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Crops/Commodities: \nvegetables. \nWorkers will be working in a vegetable greenhouse facilitity unloading, placing, consolidating, moving, loading and shipping in the most efficient manner while taking into considerations specifications, presentation and quality. Workers will be required to work in the most efficient way, understanding metrics, standards, processes, and time frames to get the job done at the same time making safety their top priority for themselves and others. Employees must be able to handle 50lbs and be able to do repetitive work. Employees that show an aptitude to drive equipment will be trained and certified to drive our farm tractor or warehouse forklift.\n\nShipping Vegetable Trailers:\nLoading vegetable orders from the greenhouse into the shipping trailers. The trailer capacities are 847, 910, 924, 938 & 981. The vegetable trays get placed into the trailers to then ship to the customer. Employee will need to understand how to read order numbers, varieties and different sized trays. The tray sizes used for shipping vegetables are 72s, 128s, 242s & 392s. Each variety loading in the trailer must have a colored ribboned, map and a signed pulled sheet by the crew leader.\n\nBeat Out Line (Trailers & Bins):\nUnloading empty trays from the trailers that come back from the farmers field after they have transplanted their seedlings. The tray sizes used for shipping vegetables are 72s, 128s, 242s & 392s. Trays must be passed thru the beating machine for beat out, classified and palletized. There are few quality specs for separating trays on pallets, these are new, old and half used trays. All trays palletized must be strapped and put away in the north shade house. All broken trays that have a certain percentage of missing cells will be thrown away. Please refer to SOP for specifics per tray count. The upmh are 240 trays per man hour, this means we should be able to\nunload two trailers per hour. A crew of 7 people should be able to unload two trailers an hour for 1680 trays. A crew of 7 people should be able to unload 14 large bins @ 117 each in an hour\n\nShipping Vegetable Bins:\nLoading vegetable orders from the greenhouse into the shipping bins. The bin capacities are 45s, 99s & 117s. The vegetable trays get placed into the bins to then ship to the customer. Employee will need to understand how to read order numbers, varieties and different sized trays. The tray sizes used for shipping vegetables are 72s, 128s, 242s & 392s. Each variety loading into the bins must have a colored ribboned, map and a signed pulled sheet by the crew leader.\n\nShading Houses:\nTwo teams of two workers will be loading flatbed trailers with folded shade, placing folded shade on roofs of greenhouses, and unfolding the shade along the length of the greenhouses. This will all be done from the ground or from a flatbed trailer with railing. When shade has been removed from houses, it will have to be loaded onto the flatbed trailer and moved to an empty field to fold and tie up. Stacking Seed-Trays: Two workers will be needed to stack seeded EPS trays onto a pallet at a specific # of trays high. They will be stacking all-day and the only workers stacking trays. Poly Replacement: Pushing/steering plastic/poly deployer for replacement\nof plastic roofs. Will need 6 workers just to push the poly deployer 150' at a time while replacing the double layer poly.\n\nPlacement:\nUnloading flatbed loads of seeded vegetable pallets/trays into the greenhouse. The vegetable trays get placed inside the greenhouse for growing. Will need to understand how to read order numbers, varieties and different sized trays. Trays used for seeding are 72s, 128s, 242s & 39s. The materials used from placement will then have to be consolidated and sent back to the seed house for reuse.\n\nCrop Mowing:\nCelery requires weekly mowing during its grow time in order to bulk up the plant barrel.
Crops/Commodities: \nVegetables and nursery stock. \nWorkers will be working in a vegetable greenhouse facility unloading, placing, consolidating, moving, loading and shipping in the most efficient manner while taking into considerations specifications, presentation and quality. Workers will be required to work in the most efficient way, understanding metrics, standards, processes, and time frames to get the job done at the same time making safety their top priority for themselves and others. Employees must be able to handle 50lbs and be able to do repetitive work. Employees that show an aptitude to drive equipment will be trained and certified to drive our farm tractor or warehouse forklift.\n\nShipping Vegetable Trailers:\nLoading vegetable orders from the greenhouse into the shipping trailers. The trailer capacities are 847, 910, 924, 938 & 981. The vegetable trays get placed into the trailers to then ship to the customer. Employee will need to understand how to read order numbers, varieties and different sized trays. The tray sizes used for shipping vegetables are 72s, 128s, 242s & 392s. Each variety loading in the trailer must have a colored ribboned, map and a signed pulled sheet by the crew leader.\nBeat Out Line (Trailers & Bins):\n\nUnloading empty trays from the trailers that come back from the farmers field after they have transplanted their seedlings. The tray sizes used for shipping vegetables are 72s, 128s, 242s & 392s. Trays must be passed thru the beating machine for beat out, classified and palletized. There are few quality specs for separating trays on pallets, these are new, old and half used trays. All trays palletized must be strapped and put away in the north shade house. All broken trays that have a certain percentage of missing cells will be thrown away. Please refer to SOP for specifics per tray count. The upmh are 240 trays per man hour, this means we should be able to unload two trailers per hour. A crew of 7 people should be able to unload two trailers an hour for 1680 trays. A crew of 7 people should be able to unload 14 large bins @ 117 each in an hour.\n\nShipping Vegetable Bins:\nLoading vegetable orders from the greenhouse into the shipping bins. The bin capacities are 45s, 99s & 117s. The vegetable trays get placed into the bins to then ship to the customer. Employee will need to understand how to read order numbers, varieties and different sized trays. The tray sizes used for shipping vegetables are 72s, 128s, 242s & 392s. Each variety loading into the bins must have a colored ribboned, map and a signed pulled sheet by the crew leader.\n\nTTA Movements (Placement):\nTo place all transplanted product in the greenhouses for production/growing to finish off. When placing trays in the greenhouses the pots must be spaced at a certain format per eps tray, for example the 1qt will be 8 per eps benching tray and the 2.5 qts are 5 pots per eps benching tray. Crews will need to understand how to read number orders, varietys and flagging on trailers coming from the TTA. A crew of 8 people should be able to unload a trailer every 30 minutes. Upmh are 90 trays per man hour, this means we will unload, place and space two farm trailers an hour.\n\nShipping Ornamental Pots:\nOur end goal is to consolidate, load up, qc racks and ship to its final destination. \n\nCONSOLIDATION OF POTS\nMust be able to understand how to read a map with locations, row numbers, variety and count. Must be able to consolidate a tray always taking into consideration quality and a high standard quality product. Check trays to match style pot, pots to match style program and tagging to match program/plant. Quality and presentation must always be taken into place.\n
Workers must be able to plant, cultivate (staking and tying) Harvest, do quality control and pack; variety of peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, tomatoes, blueberries, blackberries, bell peppers, greens, squash, watermelon and cantaloupe. Packing House is part of the farm. Prune take cuttings for propagation, load trucks, repair drip irrigation, clean greenhouse, spray, nursery work, irrigation work, weed, dig ditches, daily farm maintenance, clean production areas and facilities. Plant produce by hand placing into pre-dug holes along rows. Pick developed peppers or tomatoes from bush and place into bucket, making sure that plant is picked clean of all peppers or tomatoes of correct size and maturity. When bucket is full, carry to dumper on truck that is moving through rows alongside workers, being careful not to bruise peppers. Pick developed cucumbers and place into bucket, making sure that the plant is picked clean of cucumbers of correct size and maturity. When bucket is full, worker will carry to dumper on truck that is moving through rows alongside workers being careful not to bruise cucumbers. Cut squash or eggplant using a knife and place into bucket, making sure that squash or eggplant is picked clean of correct size and maturity. When bucket is full, carry to dumper on truck moving through rows alongside workers. Cut greens with knife, remove any discolored or defective leaves, place bands around bundles and put into box in field. When box is full, carry to truck that is moving through rows alongside workers and receive a new box. Make sure that plants are picked clean of all produce of correct size and maturity according to supervisor’s instructions being careful not to bruise or damage produce. Walk through assigned row while bending and reaching to pick ripe blueberries by hand without bruising or damaging the fruit or bush. Workers must use care to pick bushes clean of all berries of the correct color and size (at least 95%), as instructed by their supervisor. Green berries must not be picked. When picking blueberries, workers will carefully place picked berries into buckets that are strapped around their waists. Once all buckets are full, workers will carry buckets to the trailer that is moving through the field. Buckets will then be emptied into trays that are inspected for quality and weighed. Inform managers of crop progress. Workers will Stake and tie. Participate in irrigation activities. Set up and operate irrigation equipment. Remove stakes, string, and plastic. Dig ditches. Clean and maintain work areas. Operate, repair, clean and maintain farm equipment and vehicles. Assist with Good Agricultural Practices policies. Workers are expected to possess the skill work in the production of crops listed. The introductory period for all work and to familiarize workers with job specifications and to demonstrate proper harvest methods and other crop specific issues. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by the supervisor. Workers must take care to handle tools, equipment and produce in a manner to avoid injury or damage. The employer will comply with all federal, state, and local safety requirements. Operational specifications can change during the season due to crop or market condition. Workers will be expected to conform to the specific instructions given for each day’s work. Instructions and general supervision will be provided by the employer or a designated employee. Workers will have close supervision to insure adherence to instructions. Work will be closely monitored and reviewed for quality. Daily individual work assignments, crew assignments and location of work will be made by the employer or designated employees as the needs of the operation dictate. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given and different tasks on different days. Workers may transport the crop to the packing house which is part of the farms. Workers with driving authorizations /valid driver’s license ma
Duties may include: Preparation of trees to be planted, pruning of the roots, separation of the root systems for easy seedling retrieval, carrying seedlings in specialized carrying bags on the worker's person, extensive walking over rough terrain in extreme weather conditions, bending over and inserting a dibble bar or hoedad into the ground, proper placement of seedlings in hole in ground and proper packing of seedlings so as to ensure survivability. This is done on a consistent and continuous basis throughout the work day & other related Forestry Worker activities as per SOC/OES 45-4011 (onetonline.org).\n\nPossible weekend/holiday work.\n\nAt Employer’s sole discretion: possible raises and/or bonuses based on individual factors such as work performance or skill (not guaranteed).
Clean pine straw field (pick up sticks, pinecones, and pull, dig up and spray weeds). Rake pine straw with barley rake into piles for baling. Bale pine straw with tractor. Load pine straw on semi-trailers or trucks. Prepare area to install pine straw and install the pine straw.
Strawberry harvest: Workers will move down assigned rows picking all ripe berries, grading berries while harvesting, taking care to sort and pack containers by size, shape, color, quality, and quantity as directed. Each worker must pick the plants clean of all ripe fruit, sort, and pack all good berries into specified containers, within the box, according to very high-quality standards as set forth in the Company's food safety policy and standard operating procedures. Bad berries will be packed or disposed of as determined by the supervisor. Each worker shall handle berries carefully to avoid bruising. Bruising will weaken the berry. Each harvesting worker is expected to move with the crew from row to row and maintain the efficiently level. Upon completion of each box picked, the worker will take his/her packed box to the crate shed to be viewed for grade and receive a new box with containers. Any containers that are over or under packed, or consist of poor-quality fruit, will be returned to the worker for repacking. Upon completion of assigned row, the worker will move to the next vacant row to be picked. Harvester may receive disciplinary notice if quality continues to be an issue. Runner Cutting/Trimming: Worker will walk down assigned row as instructed and cut/trim runners, leaves and blooms as directed from each strawberry plant, as necessary. Freeze Protection Activities: May assist regardless of the time of the day, in keeping overhead irrigation rain birds free of ice during freezing weather. Drip-tape Hookup: Workers will be required to cut drip-tape at end of bed as instructed and hook up drip-tape to main water line. Weeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walkway and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area, by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as instructed. Plastic Drip-tape Removal: Unhook drip-tape from main water line, walk down row while pulling plastic down the bed until it is completely removed. Take removed plastic to proper disposal or burning station, as instructed. Strawberry Planting: Workers will lay plastic over formed beds, cut holes in plastic for strawberry plants to be placed, place small plants from carton trays in holes, and run drip lines/tape for irrigation. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate at the time jobs are performed.\n\nBell peppers will be harvested and GFL will be done on Farm. Bell peppers will be harvested at a rate of $12.41 per hour.
Agricultural Grader, Sorter, and Packer to perform grading, sorting, and packaging of fruit in a warehouse setting. The Agricultural Grader, Sorter, and Packer is responsible for the selection and packaging of imported winter melons such as cantaloupes, honeydews, mini watermelons, watermelons, and yellowdews. The Agricultural Grader, Sorter, and Packer must examine and inspect fruit to ensure that the packing specifications are met. The melons are selected and packed in packinghouses in countries with warmer weather during the winter months, such as Guatemala and Honduras. However, due to ocean transit time and the melons' natural aging process, the product must be re-inspected once it arrives to the warehouse to meet quality and food safety standards. Agricultural Graders, Sorters, and Packers are trained to identify quality and food safety issues. Additionally, they can differentiate between various grades of condition and quality. In addition to inspecting the melons, the Agricultural Graders, Sorters, and Packers are also responsible for repacking product that does not meet specific quality standards. Agricultural Graders, Sorters, and Packers are trained to operate a selector machine that aids in selecting the melons. Once the product is carefully sorted, the Agricultural Graders, Sorters, and Packers repack the product according to size, commodity, and customer specifications. Responsibilities & Duties: Place products in containers according to grade and mark grades on containers. Weigh products or estimate their weight, visually or by feel. Discard inferior or defective products or foreign matter, and place acceptable products in containers for further processing. Grade and sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel, smell, and quality to ensure correct processing and usage. Record grade or identification numbers on tags or on shipping, receiving, or sales sheets. Perform production duties such as manual lifting, packaging, labeling and sorting using hands. Report defective product or questionable conditions to the department supervisor. Maintain the work area and equipment in a clean and orderly condition and follow prescribed food safety regulations. Perform related duties as required by supervision.
WATERMELON- Perform manual labor to hand cut watermelons. Use hand tools such as shears and knives.\nDuties also include cleaning, loading, and unloading harvested products, move farm equipment . Grade and sort products according to\nfactors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel and quality to ensure correct processing and usage.\nDiscard inferior or defective products and/or foreign matter, and place acceptable products in containers for further\nprocessing. Weigh products or estimate their weight, visually or by feel. Place products in containers according to\ngrade and mark grades on containers. Clean and maintain work areas. Must assist with all Good Agricultural\nPractice policies. Perform prolonged bending, reaching, and lifting up to 60 lbs.\nGrove Clean-up: Workers may be required to perform miscellaneous grove clean-up work. These activities may\nincluded removing debris, boxes, discarded fruit from fields to clean growing area , repair and or replace irrigation equipment , may maintain fence lines and moving farm equipment . Workers performing grove clean-up work will be paid the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing rate . A copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 to the worker on the day the work commences.
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Fishing for the stone crab season, which runs from October 15 th till May 1st . Loading the boat with traps and baiting the traps. Throwing the traps overboard by hand, pulling the traps in with hydraulic equipment and measuring the catch for legal size. Pulling the traps in at the end of the season and repairing and building new traps as needed.
Celery Transplanting: Workers will load and unload 40 lb. celery transplants trays, grabbing a tray of transplants, they will go down the rows mile long, using the tool provided, workers will bend over and make a hole on the ground 6 to 9 inched apart depending on the supervisors instructions and will place a celery plant in the hole, making sure they put a plant in every hole,. Workers will plant in 2 rows at a time, to their right and to their left; this job requires a three month experience. \nWorkers will need to rearrange aluminum irrigation pipes 30 feet x 4 or 5 inches.\nHand Weeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area, by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as instructed.\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the cutting process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligence to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency.\n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.
Crops/Commodities: \nCitrus Commodities. \nCitrus Harvesting Activities: \n\nWorkers will perform hand harvesting of citrus crops. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will walk down the rows/aisles for the purposes of harvesting citrus crops by placing a picking sack over their shoulder and carrying a 18' to 20' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. Supervisors will explain and demonstrate picking requirements to all workers at the start of the season and as needed thereafter to ensure quality standards. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions the ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Workers will remove fruit from the tree and place it into a pick sack. When the pick sack is full, workers will take the full sack to the fruit box/tub located in the grove and drop fruit from the pick sack into the box/tub. Bruised or damaged fruit will be noted by supervisors during quality control checks. Supervisors may issue written disciplinary notice to workers with a significant number of culls, bruised or damaged fruit. Repeated failure to follow quality control instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.\n\nWorkers may operate agricultural machinery to load and unload harvesting containers off of trailers to place in harvesting groves. Operate ag machinery to load filled containers in groves and place on trailers for shipment.\n\nIn order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the field box or tub. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking.\n\n\nGeneral Citrus Planting & Grove Maintenance:\n\nFollowing the supervisors instructions, the worker will drive and control farm equipment for mowing,spraying, and maintaining harvest crops. Operate agricultural equipment to spray pesticides to groves for maintenance of crops. Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available will be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Plant, cultivate and harvest citrus fruits. Clean-up activities include the sprouting, and pruning; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work. Alternate work may be included.\n\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, group preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, \nshears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, and skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction.
Crops/Commodities: \nsugar cane. \nPlant and harvest sugarcane. Prepare fields for planting. Hand plant sugarcane in rows at designated intervals. Drain excess water from fields. Chop/segment sugarcane stalks with machetes or other tools as directed by employer. Operate and control sugarcane combine, and/or follow harvester on foot through field and pick up dropped sugarcane. Operate tractors pulling loaded fuel tank to burn raw sugarcane. Load and unload harvested sugarcane. Transport harvested sugar cane on farm. Before moving their assigned tractor on the farm, the operator will complete a pre-trip inspection of the tractor, including adding engine fluid, changing the oil, checking brakes and tires, and cleaning filters. Once the raw sugarcane crop is cut, meaning the sugarcane stalks are severed from their roots by a self-powered mechanical harvesting machine, the sugarcane is mechanically deposited into the field cart that is moved by the tractor to a location within the growing field for loading. The operator is not hauling the harvested sugarcane off the farm. They are moving it by tractor to a location for loading. At the end of the shift, the tractor driver will make sure that the tractor is clean and ready for the next worker.\n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates.\n\nApply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nWorkers must operate all equipment properly and in a manner that protects operator, others, the employer's products and property. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination.\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\n\nOutdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Work is done outdoors for long periods of time and requires prolonged periods of standing and/or walking, repetitive movements, and frequent bending and/or stooping. Workers must be able to handle, lift, and carry heavy or bulky objects (product, containers) in accordance with the specified lifting requirements. \n\nEmployer requires all newly-hired employees to take and pass an employer-paid drug test before starting work. Drug test not required for prospective applicants prior to hiring decision. All testing is conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. Workers testing positive will be immediately terminated and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any.
Citrus: Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18' to 22' ladder from the field truck to the area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition, and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When picking sack is full, take full sack to fruit container located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into container. To perform this kind of work, the worker must be physically able to harvest citrus, fill his assigned sacks, and transport it to the tub. The employee must be able to climb ladders with extra weight of the sack. Workers may be asked to operate farm equipment, vehicles and ATVs in groves, water trailer to water plants, and any other equipment related to harvesting crops. **Safety training for use of farm equipment will be provided. Management reserves the right to restrict employees from operational duties who do not show a proficiency to effectively communicate with management and may therefore place other employees’ safety at risk. Workers may work in packinghouse. Packinghouse is part of the farm. Grove Clean-up: Workers may be required to perform miscellaneous grove clean-up work. These activities may include removing ladders, debris, boxes, discarded fruit from fields to clean growing areas, pruning, pulling vines, and weeds by hand or with hoe, painting trees, repair and or replace irrigation equipment, may maintain fence lines. Workers performing grove clean-up work will be paid the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing rate or the minimum wage rate, the agreed upon collective bargaining wage or the Federal or State minimum wage whichever is higher, except where a special procedure is approved for an occupation or specific class of agricultural employment. Workers should expect little/no work when going from 1 variety of fruit to another depending on the maturation of each fruit. During this slow time, workers may choose to go home at their own expense. Raises and bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker, at the employer’s discretions, based on individual factors including but not limited to, performance, experience, number of hours worked in the season, number of seasons worked with the company, adherence to work rules and ability to follow supervisor instructions.
A cane planter will be taken to designated fields ready to be planted that day, each crew will consist of 9 people working together, each crew will have 3 tractors pulling 3 wagons, each full of cane. Five (5) workers will get on top of a wagon parked in the field with 4 rows ready to be planted and they will be dropping 2 cane sticks every 4 feet, one (1) worker per row will be chopping cane 36 inched long. Cane planters and Choppers have to keep in mind that they should always have to meet quality standards, meeting these standards is very important and is also a very important part of our job. A cane planter should plant and chop cane 36 inches long, to be able to keep up with the machinery, the workers should be able to do a minimum of 1 row, 1/2 mile long per hour and we expect any new cane planter and chopper to meet the same minimum in 5 days of starting employment. \nWorkers that qualify may be required to drive Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.\n\n\n
Plant sugar cane, cut sugar cane, plant vegetables and harvest vegetables. Workers will be required to insert the plant to the proper depth in the plant hole, ensure the correct amount of dirt is covering the root ball and pack dirt around the base of the plant. Cutting sugar cane into continuous two-stalk plant, chopped into 32-36 lengths. Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach harvestable crop; Pulls, twists, or cuts fibers, leaves, stalks, straw, or vines, selected according to color, size, and shape, from bolls, roots, stalks, or trellises; by hand or using knife, machete, or sickle; Collects crop into containers, such as bags, boxes, and bundles, or piles and stacks crop in windrows; Picks up and carries bundles, bales, containers, or stacks of harvested crop to collection point, and loads crop onto truck or wagon, by hand or using hoist or hooks; May tie leaves, stalks, straws, or vines into bundles, using twine, clamps, or rubber bands; May shake dirt from vines and stack vines or straw around stakes or stalks, by hand or using pitchfork, to protect crop from weathering on damp soil; May gather up and load scattered leaves, vines, or pods on truck; May burn debris, leaves, and stalks. Workers will be required to insert the plant to the proper depth in the plant hole, ensure the correct amount of dirt is covering the root ball and pack dirt around the base of the plant. Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach planting area. During field operations workers may be required to drive motorized farm equipment, or a tractor pulling a wagon through the field or between fields incidental to the jobs being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving. All tractor driving will be done in the field during the harvest. Lay Plastic - Use a shovel to remove dirt, then cut and shape trenches for drainage. Use shovel to tuck and form fit plastic in the trenches. Field Care - Tying plants, planting plants, pruning plants, cleaning drippers and Micro jets, removing plastic drip lines, removing dead plants, and removing debris. Workers will walk along rows specified by the employer and will remove grass and weeds from the fields using their hands or with a hoe. Workers will be standing, crouching, bending and reaching for an extended period. The work is outdoors and will continue in all kinds of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n
Cultivate and harvest cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Must be able to operate motorized farm equipment. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 40lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 40lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \n\nCultive y coseche pepinos, tomates y pimientos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cuide las plantas de campo, ate las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. Debe poder operar maquinaria agrícola motorizada. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 40 libras. a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 40 libras. en campo El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Harvesting citrus fruit by hand under supervisor’s instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over his shoulder and carry an 18’ to 20’ ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A full loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock of fruit or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take full sack to fruit tub. \nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.\n\n
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor.\nCabbage harvesting: The cabbage Cutters will line up in designated cabbage rows. Workers will bend over each cabbage to cut. After cutting the cabbage, workers will inspect and trim. Workers will then put the cabbage in a bag and put the bag on a stainless steel table that will be continually pushed behind the cutters as they proceed on their rows. Workers should be able to keep up with the machine. \nPlanting of cabbage: A tractor will go over the fields making holes for the plants, workers will grab a tray of plants from the truck, walking down the rows the worker will put one plants per hole, when finish with the tray, the worker will walk back to the truck and grab another tray of plants, repeating the process through the work day.\n\nGeneral Maintenance: Workers may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on work site property, on structures utilized in the work site operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair. \n\n The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Crops/Commodities: \nIncluding, but not limited to the following:\nBeans, Beet, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Chilis, Cilantro, Cucumber, Dill, Eggplant, Gourds, Green Onion, Greens, Hard Squash, Herbs, Corn, Kohlrabi, Leek, Lettuce, Okra, Onion, Parsley, Pepper, Pickle, Potato, Pumpkins, Radish, Squash, Sweet Corn, Swiss Chard, Tomatillo, Tomato, Turnips, Watermelon. \nPlant, cultivate and harvest vegetables. Use hand tools including, but not limited to: shovels, hoes and knives. Plant roots, seeds and bulbs. Spread plastic or other groundcovering. Clean plastic by hand from ground upon removal. Till soil. Weed and thin plants. Transplant plants by hand. Stake/tie plants, trellis/prune plants, and set poles and wires for vine plants. Pick, cut, lift, or pull crops. Tie vegetables in bunches. Grade, size and field pack product outdoors in the field. Fill bins/boxes trays and other containers with product. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies to farm trucks. Take care to prevent damaging produce and plants. \n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, knives, broom, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences. Install, hook up, maintain, operate, and remove irrigation equipment. \n\nWork is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions or upright for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. \n\nWork on production line. Grade, size, sort, and pack product. Label product, boxes, containers and pallets. Operate sorting, packing, and sticker machinery. Bunch/bundle product pursuant to supervisor instructions. Fill bins/trays and other containers with product, level bins, and prepare product for shipment to market or storage. Perform quality control on inbound/outbound loads. Follow quality control standards and production procedures. Handle product carefully to prevent damage. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Palletize and stack boxes/containers. Use power equipment including, but not limited, to: fork lifts, conveyor belts, and cooling equipment/refrigeration units. Operate equipment safely, with or without direction. Perform maintenance on tractors, vehicles, equipment, and facilities. Clean/sanitize work station and equipment. \n\nWorkers may be required to operate mechanized equipment, including but not limited to, tractors, wagons, light/medium trailers, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders, hoses and pressure washers. Workers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be required to drive company vehicles, such as light/medium field trucks or buses. Workers with appropriate licenses may drive field trucks to transport boxes, produce, and supplies to various fields. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may be asked to drive other workers.
