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Central Arizona Farming Farmworkers and Laborers, Crops in Aguila, Arizona
This job was posted by https://www.azjobconnection.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.azjobconnection.gov/jobs/6406234
Tractor: Drive and control farm equipment to till, plant, cultivate, mow, and harvest crops. Many operations such as maintenance and or repair require good physical ability and knowledge. Workers may ride equipment such as irrigation tape injectors\ and or plastic mulch laying equipment.
Other job duties include: Harvest trailers, loading and unloading of seed, plants, materials and chemicals by hand or forklifts. Adjust, maintain, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. Observe and listen to\ machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions. Multiple daily inspections of equipment or facilities to determine safety, condition, and maintenance needs. Lay irrigation tape, burn, spray, pull, build and maintain ditches by hand, tractor, and\ loader. Furrow irrigation preparation and maintenance of head and tail ditches, such as rowbuck, blade, and hand operated shovel when necessary. Mixing of specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, bottles, buckets, water\ soluble packets, and seed into planter, sprayer, or mixing equipment. Prepare materials or solutions for application, utilization of supplied personal protection equipment per label instructions.
May operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, trucks, irrigation pumps, loaders, forklifts, hand trucks, company vehicles, atv, trailers, man lifts, fuel tanks, water tanks, water trucks, chemical tank trailers, propane tank\ and harvest equipment. Manipulate controls, monitors, touch screens, to safely operate agricultural equipment. Operate equipment while observing and monitoring of workers riding equipment while transplanting, laying irrigation tubing, plastic mulch,\ burning and spraying ditches, planting, cultivating, tilling, pulling plastic mulch or tape. Load hoppers, totes, buckets, conveyors, augers to feed machines with products, using tractors, loaders, forklifts, transfer augers, belts, buckets, and shovels. Spray\ fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus, weed growth, and diseases by hand, pull type, and self-propelled sprayers. Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, cultivators, mowers, shredders, rippers, blades, etc, both pull type, link\ mounted, and power take off driven implements. Operate towed, integrated, or link mounted machines while planting, fertilizing, dusting, burning, and spraying crops. Walk beside or riding on machines while planting, tilling, harvesting or post-harvest\ cleaning of fields. Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, fuel, or farms workers within the farm.
Weigh containers, record weights, counts of seed, crops, containers, supplies, chemicals, products being applied, planted, hauled, stored, harvested and transferred. Record, report and turning information into supervisor. Must be able to read and\ execute written work orders, fill out information and return forms to supervisors per shift. All work is to be performed safely and in accordance to regulation, and company policies. Proper personal protection must always be worn. Work is conducted day\ and or night shifts.
Lemon Drop, Honeydew, Golden Honeydew and Mini Watermelon Cutter: The Cutter will be responsible for walking through the field, bending down, and locating a package readymelon. Upon locating the melon, workers will use a Company-supplied knife to cut the melon from the vine. After cutting the melon from the vine, workers will rise up and place the melon on the field pack machine tray and continue through the field.
Lemon Drop, Honeydew, Golden Honeydew and Mini Watermelon Grader/ Packer: The Packer will stand on the field pack machine as it moves through the field. Workers will reach up and retrieve a carton, placing the carton on the fie d pack machine tray. From the tray holding the package ready melons, workers will retrieve the appropriate sized melon for the carton, and place the melon in the carton. Once the carton is filled, workers will move the carton to the conveyor belt for the Set Off. Equipment supplied by the Employer includes gloves.
Lemon Drop, Honeydew, Golden Honeydew and Mini Watermelon Labeler: The Labeler will stand on the field pack machine, and from a pre-pasted roll of stickers, place a sticker on each melon that has been packed in the carton. Equipment supplied by the Employer includes gloves. Lemon Drop, Honeydew, Golden Honeydew and Mini Watermelon
May help make minor repairs to machinery, vehicles or mechanical equipment.
Transplanter: Workers will be seated on an implement being pulled by a tractor in the field and will place individual plants in the seed hole.
Work is to be done for long periods of time in the field, when plants may be wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers ability to perform the job. Workers must be able to perform the required work with or without reasonable accommodations.
Must wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing appropriate work clothing and