About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma.
Work site environment: Fruit and vegetable combination farming. Hot. Cold/refrigerated. Dirty.
Tasks
- Clean the crops.
- Cut agricultural crops.
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots.
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market..
- Greenhouse cleaning.
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions.
- Hand harvesting vegetables.
- Pack fruits and vegetables.
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts.
- Sort fruits and vegetables.
- Tie and secure plants.
- Weeding.
- Clean work area.
- Harvest crops.
- Load, unload and transfer crates, supplies and farm produce, livestock and poultry.
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry.
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market.
Type of crops: Tomatoes.
Equipment and machinery experience: Hand tools.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Ability to work independently.
- Fast-paced environment.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Work under pressure.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Tight deadlines.
- Physically demanding.
- Manual dexterity.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Ability to distinguish between colours.
- Attention to detail.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Large workload.
- Walking.
- Weight handling: Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs).
Screening questions: Are you currently a student?.
- Employment terms options: Evening.
- Morning.
- Experience: No experience (will train).
- Employment terms options: Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.
Other benefits: Free parking available.