farmworker/laborer (i)

As especificações do trabalho incluem:

1. Treinar e posicionar macieiras e plantas em treliças, incluindo cortar e amarrar galhos e brotos para arame do chão ou escada de até 16 pés de altura, ou de uma plataforma motorizada.

2. Conclua as tarefas de limpeza da fazenda para incluir a coleta de lixo ao redor do pomar e dos campos, a coleta de raízes e rochas, a remoção de cordas e fios antigos de treliças e blocos de pomar/campo e outras tarefas manuais.

3. Pinte troncos e postes de árvores.

4. Se o trabalhador for elegível para dirigir de acordo com a lei de Michigan e fornecer prova de ausência de infrações de fonte oficial, o Empregador poderá exigir que o trabalhador dirija de e para o local de trabalho em veículos com capacidade inferior a 15 passageiros e para locais dentro de 30 milhas, conforme indicado. Para ser elegível para o trabalho de condução, o trabalhador deve entender e concordar com as regras de condução, conforme descrito nas regras de trabalho abaixo.

5. Safely operate tractor and other farm vehicles as directed..

6. Plant and complete other hand tasks to establish and maintain orchard and field areas, including shoveling, picking up roots and rocks, staking, weeding.

7. Sort harvested apples and cut flowers for quality standards and inform worker of quality deficiencies. Use and understand basic handheld electronic devices. Mark apple bins at .75 full using scanning barcode system and printer. 8. Repair boxes with hammers and nail guns.

9. Roll out and clean up tarps throughout orchard as instructed.

10. Lift, push and place heavy posts.

11. Clean farm vehicles as assigned.

12. Assist with organizing farmworker housing prior to subsequent worker arrivals, including cleaning, organizing inventory and housing repairs.

13. Assist in reviewing cold storage rooms for any air leaks and will repair leak. Clean cold storage rooms in accordance with food safety requirements.

14. Set up and operate irrigation equipment. Maintain and repair irrigation and climate control systems.

15. Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.

16. Monitor and repair wind machines.

17. Repair farm buildings, fences, and other structures

18. Dig, cut, and transplant seedlings, cuttings, and trees

19. Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment.

20. Identify plants, pests, and weeds, input findings into cloud-based tracking system.

21. Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them.

22. Clean work areas, and maintain grounds and landscaping.

23. Harvest cut flowers based on quality and order standards.

24. Tie and bunch flowers, plants and wrap their roots, and pack them into boxes or buckets to fill orders. 25. Change water in flower buckets daily with proper storage solution based on order requirements.

26. Clean & sanitize buckets after use. Sanitize snips between plants.

27. Monitor plant roots in storage, divide using knives and sharp scissors, and organize by variety.

Pay will be hourly.

Thinning: Thinning is a manual process used to control the size and quality of grown fruit. Remove the smallest fruit blossom, bud and/or identifiable fruit from within a cluster of other fruits. Identify and remove fruit that is misshapen, damaged and/or with other quality problems as directed by supervisors.

Tools utilized: Ladders up to 16 foot (40 lbs); driving/riding motorized platform

Grafting: Grafting is the process of manually inserting a section of a fruit tree stem with leaf buds into the stock of a planted fruit tree. Worker will be required to safely use a knife to cut off a branch of the understock, making a straight, slanting cut. Worker will then attach the cut section of the new stem to the stock of the tree and bind tightly with tape. All grafts must be covered with a protective coating immediately after completing the graft.

Tools utilized: Knife, chainsaw