Farmworkers, Laborers
Employer
20001 SW 344th Street
Florida City, FL 33034
United States
Job description
Workers will be expected to perform the following: harvest squash, zucchini, corn, and okra, as well as complete assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Workers may be expected to participate in field picking and packing. Furthermore, workers will be required to pick by hand according to the criteria both described demonstrated by managers. These criteria include things such as size, color, and the maturity of the squash, zucchini, corn, and okra. Moreover, workers may also be expected to participate in field packing with duties including the following: grading and hand sorting, visual inspections, removal of debris, waste, and other foreign materials as the squash, zucchini, corn, and okra are sorted and packed by size. Workers may be asked to drive farm equipment in the field, shovel, haul, spread manure, dig holes, ditches and trenches, stake rows or tie off plants. Continuing, workers may also be asked to manually plant, cultivate, harvest, count, load, and unload vegetables (squash, zucchini, corn, and okra). Hand tools the workers may use are shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Also, workers may be asked to repair fences, farm buildings, and land improvement projects as well as clean farm equipment, as needed. Other tasks workers may perform are irrigation duties such as watering squash, zucchini, corn, green beans, and okra fields, moving and weed whacking pivots and wells, checking well dripper oil, drops and sprinklers for leaks, trimming headland tree limbs, and retrieving fertilizer tanks. This also includes cleaning and rinsing fertigation tanks between rounds, as well as assisting in the changing of draining of gearboxes, and flat tires on pivots. May drive workers to/from housing to fields and to grocery store once a week.
Special Requirements
A 14-day trial period, the employee will receive warnings, hours may be reduced to the minimum allowed in the certified petition or terminated. Workers may stand in one place for long periods of time and must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull reach, and lift while performing their required job duties. To ensure the safety of all employees, those operating machinery must be able to communicate with and adequately follow instructions given by supervisors. Employer reserves the right to restrict employees from operational duties who do not demonstrate proficiency to communicate effectively with supervisors to follow instructions and operate all equipment safely at all times to avoid placing other employees and members of the public at risk.