Farmworker/equipment Operator

Full Time: Yes

Number of Workers Requested: 4

Job Duties: 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.

Job Classification: 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Experience Required: No

Special Requirements: Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the Employer. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker if the employer reasonably finds worker's performance to be unacceptable. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason. The employer may discipline the worker, including brief suspension of work activities/employment for a set period determined by the supervisor or termination of employment.

Number of Hours Per Week: 35

Work Schedule (Start/End time): 6:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.