Farmworkers and Laborers

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time.

Harvesting Potato: Using hands and picking up potatoes off ground and placing into harvest sacks. Once sack are filled worker must carry the 30-50 lbs sack and place onto the harvest vehicle in the field and repeat the procedure. Workers must follow all harvest guideline request of the type, size and quality instructed by supervisor in the field.

Farm packing of Potato crop: The worker will be required to do the following tasks: Grading, Packing, box making, cleaning, sanitation, stacking, dumping, strapping, repacking, stickering, trimming and cutting with knives and scissors. Operate forklift and conduct safety inspection of forklift.

Operating Harvest Farm Equipment: The worker is required to operate harvest transport equipment from work site to farm loading destination during scheduled workdays. The workers is required to preform a maintained record and logs of all inspections required of equipment operating. The workers is required to maintained equipment clean and use materials to maintain harvest transport equipment properly clean.

General Specifications and Physical Requirements of the Job:

The majority of the workday is spent on one’s feet, constantly in movement, and outdoors. Workers are rarely in one place for any period of time. It is estimated that 20% of the time will be spent field packing, 10% growing and maintaining, and 70% harvesting the products. All of the packing is done on in the field, as indicated as secondary agriculture under the FLSA definition of agriculture. Workers must be able to stand, walk, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, lift and carry items weighing in range from 5 to 80 pounds during the course of performing all required job specifications.

All work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold and other natural elements. Workers must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight, and conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required job duties. Workers should come prepared wearing appropriate clothing and footwear for the environmental and working conditions described.