Operating large farm machinery for loading and unloading, placing cargo, rearranging cargo; driving truck to haul cargo to wintering; all duties require mechanical knowledge and ability to operate machinery such as tractors, trucks, front end loaders; occasional, overnight, off-site delivery of bees possible; if such work is necessary, employer will pay travel time from listed worksite in Brevard County to location as well as meals until return to listed worksite in Brevard County.
Corn Harvest: Sweet Corn Pullers: Workers will manually harvest sweet corn by hand and machine. Corn harvesting will be performed manually in crews on approximately 49 pullers. Workers will be pulling sweet corn off the stalk and tossing into a wagon. Workers will walk behind, in front of bin pulled by a tractor. Workers must keep up with the wagon as it moves slowly through the field at a speed ranging from ½ mile to one mile per hour. Workers will also assemble boxes/crates, Packers will pick corn out of the bins and place 48 ears into pre-made crates. Packed crates are then moved to workers who will fold and close the lid of the crates and push them down for loading and Loaders will then lift and stack the full crates of corn onto the truck. Corn is harvested in the early morning hours starting before daylight, while temperatures are cooler. This ensures that the sugar content of the corn is higher and provides a better-quality product. A generator powered lighting system is used during early morning hours. Workers will avoid harvesting ears of corn with discolored husks, unacceptable shanks (longer than 6 inches) or visible worn or damaged shanks. Sweet corn must be harvested by pulling down while bending and reaching to select mature ears. Workers must carefully select ears of corn of correct size and maturity and toss into bin. Workers will assist in Good Agricultural Practices polices. Long-sleeved shirts and long pants are recommended to minimize contact with the plants and thereby reduce the exposure to cuts and scrapes.\n\nVan & Bus Drivers: Workers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may transport other workers. Supervisor(s) will provide instructions and directions to workers. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors.\n\nFarm Equipment Operation: During Field Operations: Workers will be required to operate tractors and other farm equipment during field operations as an incidental activity in the production of crops. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, the worker will be instructed in the proper and safe operation of tractor. Workers must notify supervisor of any mechanical issues. Workers will be required to operate tractors according to instructions and in a manner, that protects the operator, other workers, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey operating and safety instructions may result in termination.\nBefore moving their assigned tractor in the far, the operator will complete a pre-trip inspection of the tractor, including adding engine fluid, changing the oil, checking brakes and tires, and cleaning filters. Once the snap bean is cultivated and sweet corn crop handpicked and deposited into the field cart that is moved by the tractor to a location within the growing field for loading. The operator is not hauling off the farm. They are moving carts by tractor to a location for loading. At the end of the shift, the tractor driver will make sure that the tractor is clean and ready for the next worker\n
Attend to live horses. Duties include feed, water, bathe, exercise, walk and load horses. Clean and maintain stalls. Each worker will be responsible for taking care of at least 6 horses daily, including but not limited to following duties: Clean stalls, remove soiled bedding by pitch fork into wheel barrow, empty wheel barrow by pushing up a ramp into muck wagon, this may weigh in excess 100lbs, refilling wheel barrow with clean shavings to replenish bedding in stalls. Empty, clean and refill 5 gallon water buckets for each stall, clean feed tubs. Twice daily check temperatures on horses by inserting a thermometer into rectum of the horse. Lead horses to and from paddocks, wash racks, walking machines, hand walk select horses for extended periods of time, exercise horses, bathe horses daily. Brush horses daily pick and paint hoofs, tend to minor injuries and apply bandages. Do laundry involved with daily care of horses. Keep barns and surrounding areas clean and tidy. Help move bales of hay from storage area to barns bales weigh between 50-150lbs, fill feed cart (bags of feed weigh 50lbs). The anticipated range of hours for different seasonal activities is 40 - 72 on a rotating basis.
Crops harvesting are: Tomato, bell pepper, squash, cucumber and watermelon\n\nLaying plastic-shoveling, making trenches, sitting on machine and examining the plastic rolls, loading plastic and fertilizer on to equipment\n\nIrrigation-examining hoses to ensure there are no ruptures, putting on couplings and fittings, shoveling to clean the area, cutting hose to proper length\n\nplanting-handing out plant trays, taking the plants out of the tray and putting them in the pre-dug holes and topping off with soil to ensure the plant is covered\n\nstaking-taking a bundle of stakes and placing them in the ground in-between each plant, also inspecting any stakes that have fallen are fixed and upright\n\nhammering-taking the hammer and walking alongside the bed and hammering the stakes into the ground\n\npruning-taking 2-3 prunes off the bottom of the plant and make sure there are no weeds coming out of the hold around the plant\n\ntying- tie string around the stakes to ensure the plant stays in an upright motion\n\npicking- harvesting the fruit of the crop and placing them softly in a bucket and taking it to be unloaded at the loading truck or picking up fruit and gently tossing them to a person on top of the truck to be loaded softly\n\ndumping-receiving the buckets from the pickers and softly dumping the fruit into a plastic bin, also inspect plastic bins to ensure they are up to food safety code.\n\nweeding-pulling out weeds alongside plastic and on top of plastic in the holes\n\ncleaning-picking up trash around loading stations, in-between rows, filling up stations and anywhere else.\n\npacking-inspecting fruit to ensure it is free of damage and is of good quality, placing fruit inside of a box or bin properly, taking pallets and placing them in the proper location so that boxes or bins may be placed on them, making boxes or bins, placing tags or stickers on fruit or boxes or bins, cleaning the area where packing is done and maintaining the area clean, strapping the boxes or bins to ensure they are in good form, stacking boxes or bins full of fruit or empty on pallets or on top of each other, culling and throwing away culls in a predetermined location.\n\npulling plastic-pulling plastic and drip tape from the bed and placing piles of tape and plastic on top of the bed next to the road way every 20 feet\n\ncutting string-cutting string and bunching it up and plastic bunches at 100 feet intervals and ensure that all string has been pulled from the stakes\n\npulling stakes-pulling stakes from each bed in 21 pile groups and placing the 21 stakes in-between the last bed and second to last bed next to the road way and tying the stakes with string in a tight bunch.\n\npicking up stakes-picking up the piles of stakes and handing them to a person on the truck or standing on the truck and receiving the piles of stakes and placing them on pallets to be unloaded.\n\nburning string and plastic- walking along the piles and lighting them up with a small propane torch.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Citrus Harvesting: Harvesting citrus fruit by hand under supervisor’s instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over his shoulder and carry an 18’ to 20’ ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A full loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock of fruit or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take full sack to fruit tub.\nPlanting citrus trees: by hand under supervisor’s instructions, planting a tree at a tree space where a tree has been removed the worker will dig a hole 3 feet on each side of the removed tree in line with the other trees in the same row (clear weeds if needed) the hole must be 14 inches deep and 5 inches round, place soil that has been removed from the hole evenly around the hole, evenly sprinkle 1 pound of young tree fertilizer on the soil around the hole, remove the tree from the citrus pot over the hole, place tree in the hole at ground level so potting mix is even with the ground, use your hand to pack the soil with the fertilizer into the hole firmly around the tree, water the tree around the roots (1 gallon or more) place more soil around the tree roots after watering. Place pot as sprout inhibitor and tree protector: Notch the bottom of the pot and slip in over the tree, place the micro sprinkler between the newly planted trees in the reset space. Do a quality job when planting citrus trees, proper placement and proper planting.\n\nGeneral grove caretaking: Irrigation system maintenance and operation of agriculture equipment. \n\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.\n
Cultivate and harvest vegetable crops and field care. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove vegetables from plants using care to not bruise or damage the vegetables. Tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCultivar y cosechar hortalizas y cuidar el campo. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especificado por el empleador y retirarán los vegetales de las plantas teniendo cuidado de no magullar ni dañar los vegetales. Amarre las plantas, estaque las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y la eliminación de malezas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras. a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras. en campo El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Thinning: The employee will be lined up in its designated row (leaf products, romaine, boston, escarole, endive, cabbage) and will use a hoe to thin the lettuce (product) 8-14 inches apart from plant to plant. One mile row will take approximately 20 35 minutes to complete thinning. Employee is expected to thin between 16 and 22 rows per day to meet standards. \nWeeding: Weed all kind of leaf commodities (baby leaf, romaine, boston, escarole, green leaf, red leaf & cabbage).\nThe employee will line up in designated rows and they will be using a hoe and/or hands to pull the weeds that are too close to the lettuce (product). One mile row takes approximately 20 to 35 minutes to weed. Employee is expected to weed between 16 and 22 rows per day to meet standards.\n \nGeneral Maintenance: Workers may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on work site property, on structures utilized in the work site operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair. \n\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligence to return the tools or due to such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.\n
Crops being planted and harvested: Strawberries, Melons, Squash, Cucumbers, Beans, and Peppers.\nGeneral Specifications and Physical Requirements of the Job: majority of the workday is spent on ones feet, constantly in movement, and outdoors. Workers are rarely in one place for any period of time. It is estimated that 10% growing and maintaining, and 90% harvesting and containerizing products. Workers must be able to stand, walk, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, lift and carry items weighing up to 60 pounds during the course of performing all required job specifications.\nAll work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold and other natural elements. Worker must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight, and conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required job duties. Workers should come prepared wearing appropriate clothing and footwear for the environmental and working conditions described.\nWork entails exposure to soil, plants, insects, fertilizers, pesticide residues, ect. Employer will comply with all worker protection standards and restrictions applicable to the use of pesticides and other chemicals. Workers are required to comply with all applicable worker protections standards as communicated by supervisors and managers. Required posters will be placed at applications areas displaying date and time that re-entry is allowed. For the company to ensure the highest level of food safety within its operation, workers must be able to listen to, and follow verbal instruction by any farm manager and/or supervisors and understand the purpose of required posters that are in place.\nEmployer will provide tools, equipment, harvest materials, protective clothing, where required to perform all job specifications at no cost to the worker. Workers with proper training can assist with use of harvest aid machinery. The reasonable repair or replacement cost of tools or equipment assigned to the worker may be deducted from the workers paycheck for willful damage or loss of such tool or equipment.\nAll Company Employee Safety and Hygiene Policies, including Harvest Crew Hygiene, Employee Conduct, Food Safety and Security, must be followed by each worker. Employer will provide mandatory pesticide and Food Safety Training to employees that comply with all federal, state and local statues and regulations. Each hired worker will receive by the first day of work, a copy of the Employee Handbook outlining such policies and procedures. Worker is responsible to read thoroughly the information provided, and to seek assistance of a Farm Manager for questions or clarity.\nDaily job assignments will be made by, and at the sole discretion of supervisors, managers or farmer as the progression of the growing season dictates. Workers must perform the assigned work as described, and work at the assigned locations. Workers may not switch work at company locations without specific authorization of their supervisor or manager. At the direction of the manager and/or supervisor workers may be reassigned to different farm locations within the company at various times of the work day and/or on different days. Workers will perform all job specifications as instructed by the manager or crew supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency.\n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.\n
Workers will wash, sort and place oysters still in the shell in bags and boxes. Workers will shuck oysters by holding the oyster firmly, forcing knife between halves of shell at hinge juncture. Twists knife to sever muscles holding shell together and pries open. Will shuck off the top shell and leave the oyster meat attached to the bottom shell or cut the whole oyster from shell, discards shell. Wash, sort, freeze and place processed meat in containers for further processing or sale. Obtain and distribute sacks of oysters; dumps oysters in shell stock area. Assist with cleaning plant at end of shift. Work is supervised. Employer provides 21 days on the job training.
Plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetable (Nappa, Radishes, Chives, Chonggskmoo/ Baby Radish, Baby nappa, Pepper, Melon) crops. Use hand and mechanized tools to till, fertilize, transplant, weed, thin, prune, clean, irrigate, and load produce. Maintain fences and buildings. Lift up to 50 pounds. 1 month verifiable experience.\n\nSembrar, cultivar, y cosechar manualmente vegetales, y pacas de pasto. abonar, transplantar, deshierbar, podar, aplicar pesticidas, limpiar, regar agua, y cargar producto. Mantener edificios y cercas. Levantar hasta 50 libras. Require 3 meses de experiencia en lo mencionado.\n
Perform manual labor to shuck oysters using knife to gently pry open live oysters. Wash silt and muck from fresh oysters. Insert blade using moderate force and vibration if necessary, at the hinge between the two valves. Twist the blade until there is a slight pop. Slide the blade upward to cut the adductor muscle which holds the shell closed, separating the meat from the shell. Inspect oysters and remove clackers, shells, unresponsive/dead oysters and dry, gummy, or smelly meat. Meat will be frozen, canned, packed or otherwise disposed of as deemed necessary. Clean and sanitize work areas, aprons and knives. These jobs involve routine processing, preparing, and cleaning oysters. Drug free workplace. Post-accident drug testing conducted at employer's expense. Employer may pay a piece rate of $9.00 per gallon shucked, or $14.27 per hour, whichever is higher. or applicable piece rate, whichever is higher. If a piece rate does not result in average hourly piece rate earnings during the pay period at least equal to the amount the worker would have earned had the worker been paid at the hourly rate, the worker’s pay will be supplemented to increase the earnings to the equivalent hourly level.
Hand-harvest vine-ripened tomatoes. Grade, sort, and pack tomatoes grown on the farm. Hand-harvest and field pack (wash, sort, grade and box) squash and zucchini. May pick under-sized green tomatoes to strip field at the end of harvest. Pull weeds/chop: Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. May load and unload harvested tomatoes, squash and zucchini with a forklift or pallet jack. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. May supervise other workers. May operate and perform minor maintenance on farm vehicles or equipment. May drive farm truck, bus, tractor, all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on the farm. May drive bus or van over the road. Though not a hiring requirement, if a worker drives a company vehicle during the period of employment then at the time of operating the company vehicle the driver must possess a valid drivers license issued by a U.S. state or foreign equivalent and operate the company vehicle in accordance with the license restrictions and vehicle classifications applicable to that license. Prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-hire and is not a part of the interview process. Negative result required before starting work. Must be able to lift 75 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 75 lbs. in field. Must not hinder another workers productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n\nWorkers plant, cultivate, and hand-harvest vegetables. Workers may be required to remove weeds from plants using either a hoe, or by hand. Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately 60 lbs. and empty into field bin or load onto trailer. May be required to pull and discard culls as directed by supervisor. Workers must take care not to bruise or scar produce. Perform pre-harvest field activities such as laying plastic, planting, pruning, staking, hammering, tying, stuffing suckers, fixing stakes, covering and uncovering crops, irrigation and weeding. Perform post-harvest field activities such as pulling plastic, loading plastic into compactor, stake puller, cutting string and field clean up. Workers will stand on feet for long periods of time. Workers are required to work in fields when plants are wet with dew or rain. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from less than 40 degrees F to over 100 degrees F.\n\nWorker may drive bus or van over the road. Worker may pick up workers from different housing sites or pick up points and take them to assigned work site, and at the end of the work day take them back to the housing site or pick up point. Driving is not a different job and the driver performs harvesting duties when not driving. Make trips to grocery stores, laundromat, airport, governmental agencies, medical and dental offices. May move portable toilets between fields and re-stock sanitation supplies. Clean, fill and maintain water cooler dispenser with ice for workers. Employer assures that driver will be paid the offered wage rate for actual driving time, trips to the gas station, and time spent maintaining the vehicle.\n\nGrade, sort, and package produce grown on the farm. Workers may work in packing, shipping, maintenance, box or food safety departments. Workers stack, weigh and dump produce. Hand-fill bags with produce.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency.\n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.
All Activities: Workers will perform all job specifications as instructed by the Farm Manager or Crew Supervisor. Each worker will receive and identification badge and pre-printed numeric stickers, to be used during harvest activities and throughout the employment period. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nRunner Cutting/Trimming: Worker will walk down row as instructed and cut/trim runners, leaves and blooms as directed from each strawberry plant as necessary.\n\nFreeze Protection Activities: May assist regardless of time of day, in keeping overhead irrigation rain birds free of ice during freezing weather.\n\nAssist in Plastic Laying: Workers will hold plastic at end of row as machine moves down row unrolling plastic. Workers will even up ends of row with a shovel to make them straight, also will clean out ditches at end of row. Unload plastic and drip-tape from truck and load plastic and drip- tape on field machine as needed. May be instructed to remove or reinstall rain bird.\n\nDrip-tape Hook Up: Workers will be required to cut drip-tape at end of bed as instructed and hook up drip-tape to main water line.\n\nStrawberry Planting: While carrying a bag of strawberry plants, worker will walk down row, while bending, and place one or two plants into each hole in the plastic as instructed and firm dirt around plant.\n\nWeeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area, by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as instructed.\n\nPlastic and Drip-tape Removal: Unhook drip-tape from main water line, walk down row while pulling plastic down the bed until it is completely removed. Take removed plastic to proper disposal or burning station, as instructed.\n\nStrawberry Harvest: Workers will move down assigned rows picking all ripe berries, grading berries while harvesting, taking care to sort and pack containers by size, shape, color, quality and quantity as directed. Each worker must pick the plants clean of all ripe fruit, sort and pack all good berries into specified containers, within the box, according to very high quality standards as set forth in the Company Production and Quality Standard. Bad berries will be packed or disposed of as determined by the Supervisor. Each worker shall handle berries carefully to avoid bruising. Bruising will weaken the berry. Each harvesting worker is expected to move with the crew from row to row to maintain the efficiency level. Upon completion of each box picked, the worker will place their assigned numeric sticker on the box, take his/her packed box to the crate shed to be viewed for grade, receive credit on his/her assigned numeric sticker, and receive a new box with containers. Any containers that are over or under packed, or consist of poor quality fruit, will be returned to the worker for repacking. Upon completion of an assigned row, the worker will move to the next vacant row to be picked. Harvester may receive disciplinary notice if quality standards are an issue.\n
The worker will perform job duties as assigned by supervisor. They will vary from time to time depending on crop ripening and weather. The fruit, vegetable, and flower harvesting is temporary. The season will be from October 1st through June 30th. During the contract, after the crops are harvested, the worker will prepare the farm and fields for the next season. this will include weeding, putting down, taking down, and picking up stakes, putting down ground cloth, digging trenches, putting down irrigation, planting, pruning, tying plants, taking off string from plant and other miscellaneous work. \n\nPlease see Addendum C (a) and (b)\n
The Agricultural Equipment Operator's essential work activities involve loading and transport of the highly perishable sugarcane crop. Once the raw sugarcane crop is cut, meaning the sugarcane stalks are severed from their roots by a self-powered mechanical harvesting machine, the sugarcane is mechanically deposited into the field cart that is moved by the equipment operator to a location on the farm for loading. The operator is not hauling the harvested sugarcane off the farm. The worker will be moving it by a tractor to a location for loading after the sugarcane has been cut mechanically. The Agricultural Equipment Operator will transport the harvested sugarcane from the growing field to a designated area in the field on the location within the same field or to another close-by location on the farmer's land that is a concentration point wherein-the sugarcane is then loaded onto railcars for transportation by locomotive. Once arriving at the closest available concentration point, the operator must see to the safe loading of the sugarcane into a railcar. Equipment operators will operate from field to field and farm to farm as sugarcane is progressively harvested on the property. There are multiple elevator rail loading stations on its property that serve as concentration points. The agricultural equipment operator before moving their assigned tractor on the farm, the operator will complete a pre-trip inspection of the tractor, wagons, harvester and other equipment used in the process of harvesting sugarcane. The inspection is including adding engine fluid, checking brakes and tires, and fueling equipment. The operator is required to complete each step of the transportation process from the in-field loading station through the off-loading onto rail cars at the farm’s closest available concentration point as directed by a designated representative of the harvest superintendent, as part of necessary field-to-processing facility activities for the sugarcane crop harvest. The agricultural equipment operator plays multiple essential steps in the on-farm work of harvesting the sugarcane crop. Other general duties include the following: operation of harvesters, payloaders (wheel loader), loading ramp, dumping cable, bulldozer, drive, attach, and operate farm trucks and trailers including those fitted with road dust control equipment, burn tanks, drip torches, parts trailers, fuel tanks and water tanks that are integral to the work of timely and efficiently loading, moving and off-loading harvested sugarcane, a perishable agricultural crop, from the growing field directly to the closest available field rail concentration point on the farm. Additional tasks incidental to equipment operations: shoveling, hoeing, cleaning in and around loading stations. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels and rakes. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Operate pressure washer, light tower and air compressor. Clean harvesting equipment as needed. \n\nAny agricultural equipment operator with a possession of a valid driver’s license who drives the van or bus to and from the work site will be compensated at the hourly rate for all driving time, fueling, cleaning and inspection of the vehicle.
