Staff role

Farm Labor Contractor

Recruit and hire seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers. May transport, house, and provide meals for workers.

Tasks

  • Pay wages of contracted farm laborers.
  • Provide food, drinking water, and field sanitation facilities to contracted workers.
  • Recruit and hire agricultural workers.
  • Supervise the work of contracted employees.
  • Employ foremen to deal directly with workers when recruiting, hiring, instructing, assigning tasks, and enforcing work rules.
  • Furnish tools for employee use.
  • Direct and transport workers to appropriate work sites.

Knowledge

  • Administration and Management
  • Administrative
  • Food Production
  • Production and Processing
  • Economics and Accounting
  • Foreign Language
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Mathematics
  • Personnel and Human Resources
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Law and Government
  • Mechanical
  • Public Safety and Security

Skills

  • Speaking
  • Active Listening
  • Critical Thinking
  • Monitoring

Abilities

  • Oral Expression
  • Oral Comprehension
  • Speech Clarity
  • Problem Sensitivity
  • Deductive Reasoning
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Speech Recognition

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