Job Description:

• 1) Harvests vegetables, such as cucumbers, onions, lettuce, and sweet corn, by hand or using knife, according to method appropriate for type of vegetable: Ascertains picking assignment from supervisor and places work aids, such as buckets and tie wires, in assigned area.

• 2) Picks vegetable from plant, pulls vegetable from plant or soil, or cuts vegetable from stem or root.

• 3) Puts vegetables in container or lays bunches of vegetables along row for collection.

• 4) Carries containers or armloads of bunched vegetables to collection point.

• 5) Loads vegetables on trucks or field conveyors.

• 6) May tie vegetables into specified size bunches, using wires or rubber bands.

• 7) May cut top foliage from root vegetables, using knife.

• 8) May wash vegetables.

• 9) May be identified with tasks performed, such as picking, cutting, bunching, and washing; or with crop harvested as cucumbers, lettuce, onions, radishes, and sweet corn.