Brown Picker/Piscadores de Cafe
Department: Packing and Shipping
Type: Full-time, Permanent
Schedule: Varies, 1 day off every 5 days including a weekend every 5 weeks
Pay: $12 per hour
Description
A picker is part of a picking crew in the Packing and Shipping department. They are responsible for picking, trimming, and sizing the brown mushrooms, including portabellos and criminis. Brown Pickers also support the packing department, as needed.
Duties
- Picking, trimming, and sizing crimini and portabello mushrooms into tubs
- Sort the Ports into the right boxes and keep them organised in the cooler and ready to ship. Help with any paper work and estimates
- Clean up your work area in each room
- Prepare mushrooms beds for the next day’s harvest
Requirements
- Ability to work in cooler temperatures, rooms are about 65 degrees F
- Lift up to 50 pounds
- Baskets with picked mushrooms weigh about 2.5 pounds
- Work from a portable platform called a picking trolley at elevated heights Work quickly
