What are the responsibilities and job description for the Farm Worker position at Kirk Laborers Association LLC?
Crops: Christmas trees and potatoes
CHRISTMAS TREE OPERATIONS: Lift and carry 80-pound trees continuously throughout the day and after dark with lighting provided. Cut trees using hand saw or chainsaw. Bundle trees, prepare for transport, and load them into containers. Field work and clean up. Maintain a safe and healthy work area and report any safety concerns to the supervisor.
Other job specifications include:
1. Workers will perform maintenance in Christmas tree fields and related product grown for Christmas sales fields including cone picking, weeding, hoeing with long-handled hoes, trunk painting, spreading fertilizer, culturing Christmas trees, base
pruning and tagging Christmas trees.
2. Workers must be able to use hand pruners, machetes and other hand tools involved with the harvesting and culturing of Christmas trees.
3. Christmas tree/related produce operations, workers must harvest/cut full-grown trees/product, lift, and carry trees up to 80 pounds, and load them into a container, continuously throughout the day.
4. Provide general labor to assist in planting new trees by clearing property, planting seedlings, assembling trellises, installing irrigation, spreading of composted material and other labor considered necessary to develop new properties.
5. Cares for trees during the growing process - recognize tree diseases.
6. Farm clean up tasks include picking up garbage around the field and harvest landings and cutting and burning unmarketable trees located in clear-cut sections.
7. Spot weed spraying, Limb removal, hoeing weeds, maintaining areas at the Shop, Office, or Housing.
8. Maintain a safe and healthy work area and report any safety concerns to the supervisor.
Workers may also:
1. Utilize tractors to haul harvested trees, cones, foliage, and crops
2. Mix and apply chemicals and fertilizers
3. Operate trucks on farm to carry farm equipment to worksites, move freshly harvested trees and crops. Basic maintenance of agricultural equipment.
5. Put crops into boxes, gaylord containers, and trucks.
6. Operate farm equipment used to produce and harvest Christmas trees/related products. This would include balers, elevators, small tractors, packaging equipment and other automated devices.
Workers who possess a valid driver's license and meet all applicable legal requirements, including holding a doctor's certificate as required by 29 CFR § 500.105, may be asked to drive vehicles for transporting workers, goods, or commodities. This task is voluntary, compensable, and not a mandatory job duty. Workers without a valid driver's license or doctor's certificate will still be fully eligible for employment and are not disqualified from any other job responsibilities outlined in this application.
POTATO OPERATIONS: 1. Operate a pressure washer to wash buildings, equipment and vehicles. 2. Provide general labor to assist in grading and sorting potatoes in the potato house. 3. Operate farm trucks and pickups to carry crops and farm workers to and from the field. 4. Operate lawn mowers and weed whackers to mow lawns and trim up grass around buildings, fields, and equipment. 5. Lift bags of potatoes ranging from 5 lbs. up to 50 lbs. 6. Operate a forklift and/or skid steer to move pallets and boxes around the farm dooryard and buildings. 7. Operate a bin piler used to fill trucks and fill the potato house. 8. General clean up including shoveling and sweeping dirt and debris around harvest equipment and buildings. 9. General repair of agricultural equipment. 10. Hand pick, wash, and bag potatoes.
Salary : $19