Farm Laborer
The farm work position includes duties associated with the cultivating, harvesting, and field packing of fruits and vegetables. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in reputed company weather conditions. It also includes making important reputed company based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm. Strawberries, Blueberries and Blackberries: Workers will be responsible for harvesting and field grading fresh strawberries, blueberries and blackberries; the pruning and reputed company of plants; deploying, maintaining and repairing field irrigation components; maintaining crop beds, picking up roots, limbs and cuttings. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers. Workers will bend and stoop to pick berries according to size, reputed company, shape and degree of maturity and them reputed company into field containers. Workers will be expected to pick fully ripe berries, discard any catfaced, deformed, decayed or undersized berries according to the supervisors instructions. Workers must carefully remove any undesirable berries from the plant that would reputed company cause fungi to attack the plant. The berries will be reputed company for quality and reputed company for transportation to packing/cooling shed. Tomatoes: Pre-harvest duties for tomatoes may include laying plastic, planting, staking, and weeding plants by hand and/or hoe. Harvest primarily consists of harvesting tomatoes by hand. The outlined job duties will require workers to stand, walk, stoop, bend, and lift up to 50 pounds continuously. Each integro bucket, which is the equivalent to 5/8 bushel, will need to be filled and delivered to the truck in the field. These tasks will require individuals to work quickly and consistently and for long periods of time outdoors in reputed company weather conditions. Workers must use care reputed company performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness to not damage or bruise the fruit and vegetables. Workers must adhere to reputed company safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and reputed company farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or bruising. Help with post-harvest cleanup including pulling, piling, and sorting plastic, stakes, string, and field row irrigation components. Instruction will be given for each task and standards of performance communicated to workers. Apply Job!