Farmworker and Laborers

H2ajobs; Immokalee (FL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transportation to grocery store

Job summary

H2ajobs in Immokalee, FL seeks workers for field-based duties including laying plastic, planting, irrigation, staking, tying, and maintenance tasks. Workers will operate with supervision, handling heavy rolls and equipment to support crop production.

Housing and meals are provided; employer may arrange transportation to groceries for residents. Experience is listed as 0 months; duties may vary with season and supervisor instructions.

Responsibilities

• Load 75–80 lb plastic rolls and ~50 lb drip tape rolls on machinery and distribute on beds of dirt.
• Ride fertilizer wagon and clear clogs using a shovel to prevent distribution blockages.
• Tuck in plastic ends and perform bed pressing, hopper cleaning, painting numbers, and measuring row lengths.
• Planting: load/unload plant trays, place one plant per hole, fill and tidy soil around plants.
• Replanting: carry 1–5 lb trays to replace injured or dead plants in rows.
• Install and remove irrigation lines; shovel work as needed.
• Stake plants: drive stakes into ground with air hammer and align stakes upright.
• Tie plants to stakes using tying sticks and string, collect and remove trash from fields.
• Cut twine and collect string scraps, bag and dispose at row ends.
• Housing provided; meals provided; employer-supplied transportation to grocery store for workers in housing.
• Inbound travel arrangements determined by workers; charter bus from consulate city if coming from Mexico.
• See addendum C for details.
• Experience wanted: 0 months
• None

Job description

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will fulfill the following:

Lay Plastic - Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.

Plastic Repair - Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.

Shovel Work (End) - Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row.

Planting - Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.

Replanting - When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.

Irrigation Installation & Removal - Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed.

Staking - Using both hands gathering bundles of stakes from bed of field truck and carrying to place a stake between each plant. Each stake must remain upright. Repeat process through entire rows and field. Once the first procedure is performed by an air hammer system being pulled by a tractor, the worker places an air hammer over the stake to drive in the stake 12\" - 14\" into the ground. If using manual hammers, worker must place opening over stake and pound stake into the ground also 12\" - 14\". This task will include clean up and removal of broken stakes as needed.

Tying - Attaching a small box of string to one's waist with belt and in one hand using a tying stick in the other hand, attach string to the tying stick. Then take the tying stick and looping string around the stake and plant outside of plant and pulling string tight to hold the plant up between stakes. Continue process for each stake and plant for entire field. This task will require the removal of empty boxes and trash from field at the end of the tying process.

String Cutting (Twine) - Worker is required to use a knife that is provided by employer and with hands to cut through sting from the top to the bottom of the plastic beds with a downward motion and cutting through sting wrapped around stakes that are standing in the rows. At every crossway the worker will stop and place string that has been collected and into a trash bag provide by employer and continue the process until each row assigned is completed for the day. Once completed for the day or bags are full worker must place bags of string at the end of the roadways.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: The employer will provide free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities and free weekly transportation to the grocery store to workers living in employer-provided housing which will enable workers to prepare their own meals.

Transport: Inbound: Workers will determine their own inbound travel arrangements to the place of employment to begin the job contract. If the workers are coming from Mexico, the employer will provide and pay for a charter bus service from the consulate city to the place of employment for workers.

See addendum C

Experience wanted: 0 months

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