Field Farm Laborer: Harvest, Sorting & Equipment Ops

Jackson-Citrus, Inc.; Illiopolis (IL); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Jackson-Citrus, Inc. in Illiopolis, Illinois, is offering a job where workers will engage in various duties associated with farm operations, including bundling harvest bags, sorting, and maintaining crops. The position demands outdoor work for at least seven hours daily in diverse weather conditions and involves physical tasks like lifting, walking, and using equipment.

Candidates should be prepared for hands-on work and assist with quality checks as well as maintenance of farm equipment.

Responsibilities

• Perform assigned duties as instructed by supervisor.
• Bundle harvest bags and load dryer boxes.
• Sort harvest bundles for shipping to shelling hubs.
• Work outside for at least seven hours in all weather conditions.
• Perform hand pulling of weeds and other maintenance.
• Check corn for quality and remove discolored or moldy ears.
• Participate in clean-up of fields and structures.
• Assist with farm equipment operation and maintenance.
• Monitor quality through checks and sampling.
• Lift bags weighing 45–60 lbs and operate forklifts as needed.

Job description

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Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor.

Workers will bundle harvest bags, load dryer boxes, bail bundles of

harvested material from the fields, remove tassel bags, or other used

supplies from the fields, shoot bags, or used supplies from the field.

Sorting harvest bundles for shipping to shelling hubs. Laying out

harvested material in tubs for selection. To perform this kind of worker

must be able to work outside for at least seven (7) hours a day in all

kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite strength and

endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands. The employer

will provide the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the job

described without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the

worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent

failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or

destruction of the tools. Plot Maintenance: Hand pulling weeds, hoeing

weeds, rogueing off-type plants from corn field, placing stakes,

attaching row tags. Husk/ Sort Description: The corn flows over the

husking beds, which remove the husk. Once the corn Is husked, its added

to the sorting tables where workers will check for any remaining husk on

the ears. The workers will do quality checks looking for corn/ears that

are discolored, abnormal, or moldy, and remove it from the sorting

table. General Farm Labor / Clean-up of Field Property and Housing for

Harvesting Workers: Workers on physical work restrictions or when

harvesting work is not available may be required to perform

miscellaneous clean-up work on field property, on structures utilized in

the field operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such

clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and painting; debris

removal, weeding, irrigation repair, housing and structure cleaning and

repair; and general field clean-up as required. Dryer loadouts support

the production process with labor as needed during the loadout process.

While performing the duties the worker is regularly required to stand,

make repetitive reach motion with arms and hands while applying physical

exertion, pulling, pushing, twisting at the waste, walk on uneven

surfaces, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk and hear. Dryer

loadouts will unload, and complete kernel cleans on all dryer bins.

Green Corn Unloading: Green Corn Unloaders will support the production

process with labor as needed during the unloading of green corn trucks.

Follow oral and written instructions to collect samples from trucks,

sweep/shovel corn as it piles up by pit, sweep/blow off floors, sides,

and canopy frames of trailers. It may be necessary for workers to assist

in the use, repair, and operation of farm equipment such as tractors,

trucks, trailers, and harvest machinery. Workers will be paid the

highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or

the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up

work. Quality Check/Sampling: monitoring quality through visual checks

or sampling, setting up materials, loading materials onto equipment,

stacking/unstacking product, material handling via forklift, picking,

and preparing loads for shipment. Re-working product by replacing

labeling, or loading bags onto conveyors, and gener l housekeeping. They

will be checking quality by comparing pictures of acceptable quality to

current products and rejecting items not meeting the standard. These

duties comprise 10% of the workers time and will be performed at a

facility in the field on the farm. This role requires occasional lifting

of bags weighing between 45 and 60 lbs. The role requires the ability to

climb stairs and/or ladders. The role also requires the ability to

operate a forklift to move products and materials.