Farmworkers and Laborers

General Job Description EB Harvesting LLC will provide and manage agricultural farm labor services on crop fields to be harvested, all these activities can involve employees performing general farm labor in the crops’ fields & laboring in the packing houses, EBH may also provide other services such as preparing meals for the workers, transporting, and housing workers to fulfill agricultural services provided some jobs will be subject to night shifts. All the following job duties are subject to change due to crop and weather conditions and can be performed walking long distances in extreme hot, wet & cold temperatures. All Job activities are allowed to take 1 Hr. unpaid break in order to rest and take their meals. Percentage job duties employment distribution: General farm labor services (maintenance, weeding, harvesting, etc.) -90%. Driving agricultural equipment - 5%. Other activities 5%. Irrigation Work: Employees will dig small holes for irrigation, will be laying and supervising drip lines in order to detect and fix leaks in the irrigation system and blowing out irrigation system if its needed. Tractor Work & Agricultural Equipment Driver: Duties may vary from time to time. Applicants must be 18 years or older. Following the Supervisor’s instructions, the workers will operate or tend agricultural equipment used in agricultural production in the fields, Employees’ tasks driving agricultural equipment in the fields will be disk the fields, help coworkers in the field to cultivate, replant, trim brushes & fertilize blueberry trees, subsoil to improve soil structure and water filtration, tow fertilizer wagon, mowing along the fields and mulching, drivers will also drive farm trucks to haul tools/ materials, plants, shovels, rakes, crates, etc. to the fields and from the fields to storage facility. When harvesting season is going drivers will haul fresh fruit from the fields to the packing house, will drive a box truck prefilled & stacked with blueberry crates, will wait to be unloaded hand out a ticket of the load and take empty truck to the field to be filed again. Planting & Trimming: Workers will trim dead wood off of plants using lopper, Dead branches are left on the ground after trimming, pile and then disposed. Employees also replant new trees in pre dug holes, fixing dirt around plants, fertilize, walking the rows and raking mulch around plants, employees will perform nursery work on the fields to as often is needed to ensure crops better developing. Ticket Man & Crate Stacker: Workers will hand out tokens to hand pickers or scan badges when they bring a full crate to the truck, will make sure crate is completely filled, and dividers are covered, will hand out filled crates to stacker employee so he can stack each completed crate on box truck and count crates to elaborate a ticket. Packing House Worker: Pre-season preparation employees will cleanup/ prepare packing house, assisting of setting up packing lines /equipment for the season. Employees will perform a daily preparation of the packing lines, setting up lugs on the floor, setting up labeler equipment & filler machines, as well assist any issue or jam in the machinery equipment at season time. Hand-jack & forklift operators will be moving fruit to packing line, moving completed pallets away from the packing line. Wrapping completed pallets and moving pallets to cooler. Employees will dump crates of fruit onto conveyor belt, stack empty crates on a pallet and taping them up. Empty lugs of fruit rejected by color sorter/soft sorter into giant bin. Pick out green /damaged berries on packing line, put empty clamshells in fill by weight machine. Place completed clamshells into crate. Stack completed crates/ boxes onto a pallet. Clean packing line at the end of each day, sweep floors, clean conveyor belts and machinery, clean drains. Wash crates using crate washer machine.

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