Job Duties:

Crops: Broccoli, Lettuce, Cauliflower, Cantaloupes, Watermelons, Melons Cantaloupe Cutter: The "Cutter" position will be responsible for walking through the field, bending down, and locating a package ready melon. 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 then place the melon in the furrow and continue through the field. Equipment supplied by the Employer includes gloves and a cutting knife. Cantaloupe Loader: The "Loader" position will walk in the furrow behind a self propelled conveyor. While walking in the furrow the workers will bend down and pick up each melon left by the cutter. The workers will then place the melon on the conveyor belt. The self propelled conveyor moves through the field, allowing each melon left by the cutter to be placed on the belt by the Loader position. Equipment supplied by the Employer includes gloves. The Positions of Lemon Drop, Honeydew, Golden Honeydew and Mini Watermelon Cutter; Lemon Drop, Honeydew, Golden Honeydew and Mini Watermelon Grader/ Packer; Lemon Drop, Honeydew, Golden Honeydew and Mini Watermelon Labeler; and Lemon Drop, Honeydew, Golden Honeydew and Mini Watermelon Box Maker apply to the Lemon Drop, Honeydew, Golden Honeydew and Mini Watermelon varieties of melon. 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 ready melon. 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. Equipment supplied by the Employer includes gloves and a cutting knife. 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 field 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 Box Maker: The "Box Maker" will stand on the field pack machine. From a stack of un-made cartons, workers will pick up a carton and fold it into a made carton. Once they have made the carton, workers will place the carton on the overhead storage rack for use by the Packer position. This will continue as the field pack machine moves through the field. Equipment supplied by the Employer

Special Requirements:

2 months of fruit and vegetable harvesting experience. Employer-paid post-hire, random, upon suspicion and post-accident drug testing required. Any worker who declines to take or fails a mandatory drug test will be terminated.

JOB LISTINGS

H-300-26117-837731 M Farms, L.L.C. jobs

Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop

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