A professional who harvests vegetables, such as cucumbers, onions, lettuce, and sweet corn, by hand or using knife, according to method appropriate for type of vegetable. Respnsibilities include:

• Ascertains picking assignment from supervisor and places work aids, such as buckets and tie wires, in assigned area.
• Picks vegetable from plant, pulls vegetable from plant or soil, or cuts vegetable from stem or root.
• Puts vegetables in container or lays bunches of vegetables along row for collection.
• Carries containers or armloads of bunched vegetables to collection point.
• Loads vegetables on trucks or field conveyors.
• May tie vegetables into specified size bunches, using wires or rubber bands.
• May cut top foliage from root vegetables, using knife.
• May wash vegetables.
• May be identified with tasks performed, such as picking, cutting, bunching, and washing; or with crop harvested as cucumbers, lettuce, onions, radishes, and sweet corn.