What are the responsibilities and job description for the TEMP GREENHOUSE 432 position at Engineering Services and Products Company (ESAPCO)?
Summary
The successful candidate will work with the manager and greenhouse specialist team to harvest and transplant our lettuce crop in an environmentally controlled hydroponic greenhouse.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Harvest and transplant our hydroponic lettuce crop on a weekly basis
- Weighing lettuce on a scale during harvest
- Picking floats of lettuce up out of the ponds
- Taping boxes
- Putting floats through our float washer machine
- Cleaning propagation tables
- Assisting other team members with clean up after harvest
- Other duties as assigned or required
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Some knowledge and passion for hydroponic plant production (vine and leaf crops)
- Ability to follow a very high standard of procedures for our food safety program.
- Qualified applicants will also possess excellent communication skills, be self motivated and be a team player
Education and/or Experience
- Associate's degree
- Or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or six months to one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education, experience and training
- Must have the communication skills appropriate for the job
- Ability to follow detailed instructions
Language Skills
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Mathematical Skills
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet, hot, and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
