Packinghouse Laborers

Job description

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:

Packinghouse Tasks - Workers will be required to do the following packinghouse tasks: Box making, cleaning, preform sanitation procedures, stacking, operating palletizer equipment.

Box Making- Worker is required by using their hands to pull cardboard material off staging area and fold into a box container that will hold produce. If using a Box machine worker is required to lift cardboard material and place at designated areas of the machine to make produce boxes.

General Cleaning/sanitation procedure-Worker is required to clean machinery of produce with cleaning tools. Spray, wipe down and mop floors.

Stacking- Worker is required to pick up produce box (weighing approximately 25lbs.) off line place onto a pallet and organize boxes to the pattern and height directed. When completed worker is required to grab an empty pallet and place to original area and repeat the procedure.

Operate Palletizer- Worker is required to operate machine under the direct company of personnel on how to pull levers and wait for machine to complete procedure. Must also preformed some maintenance on machine when not in operation.

General Specifications and Physical Requirements of the Job:
The majority of the workday is spent on ones feet, constantly in movement. Workers are rarely in one place for any period of time. All of the packing is done on the packing facility located on the farm, 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 25 pounds during the course of performing all required job specifications

Special Requirements

None