Job Description:

• 1) Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in planting, cultivating, and harvesting berry crops, such as cranberries and grapes: Confers with manager to evaluate weather and soil conditions and to develop plans and procedures.

• 2) Hires workers and explains and demonstrates field work-techniques and safety-regulations to inexperienced workers.

• 3) Assigns duties, such as tilling soil, planting, cultivating, and spraying vines, and gathering berries, to farmworkers and oversees work activities.

• 4) Attaches farm implement, such as disc, planter, and fertilizer, and herbicide spreader, to tractor, and drives tractor in fields to plant and cultivate vines.

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

• 6) May adjust and repair farm machinery.

• 7) May irrigate fields.

• 8) May cut plant runners and uprights to thin vines and stimulate growth, using pruning tools.

• 9) May be identified according to location as Cranberry-Farm Supervisor; Vineyard Supervisor.