Job Title : Diversified Farmworker Crew Driver

Contract Period 08 / 01 / 2024 - 05 / 30 / 2025

At Duncan Family Farms (DFF), we believe our primary responsibility is to produce clean, healthy, life-giving food. As a leading certified-organic grower, we harvest thousands of acres of produce those ships directly from our farms to processors in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Some of our products include Spinach, Spring Mix Lettuce, Kale, Arugula, and Culinary Herbs. Due to our innovative programs, Duncan Family Farms has won numerous awards and is nationally recognized as a 'showcase' of progressive farming techniques.

Recent growth has enabled the expansion of our technological portfolio as well as our technical personnel. Duncan Family Farms is based in Goodyear, Arizona, and has farms across the United States.

Job Description and Requirements

The job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable commercial agricultural employment experience as a driver with a Class B Driver's License with Passenger Endorsement or a Licencia Federal Conductor Clase A, preferably on a vegetable farm, handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities.

Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. This is hard, strenuous labor, under cold, wet conditions in the spring, and extreme heat and humidity in the summer.

Driver will transport passengers to and from work each day from housing. Drivers will transport workers to and from housing to local grocery store weekly for grocery purchase.

The drivers will return to the worksite each day. May be asked to log times in and out for workers. Arrange to pick up particular groups on a regular schedule.

Check the condition of a vehicle's tires, brakes, windshield wipers, lights, oil, fuel, water, and safety equipment to ensure that everything is in working order.

Comply with traffic regulations to operate vehicles in a safe and courteous manner. Follow relevant safety regulations and state laws governing vehicle operation and ensure that passengers follow safety regulations.

Notify mechanics of vehicle problems. Perform minor vehicle repairs, such as cleaning spark plugs, or take vehicles to mechanics for servicing.

Perform routine vehicle maintenance, such as regulating tire pressure and adding gasoline, oil, and water. Prepare and submit reports that may include the number of passengers or trips, hours worked, mileage, fuel consumption, or fares received.

Regulate heating, lighting, and ventilation systems for passenger comfort. Report any vehicle malfunctions or needed repairs.

Test vehicle equipment, such as lights, brakes, horns, or windshield wipers, to ensure proper operation.

Drivers may be required also perform duties such as : harvest crops by hand and work in the fields for long periods of time.

Workers will work in the packing house packing vegetables.

Driver's may be required to perform a variety of duties related to the production of herbs and vegetables. Driver's may be required to manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables such as : Green / Red Romaine, Green / Red Oak, Green / Red Leaf, Mizuna, Arugula, Green / Red Chard, Tatsoi, Spinach, Kale as well as other types of vegetables, lettuce crops, culinary herbs, microgreens, and other field crops.

Worker will be required to use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers;

transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products.

Drivers may be required to assist with farm building and field maintenance, repair fences, and / or repair or cover hoop houses.

Driver's may be asked to perform irrigation activities such as placing irrigation pipes and fittings. There is a considerable amount of stooping and kneeling throughout the various tasks being performed.

Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. Workers will be required to dig and prepare ground, till soil and prepare field for planting, plant pots in fields, remove broken or damaged poles and install new poles (hoop houses), manually remove weeds by hand or with digging tools.

Driver's may be asked to spread plastic or cover crops with netting materials or plastic and remove them when no longer needed by hand or machine.

Driver's may be asked to pack crops in totes, bins, clamshells, tie or bundle items, weigh product and load product by hand.

Driver's may be asked to install and maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment, and remove drip tubing or install drip tubing, dig, and maintain ditches.

When work is performed in the field workers must wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or another durable footwear.

Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.

In addition, workers will be required to perform variable tasks such as the following : ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other tasks related to general farming.

Workers will also engage in maintaining the equipment, restrooms, and fields in sanitary condition by sanitizing equipment, restrooms, lunch tables, picking up packing material, boxes, labels, trash, and discard of any other unwanted items.

Work will also include mechanized fieldwork using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators, and other equipment.

Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors.

Unusual, complex, or non-routine activities will be supervised. Field workers will be expected to perform their general duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision.

Minimum Qualifications

3 months experience driving farm workers withing commercial farming sites required.

Must have a Class B w / Passenger Endorsement or a Licencia Federal de Conductor Clase A

Experience working with the following crops :

o Green / Red Romaine

o Green / Red Oak

o Green / Red Leaf

o Mizuna

o Arugula

o Green / Red Chard

o Tatsoi

o Spinach

o Kale

o Culinary Herbs

o Microgreens

Physical Demands / Work Environment

Workers will be required to harvest crops by hand and work in the fields for long periods of time. Workers will work in packing areas used for packing vegetables.

Workers are expected to perform duties including boxing, weighing, and loading of products. Workers will assist in loading / unloading trucks with products weighing up to and including 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet for long periods of time.

Workers must be able to work on their feet in bent positions and must be able to bend and stoop for long periods of time.

Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honeybees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job.

Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures.

Temperatures in fields may range from 10 to 105 F. Workers will be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations.

Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodation. To be qualified for this position, a worker must be willing to perform the considerable manual labor required on such a farm.

DFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Last updated : 2024-06-20