- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who provides harvest crews for farmers and directs, coordinates, and oversees crew activities, such as field hauling and threshing. Respnsibilities include:
* Contacts crop growers to ascertain time and method of harvesting.
* Inspects crops and fields to estimate acreage yield and determine loading requirements, land contours, road accessibility, and distances to storage or processing area.
* Prepares and submits bids to farmer to obtain harvest contract.
* Recruits, hires and orients crewmembers.
* Assigns workers to tasks involved in harvesting, loading, moving, and storing crops.
* Prepares and submits bids to farmers to provide work crews for farming activities, such as planting, pruning, and thinning fruit trees, setting posts, and weeding field crops.
* May supply, tend, adjust, and repair trucks and farm machines.
* May transport or arrange for transportation of workers.
* May be required to be licensed by state and federal authorities.
* May prepare production records and crew payroll.
* May be identified with crew activity as Contractor, Broomcorn Threshing; Contractor, Field Hauling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in picking fruits, vegetables, and row crops, by hand or machine, and loading and stacking filled containers on trucks. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines crop to determine degree of maturity.
* Directs workers in methods of picking crops and specifies size of fruit or vegetable to pick.
* Ensures that equipment, such as ladders and containers, are available to workers.
* Directs distribution of field boxes along rows for convenience of workers.
* Checks harvested products for size, quality, and variety, and informs workers of discrepancies.
* Oversees loading and stacking filled containers on trucks.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May pay employees.
* May be designated according to type of crops harvested as Apple-Picking Supervisor; Cauliflower-Harvesting-And-Packing Supervisor; Orange-Picking Supervisor; Onion-Harvesting Supervisor; Peach Harvesting Supervisor; Watermelon-Harvesting Supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in picking fruits, vegetables, and row crops, by hand or machine, and loading and stacking filled containers on trucks. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines crop to determine degree of maturity.
* Directs workers in methods of picking crops and specifies size of fruit or vegetable to pick.
* Ensures that equipment, such as ladders and containers, are available to workers.
* Directs distribution of field boxes along rows for convenience of workers.
* Checks harvested products for size, quality, and variety, and informs workers of discrepancies.
* Oversees loading and stacking filled containers on trucks.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May pay employees.
* May be designated according to type of crops harvested as Apple-Picking Supervisor; Cauliflower-Harvesting-And-Packing Supervisor; Orange-Picking Supervisor; Onion-Harvesting Supervisor; Peach Harvesting Supervisor; Watermelon-Harvesting Supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in irrigating crops. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects area irrigated to ensure adequate soaking and prevent waste of water.
* Opens head gate to permit entry of water into main ditches or pipes.
* Signals worker to start water flow.
* Directs workers in cleaning and repairing ditches or pipes.
* Keeps workers' time records.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May verify addition of liquid fertilizer to irrigation ditches by commercial firm.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in irrigating crops. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects area irrigated to ensure adequate soaking and prevent waste of water.
* Opens head gate to permit entry of water into main ditches or pipes.
* Signals worker to start water flow.
* Directs workers in cleaning and repairing ditches or pipes.
* Keeps workers' time records.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May verify addition of liquid fertilizer to irrigation ditches by commercial firm.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in hoeing, weeding, and thinning crops, such as sugar beets, lettuce, and watermelons. Respnsibilities include:
* Assigns rows and distributes hoes to workers.
* Observes thinning, weeding, or cultivating process, notes evidence of unsatisfactory work, and initiates corrective measures.
* Keeps time and production records.
* Collects tools at end of workday.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May recruit workers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to provide ground support for airplane pilot engaged in aerial seeding and fertilizing of fields and dusting of crops. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes fertilizers and pesticides according to prescribed formulas, and loads seeds, fertilizers, or pesticides onto airplane.
* Pours or pumps materials and seeds into feed hopper of airplane.
* Signals pilot when propeller is clear of people and obstructions to take off and to dust or spray fields.
* Waves flag or stands on edge of field to mark flight passes for pilot to prevent skips and overlaps.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives and operates one or more farm machines, such as tractors, trucks, and harvesters to perform specified farm activity as cutting hay, picking cranberries, and harvesting wheat. Respnsibilities include:
* Hitches soil conditioning implement, such as plow or harrow to tractor, and operates tractor and towed implement to furrow and grade soil.
* Drives tractor and operates designated towed machine, such as seed drill or manure spreader, to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
* Prepares harvesting machine by adjusting speeds of cutters, blowers, and conveyors and height of cutting head or depth of digging blades according to type, height, weight, and condition of crop being harvested, and contour of terrain.
* Attaches towed- or mounted-type harvesting machine to tractor, using handtools, or drives self-propelled harvesting machine to cut, pull up, dig, thresh, clean, chop, bag, or bundle crops, such as sod, vine fruits, or livestock feed.
* Moves switches, pulls levers, and turns knobs and wheels to activate and regulate mechanisms.
* Refuels engine, lubricates machine parts, and monitors machine operations to ensure optimum performance.
* Drives truck to haul materials, supplies, or harvested crops to designated locations.
* May load and unload containers of materials and products on trucks, trailers, or railcars by hand or driving forklift truck.
* May mix specified materials and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
* May oversee activities of field crews.
* May drive horses or mules to tow farm machinery.
* May be identified with crop, such as hay, onions, and cranberries, or machine, such as baler, chopper, and digger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives truck or tractor with trailer attached to gather and transport harvested crop in field. Respnsibilities include:
* Hauls trailer alongside crew loading crop or adjacent to harvesting machine and regulates speed to keep abreast of crew.
* Hauls loaded trailers from field to highway or packing shed, uncouples trailer, couples empty trailer to tractor and returns to field.
* May haul crop over public roads to storage shed or processing plant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who floods or row-irrigates field sections, using portable pipe sections equipped with valves connected to underground waterline. Respnsibilities include:
* Secures gate attachment (water flow regulator) to vertical pipe.
* Connects length of valve pipe to gate and attaches additional pipe through field section or across ends of rows until area is spanned.
* Starts motor that pumps water through pipeline system, and opens valves to direct water over uneven terrain and fill rows or areas enclosed by checks (earth embankments).
* Observes rate of flow and adjusts valves accordingly.
* Shovels dirt into holes and low spots in levees and removes obstructions.
* Digs opening in embankment at end of row to direct overflow of water into spillway.
* Builds levees to prevent water from overflowing other crops or highways.
* Lubricates pumping equipment and makes minor repairs.
Industry:Professional careers