Plant, water, weed, harvest, count load and unload, wash, sort, pack a variety of crops: Beans, Beets, Bell Peppers, Broccoli, Carrots, Cauliflower, Chard, Collards, Eggplant, Heirloom Tomatoes, Herbs, Hot Peppers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Peas, Spinach, Turnips, Winter Squash, Zucchini. \n\nWorkers will perform various duties associated with growing the above listed vegetables and fruits. Workers may plant, cultivate, and harvest fruits and vegetables as needed. Workers will also be pulling weeds, raking, cleaning areas for planting, digging, laying irrigation pipes, placing or pulling plastic.\nWorkers may perform duties that include the use of a shovel and other handheld tools. Workers will hook up, unhook and fix water lines. Workers will stake and tie plants. Workers may perform support duties such as making boxes, packing, cleaning buckets and work areas. \n\nGeneral Maintenance: Workers will be responsible for performing general maintenance around the farm. This will include fence mending, mowing and weeding.\nFarm and Field Sanitation: All workers will be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping floors and other farm sanitation duties.
Before employment begins, all workers will be trained on Lady Moon Farms’ policies and processes which includes internal procedures, progressive discipline, food safety protocols, and handling of produce. Workers task include planting transplants by hand into plastic rows, weeding by hand, hoeing, harvesting and bunching greens including kales, collards, chards, parsleys, beets, dandelions, mustards, and lettuce, harvesting warm veg items including tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, squash, cucumbers, jalapenos, and watermelons. These warm vegetable items are transported to the packinghouse and will be packed into shipping boxes in the packinghouse. Other field skills include pulling up plastic and staking/tying tomatoes. Some labor in the packinghouse will be required and this would be grading and packing the above listed warm vegetables into boxes for shipment. Workers will need to have a minimum 3 months prior experience with general farming and harvesting and/or packing vegetables. Some workers who have experience driving tractors may be asked to transport harvest wagons from one field to another. Workers will work with general farming hand tools such as rakes, long handled hoes, shovels, etc. Workers may also need to clean and disinfect the houses and buses. \n\nAntes de que comience el empleo, todos los trabajadores recibirán capacitación sobre las políticas y los procesos de Lady Moon Farms, que incluyen procedimientos internos, la disciplina progresiva, protocolos de seguridad alimenticia y la manipulación de productos. Las tareas de los trabajadores incluyen hacer trasplantes a mano en hileras de plástico, desyerbar a mano, cosechar y prensar verduras como coles, acelgas, perejiles, remolachas, dientes de león, mostazas, lechuga, tomates, berenjenas, pimientos, calabazas, jalapeños y sandías. Estos artículos se transportan a la empacadora y se empaquetan en cajas de envío. Otras habilidades de campo incluyen tirar plásticos y estacar/atar tomates. Se requerirá algo de mano de obra en la empacadora, que sería clasificar y empacar las verduras indicadas en cajas para enviarlas. Los trabajadores deberán tener un mínimo de 3 meses de experiencia previa en agricultura general, cosecha y/o empaque de verduras. Algunos trabajadores con experiencia en el manejo de tractores podrían tener que transportar carros de cosecha de un campo a otro. Los trabajadores completarán sus tareas con herramientas agrícolas manuales como rastrillos, azas de mango largo, palas, etc. Los trabajadores podrían necesitar limpiar y desinfectar las casas y los autobuses.
Watermelons: \nThe farm worker position includes duties associated with the harvesting and packing of watermelons. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm. \n\nJob Specifications\nWatermelons: Workers will be required to turn watermelon vines from drive rows,\ncut ripe melons, and harvest the cut melons. Instruction will be given for each task and standards of performance communicated to worker. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or bruising. Workers will unload containers at the packing shed and place fruit onto a conveyer belt to grade and then pack the fruit into boxes. Workers visually grade harvested produce and remove culls. Workers need to use both hands while grading at all times. Workers pack the graded produce in appropriate containers by hand. Filled boxes and cartons are stacked carefully by prescribed pattern and height onto pallets and secured by netting or tape. Workers may be required to operate forklifts and tractors after having been instructed on how to safely operate said machinery.\n\nWorkers may be required to operate farm vehicles and equipment such as trucks, tractors, and forklifts. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the vehicle/equipment before operating. All vehicles should be driven in a manner to protect workers, harvested produce, in-field crops, and equipment. Operators should ensure all equipment is functioning correctly before operating. The use of all necessary PPE and safety equipment including wearing of seatbelt at all times when operating farm equipment is mandatory. Workers may assist with the repair, service, & maintenance of farm equipment including the prep, cleaning, lubrication, assembly, inspection, dismantling of equipment parts.\n\nFarm,Field and Packing Shed Sanitation: Workers may be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, and other similar farm sanitation as part of SOPs and SSOPs within Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), Good Handling Practices (GHPs), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for Food Safety. This includes personal hygiene and handling the fruit in the field with an emphasis on food safety, sanitizing all harvesting tools and keeping the fields as clean as possible. Workers may be responsible for pulling plastic, picking up trash, cleaning bins and other similar farm sanitation.
Transplant, cultivate, and maintain topiary trees and shrubs. Perform general plant maintenance. Prepare soil for planting. Remove debris,weeds, vines and other growth from planting area using hand tools (rakes, shovels, hoes, mattocks, brush hooks and/or axes). Plant/pot seedlings or ‘liners' by hand. Propagate plants from cuttings. Irrigate and apply fertilizer or other chemicals. Train, prune, trim, shear, space, transplant trees and/or plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Shear trees with proper taper and bud cut angle for quality. Tie/position trees and plants by tying or wrapping as necessary. Count, inventory. Label, tag, pull, sort, and store plants by variety. Operate ATVs/tractors to move potted plants to assigned areas. Install/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, and other manual tasks. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload potted plants or supplies. Clean and maintain nursery, fields and work areas. Build/repair fences.Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time.\n\n\n Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur anytime throughout the season. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and different tasks on different days.\n\n\nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a two day introductory period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker at the conclusion of the introductory period if the worker's performance fails to satisfy the employer's reasonable expectations, or is otherwise unacceptable. Employer may terminate a worker for lawful job-related reasons, including but not limited to situations in which the worker: (1) Is repeatedly absent or tardy; (2) malingers or otherwise refuses, without cause, to perform the work as directed; (3) commits act(s) of misconduct or repeatedly violates the Work Rules; and/or (4) fails, after completing the two day introductory period, to perform work in a competent and skillful manner, consistent with the employer's reasonable expectations. Non-U.S. workers may be displaced as a result of one or more U.S. workers becoming available for the job during the employer's recruitment period. Job abandonment will be deemed to occur after five consecutive workdays of unexcused absences. Workers may not report for work under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Possession or use of illegal drugs or alcohol on company premises is prohibited and will be cause for immediate termination.
Perform manual labor to plant, cultivate and harvest mini-sweet pepper, bell pepper, broccoli, kale, and brussel sprout and plant sugarcane. Workers will pull weeds, pull plastic, and cut string. Hand harvest mini sweet pepper, bell pepper, broccoli, kale, and brussel sprouts, place in bucket or RPC and take to dumper/trailer. Keep up with agricultural equipment during harvest. Each worker will have a badge that will be scanned for piece work. Workers are also responsible for farm and field maintenance and sanitation including, picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and other farm sanitation duties. Workers must use care not to damage or bruise produce. Stake and unstake mini-sweet and bell peppers. Install or remove stakes, wire, netting or string. Cover crop using a cloth for crop protection. Participate in irrigation activities including clearing and maintaining irrigation ditches, as well as fields and work areas. Assist with Good Agricultural Practices policies. At the option of the employer, local transportation may be contracted to a registered farm labor contractor. \n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time.\n\n\n Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur anytime throughout the season. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and different tasks on different days.\n\n\nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a two day introductory period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker at the conclusion of the introductory period if the worker's performance fails to satisfy the employer's reasonable expectations, or is otherwise unacceptable. Employer may terminate a worker for lawful job-related reasons, including but not limited to situations in which the worker: (1) Is repeatedly absent or tardy; (2) malingers or otherwise refuses, without cause, to perform the work as directed; (3) commits act(s) of misconduct or repeatedly violates the Work Rules; and/or (4) fails, after completing the two day introductory period, to perform work in a competent and skillful manner, consistent with the employer's reasonable expectations. Non-U.S. workers may be displaced as a result of one or more U.S. workers becoming available for the job during the employer's recruitment period. Job abandonment will be deemed to occur after five consecutive workdays of unexcused absences. Workers may not report for work under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Possession or use of illegal drugs or alcohol on company premises is prohibited and will be cause for immediate termination.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor.\nManually plant, cultivate and harvest plants Use hand tools, such as knives, pruners, shears, loppers and\npesticide sprayers. Must be able to bend/stoop and push/pull frequently, be on feet all day, lift up to 50 lbs.\nFast-paced environment. Workers are provided a two-day break-in period to acclimate to the demands of\nthe job. Workers must be physically fit to perform job duties without succumbing to excessive exhaustion\nafter break-in period. Workers will be provided safety training will be expected to handle tools/equipment\nsafely and carefully so as to avoid damage and to protect the worker from potential injury. Employer shall\ncomply with all federal, state and local safety requirements. 3 months experience preferred.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the supervisor's instructions, the worker will drive and control farm equipment and vehicles to plant, cultivate, maintain, harvest crops, and transport workers to and from our farm sites. \n\nAgriculture equipment operating may include citrus fruit loaders, tractors, forklift, and automobiles. Workers must have experience in operating/driving aforementioned farm equipment and be able to do so in an efficient, timely, and safe manner. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours per day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to mount and dismount equipment quickly and skillfully multiple times per day to retrieve a large number of fruit from the ground, from trailers, from equipment, and from the trees that pickers have missed. Worker will clean all equipment including, but not limited to fruit tubs and any harvesting equipment from all leaves, limbs, and debris. Worker will then load ladders back into ladder truck. \n\nGeneral clean-up of grove property and housing: Workers on physical work restrictions or when equipment operation work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in grove operation, and on housing. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and planting of trees: debris, weed, and vine removal: irrigation repair: housing and structure cleaning and repair: and general grove clean up as required. Additional alternative work may include planting young trees, pruning trees, painting trees, cutting down trees, pulling weeds, cleaning weeds, processing fruit, picking fruit, and land preparation, and other duties as needed. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent for performing such clean-up work.\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nWorkers will either harvest and pack various vegetables in the field, load crates onto trucks in the field and/or wash, grade and pack vegetables in the packinghouse. In addition, workers will drive a forklift to load a truck to move product to the packing house, weed crops, and lay pipe and maintain pipes for irrigation.\n\nHarvest and Pack vegetables in field: Worker will walk down assigned rows and cut or pull vegetables from ground, rubber band as needed, and place in assigned container and take to field truck.\n\nTruck Crew (Flat Bed Pick-Up): Workers will drive filed trucks to the the field to be loaded with crates, and unlaod the crates at the packinghouse. Workers must hold and maintain a valid drivers license, and be approved by the employer's insurance company to operate the vehicle. \n\nWash, Grade and Pack vegetables: Worker will wash field vegetables to remove dirt and grade for quality then pack in assigned box in the packinghouse.\n\nLay Pipes for Irrigation: Place irrigation pipes in fields to start irrigation and pick up irrigation pipes out of field when watering is complete for each field.\n\nThe employer will provide picking containers and other tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools. The worker must be physically able to work in hot, humid weather, bending and stooping to harvest crop and perform pre-harvest activities.
Van & Bus Drivers: Workers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may transport other workers. Supervisor(s) will provide instructions and directions to workers. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors.\nFarm Equipment Operation: During Field Operations: Workers will be required to operate tractors and other farm equipment during field operations as an incidental activity in the production of crops. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, the worker will be instructed in the proper and safe operation of tractor. Workers must notify supervisor of any mechanical issues. Workers will be required to operate tractors according to instructions and in a manner, that protects the operator, other workers, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey operating and safety instructions may result in termination.\nBefore moving their assigned tractor in the far, the operator will complete a pre-trip inspection of the tractor, including adding engine fluid, changing the oil, checking brakes and tires, and cleaning filters. Once the snap bean is cultivated and sweet corn crop handpicked and deposited into the field cart that is moved by the tractor to a location within the growing field for loading. The operator is not hauling off the farm. They are moving carts by tractor to a location for loading. At the end of the shift, the tractor driver will make sure that the tractor is clean and ready for the next worker\nTeam Leader:\nSome workers may be requested to work as team leaders. These workers are chosen at the employer’s discretion. Team leaders will be paid at an hourly rate. Team Leaders will be working team leaders and keep track of field tally records also. During certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engage in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. \nThe farm owner/supervisor or a designated employee will provide specific instructions and close supervision. Workers will be expected to perform their duties in a timely and proficient manner and will have close supervision to insure adherence to instruction. Work will be closely monitored and reviewed for quality.\n\nThe farm owner/supervisor or a designated employee will provide specific instructions and close supervision. Workers will be expected to perform their duties in a timely and proficient manner and will have close supervision to insure adherence to instruction. Work will be closely monitored and reviewed for quality.\n\nWorkers are expected to possess the skills to work in the production of crops listed in this job order. The introductory period for all crop activities is 2 days starting with the first day of employment to acclimate the worker to the physical demands of farm work and to familiarize workers with job specifications and to demonstrate proper harvest methods and other crop specific issues.\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engage in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. Employer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malinger, or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product.\n
The job activities focus on tomato production from fall through spring.\nPerformance Standards: Must be able to meet Production Standards. Four weeks of not meeting the required production standards, an employee maybe terminated or ineligible to return to work for Gargiulo, Inc. Must be available to work every day during the season and Sunday and Federal holidays when needed on a voluntarily basis. \n\nResponsibilities: Arrive at bus sites on time as instructed. Bring company I.D. to scan in and out. Must follow work instructions and proper safety procedures. Understand and adhere to all company safety rules, policies and safety practices. Perform all job activities as assigned by the farm manager / staff. \n\nPhysical Requirements: Tolerate hot and cool temperatures for 6 to 8 hours a day. Comply with requirements for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clothing. Workers must wear pants, shirts with long sleeves, shoes or boots (no sandals) and no jewelry (except for wedding band or medical bracelet). Work in outdoor environment; able to tolerate pests, weeds, grasses and allergens. Must be able to stand, walk, stoop, bend, kneel, stretch, crouch and squat for extended periods of time.\n
Cultivate and harvest vegetable crops and field care. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove vegetables from plants using care to not bruise or damage the vegetables. Tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCultivar y cosechar hortalizas y cuidar el campo. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especificado por el empleador y retirarán los vegetales de las plantas teniendo cuidado de no magullar ni dañar los vegetales. Amarre las plantas, estaque las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y la eliminación de malezas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Harvesting citrus fruit by hand under supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over his shoulder and carry an 18 to 20 ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A full loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock of fruit or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take full sack to fruit tub. \nTree Planting: under supervisors instructions, the worker will walk down the fields planting trees in the grown making sure irrigation pipes are working properly and repairing the ones that are not. \nWeeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe/pickaxe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area by ranking piles of debris and dispose of it as directed by the farm manager and or/crew supervisor. \nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools. \n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to drive Agriculture Machinery or Equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Sanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities. \n\nCollard Greens, Cabbage Mustard Greens, Turnip Greens, Kale Greens, Herbs (cilantro, and parsley) Green Onions, Leeks, Beets, Broccoli leaves, Cauliflower leaves, Corn and Squash, \n\nWorker may plant and cultivate crops for vegetable production. Worker may set up, operate, and maintain irrigation equipment. Worker may irrigate soil and plants, using portable pipes and ditch systems, and maintain ditches, pipes, and pumps. Worker may pull plants for transplanting. Worker may set plants by hand and perform activities on a plant setter. Worker may thin plants in fields. Worker may perform hand cultivation tasks, hand weeding, and hoeing in field. Worker may load and unload supplies, packing equipment, full and empty containers, etc. in van, trailer, and harvesting machines. Worker may fill water coolers. Worker may make boxes. Worker may repair pallets. Worker may clean van and fields of all trash. Worker may clean roadsides and perform field and grounds maintenance such as bush hogging, mowing, shrubbing, trimming, and picking up roots and limbs. Worker may fill water tanks on farm equipment and machinery with water and soap and chemicals. Worker may be required to burn packaging supplies, trash, roots, and limbs. Worker may drive vans, tractors, pickups, and other farm equipment. Worker may work with irrigation. Worker may conduct van and trailer sanitation. Worker may direct and supervise a crew. Worker may ensure employee job safety and ensure compliance with food safety guidelines in the crew. If worker is supervising a crew, worker is also responsible for the conduct of his crew, responsible for reporting any misconduct of other workers, and responsible for initiating and performing minor disciplinary action. Worker may check port a john, field sanitation, spray signs and weather safety. Worker may keep counts of harvested and loaded crops, ensuring accuracy of all counts, record keeping, overages, shortages, wrong product harvested and other record keeping. Worker may ensure a crew’s quality, paying special attention to poor quality, count pounds per box, number of bunches per container, and box marking. Worker may pick and discard culls and sub-quality vegetables in the fields and on packing equipment. Worker is not to wear jewelry or loose-fitting clothing. Worker should keep shirts tucked into pants. If worker has long hair, be sure it is tied back and tucked in shirt.\n\nCollard Greens, Mustard Greens, Turnip Greens, and Kale Greens: Workers will unload packing supplies from equipment. Worker cuts greens with a knife or may break leaves off by hand according to size, color, shape, and degree of maturity. Worker makes uniform bunches, secures bunch together with rubber band or twist ties, places bunches of greens to a container. Worker may place an identification tag on the bunch. For loose or loose with no stem, worker cuts greens with a knife or may be directed to break leaves off by hand according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and places leaves in container. If container is a box, worker makes box. Worker closes container after packing and loads container onto trailer. Worker may also work on packing equipment where the worker would stand on the back of a harvesting machine and ensure that boxes are filled to the proper level with loose greens. Worker will make the box. Worker will then give the full box to another worker where it will be stacked on a trailer.\n\n
Workers will perform various duties associated with planting, cultivating, and harvesting sweetcorn.\n\nSweet corn: Workers will manually harvest and pack sweet corn by hand and machine. Corn harvesting will be performed mule train style in crews on approximately 20 pullers. Workers will be pulling sweet corn off the stalk and tossing into a metal bin on the mule train. Workers will walk behind, in front of, or drive the mule train. Workers must keep up with the mule train as it moves slowly through the field at a speed ranging from 1/2 mile to one mile per hour. Assemble boxes/crates on the top of the mule train. Packers will pick corn out of the bins and place 48 ears into pre-made crates. Packed crates are then moved to workers who will fold and close the lid of the crates and push them down the conveyor belt system. Loaders will then lift and stack the full crates of corn onto the truck. Count and check the crates as they are loaded onto truck. Maintain daily log of hours and record number of harvested boxes. Corn is harvested in the early morning hours starting before daylight, while temperatures are cooler. This ensures that the sugar content of the corn is higher and provides a better-quality product. A generator powered lighting system is used during early morning hours. Workers will avoid harvesting ears of corn with discolored husks, unacceptable shanks (longer than 6 inches) or visible worn damage. Sweet corn must be harvested by pulling down while bending and reaching to select mature ears. Workers must carefully select ears of corn of correct size and maturity and toss into bin. Workers will assist in Good Agricultural Practices policies. Long-sleeved shirts and long pants are recommended to minimize contact with the plants and thereby reduce the exposure to cuts and scrapes. Gloves are recommended when working with wooden crates. Work will be done on a farm. \n\nSome workers may be requested to work as team leaders. These workers are chosen at the employer’s discretion. \n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools.\nThe employer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able to but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product.\n\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engaged in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. \nFull Crop Commitment: The worker agrees to work for assigned employer(s) whenever work is available during the full remaining period of employment even though work may be slack at times. The worker understands that if the worker quits or is terminated for cause prior to the end of the period of employment, the worker will not receive the 3/4 guarantees discussed below and will not receive certain transportation reimbursements discussed below. Excessive tardiness and/or absences will not be tolerated and will result in termination.\n\nDaily individual work assignments, crew assignments, and location of work, will be made by and at the sole discretion of the farm manger and/or farm supervisor as the needs of the farming operation dictate. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and/or different tasks on different days. Workers will be expected to perform any of the listed duties and work on any crop as assigned by the worker's supervisor.\n\n
Temporary Seasonal Position: Farm Worker | SOC Code: 45-2092\n\nAll applicants must be able, willing, qualified to perform work described & must be available for entire period.\n\nCenteno Sod, Manatee County, FL, Palmetto\n\nPossible shift: 7:00AM-4:00PM. 40+ May be possibility of weekend work. Crops: Sod. Duties may include: Plant, cultivate and harvest sod, use hand tools such as machete, sod cutter, rake, shovel and hose to tend to sod. Transport sod with wheelbarrow and load into trucks. Diesel engine mechanic will maintain and repair tractors, trailers and mount tires. Perform safety check and routine maintenance on all farm equipment. Drivers will pack, sort and load harvested products. Load and unload trucks with forklift and skid steer machines. & other related Farm Worker activities as per SOC/OES 45-2092 (onetonline.org). On-the-job training provided. Must have 1 months Combine, forklift operation & farm equipment maintenance exp. Static strength; exert max muscle force to lift, push, pull, unload, carry objects up to 40lbs; may climb, walk, stand, reach, balance, sit, stoop, bend, squat, wash, clean: equip, grounds, area. Tools supplies and equipment provided at no cost to worker. Employer guarantees 3/4 of contract. Work outdoors, exposed to weather, hot or cold; hours may vary (+/-); possible downtimes and/or extended hours. Dependable: fulfill obligations. Attn. to detail: complete work tasks. Employer provided housing available to those who cannot reasonably return to their residence within the same day. No cell phone use during work hours. \n\nMust be able to obtain a drivers license. Must be 18 years of age. Drug/alcohol/tobacco free work zone. Based on Employer's discretion/cost: Worker may have random drug/alcohol testing during employment: positive test/ refusal to abide = dismissal. Worker has 3 days from date of hire to show legal authorization to work in the United States. Cash advances may apply at employer discretion.
