Farmworker and Laborers, Crop – Openings: 80

Job Duties: Work under this contract will consist of thinning, weeding (using a long-handled hoe) and hoeing fields and harvesting various row crop vegetables such as clean & core sweet corn, bell pepper and irrigating field. Some workers may carry and assemble empty boxes. General Labor: weeding, cleaning garbage around the fields, moving sprinklers, irrigation, drip tape. Irrigating crops, setting and removing sprinklers, running wheel lines, driving equipment, operating pivots, flood irrigating, moving portable sprinklers and installing drip tape. Irrigation workers will walk behind a tractor in between furrows at a steady pace, either unloading or loading irrigation pipes (25 lbs) 100% of the job. Packing, grading & sorting products in the packing shed located on the fixed-site grower’s farm. Packing line workers: sort produce from conveyor belt for proper sorting while in the fields (but not pack in retail boxes). Harvest and prepare for packing (but not pack in retail boxes). Machine/equipment operator: able to operate machinery, including tractors, as directed and trained by supervisory personnel. Forklift operator: single/double, individuals should be able to operate a forklift to load pallets of packed product into refrigerated trucks as directed and trained by supervisory personnel. Work may be done on the ground and/or with the use of a harvesting machine where workers may pack the cartons while walking behind or mounted on the machine. Some workers may carry and assemble empty boxes. Thinning: Workers walk in uneven furrows. Under the direction of the field supervisor, field workers look for the specified gap between seeds, and using a long-handled hoe thins out any excess crop/seeds and/or weed on the seed line and leave the desired product and gap on the field. The worker cleans the lot for any unwanted weed on the beds and seed lines and removes it from the field as instructed by the field supervisor. Some workers may carry and assemble empty boxes. Worker must be able to lift 60 lbs. Must be able to bend and stoop throughout the day. Job Classification: 45-2092.00 – Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse