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Central Arizona Farming Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop in Aguila, Arizona
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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, GoldenHoneydew 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 includes gloves.
Tractor: Drive and control farm equipment to till, plant, cultivate, mow, and harvest crops. Many operations such as maintenance and or repair require good physical ability and knowledge. Workers may ride equipment such as irrigation tape injectors and or plastic mulch laying equipment.
Other job duties include:\ o Harvest trailers, loading and unloading of seed, plants, materials and chemicals by hand or forklifts.\ o Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.\ o Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions. Multiple daily inspections of equipment or facilities to determine safety, condition, and maintenance needs.\ o Lay irrigation tape, burn, spray, pull, build and maintain ditches by hand, tractor, and loader.\ o Furrow irrigation preparation and maintenance of head and tail ditches, such as rowbuck, blade, and hand operated shovel when necessary.\ o Mixing of specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, bottles, buckets, water soluble packets, and seed into planter, sprayer, or mixing equipment. Prepare materials or solutions for application, utilization of supplied personal protection equipment per label instructions.\ o Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, trucks, irrigation pumps, loaders, forklifts, hand trucks, pickups, atv, trailers, man lifts, fuel tanks, water tanks, water trucks, chemical tank trailers, propane tank and harvest equipment.\ o Manipulate controls, monitors, touch screens, to safely operate agricultural equipment.\ o Operate equipment while observing and monitoring of workers riding equipment while transplanting, laying irrigation tubing, plastic mulch, burning and spraying ditches, planting, cultivating, tilling, pulling plastic mulch or tape.\ o Load hoppers, totes, buckets, conveyors, augers to feed machines with products, using tractors, loaders, forklifts, transfer augers, belts, buckets, and shovels.\ o Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus, weed growth, and diseases b