Strawberries: Duties may vary from time to time. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Workers will lay plastic to build bed of strawberry fields and plant strawberries from containers from specified locations. Fruit pickers harvest, sort and gather fruit with their hands. Gently remove fruit from branches and vines making sure not to damage fruit. Pickers are expected to work quickly and efficiently. Strawberries grow on low-lying plants, so you must have the endurance and strength to bend over for a long period of time. You will need to be kneeled for a long period of time collecting the strawberries, once you have removed fruit from the plant you will need to place them in a bucket carefully so no injury may occur to them. Once the container is full, you will take to the shed or designated quality area (located on the farm). Fruit pickers must be detail-oriented, fast, and reliable so they can remove fruit without loss. Prune strawberry bushes by hand using pruning shears and loppers. Remove debris from fields using hoes, shovels, baskets, etc. Worker must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight and weather conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required duties. Fruit harvesters must carefully, yet quickly, inspect fruit and bushes for signs of disease, insect manifestations, worms, rot and remove or replace bushes as directed by farm manager. Each worker must pick the plants clean of all ripe fruit. It is the picker's responsibility to sort good product from contaminated or rotting fruit to ensure produce is routed to appropriate facilities for cleaning and distribution. Shovel, haul, spread manure, dig holes, ditches, and trenches. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil, applying fertilizers, transplanting, pulling weeds, raking, cleaning around shed area, thinning or pruning crops, applying pesticides, cleaning, grading, and packing harvested product. Inspect field irrigation systems; replace damaged pipes, valves, water jets, sprinklers, etc. using necessary equipment. **The ability of an employee to safely operate machinery and vehicles will be left up to the discretion of management. To ensure the safety of all employees, those interested in operating machinery and vehicles must be able to communicate with employer and adequately follow instructions given by management. Management reserves the right to restrict employees from operational duties who do not show a proficiency to effectively communicate with management and may therefore place other employees’ safety at risk. **Use hand tools such as: shovels, hoes, brooms, scissors, shears, and knives. Duties also include cleaning, loading, and unloading harvested products. May be asked to drive a tractor in Strawberry fields spraying herbicides, spreading fertilizer, plowing, and laying plastic. Blueberries: Manually plant, cultivate, harvest, sort, and grade blueberries. Prune blueberry bushes using pruning shears and loppers. Workers may receive adequate harvesting equipment to harvest and carry 2- 1-gallon picking buckets as they move down assigned rows picking all ripe berries, placing them in the bucket. Each worker must pick the plants clean of all ripe fruit. When buckets are filled, the worker will take to the Supervisor where it will be weighed, and worker will be given credited weight amount. Harvest by use of mechanical equipment, load and transport blueberries to processing shed (located on farm). Use hand tools, shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, knives, and baskets as needed. Inspect field irrigation systems; replace damaged pipes, valves, water jets, sprinklers, etc. using necessary equipment. Workers may also be place packing in the field into designated containers.
Harvest tomatoes - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care - tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, stuffing, clean drip emitters and microjets, pull plastic, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Workers may also be required to work in the packinghouse; however, workers' duties will not include repacking of any products processed in the packinghouse. Must be able to operate motorized farm equipment including tractors if needed. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must adhere to all proper food and safety procedures, security procedures, crew leader/manager/supervisor instructions, company polices and procedures. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field.\n\nCoseche tomates: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe las cubetas en los contenedores. Cuidado de campo: ate las plantas, estaca las plantas, pode las plantas, rellena, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microjets, tire del plástico, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de los surcos especificados por el empleador y eliminarán las malas hierbas y el césped de los campos a mano o con una azada. Debe estar de pie, encorvarse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. También se puede exigir a los trabajadores que trabajen en la planta de empaque; sin embargo, los deberes de los trabajadores no incluirán el re-empaque o reembalaje de ningún producto procesado en la planta de empaque. Debe poder operar equipo agrícola motorizado incluyendo tractores si es necesario. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo para el trabajador. No cumplir con la solicitud o dar positivo en la prueba puede resultar en la terminación o despido inmediata. Las pruebas de detección de drogas y las verificaciones de antecedentes pueden ocurrir durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se llevarán a cabo a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe cumplir con todos los procedimientos de seguridad y alimentos adecuados, los procedimientos de seguridad, las instrucciones del líder de cuadrilla / gerente / supervisor, las políticas y los procedimientos de la empresa. Debe poder levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo.\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications: \n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. \n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency. \n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.
Attend to all aspects of a horse breeding operation, feed, water, and care for horses. Examine horses to detect illness, injury, or disease. Handle and administer simple medical treatments such as worm and parasite control and administer vaccinations. Assist with horse breeding process and care for mares, stallions, foals, and babies. Feeding/gentling of foals, work in imprinting, doctor babies. Assist in farm grounds and stable upkeep. Harvest hay in the fall.
The farm work position includes duties associated farm labor tasks for production of tomatoes. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds along with time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes adherence to instruction given in regard to proper procedures & technics based on operation of the machinery to be used to complete each task. \n\n-Daily Work-Misc. farm tasks\n-Plastic Laying/Repair – Ride plastic machine and change out drip tape and plastic roles (weight +/- 100 lbs.) with 2 people. Shovel dirt on row ends (bury). Ride fertilizer hopper and maintain flow of fertilizer with shovel. \n-Mark and Measure – walk fields to mark 100’ intervals with spray paint \n-Irrigation Hook-up/Installation/Drainage – use shovel to make shallow trench to connect irrigation pipe or redirect water \n-Planting (Machine)- Load planter with plant trays and ride or walk behind planter to assure plants are at center of hole, proper depth, and no skips.\n-Replant- Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and replanting weak, dead, or missing plants at proper depth\n-Stake Repair – carry stakes (+/- 40’) to repair/replace areas with broken stakes, and/or tie broken stake to a new one\n-Mopping Bed Top- Mopping top of beds \n-Rouging plants/weeds- removing unwanted plants/weeds\n-Hand Punch Fertilizer – punch hole in plant bed and apply dry fertilizer with cup\n-Farm Truck Safety Cutouts- Cutting walk ways within plant beds every 50 feet\n-Planting (by hand) – Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and assuring that plants are planted at the center of pre punched plant hole at proper depth. Return empty plant trays to truck/trailer. (No empty trays to be left in field)\n-Watering In Plants- Walking beside plastic bed with water hose applying water to each plant hole, fill/plant any skips with plants provided.\n-Staking\n oCombo (Stab & Hammer)-Combination of the Stab & Hammering Tasks. Carry stakes (+/-40) from flatbed truck and stab in plant bed between every plant or marked hole. Ride hammer machine and use air hand hammer to drive every take 14” deep.\n oFRP- carry FRP Stakes from flatbed truck and stab by hand in plant bed between every plant or hole marked.\n-Tying – tie plants upright with tie stick and string/twine, looping each stake.\n-Pruning – walk field and bend-over at each plant, hold plant carefully and remove number of suckers directed by supervisor \n-Weeding – pull weeds from plant bed and around plant holes.\n-Plastic/Drip Tape Removal (Pull)- pull plastic and drip tape by hand and place in road way or at 100’ cross walk.\n-Cutting String- walk field and cut and remove string/twine with a small knife and place where directed by supervisor\n-Stake Pulling (Machine)- ride stake pull machine to assure stakes bundle evenly and/or walk field to pull stakes by hand and place small bundle at 100’ cross walks to pick-up and load onto flat-bed truck\n-Stake Pulling (Manual)- A crew of 14 persons will pull stakes by hand. 2 persons will ride on the back of the truck, 12 persons will walk on the ground and pull stakes by hand. Workers will ensure that stakes are pulled, bundled and tied.\n-Bale Plastic, Drip Tape, & String- walk field and load baler with bundled plastic, drip tape and string by hand\n-Farm Field Clean Up (PW)- Walk field and remove miscellaneous debris
The worker will perform job duties as assigned by the supervisor. They will vary from time to time depending on crop ripening and weather. The strawberry harvesting is temporary and will last from September to March. \n\nIn order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and have the required physical strength and endurance to repeat the harvesting process rapidly and skillfully with their hands, and also carry a large number of containers and/or packing bags or boxes full of the crop from the area in which the crop is being harvested to the location of the loading truck. Workers will perform prolonged walking, bending, stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, and carrying 0-27 lbs. \n\nField Work-The worker will lay plastic, cut ditches, ride the plastic machine to collect and feed, walk behind the plastic machine and cut plastic to each ditch, tuck plastic, and pickup/burn trash, handle food safety-bucket, perform general cleaning, weeding, picking, planting, plastic repair, reset, complete weather related horticultural/cultivation tasks, clean beds, put down and maintain irrigation, and packing of fruit and vegetable crop.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nDue to the nature of this type of work, there will be a Probationary Period of six (6) days beginning on the first day of employment for the employee to acclimate to the job specifications listed under the Job Descriptions and Requirements. The worker will be given specific instructions as to how to properly perform the work specified in the Job Description and Requirements Section on the first day of work. Workers who do not perform the work as specified may be terminated. \n\nPlanting of strawberry plants and row crops-The worker will go down the fields carrying trays of strawberry and other vegetable transplants and plant them individually in the prepared planting bed by bending down and planting the transplants in the ground. This process will be repeated until planting has been completed. \n\nStrawberry Harvesting & Packing-In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to walk down the field row pushing a harvesting cart that holds a harvesting box, bend down and look for the ripe strawberries. The worker will pick the ripe strawberries off the bush by grasping the stem between their forefinger and thumbnail, then lightly pulling and twisting at the same time and letting the berry roll into the palm of their hand being careful not to bruise them. The worker will then gently place the fruit in a container that sit in the harvesting box until it is full taking care not to overfill the container or over pack the berries. The full harvesting box will be taken to a loading truck. An empty box is given back to the worker and the process is\nstarted again.\n\nZuchinni Hand Harvesting & Packing- In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to walk down the field row carrying a harvesting box, bend down and look for the ripe zuchinni and cut the crop off the vine with a knife and place them in the harvesting box. The zuchinni may be bagged before being placed in the box. The worker then takes the full box of zuchinni to the loading truck. An empty box is given back to the worker and the process is started again.\n\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will fulfill the following duties to harvest and maintain fruit:\n\nPull Plastic With both hands, grab all plastic and drip tape; remove it from the plant beds or field. Gathering plastic and drip tape to the ends of the field and/or walkways. Repeat process throughout entire field.\n\nPick Up Plastic Pick up bails of plastic and load onto truck to be delivered and then unloaded at the designated drop off area. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nHarvesting of Tomatoes (Round, Roma) Using a 24 quart bucket, remove mature tomatoes from the plant with both hands (also remove calyx and stem from tomato) and place into the bucket. Repeat the process on each plant until the tomato bucket is full. Then lift the bucket and place on your shoulder, stand upright and walk at a brisk pace until you reach the truck with bins. Lift the bucket from your shoulder with both hands and hand it to the person next the bin. The person next to the bin dumps the tomatoes into the bin and returns the bucket with a token in it. Save the token to keep count of how many buckets you pick. Repeat process. Excluding round tomato vine ripe harvesting\n\nHarvest Dumper Harvest dumper is required to stand on top of; or on the side of, harvesting equipment and receive full harvest buckets that are being tossed to the harvest dumper from the harvesting employees. Buckets weigh approximately 32-35 lbs. when filled with product and will be dumped into various types of harvesting containers. After harvest dumper receives and empties the contents into the appropriate container; the harvest dumper will return the empty bucket to the harvesting employee placing a token inside the bucket for them to receive. The harvest dumper will monitor the cleanliness of the containers and remove any additional vegetation from produce inside the harvest containers and toss unwanted vegetation to the ground. As containers reach full capacity, the harvest dumper will stack, if needed, an additional container (weighing approximately 60 - 80 lbs.) on top of the full container and continue the process.
Citrus Harvesting - Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instruction, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18? to 22? ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weights between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limps, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take full sack to fruit container located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into container. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying g a large number of sacks of fruit from the arena in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the container. When the worker obtains their Farm Labor Company Employee license, the worker will be required to drive a bus to transport workers to the various worksites. \n
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Workers must work at a sustained (continuing for an extended period of time without interruption), vigorous pace (quick and steady) and make bona fide efforts (made in earnest intent) to work efficiently (performing or functions in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort) and consistently (same way for a long time) that are reasonable under the climatic and other working conditions, Workers may not leave trash, or other discarded items in work areas or vehicles but must dispose of such items in provided receptacles. Workers must wash hands with soap and water after all bathroom and meal breaks. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. \n\nSanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations.\n\nCrops that will be harvest: Cucumbers & Squash. Workers will harvest, weed, and perform post-harvest field cleanup. \n\nWorkers will remove the vegetable (listed above) from the plant according to size and maturity that will be able to be packed and shipped. Then the produce will be placed in a six-gallon picking bucket. After bucket is full the workers will and carry the bucket to a flatbed truck or flatbed field trailer. A person on truck or trailer will receive the full buckets. This person will either dump the produce in plastic bin or set the full bucket on the truck or trailer. The person on the truck on the trailer will give a token to the picker each time they take a full bucket. This process will be repeated throughout the day until the scheduled field is picked. Workers will remove weeds by hand or with a hoe and assist with post-harvest field cleanup. \n\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engage in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. \n\nProperly licenses workers may drive trucks or vehicles to transport workers. Properly experienced workers may be requested to be team leaders. Properly licensed workers will also be required to transport the product from the field to the shed on the farm.\n\nEmployer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malinger, or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product. \n\nFarm, Field, and Shed Sanitation: All workers will be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping floors and other farm, and shed sanitation duties. \n \n
Harvest tomatoes - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care - tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, stuffing, clean drip emitters and microjets, pull plastic, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Workers may also be required to work in the packinghouse; however, workers' duties will not include repacking of any products processed in the packinghouse. Must be able to operate motorized farm equipment including tractors if needed. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must adhere to all proper food and safety procedures, security procedures, crew leader/manager/supervisor instructions, company polices and procedures. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field.\n\nCoseche tomates: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe las cubetas en los contenedores. Cuidado de campo: ate las plantas, estaca las plantas, pode las plantas, rellena, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microjets, tire del plástico, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de los surcos especificados por el empleador y eliminarán las malas hierbas y el césped de los campos a mano o con una azada. Debe estar de pie, encorvarse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. También se puede exigir a los trabajadores que trabajen en la planta de empaque; sin embargo, los deberes de los trabajadores no incluirán el re-empaque o reembalaje de ningún producto procesado en la planta de empaque. Debe poder operar equipo agrícola motorizado incluyendo tractores si es necesario. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo para el trabajador. No cumplir con la solicitud o dar positivo en la prueba puede resultar en la terminación o despido inmediata. Las pruebas de detección de drogas y las verificaciones de antecedentes pueden ocurrir durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se llevarán a cabo a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe cumplir con todos los procedimientos de seguridad y alimentos adecuados, los procedimientos de seguridad, las instrucciones del líder de cuadrilla / gerente / supervisor, las políticas y los procedimientos de la empresa. Debe poder levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry a 18' to 20' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs approximately 80 to 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition, and variety of fruit. A ladder is placed against a tree within reach of the fruit in a leaning position. While taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Workers will remove fruit from the tree and place into a pick sack. When the pick sack is full, take the full sack to the fruit tub located in the grove. Drop fruit from pick sack into the tub. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub.\n\nGeneral Clean-up of Grove Property and Housing for Harvesting Workers: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities may be performed regularly or in the event of a hurricane/tropical storm that may include the planting.mowing, sprouting, trimming, pruning, and painting and maintenance of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required. May be necessary to assist in the use and repair of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks, Goats/Loaders, buses, trailers, and harvest machinery, etc. It is estimated that 20% of the time will be spent growing and maintaining, and 80% harvesting the products. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work.
The General Laborer performs general ranch maintenance, assist with irrigation maintenance, assist in applications by hand or tractor of fertilizers and/or pesticides, frost control. The position follows company policies and standards and adheres to all safety practices and requirements. The position ensures clean work areas that are free of objects that may cause accidents.\n\nRanch Maintenance, to include but not limited to:\n\n• Covering up dirt holes\n• Keeping ranch roads clean\n• Install and repair irrigation systems and repair of any damaged irrigation hoses.\n• Repair frost control sprinklers\n• May assist regardless of time of day, in keeping overhead irrigation rain birds free of ice during freezing weather.\n• Operate tractor or other machinery to prepare the soil, fertilize and spray the crop.\n\nPlastic and Drip-tape removal: \n\n• Unhook drip-tape from main water line, walk down row while pulling plastic down the bed until it is completely removed. Take removed plastic to proper disposal or burning station, as instructed.\n\nQuality check:\n\n• Revise the quality of the harvested fruit.\n• Inspect harvested crates and evaluate the following:\n• Appearance: Good packing, full baskets (no bridges), ask harvesters to re-pack crates and pick correct fruit color as needed.\n• Crates: Make sure the crate is clean and is the correct type of crate.\n• Employee’s sticker must be on the crate.\n• As time permits, do random inspections of a single basket.\n• Arrange the picking shed in the morning with the required boxes to begin the harvest. Return the trailer to the yard at the end of the day. Clean up trash and excess material, and prepare the trailer for the next day.\n• Open boxes of baskets, crates, etc. during the day as required.\n• Follow all hygiene and food safety policies and requirements. Prepare Clorox solution for sanitizing work areas.\n\nMiscellaneous Duties: \n\n• Assist with installing irrigation system and repair of any damaged irrigation hoses.\n• Apply fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides to the crops. \n• When completing irrigation tasks and pipes are being collected, ensure that the sprinkler pipes are securely tied and cautiously drive the tractor with the trailer.\n• Remove garbage from work areas: roads, fields and other areas. \n• Remove grass from roads, fields, container yard and other areas\n• Fix cracks found in hoses or pipes. \n• Report problems to management.\n• Assist with applying fertilizers and pesticides by hand and by tractor\n• May be required to harvest, when necessary and as requested by production requirements.\n• assist in the use or operation of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks and harvest machinery and may transport other workers.\n• Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisor when machinery malfunctions.\n• Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.\n• Follow and adhere to all personal and equipment safety requirements, to include but not limited to, warm-up exercises and the use of personal protective equipment.\n• Other duties as assigned.\n
The General Laborer performs general ranch maintenance, assist with irrigation maintenance, assist in applications by hand or tractor of fertilizers and/or pesticides, frost control. The position follows company policies and standards and adheres to all safety practices and requirements. The position ensures clean work areas that are free of objects that may cause accidents.\n\nRanch Maintenance, to include but not limited to:\n\n• Covering up dirt holes\n• Keeping ranch roads clean\n• Install and repair irrigation systems and repair of any damaged irrigation hoses.\n• Repair frost control sprinklers\n• May assist regardless of time of day, in keeping overhead irrigation rain birds free of ice during freezing weather.\n• Operate tractor or other machinery to prepare the soil, fertilize and spray the crop.\n\nPlastic and Drip-tape removal: \n\n• Unhook drip-tape from main water line, walk down row while pulling plastic down the bed until it is completely removed. Take removed plastic to proper disposal or burning station, as instructed.\n\nQuality check:\n\n• Revise the quality of the harvested fruit.\n• Inspect crates harvesters bring to them. Evaluate the following:\n• Appearance: Good packing, full baskets (no bridges), ask harvesters to re-pack crates and pick correct fruit color as needed.\n• Crates: Make sure the crate is clean and is the correct type of crate.\n• Employee’s sticker must be on the crate.\n• As time permits, do random inspections of a single basket.\n• Arrange the picking shed in the morning with the required boxes to begin the harvest. Return the trailer to the yard at the end of the day. Clean up trash and excess material, and prepare the trailer for the next day.\n• Open boxes of baskets, crates, etc. during the day as required.\n• Follow all hygiene and food safety policies and requirements. Prepare Clorox solution for sanitizing work areas.\n\n\nMiscellaneous Duties: \n\n• Assist with installing irrigation system and repair of any damaged irrigation hoses.\n• Apply fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides to the crops. \n• When completing irrigation tasks and pipes are being collected, ensure that the sprinkler pipes are securely tied and cautiously drive the tractor with the trailer.\n• Remove garbage from work areas: roads, fields and other areas. \n• Remove grass from roads, fields, container yard and other areas\n• Fix cracks found in hoses or pipes. \n• Report problems to management.\n• Assist with applying fertilizers and pesticides by hand and by tractor\n• May be required to harvest, when necessary and as requested by production requirements.\n• Assist in the use or operation of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks and harvest machinery and may transport other workers.\n• Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisor when machinery malfunctions.\n• Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.\n• Follow and adhere to all personal and equipment safety requirements, to include but not limited to, warm-up exercises and the use of personal protective equipment.\n• Other duties as assigned.\n
Crops/Commodities: \nPreparing farmland for planting. \nWorkers will prepare suitable farm ground for the implementation of irrigation on tillable acres. Job may require clearing of some areas to accommodate the installation of center pivot irrigation for the purposes of growing suitable cover crops. Job will also require the preparation of tillable farm ground to include but is not limited to, application of lime, gypsum, litter and other soil amendments to enhance soil fertility as well as the planting of cover crops for soil stabilization, increased fertility, and harvest. \nWorkers will operate and perform routine maintenance on GPS equipped 245+ HP farming equipment and heavy machinery such as CAT 349E and 336E excavators and CAT D6N and D6T bulldozers to prepare farm ground for application of fertilizers, amendments, and crops, and will operate heavy Wishek disc plows, chisels, windrowers, spreaders, and planters to prepare farm ground for crops. Workers may also operate and service the WF 2012 Root Picker.\n\nWorkers may hitch soil conditioning implements, such as plow or harrow to tractor, and operate tractor and towed implement to furrow and grade soil. Workers will drive tractors and operate designated towed machines, such as drill or manure spreader, to plant, fertilize, dust and spray crops. Prepares harvesting machine by adjusting speeds of cutters, blowers and conveyors and height of cutting head or depth of digging blades according to type, height, weight and condition of crop being harvested, and contour of terrain. Attaches towed or mounted-type harvesting machine to tractor using hand tools or drives self-propelled harvesting machine to cut, pull up, dig, thresh, clean, chop, bag or bundle crops. Workers will perform irrigation activities, including setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment. \n\nWhile the workers' main duties are associated with operation of farm equipment, workers will also be required to perform routine maintenance on the equipment, as well. Examines and listens to machines, motors, gasoline and diesel engines and equipment for operational defects and dismantles defective units, using hand-tools. Repairs or replaces defective parts, using hand tools and shop tools. Workers will replace components, such as carburetors, fuel pumps, generators, ignition points and spark plugs. Reassembles, adjusts and lubricates machines and equipment to ensure efficient operation. May install and repair wiring and motors to maintain farm electrical system. May assist other workers in more complex maintenance tasks, such as overhaul of machinery and equipment. May construct and repair buildings and other farm structures. May assemble and erect new farm machinery and equipment. \n\nWorkers will be required to prepare farm land for planting. This includes removing trash, trees, stumps, rocks and any other debris or material that will interfere with planting and harvesting crops. Workers will be required to dig ditches for the installation of pipe and to prevent erosion. Workers may be required to pile the debris up for burning. Workers may be required to operate rakes for root and limb removal. Workers may operate dozers, tractors, front end loaders, bobcats and various other pieces of land clearing equipment. Workers may be required to level land by moving dirt from one location to another using trucks and equipment. \n\nWorkers are required to work in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required to work during light rain, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 30 to over 100 degrees. Allergies to goldenrod, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides or honey bees may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. \n\nPersons seeking employment as experienced agricultural equipment operator must be available for the entire period requested by the employer.
Lay Plastic (Drip): Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. The worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Worker is to cut plastic at each hundred foot marked area to create a walkway by slicing with shovel and tuck plastic after removing excess dirt to create walkways for harvest. Worker is required to dig a spillway at each row designated; by the removal of dirt and forming a plastic barrier with rolls of plastic to create a spillage for water to drain. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. Shoveling also includes across row to allow drainage to occur. Clean up of drip and plastic scraps, paper and wood. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Pile and burn or load on wagon for disposal. \n\nLay Plastic (Seep): Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. The worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Worker is to cut plastic at each hundred foot marked area to create a walkway by slicing with shovel and tuck plastic after removing excess dirt to create walkways for harvest. Worker is required to dig a spillway at each row designated; by the removal of dirt and forming a plastic barrier with rolls of plastic to create a spillage for water to drain. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nV DITCHES -End & Row Cutting: Worker is to cut plastic at each hundred foot marked area to create a walkway by slicing with shovel and tuck plastic after removing excess dirt to create walkways for harvest. Worker is required to dig a spillway at each row designated; by the removal of dirt and forming a plastic barrier with rolls of plastic to create a spillage for water to drain. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.
Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Plant, transplant, weed, cultivate, irrigate, thin, harvest, operate machinery, grade, pack, place produce into cooler, stack and unstack and load arugula, beets, bok choy, baby bok choy, blueberries, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, cauliflower , celery, chards, cilantro, collards, daikon, dandelions, dill, eggplant, fennel, green beans, green onions, kales, leeks, lettuces, mustard greens, onions, parsleys, parsnips, peas, peppers, radishes, rutabagas, spinach, squash, sweet corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and turnips, prune blueberries, clean and maintain work areas. The packinghouse and packing of all produce is done on the farm, and no products will be transported off of the farm for packing in another location. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole expense and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nEstar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Plantar, trasplantar, desherbar, cultivar, regar, ralear, cosechar, operar maquinaria, clasificar, empacar, colocar productos en el refrigerador, apilar y desapilar y cargar rúcula, remolacha, bok choy, baby bok choy, arándanos, brócoli, repollos, zanahorias, coliflor, apio, acelgas, cilantro, coles, daikon, dientes de león, eneldo, berenjena, hinojo, judías verdes, cebollas verdes, col rizada, puerros, lechugas, hojas de mostaza, cebollas, perejil, chirivía, guisantes, pimientos, rábanos, nabos, espinacas , calabaza, maíz dulce, papas, batatas, tomates y nabos, podar arándanos, limpiar y mantener las áreas de trabajo. La empacadora y el empaque de todos los productos se realizan en la finca, y ningún producto será transportado fuera de la finca para ser empacado en otro lugar. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Las pruebas de drogas y la verificación de antecedentes pueden ocurrir durante el proceso de la entrevista y se realizarán a expensas y discreción exclusivas del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate equipment used to harvest sugar cane. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and drivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization. During field operations workers may be required to drive motorized farm equipment, or a tractor pulling a wagon through the field or between fields incidental to the harvesting jobs being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving. All tractor driving will be done in the field during the harvest. Field Care - Tying plants, planting plants, pruning plants, cleaning drippers and Micro jets, removing plastic drip lines, removing dead plants, and removing debris. Workers will walk along rows specified by the employer and will remove grass and weeds from the fields using their hands or with a hoe. Workers will be standing, crouching, bending and reaching for an extended period. The work is outdoors and will continue in all kinds of weather. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Operate forklifts and equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the field. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 70 pounds. Must be able to work outdoors in dusty/dirty conditions, at extreme heat and cold inclement weather. Must be able to listen to, understand, and follow simple instructions of supervisors and dispatcher. Must be able to work in fields where ants, snakes and poison ivy are encountered. The alternative work is truck maintenance and farm maintenance including the repair, irrigation, vehicles and various equipment and tools used on the farm. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \n
Clean horse stable, groom, water and feed horses, provide general care. Discretionary bonus may be given at employers discretion. Possible O/T 0-10 hr/wk. Possible work on Saturdays, when necessary.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry a 18' to 20' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs approximately 80 to 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition, and variety of fruit. A ladder is placed against a tree within reach of the fruit in a leaning position. While taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Workers will remove fruit from the tree and place into a pick sack. When the pick sack is full, take the full sack to the fruit tub located in the grove. Drop fruit from pick sack into the tub. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub.\n\nGeneral Clean-up of Grove Property and Housing for Harvesting Workers: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities may be performed regularly or in the event of a hurricane/tropical storm that may include the planting, sprouting, trimming, pruning, and painting and maintenance of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required. May be necessary to assist in the use and repair of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks, Goats/Loaders, buses, trailers, and harvest machinery, etc. It is estimated that 20% of the time will be spent growing and maintaining, and 80% harvesting the products. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Shovel, haul, spread manure, & dig holes, ditches, & trenches. Manually plant, cultivate, harvest, count, load, & unload vegetables, produce, horticultural specialties & field crops (cucumbers, eggplant, & squash). Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, & knives, & any other farm equipment related to planting cultivating, & harvesting vegetables & watermelons. Duties may include tilling soil, applying fertilizers, transplanting, pulling weeds, raking, cleaning around shed area, thinning/pruning crops, applying pesticides, cleaning, grading, & packing harvested product. Watermelon Perform manual labor to hand cut & pack watermelons. Use hand tools such as shears and knives. Duties also include cleaning, loading, & unloading harvested products. Grade & sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel, & quality to ensure correct processing & usage. Discard inferior/defective products estimate their weight, visually/by feel. Place products in containers according to grade & mark grades on containers. Measure, weigh, & count products & materials. Examine & inspect containers, materials & products to ensure that packing specifications are met. \nAt the beginning of the contract workers may water and apply fertilizers to the vegetables and melons. OFLC Administrator publishes new AEWR rates yearly and we reserve the right to adjust our job order to the new published rate regardless of rate increases or decreases. Raises and bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker, at the employer’s discretions, based on individual factors including but not limited to, performance, experience, number of hours worked in the season, number of seasons worked with the company, adherence to work rules and ability to follow supervisor instructions.\n
To harvest watermelon by hand, the worker will walk down the watermelon field rows where the watermelon will be harvested. The worker will first cut the vine off the watermelon with a small knife and turn the watermelon over. The worker will bend over harvesting the ripe watermelon which can vary in weight from 20 lbs to 60 lbs from the ground and tossing the watermelon to the worker next to him and this worker will toss the watermelon to the next worker and so on, until the watermelon is then tossed to the person inside the bus who will place the watermelon on the floor. Packing: When the bus is full, it will be taken to the packing house where the workers will unload the watermelon and put it in a conveyer belt that will transport the watermelon into the packing house where it will be separated by size, labeled and packed. \n\n(Note: The packing house is located inside the Farm and more than 50% of the product processed is produced by the Fixed Site Employer.)\n\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools. \n\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to drive Agriculture Machinery or Equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
The Agricultural Equipment Operator essential work activity involves loading and transport of the highly perishable sugarcane crop. Once the raw sugarcane crop is cut, the sugarcane stalks are severed from their roots by a self-powered mechanical harvesting machine, the sugarcane is mechanically deposited into the field cart and transport by the equipment operator to a designated location on the farm. Equipment operators will operate from field to field and farm to farm as sugarcane is progressively harvested on the property. There are multiple loading stations on the property that serve as concentration points. \n\nBefore moving the assigned tractor on the farm, the operator will complete a pre-trip inspection of the tractor, wagons, harvester, and other equipment used in the process of harvesting sugarcane. The inspection will include checking engine fluid, checking brakes/tires, and fueling equipment. The operator is required to complete each step of the transportation process from the in-field loading station through the off-loading locations on the farm’s closest available concentration point as directed by the supervisor. The agricultural equipment operator will complete multiple essential steps in the on-farm work of harvesting the sugarcane crop. \n\nGeneral requirements: Controlling operations of equipment or systems. Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. Determining causes of operating errors and deciphering resolutions. Giving full attention to duites. Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining maintenance as needed. Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. Repairing machines or systems used. Have the ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or vehicle to exact positions. The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.\nThe ability to see details at a distance.\n\nOther general duties include the following: operation of harvesters, payloaders (wheel loader), loading ramp, dumping cable, bulldozer, drive, attach, and operate farm trucks and trailers including those fitted with road dust control equipment, burn tanks, drip torches, parts trailers, fuel tanks and water tanks that are integral to the work of timely and efficiently loading, moving and off-loading harvested sugarcane, a perishable agricultural crop, from the growing field directly to the closest available field concentration point on the farm. \n\nGeneral Farm Work: shoveling, hoeing, cleaning in and around loading stations. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools, including but not limited to hoes, shovels and rakes. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Operate pressure washer and air compressor. Clean harvesting equipment as needed. This will not comprise greater than ten percent of the workers time.
The essential work activity involves moving highly perishable agricultural crops (sugarcane, citrus, vegetables, and other agricultural commodities) directly from the fixed site agricultural properties of the associations growers/members to the farm fields to the processing plant, the locations of which are detailed in the attached schedule. The haulers are required to complete each step of the haul as part of necessary field to processing facility activities for the harvest. Haulers must be physically and mentally healthy. Each worker is expected to operate hauling vehicles efficiently and safely through all types of routes. Haulers must be able to operate tractors, trailers, semi-trailers, and have adequate knowledge to make minor adjustments or repairs to these vehicles. Must have a CDL, or equivalent license, pass a required drivers license background check, ad mandated drug/alcohol test. Haulers must have and maintain a suitable driving record and be insured by the employers insurance company. \n\nDaily job assignments will be made by, and at the sole discretion of, the Company Farm Managers as the progression of the growing season dictates. Workers must perform the assigned work as described in ETA 790, and work at the assigned Company locations. Workers may not switch work at Company locations without specific authorization of the Farm manager. At the direction of the Farm Manager and/or Supervisor workers may be re-assigned to different farm locations within the company at various times of the work day and/or on different days.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools, equipment, materials, protective clothing, including gloves where required to perform all job specifications at no cost to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nNon-workers will not be permitted at the work sites or on company property without permission from the employer. Importantly, no non-working minor children under the age of 18 shall be present at the work site, or left unattended in vehicles at the worksite during the day. Workers arriving at the worksite with non-working minor children or other non-workers will be sent home.
Duties required: Harvesting, planting, counting, loading, unloading and packing strawberries, blueberries, tomato, cantaloupe, watermelon, squash, zucchini and eggplant. Other duties may include field walking, general farm labor such as field and camp sanitation, maintenance, laying irrigation pipes and plastic, pulling weeds and plastic, raking, occasional grading and packing in the field or shed/packinghouse located on the farm, digging ditches, and cleaning around shed areas. This will be done under extreme weather conditions. Heavy bending, stooping and lifting will be involved on a daily basis. Background check and random drug testing will be post hire at employer's expense.\n\n(Continued on Addendum C.)
Job duties include mucking out stalls, feed preparation and distribution, cleaning and refilling water containers, grooming and bathing, cleaning tack, bandaging legs, tacking up, and administering basic first aid for cuts and scrapes.
Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate equipment used to harvest tomatoes. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and drivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Must be able to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving record and background. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Operate forklifts and equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the field. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 50 pounds. Must be able to work outdoors in dusty/dirty conditions, at extreme heat and cold inclement weather. Must be able to listen to, understand, and follow simple instructions of supervisors and dispatcher. Must be able to work in fields where ants, snakes and poison ivy are encountered. The alternative work is truck maintenance and farm maintenance – including the repair, irrigation, vehicles and various equipment and tools used on the farm. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\nOperador de equipos agrícolas para operar equipos utilizados para cosechar tomates. Debe tener el tipo correcto de licencia requerida por las leyes estatales y federales, y los conductores responsables del transporte de trabajadores deberán tener un Contratista de trabajo agrícola federal válido y vigente o un Registro de empleado de contratista de trabajo agrícola federal con autorización de conducción. Será responsable de operar los vehículos utilizados para mover cultivos en la finca. Debe poder operar de manera segura los autobuses que se utilizan para transportar trabajadores hacia y desde los lugares de trabajo. Debe poder proporcionar prueba de antecedentes y antecedentes de conducción sin accidentes. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Operar montacargas y equipos utilizados para mover suministros y equipos de cosecha en el campo. Mantener el equipo de cosecha. Debe poder alcanzar, doblar y levantar artículos que pesen 50 libras. Debe poder trabajar al aire libre en condiciones polvorientas / sucias, con calor extremo y frío inclemente. Debe poder escuchar, comprender y seguir instrucciones simples de supervisores y despachadores. Debe poder trabajar en campos donde se encuentran hormigas, serpientes y hiedra venenosa. El trabajo alternativo es el mantenimiento de camiones y el mantenimiento de la finca, incluida la reparación, riego, vehículos y diversos equipos y herramientas que se utilizan en la finca. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
The farm worker position includes duties associated with the harvesting and packing of watermelons, cantaloupe, peppers squash and strawberries. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.\n\nWatermelons, Mini Watermelons Cantaloupe and Squash: \nWorkers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness to not damage or bruise the fruit and vegetables. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or\nbruising. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately fifty (75) lbs and empty into field bin or load onto trailer.\n\nPeppers: Pre-harvest duties for may include laying plastic, planting, staking, and weeding plants by hand and/or hoe. Harvest primarily consists of harvesting by hand. The outlined job duties will require workers to stand, walk, stoop, bend, and lift up to 75 pounds continuously. These tasks will require individuals to work quickly and consistently and for long\nperiods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness to not damage or bruise the fruit and vegetables. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or bruising. Help with post-harvest cleanup including pulling, piling, and sorting plastic, stakes, string, and field row irrigation components. Instruction will be given for each task and standards of performance communicated to workers.\n
Graders – graders will be placed at grading table where they will sit on a stool or stand at conveyor line for long periods of time. They will sort tomatoes by color and size as instructed and place the assigned tomato variety into a box until full, this process will be repeated until daily production has been met.\n\n Stackers – stacker will be placed at stacking stations at the end of the line where they will stand for long periods of time. They will pull boxes of tomatoes weighing 25 pounds each off conveyor line manually and place on pallet arranging them on pallet as instructed. When pallet is full and removed from the station worker will get a new pallet to place at the station and repeat process. Worker will lift up to 50 pounds moving empty pallets.\n\n Box loft workers – worker will work in box making area where they will stand for long periods of time. They will load box material for bodies and lids on the correct machine. Once machine has assembled the box or lid, worker will manually remove and place in the correct area to move along to the fillers. Workers will push boxes or lids down chutes to go to fillers. They may turn on glue machine, put glue in machine, unbundle lids or bodies, lift up to 30 pounds of corrugated paper material to load machines. May use hand pallet to move bundles. Will place waste cardboard in bins.\n\n Forklift operator – Worker operating forklift may be moving pallets of tomatoes into cooler rooms and loading on raised racks or in between racks. Worker will sometimes operate forklift in small spaces in a safe manner. Worker will move pallets of corrugated paper as instructed. Worker will unload pallets from delivery truck. Worker will load pallets of tomatoes onto customer’s assigned carrier picking up tomatoes. Worker will unload tomato bins from flat bead truck and load empty tomato bins on flat bead truck. Worker will move various supplies, etc using forklift as needed. Worked will load tomato bins onto dumper at dump tank and remove bin once it is emptied.\n\n Cleaning – workers will use a water hose and sprayer to clean dump tank heater filters and replace filters as instructed. Workers will use pressure washer to clean as instructed. Workers will use air compressor hose to blow debris for packing machine on grading line, under grading line, in box loft, in receiving area. Workers will use rags and paper towels to clean conveyor belt rollers, belts and tables. Workers will be expected to sweep, mop, brush debris from floors and walls and all areas of packing facility as instructed. Workers may lift up to 50 pounds as required.\n\nProlonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may\nbe requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive\nmay result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-hire and is not a part of the interview process. Negative result\nrequired before starting work. Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday. Must not hinder another workers productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Use of any drugs and or alcohol at any time during employment is strictly prohibited. Use of drugs or alcohol is strictly prohibited on/in company provided transportation, housing, and jobsites. Failure to comply with the drug/alcohol rules, will result in immediate termination of employee.
Job Duties\nTomatoes/Peppers: Pre-harvest duties for tomatoes may include laying plastic, planting, staking, and weeding plants by hand and/or hoe. Harvest primarily consists of harvesting tomatoes by hand. The outlined job duties will require workers to stand, walk, stoop, bend, and lift up to 50 pounds continuously. These tasks will require individuals to work quickly and consistently and for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness to not damage or bruise the fruit and vegetables. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or bruising. Help with post-harvest cleanup including pulling, piling, and sorting plastic, stakes, string, and field row irrigation components. Instruction will be given for each task and standards of performance communicated to workers.\n\nSquash/Eggplant/Watermelon:\nWorkers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness to not damage or bruise the fruit and vegetables. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce.\nWorkers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or bruising. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately fifty (50) lbs and empty into field bin or load onto trailer. \n\nTractor/Truck Operation: During picking, spraying or laying plastic workers may be\nrequired to drive a tractor pulling through the field or between fields incidental to the job being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor/truck before driving. Farm vehicles should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.\n\nPacking Operation:\nGrading: working carefully remove any debris and defective fruit as defined by grading supervisor as fruit moves across grading tables. Fruit must be handled carefully to avoid bruises or fingernail cuts. Fillers: workers box the graded fruit in appropriate containers by attending automatic filler or by hand as necessary according to packing instructions disclosed by the supervisor.\nSpecial Packaging: workers may be required to custom fill trays and marketing gift packs according to supervisors instructions.\n\nForklift Operation During Field & Packing Operations:\nWorkers may be required to operate forklifts during field operations as an incidental. Before any worker is required to operate a forklift, the worker will be instructed in the\nproper and safe operation. Workers will be required to operate forklifts according to instructions and in a manner that protects the operator, other workers and equipment.\nRepeated failure to obey operating and safety instructions may result in\ntermination.\n\n\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\nWorkers will be assigned any or all of the following tasks and functions as needed by the employer: harvest and/or pack various crops in the field, load the trucks in the field and/or wash, grade and pack crops at the packing house, forklift driving, box stacking, icing of crops (harvested commodities) in the packing house ice room, pulling plastic in the field and loading/unloading plastic in the field, and non-harvest activities listed in the attachment.\n\nHarvest and pack crops in field: Worker will walk down assigned rows and cut at the appropriate height from the soil or pull crops from ground, discard poor quality crops, rubber band or apply twist ties as needed or required by the customer or employer, and place required quantity in assigned container and take and load onto the field truck. Workers will be given barcode stickers to affix to the boxes, crates, RPC's, and bins as they are packed in the field or the packing house. When harvesting radishes and beets the harvesters will be given a sticker for each type of harvest occurring and are scanned. The washing / packers will place barcode stickers on every unit packed and scanned. Barcode scanners will be used to scan all units and account for the workers piece rate with the exception of radishes and beets, where either barcode stickers or tokens will be used. Tokens will be given to each worker for each unit of beets or radishes that is harvested and packed when barcode scanners are not working. All piece rates include putting the box/crate together. Unloading of the truck is done at the packing house, by a forklift driver.\n\nWash, grade and pack crops: Worker will wash field crops to remove dirt and grade for quality and then pack the necessary quantity in the assigned box.\nForklift driving and stacking boxes of crops in the packing house and icing of various crops in the packing house ice room.\n\nPulling plastic from the fields during the cleanup stage of the season after all crops have been harvested. Loading and/or unloading of the pulled plastic onto and off of a truck after it has been pulled from the fields and disposed of in the location directed by the crew foreman. Various non-harvest activities such as, but not limited to weeding, thinning, staking, tying, seeding, planting, tractor work, driving of van or bus, occasional heavy equipment operation, field cleanup, irrigation maintenance, packing of crops, equipment maintenance, etc. as directed by the employer.\n\nThe employer will provide the picking containers and other necessary tools to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools. The worker must be physically able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to fulfill the essential duties described herein that also require the worker to be able to lift 75 pounds for long periods of time, work in hot, humid weather (including work when the heat index is 110 degrees for sustained periods) and in cold, wet weather, bending and stooping to harvest crop and perform pre-harvest activities.
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor. \nPlanting of vegetables: A tractor will go over the fields making holes for the plants, workers will grab a tray of plants from the truck, walking down the rows the worker will put one plants per hole, when finish with the tray, the worker will walk back to the truck and grab another tray of plants, repeating the process through the work day. \nHarvesting of vegetables: Once at the picking location, doing a row at a time, workers will move down the rows plucking the vegetables from the plants and putting them in a bucket/bushel. Once the bucket/bushel is full the worker will take the bucket/bushel to the truck and dump the bucket/bushel. The worker will go back to his picking area and fill his bucket/bushel up again, repeating the process through the work day.\nPacking: Trucks will take the harvested vegetables to the packing house (which is located inside the farm) where they will be separated by size, labeled and packed.\nField Maintenance: workers will tie, stake and prune plants, clean micro jets and remove plastic drip lines, using hands or a hoe workers will remove dead plants and weeds. The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in a possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly. The employer will provides the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.\n
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor, \nCabbage harvesting: The cabbage Cutters will line up in designated cabbage rows. Workers will bend over each cabbage to cut. After cutting the cabbage, workers will inspect and trim. Workers will then put the cabbage in a bag and put the bag on a stainless steel table that will be continually pushed behind the cutters as they proceed on their rows. Workers should be able to keep up with the machine.\nPlanting of cabbage: A tractor will go over the fields making holes for the plants, workers will grab a tray of plants from the truck, walking down the rows the worker will put one plants per hole, when finish with the tray, the worker will walk back to the truck and grab another tray of plants, repeating the process through the work day.\nWeeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area, by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as instructed.\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties with out charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.\n
Farm Equipment Operation: During Field Operations: Workers will be required to operate tractors and other farm equipment during field operations as an incidental activity in the production of crops. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, the worker will be instructed in the proper and safe operation of tractor. Workers must notify supervisor of any mechanical issues. Workers will be required to operate tractors according to instructions and in a manner, that protects the operator, other workers, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey operating and safety instructions may result in termination.\n\nBefore moving their assigned tractor in the far, the operator will complete a pre-trip inspection of the tractor, including adding engine fluid, changing the oil, checking brakes and tires, and cleaning filters. Once the snap bean is cultivated and sweet corn crop handpicked and deposited into the field cart that is moved by the tractor to a location within the growing field for loading. The operator is not hauling off the farm. They are moving carts by tractor to a location for loading. At the end of the shift, the tractor driver will make sure that the tractor is clean and ready for the next worker\n\nMechanic: Drive and repair cane harvesters, dump wagons and other mechanized, electrically powered or motor-driven equipment on farms or in farm equipment repair shops. Workers will operate the farm machinery, equipment, and vehicles. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the equipment before driving the equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate equipment, with or without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors, other employees, crops, trees, facilities and equipment. Failure to comply with operating and safety standards may result in termination. This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality specifications must be rigorously adhered to. The equipment workers will be operating and maintaining is expensive and dangerous. Workers are expected to follow the employer’s requests to not only prevent damage to the equipment, but to also prevent injuries to workers. Any equipment damaged by a worker’s failure to follow instructions or damaged due to malice will be charged to the worker. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination.\n\nPerform routine maintenance on the farm equipment. Examine and listen to machines, motors, gasoline and diesel engines and equipment for operational defects and dismantles defective units, using hand-tools. Repairs or replaces defective parts, using hand tools and shop tools.\n\nReplace components, such as carburetors, fuel pumps, generators, ignition points and spark plugs. Reassemble, adjust and lubricate machines and equipment to ensure efficient operation. May install and repair wiring and motors to maintain farm electrical system. May assist other workers in more complex maintenance tasks, such as overhaul of machinery and equipment. May assemble and erect new farm machinery and equipment. \n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or another durable footwear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\n\n
Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Workers must be able to lift 70 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70 lbs. in field. Workers must work at a sustained (continuing for an extended period of time without interruption), vigorous pace (quick and steady) and make bona fide efforts (made in earnest intent) to work efficiently (performing or functions in the best possible manner with the least water of time and effort), and consistently (same way for a long time) that are reasonable under the climatic and other working conditions to ensure they meet the employers established production and quality standard. \n\nIn addition, various types of lettuce, broccoli, cilantro, endive, escarole, parsley and cilantro will be harvested, graded, cultivated, and packed in boxes/buckets manually by hand and machine. \nWorkers are expected to possess the skills to work in the production of crops listed in this job order. The introductory period for all crop activities is 2 days starting with the first day of employment to acclimate the worker to the physical demands of farm work and to familiarize workers with job specifications and to demonstrate proper harvest methods and other crop specific issues.\n\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engage in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. Employer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malinger, or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product.\n\nDaily individual work assignments, crew assignments, and location of work, will be made by and at the sole discretion of the farm manger and/or farm supervisor as the needs of the farming operation dictate. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and/or different tasks on different days. Workers will be expected to perform any of the listed duties and work on any crop as assigned by the worker's supervisor.\n\nHarvesting specifications can change from time to time during the season due to crop or market conditions, even on the same crop. Workers will be expected to conform to the specific instructions given for each day’s work. The farm owner/supervisor or a designated employee will provide specific instructions and close supervision. Workers will be expected to perform their duties in a timely and proficient manner and will have close supervision to insure adherence to instruction. Work will be closely monitored and reviewed for quality.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nThe farm owner/supervisor or a designated employee will provide specific instructions and close supervision. Workers will be expected to perform their duties in a timely and proficient manner and will have close supervision to insure adherence to instruction. Work will be closely monitored and reviewed for quality.\n
All workers will be required to operate and maintain farm machinery utilized in lettuce production to include: GPS steering assisted tractors, electronic driven seeders with variable speed motors, liquid storage tank and hydraulic motors, irrigation pumps with chlorine injection systems, irrigation pumps for flood irrigation, spray tractors with on board computer for field and crop row identification, sprayer controls of volume, pressure, and individual spray nozzle aperture, sophisticated crop protection netting equipment and custom-made lettuce harvesters with hydrostatic driven and computer controlled capabilities. In addition to utilizing onboard tractor computers, by selecting programs, inputting field data, modify operational parameters and execute commands. Each worker should understand the concepts of tractor speed, land area, pressure, and volume of liquids in spraying systems. \n\nAgricultural Equipment Operates will assist a team of workers on the correct operation of specialized farm machinery that is used to plant, irrigate, fertilize, spray, maintain, install, and remove vertical frog prevention net and crop protective netting with metal supports and harvest lettuce. Calibrate, maintain, and adjust custom-made farming equipment. Adjust lettuce production equipment to include lettuce harvesters cutting head, speeds of cutters, blowers, and conveyors according to type, height, weight, and condition of the lettuce harvested, and contour of the terrain. Install, maintain, and operate high-pressure water pumps and sprinkler irrigation systems. Operate and maintain large water pumps for flood irrigation, weed control, and soil conservation.\n\nWorkers must perform all task required for the establishment, maintenance, and irrigation of cover crops, such as land preparation, seeding, weed control, and flood irrigation while participating in soil conservation and erosion control practices. Evaluations will be performed in collaboration with a supervisor of the fields condition to determine the equipment required to perform all task to include land preparation, seeding, irrigation, spraying, protective net installation with metal support and daily harvest.\n\nThe workers will coordinate equipment use in the fields. Ensure the farming machinery under their responsibility are in good condition, and verify daily inspection sheets. Workers will confirm that the designated personnel make minor repairs, and report all problematic situations to supervisors. Clean and check machinery prior to use or storage. Disassemble or assemble farm machinery and equipment as required at the beginning or end of the season. Pack, crate, load, and unload farm machinery and equipment as required for storage or transport to another farm for use when seasonal lettuce production in FL is not possible. While following good agricultural practices and safe working practices. The use of personal protective equipment is required by employer.
Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate equipment used to harvest tomatoes. Vehicles being driven will include, but are not limited to, school buses, tractor trailers of various sizes, forklifts and flatbed trucks. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws. Must have CDL license or its equivalent in order to drive vehicles used to transport workers. Must have a farm labor contractor registration with driving authorization endorsement to transport workers as required by 20 CFR 655.132(b)(2). Operators will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving\nrecord and background. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Operate equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment on the farm. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 100 pounds. Must be able to work outdoors in dusty/dirty conditions, at extreme heat and cold inclement weather. Must be able to listen to,\nunderstand, and follow simple instructions of supervisors and dispatcher. Must be able to work in fields where ants, snakes and poison ivy are encountered. The alternative work is truck maintenance and farm maintenance including the repair of barns, other structures, greenhouses and various equipment and tools used on the farm. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.
Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate equipment used to harvest tomatoes. Vehicles being driven will include, but are not limited to, school buses, tractor trailers of various sizes, forklifts and flatbed trucks. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws. Must have CDL license or its equivalent in order to drive vehicles used to transport workers. Must have a farm labor contractor registration with driving authorization endorsement to transport workers as required by 20 CFR 655.132(b)(2). Operators will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving record and background. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Also, drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Operate equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment on the farm. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 50 pounds. Must be able to work outdoors in dusty/dirty conditions, at extreme heat and cold inclement weather. Must be able to listen to, understand, and follow simple instructions of supervisors and dispatcher. Must be able to work in fields where ants, snakes and poison ivy are encountered. The alternative work is truck maintenance and farm maintenance including the repair of barns, other structures, greenhouses and various equipment and tools used on the farm. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.
−Harvesting tomatoes- Using a 24 quart bucket the employee will hand pick “harvest” mature tomatoes from the plant by twisting the fruit from the vine (also remove calyz and stem from tomato) and place fruit into the bucket. The types of tomatoes to harvest will be rounds, romas, cherries, and grapes. Harvesting process will be repeated until the tomato bucket is full. The harvester will lift the bucket and place on shoulder and stand upright. The harvester will walk the filled bucket at a brisk pace to the field truck and toss filled buckets (by lifting bucket from their shoulder with both hands) to the harvest dumper. The harvester will receive a token for each filled bucket of tomatoes. Tokens will serve as a count of buckets harvested. Repeat process.   \n−Harvest Dumper-Harvest dumper is required to stand on the back of a flatbed truck and catch buckets of tomatoes (approximately 34 lbs).  The dumper will empty the contents of the bucket into various types of harvesting containers/trays that are stacked on pallets on the bed of the truck. Dumper will place a token inside the bucket and return empty bucket back to the harvester on the ground. The harvest dumper will serve as quality control and ensure that tomato in buckets meets the company’s quality standard. The dumper will monitor the cleanliness of the containers/trays and remove any addition vegetation from produce inside the harvest containers/trays and toss unwanted vegetation onto the ground. As containers/trays reach full capacity, the harvest dumper will stack additional empty containers on top of the full container and continue with the process.\n−Vine Ripe Tomato Harvester (Rounds, Roma)-Using a 15.3 quart harvesting bucket the employee will hand pick “harvest” tomatoes of a specified maturity & color and place fruit into the harvesting bucket. The employee will then carry fully harvested bucket to a parked box truck at the field pathway. Employee will exchange filled bucket for another empty bucket and repeat the process. \n−Vine Ripe Tomato Grader (Rounds, Roma)-While in the field employee will sort harvested tomato buckets and transfer fruit to another container based on maturity, color, shape and size. \n−Planting (by hand) – Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and assuring that plants are planted at the center of pre punched plant hole at proper depth. Return empty plant trays to truck/trailer. (No empty trays to be left in field)\n−Daily Work-Misc. farm tasks\n−Plastic Laying/Repair – Ride plastic machine and change out drip tape and plastic roles (weight +/- 100 lbs.) with 2 people. Shovel dirt on row ends (bury). Ride fertilizer hopper and maintain flow of fertilizer with shovel. \n−Mark and Measure – walk fields to mark 100’ intervals with spray paint\n −Irrigation Hook-up/Installation/Drainage – use shovel to make shallow trench to connect irrigation pipe or redirect water \n−Planting (Machine)- Load planter with plant trays and ride or walk behind planter to assure plants are at center of hole, proper depth, and no skips.\n−Replant- Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and replanting weak, dead, or missing plants at proper depth\n−Stake Repair – carry stakes (+/- 40’) to repair/replace areas with broken stakes, and/or tie broken stake to a new one\n−Mopping Bed Top- Mopping top of beds \n−Rouging plants/weeds- removing unwanted plants/weeds\n−Hand Punch Fertilizer – punch hole in plant bed and apply dry fertilizer with cup\n−Farm Truck Safety Cutouts- Cutting walk ways within plant beds every 50 feet\n−Watering In Plants- Walking beside plastic bed with water hose applying water to each plant hole, fill/plant any skips with plants provided.
Crops/Commodities: \npotatoes. \nThis job requires a minimum of 12 months of verifiable prior experience performing duties associated with operating and performing routine maintenance on GPS equipped potato farming equipment and/or 12 months of verifiable experience repairing and maintaining electrical systems and hardware of pivots. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. \n\nDriving tractors and planters, will plant, cultivate, and harvest potatoes. Workers will drive and operate one or more GPS equipped farm machines, such as tractors, Bottom Switch plows, Grimme planters, Windrowers, line equipment with holding tanks, dry brushers, grading tables, harvesters, pumps, tilling equipment, trucks, holding tanks, case-loaders, pivots, pilers, windrowers, Dammer Dykes (cultivators) and \nThis job requires a minimum of 12 months of verifiable prior experience performing duties associated with operating and performing routine maintenance on GPS equipped potato farming equipment and/or 12 months of verifiable experience repairing and maintaining electrical systems and hardware of pivots. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. \n\nDriving tractors and planters, will plant, cultivate, and harvest potatoes. Workers will drive and operate one or more GPS equipped farm machines, such as tractors, Bottom Switch plows, Grimme planters, Windrowers, line equipment with holding tanks, dry brushers, grading tables, harvesters, pumps, tilling equipment, trucks, holding tanks, case-loaders, pivots, pilers, windrowers, Dammer Dykes (cultivators) and other mechanized, electrically powered or motor-driven equipment, on farms or in farm equipment repair shops. Workers will operate the farm machinery, equipment and vehicles. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the equipment before driving the equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate equipment, with or without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors, other employees, crops, trees, facilities and equipment. Failure to comply with operating and safety standards may result in termination. This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality specifications must be rigorously adhered to. The equipment workers will be operating and maintaining is expensive and dangerous. Workers are expected to follow the employer's requests to not only prevent damage to the equipment, but to also prevent injuries to workers. Any equipment damaged by a worker's failure to follow instructions or damaged due to malice will be charged to the worker. \n \nWorkers may hitch soil conditioning implements, such as plow or harrow to tractor, and operate tractor and towed implement to furrow and grade soil. Workers will drive tractors and operate designated towed machines, such as drill or manure spreader, to plant, fertilize, dust and spray crops. Prepares harvesting machine by adjusting speeds of cutters, blowers and conveyors and height of cutting head or depth of digging blades according to type, height, weight and condition of crop being harvested, and contour of terrain. Attaches towed or mounted-type harvesting machine to tractor using hand tools or drives self-propelled harvesting machine to cut, pull up, dig, thresh, clean, chop, bag or bundle crops. \n \nWorkers will perform irrigation activities, including setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment. \n \nWhile the workers' main duties are associated with operation of the potato growing equipment, workers will also be required to perform routine maintenance on the equipment, as well.
Perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, harvest, grade and field pack cucumber, bell pepper, chili peppers, squash, tomotoes and cabbage by hand and machine. Operate farm vehicles, implements and mechanical equipment including tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plant and harvest crops. Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes and knives.\n\nTill soil. Work alongside tractor and trailer that are moving through the field while workers harvest produce. Workers will not break skin of tomato, drop tomato, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Clean, pack and load harvested tomatoes. Install or remove items required in plasticulture. Install and remove stakes, wire, netting and string. Grade, sort, wash, select, label, pack and load harvested products.\n\nBell peppers, chili peppers and cucumbers will be manually harvested by walking through the field and picking into baskets, carrying full baskets to dumpers riding on trailers moving alongside rows, and dumping into bins on the trailer. Pick squash by hand, field pack into boxes and load full boxes onto the back of trailers.\n\nCabbage will be cut at the base using a knife and either tossed into bins or a bulk wagon, or placed into boxes weighing approximately 50 lbs. in the field and loaded onto trailers. Pack cabbage on line. Determine maturity level of produce quickly and consistently by color, feel and size and apply correct defect tolerance, handling and harvest standards as instructed by supervisor.\n\nLay, tuck and/or remove plastic. Clean plastic of debris. Participate in irrigation activities including setting up, repairing, operating and maintaining drip and other irrigation equipment. Manually pull weeds, mow, weed eat and remove used stakes and string. Stake, string, tie, prune, sucker, thin and prune crops, as instructed by supervisor. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from ground or trellises. Train vines or plants on strings or trellises. Clean fields when harvest activities are complete. Till soil. Clear and maintain fields and irrigation ditches.\n\nWorkers in warehouse will stack, grade and pack produce into appropriate containers. Make boxes for produce. Operate forklifts for feeding packing line.\n\nWorkers must select harvestable produce based on correct size, maturity and quality. Workers will not break skin, damage, drop or bruise produce, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Workers must discard and destroy produce that has been in contact with blood. Any produce harvested or still on the plant that has been exposed to blood shall be discarded and destroyed. Workers must pass by or discard any produce that bears obvious signs of pest activity, fecal contamination, plant disease, or physical damage, or any produce that has been dropped on the ground. Workers must wash buckets, tools and equipment to avoid unnecessary introduction of soil into harvest containers and field bins, or onto tools or other harvesting equipment. Count and check harvested produce in the field. Repair fences and farm buildings. Workers with a valid license and doctor's certificate may transport other workers using approved vehicles and may be offered additional hours.\n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays.
Perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, harvest, grade and field pack a variety of peppers, eggplants, blueberries, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cucumber and oranges. Prune, trim, and maintain crop. Place and monitor bug traps. Spread plastic or other ground covering. Clean plastic by hand from ground upon removal. Till soil. Weed and thin plants. Transplant plants by hand. Stake, tie, trellis and/or prune plants, and set poles and wires for vine plants. Pick, cut, lift, or pull crops. Grade, size, and sort product according to color, shape, size, appearance, feel, and/or quality, in accordance with supervisor's instructions and field pack product. Discard damaged, defected and inferior products and foreign matter. Place product in bins/trays and other containers according to grade and mark grades on containers. Weigh products and record weight and/or grade. Take care to prevent damaging produce and plants. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, post-harvest cleanup activities and other manual tasks. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, knives, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Clean and maintain work areas. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\nEmployer attests that it has sent (or will promptly send) original surety bond to CNPC. \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time.\n\n\n Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur anytime throughout the season. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and different tasks on different days.\n\n\nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a two day introductory period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker at the conclusion of the introductory period if the worker's performance fails to satisfy the employer's reasonable expectations, or is otherwise unacceptable. Employer may terminate a worker for lawful job-related reasons, including but not limited to situations in which the worker: (1) Is repeatedly absent or tardy; (2) malingers or otherwise refuses, without cause, to perform the work as directed; (3) commits act(s) of misconduct or repeatedly violates the Work Rules; and/or (4) fails, after completing the two day introductory period, to perform work in a competent and skillful manner, consistent with the employer's reasonable expectations. Non-U.S. workers may be displaced as a result of one or more U.S. workers becoming available for the job during the employer's recruitment period. Job abandonment will be deemed to occur after five consecutive workdays of unexcused absences. Workers may not report for work under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Possession or use of illegal drugs or alcohol on company premises is prohibited and will be cause for immediate termination.
The job requires workers to supervise general farm laborers/harvesters or packing house laborers to ensure jobs are completed in accordance with company policies, report any issues to employer management, inspect product for quality, and use mobile device/tablet/computer system to track production.\n\nGeneral employment conditions and specific job requirements are detailed below. \n\nGeneral Conditions: Full Growing Season Commitment: Job offered requires the worker to be available for work every day that work is available for full Item 9 employment period. The worker agrees to be available for and perform the assigned work whenever work is available through the full employment period. \n\nWorker must be able to perform all duties within the job description in a safe manner adhering to all established field safety guidelines, practices, and procedures.\n\nWorker must possess requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat supervisory and general labor duties throughout workday. Worker must work at sustained pace and make good faith efforts to work efficiently as reasonable under working conditions. The supervisor position requires extensive walking and repetitive stooping to pass through fields throughout the day. \n\nField work begins at assigned time shortly after daylight. Worker may be required to work in the field or packinghouse when crops are wet with dew or rain, and should have suitable clothing for variable weather conditions. Raincoats will be provided by the employer.\n\nEmployer provides instructions and the supervisor will be responsible for communicating instructions to workers. Supervisor must review worker production to ensure that workers have conformed to specific instructions given for each day's work. \n\nThe worker may never ride on agricultural equipment not designed for riding purposes. All work-related injuries must be immediately reported to the Employer. \n\nEmployer conducts and worker must attend orientation on workplace rules, harvest methods, crop specific issues, policies and safety information. \n\nSupervisor must follow work rules listed below. Supervisor will be required to identify and address any work rule violations with workers in farm laborer/hand harvester position or packinghouse labors. \n\nField Supervisor: Worker will provide supervision to crew members in the farm laborer/hand harvester position. Workers will be assigned to harvest team members during harvest season. \n\nWorker must be familiar with employer food safety policies, and work rules for farm laborer/hand harvester position. Worker must identify and address any violations of employment policies.\n\nWorker will be required to clock farm laborers/hand-harvesters in and out, and track daily pieces rates.\n\nWorker will be required to report any farm laborer/hand harvester worker absences or separations from employment to the Employer immediately. \n\nWorker will be required to communicate with other supervisors and farm management. \n
Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate equipment used to harvest and haul tomatoes. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and drivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm, to storage and to packing facilities. Must be able to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving record and background. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Operate forklifts and equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the field. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 70 pounds. Must be able to work outdoors in dusty/dirty conditions, at extreme heat and cold inclement weather. Must be able to listen to, understand, and follow simple instructions of supervisors and dispatcher, and must be able to assist farm supervisor with monitoring and overseeing field operations. Must be able to work in fields where ants, snakes and poison ivy are encountered. The alternative work is truck maintenance and farm maintenance – including the repair, irrigation, vehicles and various equipment and tools used on the farm. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n\nOperador de equipos agrícolas para operar equipos utilizados para cosechar y transportar tomates. Debe tener el tipo correcto de licencia requerida por las leyes estatales y federales, y los conductores responsables del transporte de trabajadores deberán tener un Contratista de trabajo agrícola federal válido y vigente o un Registro de empleado de contratista de trabajo agrícola federal con autorización de conducción. Será responsable de operar los vehículos utilizados para mover los cultivos en la finca, a las instalaciones de almacenamiento y empaque. Debe poder operar de manera segura los autobuses que se utilizan para transportar trabajadores hacia y desde los lugares de trabajo. Debe poder proporcionar prueba de antecedentes y antecedentes de conducción sin accidentes. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Operar montacargas y equipos utilizados para mover suministros y equipos de cosecha en el campo. Mantener el equipo de cosecha. Debe poder alcanzar, doblar y levantar artículos que pesen 70 libras. Debe poder trabajar al aire libre en condiciones polvorientas / sucias, con calor extremo y frío inclemente. Debe poder escuchar, comprender y seguir instrucciones simples de los supervisores y el despachador, y debe poder ayudar al supervisor de la granja a monitorear y supervisar las operaciones de campo. Debe poder trabajar en campos donde se encuentran hormigas, serpientes y hiedra venenosa. El trabajo alternativo es el mantenimiento de camiones y el mantenimiento de la finca, incluida la reparación, riego, vehículos y diversos equipos y herramientas que se utilizan en la finca. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, harvest, grade and field pack cucumber, bell pepper, chili peppers, squash, tomotoes and cabbage by hand and machine. Operate farm vehicles, implements and mechanical equipment including tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plant and harvest crops. Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes and knives.\n\nTill soil. Work alongside tractor and trailer that are moving through the field while workers harvest produce. Workers will not break skin of tomato, drop tomato, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Clean, pack and load harvested tomatoes. Install or remove items required in plasticulture. Install and remove stakes, wire, netting and string. Grade, sort, wash, select, label, pack and load harvested products.\n\nBell peppers, chili peppers and cucumbers will be manually harvested by walking through the field and picking into baskets, carrying full baskets to dumpers riding on trailers moving alongside rows, and dumping into bins on the trailer. Pick squash by hand, field pack into boxes and load full boxes onto the back of trailers.\n\nCabbage will be cut at the base using a knife and either tossed into bins or a bulk wagon, or placed into boxes weighing approximately 50 lbs. in the field and loaded onto trailers. Pack cabbage on line. Determine maturity level of produce quickly and consistently by color, feel and size and apply correct defect tolerance, handling and harvest standards as instructed by supervisor.\n\nLay, tuck and/or remove plastic. Clean plastic of debris. Participate in irrigation activities including setting up, repairing, operating and maintaining drip and other irrigation equipment. Manually pull weeds, mow, weed eat and remove used stakes and string. Stake, string, tie, prune, sucker, thin and prune crops, as instructed by supervisor. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from ground or trellises. Train vines or plants on strings or trellises. Clean fields when harvest activities are complete. Till soil. Clear and maintain fields and irrigation ditches.\n\nWorkers in warehouse will stack, grade and pack produce into appropriate containers. Make boxes for produce. Operate forklifts for feeding packing line.\n\nWorkers must select harvestable produce based on correct size, maturity and quality. Workers will not break skin, damage, drop or bruise produce, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Workers must discard and destroy produce that has been in contact with blood. Any produce harvested or still on the plant that has been exposed to blood shall be discarded and destroyed. Workers must pass by or discard any produce that bears obvious signs of pest activity, fecal contamination, plant disease, or physical damage, or any produce that has been dropped on the ground. Workers must wash buckets, tools and equipment to avoid unnecessary introduction of soil into harvest containers and field bins, or onto tools or other harvesting equipment. Count and check harvested produce in the field. Repair fences and farm buildings. Workers with a valid license and doctor's certificate may transport other workers using approved vehicles and may be offered additional hours.\n\n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays.
Hand-harvest vine-ripened tomatoes. Grade, sort, and pack tomatoes grown on the farm. Hand-harvest and field pack (wash, sort, grade and box) squash and zucchini. May pick under-sized green tomatoes to strip field at the end of harvest. Pull weeds/chop: Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. May load and unload harvested tomatoes, squash and zucchini with a forklift or pallet jack. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. May supervise other workers. May operate and perform minor maintenance on farm vehicles or equipment. May drive farm truck, bus, tractor, all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on the farm. May drive bus or van over the road. Though not a hiring requirement, if a worker drives a company vehicle during the period of employment then at the time of operating the company vehicle the driver must possess a valid drivers license issued by a U.S. state or foreign equivalent and operate the company vehicle in accordance with the license restrictions and vehicle classifications applicable to that license. Prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-hire and is not a part of the interview process. Negative result required before starting work. Must be able to lift 75 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 75 lbs. in field. Must not hinder another workers productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n\nWorkers plant, cultivate, and hand-harvest vegetables. Workers may be required to remove weeds from plants using either a hoe, or by hand. Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately 60 lbs. and empty into field bin or load onto trailer. May be required to pull and discard culls as directed by supervisor. Workers must take care not to bruise or scar produce. Perform pre-harvest field activities such as laying plastic, planting, pruning, staking, hammering, tying, stuffing suckers, fixing stakes, covering and uncovering crops, irrigation and weeding. Perform post-harvest field activities such as pulling plastic, loading plastic into compactor, stake puller, cutting string and field clean up. Workers will stand on feet for long periods of time. Workers are required to work in fields when plants are wet with dew or rain. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from less than 40 degrees F to over 100 degrees F.\n\nWorker may drive bus or van over the road. Worker may pick up workers from different housing sites or pick up points and take them to assigned work site, and at the end of the work day take them back to the housing site or pick up point. Driving is not a different job and the driver performs harvesting duties when not driving. Make trips to grocery stores, laundromat, airport, governmental agencies, medical and dental offices. May move portable toilets between fields and re-stock sanitation supplies. Clean, fill and maintain water cooler dispenser with ice for workers. Employer assures that driver will be paid the offered wage rate for actual driving time, trips to the gas station, and time spent maintaining the vehicle.\n\nGrade, sort, and package produce grown on the farm. Workers may work in packing, shipping, maintenance, box or food safety departments. Workers stack, weigh and dump produce. Hand-fill bags with produce.
