Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop
Employer: Martinez & Son's Trucking, LLC
Location: Belle Glade, FL
Workers needed: 80
Pay: $15.00/hour
Season: Jan 10, 2027 – May 1, 2027
Experience: 1 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Workers will perform assigned agricultural duties for leafy commodities, including iceberg and head lettuce, baby leaf, romaine, Boston, escarole, endive, green leaf, and red leaf, as well as sweet corn, under the direction of supervisors. No prior agricultural field experience, specialized experience, education, or additional formal training is required. The position requires general physical fitness and basic familiarity with outdoor manual labor. The employer will provide orientation, safety instruction, and on-the-job training in the employer’s work methods, quality standards, equipment, and production practices.
For field preparation, thinning, and weeding, workers will perform assigned crop-care duties under the direction of supervisors. Duties include lining up in designated rows and using long-handled hoes and manual methods to thin crops to proper spacing and remove weeds adjacent to plants without damaging the crop. Workers will receive instruction in proper crop spacing, hoeing methods, weed removal, crop protection, and safety procedures. Thinning and weeding are primary agricultural duties of the position.
For leafy greens and lettuce harvesting and packing, workers will perform hand cutting, harvesting, trimming, and packing of leafy commodities and iceberg or head lettuce using employer-provided knives and harvesting tools. Duties include bending, cutting, and trimming product according to employer quality specifications, and placing harvested heads or leaves into bags, boxes, reusable plastic containers (RPCs), or onto Styrofoam trays. For machine-crew operations, workers will work as members of a harvesting crew along harvest machinery equipped with conveyor systems. Duties may include cutting and trimming product, packing containers according to product specifications, closing containers, placing containers on conveyor belts, and performing other basic crew duties such as closing, stocking, or moving pallets using employer-provided manual pallet jacks or hand trucks, as instructed by supervisors. No prior experience with the employer’s harvesting machinery, specific packing methods, or production procedures is required, as the employer will provide the necessary instruction and hands-on training.
For sweet corn harvesting and cutting, workers will be transported to fields that are ready for harvest and line up in assigned corn rows to harvest ears of sweet corn. During pulling and snapping operations, workers will bend at the waist to each corn stalk, manually snap off ears of corn, inspect them, and toss them onto tables on a harvesting machine moving behind them as they advance through the rows. During corn cutting operations, workers will hand-cut corn stalks and ears using employer-provided knives and pack cut corn directly into designated wooden boxes or plastic RPC boxes according to employer quality and size standards. Daily harvest orders may vary, and specifications may change depending on whether the order requires first ears, secondary ears, or specific packaging criteria. Workers must follow all instructions and meet established company quality standards.
Workers will receive a five-day acclimatization period to adjust to the work pace, quality standards, and productivity expectations, and workers will not be terminated or disciplined solely for failing to meet productivity standards during this period. Under normal field, weather, and crop conditions, workers must meet minimum productivity standards by the end of the acclimatization period. For corn pulling, workers must harvest a minimum of fifty boxes of corn per hour. For corn cutting into wooden boxes, workers must maintain an average of sixty-nine boxes per hour. For corn cutting into plastic RPC boxes, workers must maintain an average of sixty-three boxes per hour.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employer-provided housing includes free and convenient kitchen facilities with appropriate equipment, appliances, cooking accessories, and dishwashing facilities for meal preparation. Also will provide transportation once per week to go to the stores and do laundry.
La vivienda proporcionada por el empleador incluye instalaciones de cocina gratuitas y convenientes con equipos, electrodomesticos, accesorios de cocina y lavaplatos apropiados para la preparacion de comidas. Tambien proporcionara transporte una vez por semana para ir a las tiendas y lavar la ropa
Transport: For workers hired from beyond normal commuting distance, after completion of 50 percent of the work contract period, the employer shall reimburse the worker for cost incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence, as required by DOL regulations, from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer to the place of employment.
Experience wanted: 1 months
This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning.
Este tipo de trabajo implica condiciones de trabajo que requieren una resistencia tremenda, un alto nivel de actividad fisica en condiciones de frio o calor extremo bajo la luz solar directa y en condiciones climaticas adversas como la lluvia. El trabajo requiere un alto nivel de acondicionamiento fisico.
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