This job was posted by https://www.azjobconnection.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.azjobconnection.gov/jobs/7581741
The job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable commercial agricultural employment experience, preferably on a vegetable farm, handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities.
Crops: Collards, Kale
Workers will manually plant, cultivate and harvest vegetables such as:
Regular Green Kale, Stemless Green kale, Collards, Organic Green kale, Organic Collards. Workers will perform a variety of duties related to the production of kale and vegetables. Workers will be required to use hand tools, such as Knives, hoes, shears, carts. Duties may include weeding, thinning, or pruning crops, cleaning, grading, sorting, packing and loading harvested products.
There is a considerable amount of stooping and kneeling throughout the various tasks being performed. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. And manually remove weeds by hand or with digging tools. Workers may be asked to pack crops in totes, bins, clamshells, tie or bundle items, weigh product and load product by hand. When work is performed in the field workers must wear assigned personal protective equipment when required.Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work. In addition, workers will be required to perform every day duties applying food safety policies. Workers will also engage in maintaining the equipment, restrooms, and fields in sanitary condition by sanitizing equipment, restrooms, lunch tables, picking up packing material, boxes, labels, trash, and discard of any other unwanted items. Work will also include mechanized fieldwork using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, Trailers, forklifts. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors. Unusual, complex, or non-routine activities will be supervised. Field workers will be expected to perform their general duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision. Workers must obey all safety rules and basic instructions and be able to recognize, understand and comply with safety, pesticide warning, etc. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. This is hard, strenuous labor, under cold, wet conditions in the winter and spring.