Farm Worker

H2ajobs; Elmira Township (MI); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-provided housing

Meals provided

Job summary

H2ajobs in Michigan seeks farm laborers to plant, cultivate, and harvest potatoes. The job involves standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds outdoors in all weather. You will follow SOPs for food safety and work with a team to maintain quality.

As part of the farm crew, you will perform in-field grading, loading produce into containers, and maintaining equipment and facilities. Housing and meals are provided; transportation support after half the contract, and safety

Qualifications

• Stand/walk for long periods; bend, stoop, lift up to 50 lbs.
• Adhere to food safety SOPs and GMPs.
• Work quickly and safely with a positive, team-based attitude.

Responsibilities

• Plant, cultivate, and harvest potatoes.
• Perform in-field grading and sorting for size, color, ripeness, and quality.
• Load good produce into containers; handle up to 50 lb loads.

Skills

Physical stamina

Food safety

Teamwork

Safety compliance

Manual lifting

Job description

The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, harvesting of potatoes. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.

Potatoes

Workers will bend and stoop to pick potatoes according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Duties include ride planters and harvesters .Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness to not damage or bruise the vegetables. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or bruising. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately fifty (50) lbs. and empty into field bin or load onto trailer.

General duties include weeding, tree and brush removal, lawn care,cleaning, demo and cleaning up old buildings, repair and maintenance on buildings and equipment, general painting, power washing and polishing, hand digging drainage ditches. Workers will load and unload trucks. Assist with installation and removal of irrigation tubing or pipes. . Workers will perform field cleanup such as the removal of rocks, stumps, plastic, and trash. Workers may be required to cut, split and stack firewood. Workers will perform various duties associated with cleaning trucks, farm buildings and painting. Workers will maintain fences.

Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the vehicle/equipment before operating. All vehicles should be driven in a manner to protect workers, in-field crops, and equipment. Operators should ensure all equipment is functioning correctly before operating. The use of all necessary PPE and safety equipment including wearing of seatbelt at all times when operating farm equipment is mandatory. Workers may assist with the repair, service, and maintenance of farm equipment including the prep, cleaning, lubrication, assembly, inspection, dismantling of equipment parts.

Farm, Field, and Shed Sanitation: Workers may be responsible for maintaining and removing temporary/permanent fences, picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping, raking, using blowers, and mopping floors, cleaning packing line equipment and other similar farm and shed sanitation as part of SOPs and SSOPs within Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), Good Handling Practices (GHPs), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for Food Safety. This includes personal hygiene and handling the fruit in the field and shed with an emphasis on food safety, sanitizing all harvesting and packing equipment and keeping the fields and shed as clean as possible.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: Employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so that workers may prepare their own meals. No charge will be made for the provided beds, appliances, cooking utensils and similar items furnished to workers to whom housing is provided hereunder unless unlawfully removed or damaged beyond normal wear and tear. Employer will provide (on a voluntary basis) weekly transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries. If for any reason the kitchen facilities become unavailable due to fire or calamity, the employer will provide 3 meals per day for which a deduction shall be made until the kitchen facilities become operable.

Transport: After a worker has completed fifty percent of the work contract period, the employer will reimburse the worker for the cost of transportation and subsistence from the place the worker came from to the place of work, if such costs are borne by the worker.

Experience wanted: 2 months

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