Legit and approved Fruit picker and farm worker jobs in Canada 2024
Job Description
Location
Leamington, ON
Full job description
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Will train
Work Site Environment
- Fruit and vegetable combination farming
- Wet/damp
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Duties for farm worker and fruit picker
- Clean the crops
- Cultivate on vertical farming system
- 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
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes
- 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
- Examine product for quality and its readiness for the market
Type of Crops
- Cucumbers
- Tomatoes
Work condition and physical fitness
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
Weight Handling
Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Benefits
- Free parking available
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 60 hours per week
- Recognized employer
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
