Farm Worker

Firestone Pacific Foods

Job Title: Farm Laborer

About Firestone Pacific Foods

Firestone Pacific Foods (FPF) is a top-tier, efficient processor of frozen fruit that has earned a strong reputation in the market for quality and food safety. FPF has sales relationships with leading US and international food retailers and US food service companies. The company is well positioned to achieve high double-digit annual growth in the highest growth frozen fruit category sub-segments including organic, private label and blended berry products.

Agriculture Capital Fund II, an impact investment fund, acquired FPF in the fall of 2019 as part of its strategy to build out a low cost, vertically integrated supply chain of high quality, organic blueberries operating at scale to address growing global demand for this nutritious fruit. Together, FPF and Agriculture Capital seek to provide customers with product traceability back to the farm and a vehicle for creating and capturing value from Agriculture Capital’s regenerative agronomic practices.

The Firestone Family began farming in the Vancouver, WA, in 1896. We are a fully integrated grower processing operation for domestic and export fruit customers. Our fruit is harvested at the peak of ripeness, processed in our state-of-the art facility, and packed for shipment, ensuring quality in every product from the farm where it was grown to the finished bag in the consumer’s freezer.

Position Summary

The Farm Laborer starts as a entry level position with little to no previous experience required. This is a predominantly physical/manual labor position. Farm Laborers will manually plant, cultivate, harvest, pack, prune, and maintain crops under the instructions of the Field Supervisor or Team Leaders. Duties may include applying fertilizer, transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops. Farm Laborer may also participate in irrigation activities.

Responsibilities:

• Understand and adhere to all food safety practices and Good Agricultural Practices in daily work.
• Harvest berries in a safe, efficient manner, ensuring productivity and quality goals are met or excessed focusing on the following traits.

1. Thoroughness
2. Quality
3. Speed

• Work with Field Supervisor to prepare pesticides chemicals.
• Set up, repair, and operate irrigation equipment.
• Operate tractors and other farm equipment.
• Repair and maintain farm equipment.
• Harvest, pack, and load harvest products into containers.
• Pruning blueberries and blackberries
• Preform other duties as assigned

Job Essential Functions:

• Ability to focus on a single task for extended periods of time.
• Ability to stay focused while in a group of peers.
• Ability to follow instructions and retain training information
• Ability to work independently while meeting or exceeding quotas.
• Remain focus while performing repetitive functions.
• Tolerate extreme temperatures for 6-10 hours a day.
• This position requires working outdoors at all times.
• Repetitively lifting and carry items up to 25 lbs.
• Stand, sit, bend, kneel, stretch and squat for long periods of times.

This document describes the general nature and level of work performed by personnel assigned to this job classification. This document is not, however, an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so assigned. Firestone Pacific Foods reserves the right to add, revise, or delete job duties at any time.

Firestone Pacific Foods, Inc. is both Equal Opportunity, and At Will employer. The company does not discriminate on basis of race, age, sex, religion, marital status, or sexual orientation. Either Company or Employee can terminate the employment relationship at any time for any legally permissible reason. Reasonable accommodations will be made for qualified candidates/employees with disabilities.