FARMWORKER
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Job overview
SANDRA ARIZMENDI is hiring a FARMWORKER. The farmworker position involves various tasks related to tobacco cultivation, including cutting, housing, and general farm maintenance. Workers will be responsible for greenhouse activities, planting, topping, oiling, cutting, housing, and stripping tobacco. The employer provides all necessary tools and equipment.
Key focus areas include Work on cutting and housing tobacco, Perform farm maintenance and all farm work crop related tasks, and Seed plant trays in the greenhouse.
Important skills include Cutting Tobacco, Housing Tobacco, Farm Maintenance, Farm Work Crop Related, Spear Stalk Over Metal Spear, and Drop Sticks In Standing Tobacco. Preferred (not required): Seed Plant Trays, Clean Plant Trays, Wash Plant Trays, and Apply Water To Plants.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
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Expected Start Date
08/01/2026
Compensation
$ - $13.94 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
25
Job Description
Workers as crewmembers will work on cutting and housing tobacco, farm maintenance and all farm work crop related. The employer will furnish, without charge, all tools, supplies, and equipment required in the performance of the specified work. Workers will be charged for any willful damage or loss of such tools and equipment. Greenhouse: Workers may seed plant trays. Workers may clean and wash plant trays. Workers may apply water and fertilizers to plants in trays. Workers may clip and mow plants. Workers may load plant trays onto trucks and wagons. Setting Tobacco: DARK & BURLEY TOBACCO FOR ALL TOBACCO JOB DUTIES: Workers may ride setting machine to plant tobacco. Workers may plant by hand. Workers may load plant trays onto equipment for setting. Workers may stack and remove trays from fields. Workers may prepare fields for planting. Workers may reset missing plants by hand. Top/Oil Tobacco: Workers may pull suckers from plants. Workers may break tops & bad leaves from plants. Workers may apply oils to tops of plants. Cutting Tobacco: Workers will cut ripe plants off at the ground using tobacco knife and spear stalk over metal spear on to a wooden stick (stick is 48? long, one end is stuck in the ground and metal spear is placed on opposite end). Workers will drop sticks in standing tobacco, before cutting, by hand or by machine. Workers will transfer loaded sticks from ground to wagon or trailer in an orderly fashion. Industry standard is six (6) plants per stick. (Stick and plants may weigh up to 80 pounds) Housing Tobacco: Workers will transfer loaded stick from wagon or trailer to other workers standing on rails in the tobacco barn. Workers standing on rails will either hang sticks between rails and separate plants or transfer to another worker standing on the rails above them (rails may be 48? apart and from 6 feet to 40 feet above ground). Stripping Tobacco: DARK & BURLEY TOBACCO: Workers may place wood & sawdust in barns for curing process. Workers will remove tobacco from rails in the barn and transport tobacco to stripping room. Workers will pull leaves from plant stalks by hand and place in bailing machine. Workers will operate bailing machine and may be asked to separate leaves into two (2) or more quality grades of tobacco prior to bailing.
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
14560
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