Crop Care Worker

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Texto original en inglés, tal como se registró en el Departamento de Trabajo.

Crops/Commodities: strawberries.
Primary duties (performed the majority of workdays):
Under supervision, workers will perform manual labor to work in hydroponic greenhouse facility to prepare for new crop, perform regular crop maintenance on the old crop, including lowering, de-leafing, harvesting, spraying and maintaining the plants. Preparation and cleaning out of old crops. Workers will set up rockwool/peatmoss, load and unload new plants onto and off of trucks and/or carts, hang and remove string and plant wire spacing. Clean, sanitize and disinfect containers, materials, supplies or work areas using cleaning solutions and hand tools. Clean and maintain all grounds including gutters, irrigation lines, remove and replace old drippers, scout and maintain botrytis and close bee hives. Set up and clean up CMM machines and operate tearout forklifts. The workers will ensure that the plant crop is carried out efficiently and with care in order to produce a quality grown crop. Proper use of gloves, hairnets, smocks, shoe covers, hand sanitizers, foot baths and clippers is required. All food safety activities will also fall under the responsibility of this job order both inside and outside the greenhouse to ensure adherence to SQF rules and regulations as well as our strict integrated pest management program. Other general agricultural labor duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Load punnets onto conveyors. Add and remove strawberries as necessary, grade, sort according to company specifications in regard to size, color, appearance and quality to meet specific customer demands. Discard inferior or defective products and/or foreign matter and place only acceptable products in packaging containers for further processing. Add lids to punnets. Perform label changes as directed by supervision. Hand pack punnets into cases and hand palletize those cases. Work safely while maintaining company line efficiency targets daily. This job is often performed six days a week in the afternoons and evenings. . Workers may operate agricultural machinery/equipment essential to packing strawberries, including scales, sorting tables, palletizers and automatic lifts. Forklift operator responsibilities will include delivering pallets of finished product to cold storage, loading/unloading as needed, setting up orders for shipping, record keeping of materials and finished product. Workers will be responsible for cleaning all machinery, electronic equipment and the facility work areas at end of shift. Workers must adhere to all Food Safety Protocol.

Workers will be working under the direction of the Labor Manager, Head Grower, Crop Supervisor or an experienced Group Leader.

Workers will receive training on The Ohio Greenhouse Company’s policies with which they must comply including Equal Employment Opportunity policies, OSHA and Food and Health safety standards and guidelines, FMLA and worker’s compensation leave policies and other standard operating procedures, around the time work commences.

Workers must attend an orientation session to review and train accordingly. Workers will be issued an identification badge and timekeeping wristband at no cost. Instructions on use and care of both will be provided in orientation. The employer retains ownership of the timekeeping wristband and ID badge. Both items must be returned to the employer upon termination of employment.

Employer is a drug and alcohol free workplace. The employer will drug/alcohol test upon reasonable suspicion of use and after a worker has an accident at work. If an employee tests positive, he/she is immediately terminated and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any. In the case of a non-local or foreign worker who is terminated for failure to pass a drug test, the employer will arrange least-cost transportation to the worker's place of recruitment, at the worker's expense.

Requisitos

This job requires a minimum of 2 months of verifiable prior employment experience on a farm or in a greenhouse, producing strawberries. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. Workers will be expected to perform manual jobs as well as equipment operation with accuracy and efficiency beginning with planting through harvest. Saturday work required. Must lift/bend/twist/carry up to 30 lbs. Post-hire employer-paid drug testing is required upon reasonable suspicion of use and after a worker has an accident at work. Post-hire employer-paid background check required. Workers need to have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings.

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