Farmworker Supervisor

Supervise, Train, And Assist Employees

• Pruning - use hand saw and loppers to cut off branches.
• Planting - use shovel to dig holes large enough to accommodate tree roots, back fill with soil, firm soil around tree.
• Thinning - use hands to remove excess fruit from branches.
• Weeding - use hands to pull weeds in berry rows, lay weeds to side of row.
• Picking berries - use hands to pick ripe blueberries/blackberries from bushes, place berries in 30 pound bucket, carry bucket (about 500 feet) to barn, weigh bucket, pour into 30 pound flats, put flats in cold storage in barn.
• Picking peaches and apples - hand pick ripe fruit, put in 40 pound picking bag, dump bag in bins located in orchard.
• Grading - remove culls and put in 40 pound discard boxes, put good fruit in 40 pound boxes, put boxes on pallets.
• Processing - press apples into apple cider.

Duties

• Tractor and Forklift operation
• Driver's license required
• Repair and maintain farm vehicles, equipment, fences, and other structures.
• Load agricultural products into trucks, and drive trucks to market or storage facilities.
• Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
• Direct processing of crops including grading and cider pressing.
• Maintain cold room storage crop inventory inventory.
• Operate and maintain agricultural equipment including tractors, forklifts, tractor-drawn machinery.
• Worker may attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, and harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
• Worker may load containers and products using forklifts.
• Details: Use 14000 GVWR straight truck to transport crops between storage facilities or to local market(s).
• Use 37000 GVWR straight truck to transport crops between additional orchard property (2820 Creamery Rd) and main property with storage facility (3325 Creamery Rd).