Farmworkers and Laborers

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: General Pre Harvest Field Work: Prepping land for planting (shoveling, leveling). Plant Corn & Soybean: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine, placing a plant in hold that was missed and filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants on walkways. Harvesting Potato: Using hands and picking up potato of ground and placing into harvest sacks. Once sack is filled worker must carry the 30-50 lbs sack and place onto the harvest vehicle in the field and repeat the procedure. Workers must follow all harvest guideline request of the type, size and quality instructed by supervisor in the field. Harvesting Broccoli: The worker will be required to clip, cut, or pull product from plants into buckets. Then carry bucket to truck or mule train or bin on filed truck to be dumped into tank or bins. Harvesting Corn: The worker will be required to clip, cut, or pull product from plants into bucket. Then carry bucket to truck or mule train or bin on filed truck to be dumped into tank or bins. Harvesting Green beans: The worker will be required to clip, cut, or pull product from plants into bucket. Then carry bucket to truck or mule train or bin on filed truck to be dumped into tank or bins. Farm packing of Potato crop: The worker will be required to do the following tasks: Grading, Packing, box making, cleaning, sanitation, stacking, dumping, strapping, repacking, stickering, trimming and cutting with knives and scissors. Operate forklift and conduct safety inspection of forklift. Harvest Dumper: Workers are required to stand on top of; or on the side of, harvesting containers and receive full harvest buckets that are being tossed to the harvest dumper from the harvesting employees. Bucket produce will be dumped into various types of harvesting containers. After harvest dumper receives and empties the contents into the appropriate container; the harvest dumper will return the empty bucket to the harvesting employee. The harvest dumper will monitor the cleanliness of the containers and remove any additional vegetation from produce inside the harvest containers and toss unwanted vegetation to the ground. As containers reach full capacity, the harvest dumper will stack, if needed, an additional container (weighing approximately 60 - 80 lbs.) on top of the full container and continue the process. Operating Harvest Farm Equipment: The worker is required to operate harvest transport equipment from work site to farm loading destination during scheduled workdays. The workers are required to perform a maintained record, and logs of all inspections required of equipment operating. The workers are required to maintain equipment clean and use materials to maintain harvest transport equipment. General field Clean Up: The worker will be required to pick up harvest debris throughout the production area into containers provided. This clean-up includes digging out with shovel and picking up any remaining trash and debris in harvest fields.

Salary : $14