farm worker supervisor

Agricultural crops/commodities include apples, peaches, blueberries, blackberries, pears, plums, nectarines, cherries, apricots, tomatoes, flowers.

Supervise, train, and assist employees in the following tasks:

-Pruning-use hand saw and loppers to cut off branches.

-Planting-use shovel to dig holes large enough to accommodate tree roots, back fill with soil, firm soil around tree.

-Thinning-use hands to remove excess fruit from branches. -Weeding-use hands to pull weeds in berry rows, lay weeds to side of row.

-Picking berries-use hands to pick ripe blueberries/blackberries from bushes, place berries in 30 pound bucket, carry bucket (about 500 feet) to barn, weigh bucket, pour into 30 pound flats, put flats in cold storage in barn.

-Picking peaches and apples-hand pick ripe fruit, put in 40 pound picking bag, dump bag in bins located in orchard. -Grading-remove culls and put in 40 pound discard boxes, put good fruit in 40 pound boxes, put boxes on pallets.

-Processing-press apples into apple cider.

-Tractor and Forklift operation

More broadly, the duties the farm supervisor will perform are as follows:

- Assign work tasks, issue equipment, and communicate to coordinate overall work

- Monitor crop progress and report status to farmer or farm manager - Provide training to workers on crop/farming techniques

- Maintain irrigation equipment

- Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs

- Maintain inventory/order materials as required by farmer or farm manager

- Plan/schedule work crews, equipment, or transportation for worksite(s)

- Drivers license required (to be obtained within 30 days of start date) - Repair and maintain farm vehicles, equipment, fences, and other structures.

- Load agricultural products into trucks, and drive trucks to market or storage facilities.

- Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.

- Direct processing of crops including grading and cider pressing.

- Maintain cold room storage crop inventory inventory - Operate and maintain agricultural equipment including tractors, forklifts, tractor-drawn machinery. Worker may attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, and harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. Worker may load containers and products using forklifts

Driving/trucking details:

-Use 14000 GVWR straight truck to transport crops between storage facilities or to local market(s). -Use 37000 GVWR straight truck to transport crops between additional orchard property (2820 Creamery Rd) and main property with storage facility (3325 Creamery Rd).