrence of crimes among residents.