Description

Title: Wash-Pack Specialist
Dept: Wholesale
Hours: 42.5 per week, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with some flexibility and seasonal changes
Report to: Wash-Pack House Leader
Wage: See below

Our wash-pack operation will be in our brand new, grant-funded, well-designed and spacious wash house with additional walk-in coolers, excellent wash equipment and superior drainage. This position will wash and get ready for market the farm's abundant harvests.

This position performs the varied tasks of the wash-pack house, which includes the washing, sorting, grading and cooling of all of our farm produce. Sanitation and quality standards are paramount and the successful applicant will need both an understanding of food safety rules and the ability to keep accurate daily records in our logs.

In our daily work, we:

• Daily priorities include washing and trimming produce, such as lettuce and carrots, preparatory to packing, working in-house or on harvesting machine in field.
• May weigh packed produce and add or remove produce from container to obtain specified weight.
• Harvest and final wash-pack of our flat-grown microgreens.
• Learn appropriate food safety and sanitation rules, and apply them.
• Ensure work areas, tools and boxes are kept clean, tidy, sanitary and well cared for.
• Follow all established procedures and packing standards.
• Move quickly while supporting our very high quality standards and managing others in the same pursuit.
• Support other farm tasks when the position's requirements allow.

Position Requirements

Our ideal candidate:

• Able to properly and safely operate commercial equipment including scales and packaging machinery (must be 18 and trained in order to use certain equipment).
• Commercial kitchen experience a plus. (ServeSafe a plus!)
• Able to prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously and produce high quality output while working within deadlines a must.
• Ability to exert well-paced mobility for up to 8 hours, including standing, walking, bending and squatting. May be required to lift and/or move up to 30 pounds frequently, and up to 50 to 70 pounds occasionally.

Full-Time/Part-Time
Full-Time

Wage
This position is paid hourly, commensurate with experience (wages range from $17.00-$20.00 hourly)

Position
Wash Pack Specialist

Exempt/Non-Exempt
Non-Exempt

About the Organization
Morning Glory Farm, started in 1975 by James and Deborah Athearn, grows about 65 acres of vegetables and small fruits on the island of Martha's Vineyard.

Small successive plantings of a wide variety of crops supply the Farmstand from May through December.

Crops include sweet corn, lettuce, carrots, beets, tomatoes, melons, potatoes, beans, squash, pumpkins, and more. Our herb garden supplies a full assortment of culinary herbs. We also raise four acres of cut flowers, and small plantings of strawberries, grapes, peaches, and beach plums.

We keep beef cows on pasture in Chilmark for which we harvest 45 acres of hay and we also produce eggs, pork and fresh, pasture-raised chickens to sell in the Farmstand. Twenty-three acres of our vegetable fields are farmed using natural practices and only OMRI certified fertilizers and pesticides. We manage the rest of our land with a minimum of pesticides and with attention to the long-term health of the soil.

The farm name grew from the vision of the sun rising over lush, green fields, cows with udders full of milk ambling past bountiful gardens and hedgerows lively with honeybees: true wealth of nature's glory.

Each year we meet a new crew of farmers, bakers, cooks, and Farmstand staff who become part of the farm family. The farm has benefited from a variety of wonderful people who have endowed Morning Glory with their own special contributions.