Harvester will harvest strawberries, cut/trim strawberry plants, planting, laying plastic and irrigation. Harvester will perform general farm labor, lay and pull drip, connect/disconnect drip, repair drip. \nLa cosechadora cosechar fresas, cortar / podar plantas de fresa, plantar, colocar plstico e irrigacin. La cosechadora realizar el trabajo agrcola general, colocar y extraer el goteo, conectar / desconectar el goteo, reparar el goteo.
Harvest sweet corn and field care. Some of the job duties include the following: tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Must be able to operate motorized farm equipment on the farm. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCosecha de maíz dulce y cuidado del campo. Algunas de las tareas del trabajo incluyen las siguientes: atar plantas, estacar plantas, podar plantas, limpiar emisores de goteo y microchorros, quitar líneas de goteo de plástico, quitar plantas muertas y quitar malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. Debe poder operar equipos agrícolas motorizados en la granja. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras. a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras. en campo El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
The job description is for a farmworker/groom for a Thoroughbred horse farm ', NACIS code 711219, SOC code 45-0000, ONET code 45-2093 Farmworkers, farm, ranch. The occupational Title is Farmworker Livestock code 410.664.010 with SVP 4.\nThe job includes feeding, watering, cleaning stalls, grooming, bathing, giving medications, bandaging, detecting illness and injuries, walking horses and turning horses out. Must be able to lift 100 lbs. Some mowing, fence fixing and weed eating.
Workers must be able to plant, cultivate (staking and tying) Harvest, do quality control and pack; variety of peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, tomatoes, blueberries, blackberries, bell peppers, greens, squash, watermelon and cantaloupe. Packing House is part of the farm. Prune take cuttings for propagation, load trucks, repair drip irrigation, clean greenhouse, spray, nursery work, irrigation work, weed, dig ditches, daily farm maintenance, clean production areas and facilities. Plant produce by hand placing into pre-dug holes along rows. Pick developed peppers or tomatoes from bush and place into bucket, making sure that plant is picked clean of all peppers or tomatoes of correct size and maturity. When bucket is full, carry to dumper on truck that is moving through rows alongside workers, being careful not to bruise peppers. Pick developed cucumbers and place into bucket, making sure that the plant is picked clean of cucumbers of correct size and maturity. When bucket is full, worker will carry to dumper on truck that is moving through rows alongside workers being careful not to bruise cucumbers. Cut squash or eggplant using a knife and place into bucket, making sure that squash or eggplant is picked clean of correct size and maturity. When bucket is full, carry to dumper on truck moving through rows alongside workers. Cut greens with knife, remove any discolored or defective leaves, place bands around bundles and put into box in field. When box is full, carry to truck that is moving through rows alongside workers and receive a new box. Make sure that plants are picked clean of all produce of correct size and maturity according to supervisor’s instructions being careful not to bruise or damage produce. Walk through assigned row while bending and reaching to pick ripe blueberries by hand without bruising or damaging the fruit or bush. Workers must use care to pick bushes clean of all berries of the correct color and size (at least 95%), as instructed by their supervisor. Green berries must not be picked. When picking blueberries, workers will carefully place picked berries into buckets that are strapped around their waists. Once all buckets are full, workers will carry buckets to the trailer that is moving through the field. Buckets will then be emptied into trays that are inspected for quality and weighed. Inform managers of crop progress. Workers will Stake and tie. Participate in irrigation activities. Set up and operate irrigation equipment. Remove stakes, string, and plastic. Dig ditches. Clean and maintain work areas. Operate, repair, clean and maintain farm equipment and vehicles. Assist with Good Agricultural Practices policies. Workers are expected to possess the skill work in the production of crops listed. The introductory period for all work and to familiarize workers with job specifications and to demonstrate proper harvest methods and other crop specific issues. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by the supervisor. Workers must take care to handle tools, equipment and produce in a manner to avoid injury or damage. The employer will comply with all federal, state, and local safety requirements. Operational specifications can change during the season due to crop or market condition. Workers will be expected to conform to the specific instructions given for each day’s work. Instructions and general supervision will be provided by the employer or a designated employee. Workers will have close supervision to insure adherence to instructions. Work will be closely monitored and reviewed for quality. Daily individual work assignments, crew assignments and location of work will be made by the employer or designated employees as the needs of the operation dictate. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given and different tasks on different days. Workers may transport the crop to the packing house which is part of the farms. Workers with driving authorizations /valid driver’s license ma
Cultivate, harvest and pack vegetable crops; and, field care. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove vegetables from plants using care to not bruise or damage the vegetables. Tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCultivar, cosechar y empacar cultivos de hortalizas; y cuidado de campo. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especificado por el empleador y retirarán los vegetales de las plantas teniendo cuidado de no magullar ni dañar los vegetales. Amarre las plantas, estaque las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y la eliminación de malezas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Cultivate and transplant vegetable plants, flowering plants and herb seedlings and cuttings within a seedling line. Operate tractors, equipment, vehicles and machinery. Load and unload racks. Move, load and unload greenhouse grown plants. Haul and spread fill-sand to maintain greenhouse floors, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels. Push and pull carts. Tag trays. Work on seedling/propagation line. Sit down flats and get up flats for delivery. Work within an assembly line. Perform nursery sanitation duties including picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and sweeping floors. Operate equipment including tractors, forklifts, skidsteers, machinery, and soil handling equipment. Work is very fast paced during the busy season. Clean work areas, sanitize, and maintain grounds, greenhouses, warehouse, and landscaping. Apply pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. Water plants. \n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time.\n\n\n Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur anytime throughout the season. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and different tasks on different days.\n\n\nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a two day introductory period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker at the conclusion of the introductory period if the worker's performance fails to satisfy the employer's reasonable expectations, or is otherwise unacceptable. Employer may terminate a worker for lawful job-related reasons, including but not limited to situations in which the worker: (1) Is repeatedly absent or tardy; (2) malingers or otherwise refuses, without cause, to perform the work as directed; (3) commits act(s) of misconduct or repeatedly violates the Work Rules; and/or (4) fails, after completing the two day introductory period, to perform work in a competent and skillful manner, consistent with the employer's reasonable expectations. Non-U.S. workers may be displaced as a result of one or more U.S. workers becoming available for the job during the employer's recruitment period. Job abandonment will be deemed to occur after five consecutive workdays of unexcused absences. Workers may not report for work under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Possession or use of illegal drugs or alcohol on company premises is prohibited and will be cause for immediate termination. Regardless of whether the employer requires a background check as a condition of employment, the employer may terminate for cause, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, any worker found during the period of employment to have a criminal conviction record or status as a registered sex offender that the employer reasonably believes will endanger the safety or welfare of other workers, company staff, customers, or the public at large.
Crops/Commodities: \nPotted Flowering and Tropical Plants. \nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Set up growing structures, including frost protection and sun shade netting, irrigation lines and nozzles, plant growing tables, carts and weed control mats. Build/repair fences. Work on production line. Grade, size, sort, and pack product. Bunch/bundle product pursuant to supervisor instructions.\n\nFill bins/trays and other containers with product, level bins, and prepare product for shipment to market or storage. Perform quality control on inbound/outbound loads. Follow quality control standards and production procedures. Handle product carefully to prevent damage. \n\nLift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Palletize and stack boxes/containers. Use power equipment including, but not limited, to: fork lifts, conveyor belts, and cooling equipment/refrigeration units. Operate equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with regular maintenance on equipment. Clean/sanitize work station and equipment. \nPrepare fields/soil for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using tractor, mattocks, brush hooks and/or axes. Plant, cultivate, harvest, and maintain nursery/greenhouse plants, including but not limited to potted flowers and tropical plants, and hanging baskets in condition for shipping and sale to customers. Pot seedlings and bulbs. Attach hangers to baskets and hang throughout seasonal holding houses. Move containerized plants using rolling carts. Prepare plants for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Dig plants. Drum lacing and quarter lacing. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twine and/or staples. Crimp wire baskets. Products must be handled carefully to prevent damage. \n\nWork is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 6 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. \n\nWorkers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may transport other workers.\n\nPersons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. \n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors.
Before employment begins, all workers will be trained on Lady Moon Farms’ policies and processes which includes internal procedures, progressive discipline, food safety protocols, and handling of produce. Workers task include planting transplants by hand into plastic rows, weeding by hand, hoeing, harvesting and bunching greens including kales, collards, chards, parsleys, beets, dandelions, mustards, and lettuce, harvesting warm veg items including tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, squash, cucumbers, jalapenos, and watermelons. These warm vegetable items are transported to the packinghouse and will be packed into shipping boxes in the packinghouse. Other field skills include pulling up plastic and staking/tying tomatoes. Some labor in the packinghouse will be required and this would be grading and packing the above listed warm vegetables into boxes for shipment. Workers will need to have a minimum 3 months prior experience with general farming and harvesting and/or packing vegetables. Some workers who have experience driving tractors may be asked to transport harvest wagons from one field to another. Workers will work with general farming hand tools such as rakes, long handled hoes, shovels, etc. Workers may also need to clean and disinfect the houses and buses. \n\nAntes de que comience el empleo, todos los trabajadores recibirán capacitación sobre las políticas y los procesos de Lady Moon Farms, que incluyen procedimientos internos, la disciplina progresiva, protocolos de seguridad alimenticia y la manipulación de productos. Las tareas de los trabajadores incluyen hacer trasplantes a mano en hileras de plástico, desyerbar a mano, cosechar y prensar verduras como coles, acelgas, perejiles, remolachas, dientes de león, mostazas, lechuga, tomates, berenjenas, pimientos, calabazas, jalapeños y sandías. Estos artículos se transportan a la empacadora y se empaquetan en cajas de envío. Otras habilidades de campo incluyen tirar plásticos y estacar/atar tomates. Se requerirá algo de mano de obra en la empacadora, que sería clasificar y empacar las verduras indicadas en cajas para enviarlas. Los trabajadores deberán tener un mínimo de 3 meses de experiencia previa en agricultura general, cosecha y/o empaque de verduras. Algunos trabajadores con experiencia en el manejo de tractores podrían tener que transportar carros de cosecha de un campo a otro. Los trabajadores completarán sus tareas con herramientas agrícolas manuales como rastrillos, azas de mango largo, palas, etc. Los trabajadores podrían necesitar limpiar y desinfectar las casas y los autobuses.
Plant, cultivate and harvest bell pepper & specialty pepper, zucchini, squash & eggplant, green beans, watermelon, sugar cane, rice, lettuce, Asian leafy vegetables & leafy vegetables, herbs, radishes, celery, sweet corn. Land preparation, minor maintenance, weeding, crop maintenance, miscellaneous clean up, hauling produce or any other farm related material including mill mud. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \n\nPlante, cultive y coseche pimiento morrón y pimiento especial, calabacín, calabaza y berenjena, judías verdes, sandía, caña de azúcar, arroz, lechuga, verduras de hoja asiática y verduras de hoja, hierbas, rábanos, apio, maíz dulce. Preparación de la tierra, mantenimiento menor, deshierbe, mantenimiento de cultivos, limpieza miscelánea, transporte de productos o cualquier otro material relacionado con la granja, incluido el lodo del molino. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Debe ser capaz de levantar 50 libras. a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras. en campo El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate equipment used to harvest tomatoes and watermelons. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and drivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Must be able to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving record and background. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Operate forklifts and equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the field. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 50 pounds. Must be able to work outdoors in dusty/dirty conditions, at extreme heat and cold inclement weather. Must be able to listen to, understand, and follow simple instructions of supervisors and dispatcher. Must be able to work in fields where ants, snakes and poison ivy are encountered. The alternative work is truck maintenance and farm maintenance – including the repair, irrigation, vehicles and various equipment and tools used on the farm. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n\nOperador de equipos agrícolas para operar equipos utilizados para cosechar tomates y sandías. Debe tener el tipo correcto de licencia requerida por las leyes estatales y federales, y los conductores responsables del transporte de trabajadores deberán tener un Contratista de trabajo agrícola federal válido y vigente o un Registro de empleado de contratista de trabajo agrícola federal con autorización de conducción. Será responsable de operar los vehículos utilizados para mover cultivos en la finca. Debe poder operar de manera segura los autobuses que se utilizan para transportar trabajadores hacia y desde los lugares de trabajo. Debe ser capaz de proporcionar prueba de antecedentes y antecedentes de conducción sin accidentes. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Operar montacargas y equipos utilizados para mover suministros y equipos de cosecha en el campo. Mantener el equipo de cosecha. Debe poder alcanzar, doblar y levantar artículos que pesen 50 libras. Debe poder trabajar al aire libre en condiciones polvorientas / sucias, con calor extremo y frío inclemente. Debe poder escuchar, comprender y seguir instrucciones simples de supervisores y despachadores. Debe poder trabajar en campos donde se encuentran hormigas, serpientes y hiedra venenosa. El trabajo alternativo es el mantenimiento de camiones y el mantenimiento de la finca, incluida la reparación, riego, vehículos y diversos equipos y herramientas que se utilizan en la finca. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, harvesting of passion fruit. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the crops grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.\n\nCrops Contained in Request: Passion Fruit \n\nWorkers may perform the following job duties at various points during the duration of the contract.\n\nTree Fruit (Passion Fruit) General Info\nWorkers will perform various tasks involved in planting, cultivating, and harvesting fruit, according to supervisor’s instructions. Workers may till soil, plant stock, pick up rocks/roots/debris, and do pruning activities using a variety of non-mechanical tools. Workers will also perform irrigation work and assist with deer repellent.\n\nDuties may include training of vines and trees, removing blossoms to improve yield and quality, aid in irrigation duties, aid in minor repair of wooden fruit containers and thin and/or harvest fruit. Workers will harvest fruit according to color, size and degree of maturity as specified by supervisor and place into baskets taking the extra time, care and effort not to bruise or scar the fruit. Workers may carry full containers weighing approximately 50 lbs. to truck or trailer and stack according to supervisor’s specifications. Fruit thinners will thin fruit tree using hands to remove excess fruit, taking care to walk around entire tree before moving onto next. Workers will be required to stay on their assigned row. \n\nTree Pruning\nWhile pruning trees, workers will receive proper tools for the particular job, i.e. saw, pruners, chain saws, loppers and hand snips. These tools will be returned to the employer at the end of the task. The cost of tools destroyed maliciously or lost carelessly will be deducted from worker's wages. Workers will be assigned rows of trees and must prune each tree according to the size of the tree and the need for the pruning. Workers must take care not to damage limbs that are not being pruned. Workers must prune trees according to the above referenced requirements. In some instances, pruning will be done from a 16-foot ladder weighing up to 30 lbs. All workers must be able to lift and carry ladder, as well as work from the top of the ladder. Workers must remove all resulting materials from the tree rendered from performing pruning tasks. When pruning is complete on each tree, each worker is required to rake and scatter the resulting brush in the center of the tractor/equipment middles.\n\nWhen pruning just about just about any tree, you always want to prune out suckers, stubs or broken branches, downward growing branches, rubbing or crisscrossing branches, upward growing interior branches, competing leaders, narrow crotches and wholrs.\n\nTree Thinning\nWorkers will start with one branch and work systematically around the tree, leaving the largest and healthiest fruit (looking for fruit that is poorly developed, insect damaged, or with scabs, and scars). For clusters, select the smallest least healthy fruit and thin to one or two fruits. Clusters growing under the branch remove, as these will not get the sunlight and airflow required for developing a quality fruit. \n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time.Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will fulfill the following duties to harvest and maintain crops:\n\nLay Plastic (Drip): Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, cleanout fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout the field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nLay Plastic(Seep): Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50 lbs. on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout the field. Worker is to cut plastic at each hundred foot marked area to create a walkway by slicing with shovels and tuck plastic after removing excess dirt to create walkways for harvest. Worker is required to dig a spillway at each row designated; by the removal of dirt and forming a plastic barrier with rolls of plastic to create a spillage for water to drain. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nV DITCHES -End & Row Cutting:Worker is to cut plastic at each hundred foot marked area to create a walkway by slicing with shovel and tuck plastic after removing excess dirt to create walkways for harvest. Worker is required to dig a spillway at each row designated; by the removal of dirt and forming a plastic barrier with rolls of plastic to create a spillage for water to drain. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout the field.\nShovel Work (End): Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row or general-shovel work on the farm.\n
Cultivate and harvest watermelons; and, field care. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCultivar y cosechar sandías; y cuidado de campo. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency.\n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency.\n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.\n
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Workers may not leave trash, or other discarded items in work areas or vehicles but must dispose of such items in provided receptacles. Workers must wash hands with soap and water after all bathroom and meal breaks. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. \n\nSuccessful applicants will be subject to a trial period of up to 2 days during which their performance of required tasks will be evaluated. If the performance is not acceptable to the employer in its sole discretion the worker will be terminated. \n\nSanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations.\n\nCrops Cucumbers, Bell Peppers, Egg Plant and Squash and Onions. Workers will plant, cultivate, harvest and pack crops. Workers will aid in irrigation and operate farm equipment such as tractors. Workers will install and uninstall plastic. \n\nCucumber – Plant, cultivate and harvest cucumbers, lay plastic, cutting ditches, riding the plastic machine to collect and feed, walk behind the plastic machine and cut plastic at each ditch, tuck plastic, cleaning up and picking up/burning trash, handling food safety-bucket/general cleaning, weeding, picking, planting, plastic repair, pull plastic, reset, complete weather related horticultural/cultivation tasks, clean beds, cover cloth labor, driving field truck, driving tractor, applying fertilizer, driving semi-truck, maintain irrigation, maintain water and pack at packing house.\n\nSquash and Egg Plant - Lay plastic, cutting ditches, riding the plastic machine to collect and feed, walk behind the plastic machine and cut plastic at each ditch, tuck plastic, cleaning and picking up/burning trash, handling food safety-bucket/general cleaning, weeding, picking, planting, field packing, plastic repair, pull plastic, reset, complete weather related horticultural/cultivation tasks, clean beds, cover cloth labor, driving field truck, driving tractor, applying fertilizer, driving semi-truck, maintain irrigation, maintain water and pack at packing house.\n\nBell Peppers -Lay plastic, cutting ditches, riding the plastic machine to collect, and feed, walk behind the plastic machine and cut plastic at each ditch, tuck plastic and picking up/burning trash, handling food safety-bucket/general cleaning, weeding, picking, planting, field packing, plastic repair, pull plastic, reset, complete weather related horticultural/cultivation tasks, clean beds. Workers will install/remove cover-cloths, drive field trucks, drive tractors, apply fertilizer, drive semi-truck, maintain irrigation, maintain water and pack at packing house.\n\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time.\n\nPackinghouse Task: Grading, Packing, box making, cleaning, preform sanitation procedures, stacking, operating palletizer equipment, record keeping, hand jack and forklift operation, dumping bins, strapping, repacking, and stickering. \n\nGrading: While standing or sitting workers will sort out produce that does not pass grade by pulling the product off the line with hands their hands and toss the produce into the designated location on line. This produce will then been placed into the discharge storage area. In order to preform this task workers must have good vision and proficient dexerity.\n\nBox Making: The workers will be required to use their hands to remove cardboard material from the staging area to fold into a box that will hold produce. If the workers uses a Box Machine, the worker will place the cardboard in a designated area of the machine to make produce boxes. Using an upward and downward motion to lift and position full and empty pallets as instructed. The workers will move and position a pallet jack under a pallet to place in a designated location.\n\nStacking: Workers are required to pick up a produce box (weighing approximately 25 lbs.) from the line, place it onto a pallet, and organize the boxes in the pattern and height as instructed. After the pallet is filled, the pallet will be placed in the designated area, retrieve an empty pallet, and repeat the process. \n\nOperate Palletizer: The workers are required to operate machines under the direction of company personnel. Company personnel will give specific instructions on lever usage and process completion. The workers will also perform maintenance to ensure machines are operating efficiently.\n\nPallet Hand Jack: Workers will position a pallet jack under the pallet and manipulate hand once positioned, with an upward and downward motion (up and down) lifting position to move and place pallets (full or empty) in designated areas.\n\nForklift Operator: The forklift operator will be required to undergo forklift training before operating a forklift. Upon certification the operator, will move produce, pallets, box materials, and other items as directed by the company. Workers will preform maintenance and safety check on forklifts.\n\nDump Operator: The workers are required to operate machine as directed by company personnel. Company personnel will give specific instructions on lever usage and process completion. The workers will also perform maintenance to ensure machines are operating efficiently.\n\nStrapping or Wrapping Produce: Workers will use a wrapping material to surround produce, keeping produce in place to prevent sifting while shipped.\n\nRepacking: Workers will regrade produce from produce box and place produce into a different container/produce box. \n\nStickering: Workers will place a sticker on produce/boxes as directed by employer. \n\nGeneral Cleaning/Sanitation Procedure: The worker is required to clean produce machines with cleaning tools, spray and wipe down designated areas, and sweep floors.\n\nGeneral Specifications and Physical Requirements of the Job:\nThe majority of the workday is spent on one?s feet, constantly in movement. Workers are rarely in one place for any period of time. All of the packing is done on the packing facility located on the farm, indicated as secondary agriculture under the FLSA definition of agriculture. Workers must be able to stand, walk, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, lift and carry items weighing in range from 5 to 25 pounds during the course of performing all required job specifications.
