About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Other vegetables and melon farming (except potato). Outdoors. Confined spaces. Dusty. Hot. Wet/damp. Cold/refrigerated.
Tasks
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market..
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops.
- Weeding.
- Harvest crops.
- Hand harvesting vegetables.
- Apply the technique of hoeing between the row.
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots.
- Type of crops: Bell peppers.
- Blueberries.
- Cabbage.
- Carrots.
- Cucumbers.
- Tomatoes.
- Zucchinis.
- Equipment and machinery experience: Farm truck.
- Transportation/travel information: Own transportation.
- Valid driver's licence.
- Drive manual transmission vehicle.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Tight deadlines.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Attention to detail.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Ability to distinguish between colours.
- Sound discrimination.
- Sitting.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Personal suitability: Organized.
- Team player.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Judgement.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Flexible hours.
- Morning.
- Night.
- Experience: No experience (will train).
- Employment terms options: On call.
- To be determined.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.
- Overtime available.