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:

Lay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to 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. Workers are 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 field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. Paid to the group of 15 workers per acre competed per hour.

Plastic Repair : Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.

Shovel Work / Weeding: Shovel work. 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. Weeding: Worker is to pull plastic from row & drip tape and place at end of filed walkways. String cutting is also to be cut using a knife issued and remove and place at walkways at the end.

Planting: Tomatoes-Peppers-Squash-Eggplpant-Cucumbers: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows. Paid per Tray planted.

Planting Parsley: When needed, replanting will require employees to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows. Paid per Tray planted.

Planting / Replanting: When needed, replanting will require employees to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.

Irrigation Installation & Removal: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed.

Staking-Crop: Using both hands gathering bundles of stakes from bed of field truck and carrying to place a tomato stake between each tomato plant. Each stake must remain upright. Repeat process through entire rows and field. Once the first procedure is performed by an air hammer system being pulled by a tractor, the worker places an air hammer over the stake to drive in the stake 12" - 14" into the ground. If using manual hammers, worker must place opening over stake and pound stake into the ground also 12" - 14”. This task will include cleaning up and removal of broken stakes as needed.

Special Requirements

The employer may conduct criminal background and/or drug screening at the employer's expense on all new applicants post-employment.