Job Description:

• 1) Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cultivating, pruning, spraying, thinning, propping, and harvesting tree crops, such as apples, lemons, oranges, peaches, and pecans: Assigns trees, rows, or blocks of trees to workers.

• 2) Directs workers in spacing, thinning, irrigating, fertilizing, spraying, and pruning trees and in harvesting fruit.

• 3) Issues ladders, pruning tools, and picking bags or buckets to workers.

• 4) Inspects harvested fruit for bruises, maturity, and improper harvesting defects.

• 5) Performs other duties as described under SUPERVISOR Master Title.

• 6) May dig up soil samples from various locations in grove to send to laboratory for analysis, using auger or shovel.

• 7) May examine trees for blight and insect infestation and record degree of damage and location of affected trees.

• 8) May requisition and purchase farm supplies, such as insecticides and machinery lubricants.

• 9) May hire and discharge workers.

• 10) May prepare daily tally sheets of worker hours and production.