What are the responsibilities and job description for the Farmworker/equipment Operator position at Short lane Vegetable Farm?
Workers will plant, weed, harvest, stake, and transplant, crops by hand but mostly using machines such as a tow
behind mechanical transplanters, stake-drivers, and tractors. Install, repair, and retrieve header and irrigation lines.
Repair fence, use weed eater to mow weeds around fence and high tunnels. Assemble cardboard shipping
containers. Clean and sweep packing areas. Assemble high tunnels. Pull plastic onto and off high tunnels. Sweep
high tunnel floors. Pound in tomato stakes and pull out tomato stakes. Manually push up plastic to ventilate high
tunnels. Load and unload delivery trucks. Load and unload farm trucks. Clean mud off squash washer. Stack
pallets and fold used bins. Repair wooden bins. Sweep floors in equipment sheds. Loading & unloading wagons. Packing tomatoes and cucumbers. Tying up tomatoes and cucumbers. Weeding tomatoes, strawberries. Lifting and wrapping plastic mulch. Suckering tomatoes and cucumbers. Workers must be able to communicate verbally in English and by line of sight. Crops are strawberries, cucumbers, tomatoes, broccoli, zucchini, cauliflower and sweet corn, asparagus.
Salary : $14