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Workers must work at a sustained (continuing for an extended period of time without interruption), vigorous pace (quick and steady) and make bona fide efforts (made in earnest intent) to work efficiently (performing or functions in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort) and consistently (same way for a long time) that are reasonable under the climatic and other working conditions, Workers may not leave trash, or other discarded items in work areas or vehicles but must dispose of such items in provided receptacles. Workers must wash hands with soap and water after all bathroom and meal breaks. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. \n\nDUE TO COVID-19 WORKERS WILL HAVE THEIR TEMPERATURES TESTED DAILY. WHEN WORKERS ARE UNABLE TO SOCIALLY DISTANCE (BE 6 FEET APART) THEY ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR FACE COVERING. THIS INCLUDES WHILE RIDING ON THE BUS TO AND FROM WORK. WORKERS CAUGHT NOT FOLLOWING THESE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE DISCIPLINED AND REPEATED OFFENSES WILL BE CAUSE FOR TERMINATION. \n \nCitrus Harvest: Following their supervisor’s instructions, the worker will wear a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18-22 foot ladder from the truck or trailer to their assigned grove. Worker will position their ladder against desired tree according to their supervisor’s instructions. Ladder must be in secured position to prevent slipping, falling, and injury to themselves or other workers. Workers must take care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit or interfere with other workers. Workers will remove fruit from the tree and place into their sack. When their sack is full workers will then empty their sack into fruit container located in the grove. Full sacks weight between 80 – 100 lbs, depending on fruit size, condition, and variety. Workers will then repeat until the entire tree is picked. Workers must be physically able to perform duties onto ladders, making repeated trips safely up and down the ladders carrying a full sack of fruit. \n\nIncidental Duties: Some workers may be requested to be working crew leaders. These workers will be chosen based on several factors including the workers performance and tenure. Properly licensed workers may assist in transporting fellow workers. May operate citrus equipment. Workers may assist in grove maintenance. \n\nA trained worker is required to harvest 6 tubs of 10 boxes each workday. Failure to meet this standard could result in disciplinary action including termination. \n\nFarm, Field, and Shed Sanitation: All workers will be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping floors and other farm, and shed sanitation duties\n\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time-to-time and may include all of the following job specifications: \n \nHarvesting of Tomatoes (Round, Roma, Plum piece): Using a 24-quart bucket, remove mature tomatoes from the plant with both hands (also remove calyx and stem from tomato) and place into the bucket. Repeat the process on each plant until the tomato bucket is full. Then lift the bucket and place on your shoulder, stand upright, and walk at a brisk pace until you reach the truck with bins. Lift the bucket from your shoulder with both hands, and give it to the person next the bin. The person next to the bin dumps the tomatoes into the bin and returns the bucket with a ticket in it. Save the ticket to keep a count of how many buckets you pick. Repeat process. \n\nPlastic: Workers will lay and repair plastic/ends and paint walkways.\n \nPull Plastic and cut Strins: workers will remove plastic drip tape and string from plant bed or field, gather plastic, drip tape and string to the ends of the field or walkways. \n \nPlanting (hourly): Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n \nReplanting (hourly): When needed, replanting will require employees to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows. \n \nIrrigation installation & removal (hourly): Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Shoveling spigots.
Citrus Harvesting: Harvesting citrus fruit by hand under supervisor’s instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over his shoulder and carry an 18’ to 20’ ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A full loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock of fruit or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take full sack to fruit tub.\nQualified employers may be required to drive agriculture machinery. \nBlueberry Harvesting: by hand, the worker will walk down the berry field rows where the blueberry will be harvested. The worker will place a 1 gallon picking bucket with a strap over his/her shoulder from the field truck to the particular area of the field where the fruit will be harvested. The 1 gallon picking bucket is a canvas, equipped with a shoulder strap for support. Worker positions him/herself in front of the berry tree and will remove the fruit from the tree and place into the 1 gallon picking bucket taking care not to break any limbs, damage the tree, or knock off the fruit. When the 1 gallon picking bucket is full the worker will take it to the truck at the end of the row where the worker will unload the fruit into a small tub or container.\nField Maintenance: workers will tie, stake and prune plants, clean micro jets, assist with irrigation maintenance or installation and remove plastic drip lines, using hands or a hoe workers will remove dead plants and weeds.\n\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties with out charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
The farm work position includes duties associated farm labor tasks for production of tomatoes. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds along with time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes adherence to instruction given in regard to proper procedures & technics based on operation of the machinery to be used to complete each task. \n\n− Harvesting tomatoes- Using a 24 quart bucket the employee will hand pick “harvest” mature tomatoes from the plant by twisting the fruit from the vine (also remove calyz and stem from tomato) and place fruit into the bucket. The types of tomatoes to harvest will be rounds, romas, cherries, and grapes. Harvesting process will be repeated until the tomato bucket is full. The harvester will lift the bucket and place on shoulder and stand upright. The harvester will walk the filled bucket at a brisk pace to the field truck and toss filled buckets (by lifting bucket from their shoulder with both hands) to the harvest dumper. The harvester will receive a token for each filled bucket of tomatoes. Tokens will serve as a count of buckets harvested. Repeat process.   \n− Harvest Dumper-Harvest dumper is required to stand on the back of a flatbed truck and catch buckets of tomatoes (approximately 34 lbs).  The dumper will empty the contents of the bucket into various types of harvesting containers/trays that are stacked on pallets on the bed of the truck. Dumper will place a token inside the bucket and return empty bucket back to the harvester on the ground. The harvest dumper will serve as quality control and ensure that tomato in buckets meets the company’s quality standard. The dumper will monitor the cleanliness of the containers/trays and remove any addition vegetation from produce inside the harvest containers/trays and toss unwanted vegetation onto the ground. As containers/trays reach full capacity, the harvest dumper will stack additional empty containers on top of the full container and continue with the process.\n− Vine Ripe Tomato Harvester (Rounds, Roma)-Using a 15.3 quart harvesting bucket the employee will hand pick “harvest” tomatoes of a specified maturity & color and place fruit into the harvesting bucket. The employee will then carry fully harvested bucket to a parked box truck at the field pathway. Employee will exchange filled bucket for another empty bucket and repeat the process. \n− Vine Ripe Tomato Grader (Rounds, Roma)-While in the field employee will sort harvested tomato buckets and transfer fruit to another container based on maturity, color, shape and size. \n− Planting (by hand) – Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and assuring that plants are planted at the center of pre punched plant hole at proper depth. Return empty plant trays to truck/trailer. (No empty trays to be left in field)\n− Daily Work-Misc. farm tasks\n− Plastic Laying/Repair – Ride plastic machine and change out drip tape and plastic roles (weight +/- 100 lbs.) with 2 people. Shovel dirt on row ends (bury). Ride fertilizer hopper and maintain flow of fertilizer with shovel. \n− Mark and Measure – walk fields to mark 100’ intervals with spray paint \n− Irrigation Hook-up/Installation/Drainage – use shovel to make shallow trench to connect irrigation pipe or redirect water \n− Planting (Machine)- Load planter with plant trays and ride or walk behind planter to assure plants are at center of hole, proper depth, and no skips.\n− Replant- Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and replanting weak, dead, or missing plants at proper depth\n− Stake Repair – carry stakes (+/- 40’) to repair/replace areas with broken stakes, and/or tie broken stake to a new one\n− Mopping Bed Top- Mopping top of beds \n− Rouging plants/weeds- removing unwanted plants/weeds\n− Hand Punch Fertilizer – punch hole in plant bed and apply dry fertilizer with cup\n
To harvest watermelon by hand, the worker will walk down the watermelon field rows where the watermelon will be harvested. The worker will first cut the vine off the watermelon with a small knife and turn the watermelon over. The worker will bend over harvesting the ripe watermelon which can vary in weight from 20 lbs to 60 lbs from the ground and tossing the watermelon to the worker next to him and this worker will toss the watermelon to the next worker and so on, until the watermelon is then tossed to the person inside the bus who will place the watermelon on the floor. Packing: When the bus is full, it will be taken to the packing house where the workers will unload the watermelon and put it in a conveyer belt that will transport the watermelon into the packing house where it will be separated by size, labeled and packed. \n\n(Note: The packing house is located inside the Farm and more than 50% of the product processed is produced by the Fixed Site Employer.)\n\nGeneral Maintenance: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on work site property, on structures utilized in the work site operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair. \n\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools. \n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.\n\n\n
Attend to live horses. Duties include feed, water, bathe, exercise, walk and load horses. Clean and maintain stalls. Working split shift. Break area provided.
Cultivate and transplant vegetable, flower and herb seedlings and cuttings within a seedling line. Load and unload racks. Prepare soil and growth media. Plant, spray, weed, and water plants, using hand tools and gardening tools. Cut and transplant seedlings and cuttings. Feel plants' leaves and note coloring to detect presence of insects or disease. Inspect plants and bud ties to assess quality. Move, load and unload greenhouse grown plants. Apply pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. Push and pull carts. Work within an assembly line. Work is very fast paced during the busy season. Tag trays. Work on seedling line. Haul and spread fill-sand to maintain greenhouse floors, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels. Operate tractors and machinery to fertilize, cultivate or spray. May maintain and repair nursery buildings. Sit down seed flats and get up seed flats for delivery. Fold and staple corrugated forms to make boxes used for packing horticultural products. Clean work areas, sanitize, and maintain grounds, greenhouses, warehouse, and landscaping. Perform nursery sanitation duties including picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and sweeping floors. Activities may include loading, unloading carts, watering, and working on the production line. Workers who have a valid driver's license and doctor's certificate may drive vehicles to transport workers and may be offered additional hours. Workers may be subject to drug testing if they have been involved in a reportable accident or upon reasonable suspicion that drug use may be impacting job performance. Any drug test will be conducted post-hire at the employer's expense and is not part of the hiring process.\n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honeybees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer may terminate a worker for lawful job-related reasons, including but not limited to situations in which the worker: (1) Is repeatedly absent or tardy; (2) malingers or otherwise refuses, without cause, to perform the work as directed; (3) commits act(s) of misconduct or repeatedly violates the Work Rules; and/or (4) fails, after completing the two day introductory period, to perform work in a competent and skillful manner, consistent with the employer's reasonable expectation.\n\nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a workers Sabbath or federal holiday. Additional hours are voluntary. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time. \n\nWorkers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur anytime throughout the season. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and different tasks on different days. \n\nJob abandonment will be deemed to occur after five consecutive workdays of unexcused absences. Workers may not report for work under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Possession or use of illegal drugs or alcohol on company premises is prohibited and will be cause for immediate termination. Regardless of whether the employer requires a background check as a condition of emplo
Cultivate and transplant vegetable, flower and herb seedlings and cuttings within an assembly line. Prepare soil and growth media. Plant, spray, weed, and water plants, using hand tools and gardening tools. Monitor plants leaves and coloring to detect presence of insects or disease. Inspect plants and bud ties to assess quality at all stages of production. Move, load and unload greenhouse grown plants. Apply pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers. Work is very fast paced during the busy season. Haul and spread fill-sand to maintain greenhouse floors using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels. \n\nOperate tractors and machinery to fertilize, cultivate or spray. Operate numerous hand-held and motorized equipment in the performance of duties for growing and moving plants and materials from warehouse, greenhouses, and docks, as well as those needed for maintenance and repairs. May maintain and repair nursery buildings. Sit down and get up seed flats for delivery. Clean work areas, sanitize, and maintain grounds, greenhouses, warehouse. Perform nursey sanitation duties including picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and sweeping floors. \n\nAdhering to health and safety practices. Complying with all company policies regarding attendance and punctuality. Workers who have a valid driver's license and doctor's certificate may driver vehicles to transport workers and may be offered additional hours. Drug and alcohol testing may be conducted post-hire at the employer's expense and is not part of the interview process. Drug and alcohol testing will be mandatory when there is reasonable suspicion of impairment and/or a reportable work accident. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honeybees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason. Employer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a workers Sabbath or federal holidays. Workers must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time.
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Workers may not leave trash, or other discarded items in work areas or vehicles but must dispose of such items in provided receptacles. Workers must wash hands with soap and water after all bathroom and meal breaks. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. \n\nCitrus Harvest: Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. The company may conduct background checks on all new applicants at the employer’s expense. CITRUS –Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18' to 22' ladder from the field truck to the specific area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition, and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When picking sack is full, take full sack to fruit container located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into container. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be physically able to harvest citrus, fill his assigned sacks, and transport it to the tub. The employee must be able to climb ladders with extra weight of the sack. The worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands.\n\nGeneral Specifications and Physical Requirements of the Job: Applicants must be 18 years or older. All tools, supplies, and equipment will be provided at no cost to the workers. Workers may be offered more than the standard hours of work in a single workday. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Hours of work may increase/decrease depending on crop yield and or weather and can occur at any time throughout the season. The majority of the workday is spent on one’s feet and outdoors. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to climb, stand, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, and lift. The lifting requirement is 100 lbs. Work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold and other natural elements. Worker must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight and weather conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required job duties. Workers should come prepared wearing appropriate clothing and footwear for the environmental and working conditions described. No cell phone usage during working hours. Cell phone can only be used during breaks, emergencies and to communicate with supervisor. Hours and days of work may vary due to weather conditions. If the employee is unable or unfit to harvest one tub per hour after the 14-day pretrial, the employee will receive warnings, hours may be reduced to the minimum allowed in the certified petition or terminated.\n\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency.\n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.\n
The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools. \n\nHarvesting Watermelons (cutting): Workers are required to grade & cut, or pull product from plants, and place it on the side of the row way.\n\nHarvesting Watermelons (field loading) Workers will be required to pickup melons from row ways and pitch to harvesting equipment, which will be received by the workers on the harvest equipment, then stacked and placed until the equipment is filled to the required capacity. \n\nPacking produce (in field) The worker will be required to make cardboard bins or boxes, unload harvest equipment, and place on line. Grade watermelons, & sticker each melon. Clean up harvest packing area. Move field harvest equipment on farm. All of the packing is done on the field.\n
Crops/Commodities: \nsweet corn and green beans. \nSemi-truck Driver duties:\n\n• Requires a valid Class A Commercial Driver's License.\n• Requires successful completion of drug screening.\n• Requires ability to follow directions from a supervisor.\n• Requires ability to interact effectively with co-workers.\n• Requires ability to understand and comply with posted work rules and procedures.\n• Requires ability to sit and ride in a vehicle for extended periods of time.\n• Majority of work is performed in various fields throughout the farm.\n• Work requires exposure to all temperature and weather extremes, loud noises, moving equipment, wetness, and dust.\n• Ensure trailer hitch is properly and securely attached to the tractor unit.\n• Transport produce from the field to the packing house.\n• Communicate with dispatch as needed.\n• Perform inspections of your vehicle prior to and following each trip.\n• Always ensure your vehicle is kept clean.\n• Maintain and service vehicle as needed (refuel, change oil, tire pressure, repairs, etc.).\n• Comply with DOT regulations.\n• Always make safety a priority.\n\nDrivers will transport sweet corn and green beans from the field to the packing house. Drivers will ensure that the tractor and trailer is cleaned and maintained in a safe working condition. This includes identifying all needed maintenance on tractor or tailer. Accurately perform the pre-trip inspection that includes tires, fuel, oil, etc. \n\nBus Driver Duties:\n\nAs a driver your primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to, following direction given by the supervisors and the transportation coordinator. Provide transportation for workers to and from work. Transport workers to purchase food and to laundry facility to wash clothing The driver will take passengers to specified destinations. The driver will be responsible for basic maintenance, including check the vehicle's oil, tires, lights, in addition to keeping the bus clean, as part of the pre-trip inspection. The bus driver is required to obey all traffic laws and Rouge River Farms Policies. The bus driver is required to maintain a clean and mechanically sound bus at all time. Ensure the safety of all passengers. Perform pre trip and post trip inspection of the bus before and after each shift. Report any hazards found during pre trip and post trip inspection. When not operating the bus the bus drivers will be required to assist in the up keep of the buses and transportation equipment. Workers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable CDL with passenger endorsement, as applicable, may be required to drive company buses. During periods of time when transportation is not needed the bus drivers will need to assist in the packing house. When not operating a vehicle, all drivers will be required to perform job duties listed below. \n\nWorkers must operate all equipment properly and in a manner that protects operator, others, the employer's products and property. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination.\n\nMust have and maintain a valid U.S. commercial driver's license (CDL) or Licencia Federal de Conductor with air brake and double/triple endorsements to permit driving of trucks. Must have clean driving record. Must comply with all applicable requirements of the USDOT regulations. Must have no disqualifying factors under applicable law or employer's motor vehicle insurance policy. Disqualifying factors include but are not limited to: conviction for driving under the influence, driving while impaired or the occurrence of a serious at-fault accident.
Crops/Commodities: \nsweet corn & green beans. \nPlant, cultivate and harvest vegetables. Use hand tools including, but not limited to: shovels, hoes and knives. Plant roots, seeds and bulbs. Spread plastic or other groundcovering. Clean plastic by hand from ground upon removal. Till soil. Weed and thin plants. Transplant plants by hand. Stake/tie plants, trellis/prune plants, and set poles and wires for vine plants. Pick, cut, lift, or pull crops. Tie vegetables in bunches. Grade, size and field pack product. Take care to prevent damaging produce and plants. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Connect irrigation drip tape using scissors, screwdriver and/or tweezers. Check daily for water leaks. Repair water leaks as needed. Disconnect irrigation hoses to avoid disrupting harvesting equipment. \n\nWork is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. \n\nWorkers will stand at a conveyor belt grading and/or packing sweet corn or green beans. Workers may also harvest and pack corn by hand in the corn fields in which the corn is growing. The workers may be placing hand picked corn on a conveyor belt or into bins/crates/RPC/eco boxes or other containers. Workers may also pack crates/RPC/eco boxes or other containers with 48 ears of corn on a packing line at the packinghouse. Workers on the bean packing line may grade beans, fill and close containers, weigh containers or stack containers of beans on pallets. Workers may stack crates/RPC/eco boxes or other cases onto pallets. \n\nWorkers will operate machines to trim and wrap corn. Workers may operate machines to label and detect metal in packages of corn. Individuals will work in teams packing trays containing 4, 5, or 8 trimmed cobs of sweet corn. Workers will also work to ensure all quality control processes and policies are met. Workers may also pack crates/RPC/eco boxes or other containers with 48 ears of corn. Trimmed ears will be placed into styrofoam trays in 4, 5, or 8 packs depending on the specifications of the customer. Workers will also pack trays into cases and stack cases onto pallets. Excellent manual dexterity is required in both hands to grasp corn repeatedly throughout the shift. Workers may occasionally empty containers of corn weighing up to 50 lbs. for packing or disposal purposes. Employees must be able to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs. repeatedly throughout the day. Must be able to work in 34 – 90 degree F work environment or outside temperature.
Attend to all aspects of a horse breeding operation, feed, water, and care for horses. Examine horses to detect illness, injury, or disease. Handle and administer simple medical treatments such as worm and parasite control and administer vaccinations. Assist with horse breeding process and care for mares, stallions, foals, and babies. Feeding/gentling of foals, work in imprinting, doctor babies. Assist in farm grounds and stable upkeep. Harvest hay in the fall.\n
Duties: Sweet corn: Workers will manually harvest and pack sweet corn by hand and machine. Corn harvesting will be performed mule train style in crews on approximately 20 pullers. Workers will be pulling sweet corn off the stalk and tossing into a metal bin on the mule train. Workers will walk behind, in front of, or drive the mule train. Workers must keep up with the mule train as it moves slowly through the field at a speed ranging from 1/2 mile to one mile per hour. Assemble boxes/crates on the top of the mule train. Packers will pick corn out of the bins and place 48 ears into pre-made crates. Packed crates are then moved to workers who will fold and close the lid of the crates and push them down the conveyor belt system. Loaders will then lift and stack the full crates of corn onto the truck. Count and check the crates as they are loaded onto truck. Maintain daily log of hours and record number of harvested boxes. Corn is harvested in the early morning hours starting before daylight, while temperatures are cooler. This ensures that the sugar content of the corn is higher and provides a better-quality product. A generator powered lighting system is used during early morning hours. Workers will avoid harvesting ears of corn with discolored husks, unacceptable shanks (longer than 6 inches) or visible worn damage. Sweet corn must be harvested by pulling down while bending and reaching to select mature ears. Workers must carefully select ears of corn of correct size and maturity and toss into bin. Workers will assist in Good Agricultural Practices policies. Longsleeved shirts and long pants are recommended to minimize contact with the plants and thereby reduce the exposure to cuts and scrapes. Gloves are recommended when working with wooden crates.\n\nMust be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Workers must be able to lift 70 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70 lbs. in field. Workers must work at a sustained (continuing for an extended period of time without interruption), vigorous pace (quick and steady) and make bona fide efforts (made in earnest intent) to work efficiently (performing or functions in the best possible manner with the least water of time and effort), and consistently (same way for a long time) that are reasonable under the climatic and other working conditions to ensure they meet the employers established production and quality standard. \n\nIn addition, various types of lettuce, broccoli, cilantro, endive, escarole, parsley and cilantro will be harvested, graded, cultivated, and packed in boxes/buckets manually by hand and machine. \nWorkers are expected to possess the skills to work in the production of crops listed in this job order. The introductory period for all crop activities is 2 days starting with the first day of employment to acclimate the worker to the physical demands of farm work and to familiarize workers with job specifications and to demonstrate proper harvest methods and other crop specific issues.\n\nPacking on the farm.
Cultivate and harvest tomatoes - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, pull plastic, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Must be able to operate motorized farm equipment. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field.\n\nCultive y coseche tomates: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y aranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe las cubetas en los contenedores. Cuidado de campo: ate las plantas, estaque las plantas, pode las plantas, rellene, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microjets, tire del plástico, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de los surcos especificados por el empleador y eliminarán las malas hierbas y el césped de los campos a mano o con una azada. Debe estar de pie, encorvarse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. Debe poder operar equipo agrícola motorizado incluyendo tractores si es necesario. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo para el trabajador. No cumplir con la solicitud o dar positivo en la prueba puede resultar en la terminación o despido inmediata. Las pruebas de detección de drogas y las verificaciones de antecedentes pueden ocurrir durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se llevarán a cabo a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe poder levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo.
Harvest vegetables. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole expense and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \n\nCosechar verduras. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Las pruebas de drogas y la verificación de antecedentes pueden ocurrir durante el proceso de la entrevista y se realizarán a expensas y discreción exclusivas del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
HARVEST citrus fruit by hand under supervision, the worker will place a picking sack Harvest citrus fruit by hand under the supervision instructions the worker will place a picking sack over his shoulder and carry a 18 foot to 20 foot ladder from the field truck to the particular areas of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a strap for support and opening for the insertion of fruit and an opening to remove fruit. A full loaded sack weighs between 80 to 100 pounds depending on the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions the ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to damage tree limbs, fruit, or interfere with the other workers. Ladder will be placed in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will climb the ladder and will remove fruit from the tree using a snapping action of the wrist and place the fruit in a picker's bag. When bag is full the picker will descend the ladder takes the full sack to the assigned fruit tub or bin located in the grove and drop the fruit in the tub. The worker will then return to the assigned tree and repeat the operation until all fruit and trees have been harvested. The worker will be supplied a ladder and a picking sack free of charge, the employer can charge the worker for reasonable cost related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers. The citrus-picking sac weighs approximately 5lbs when empty but can weigh up to 100lbs when filled with citrus. Each ladder weighs approx. 25 lbs. A citrus tub will be placed relatively close to each employee's work area. A tub is equivalent to 10-bushel boxes the tub will be emptied by the employee's crew leader., or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate:
Loose Watercress and Water Spinach Harvesting\n Watercress is grown in a bed which is a growing area surrounded by low banks and with water about inches deep flowing through it.\n Worker will be issued a set of waterproof rubber boots, Kevlar mesh gloves, a plastic apron and a harvesting knife.\n Worker is responsible for keeping their knife sharp.\n Prior to entering the bed, the worker must wash and sanitize their hands for food safety reasons.\n Worker enters the bed with their knife, either a cardboard carton or a plastic harvest tote and a shallow plastic tray to keep water out of the harvest carton or tote and moves to an area of uncut watercress.\n The worker must avoid harvesting poor quality product, such as areas of yellowing leaves, diseased plants, weeds, insects or snails.\n Worker bends down and gathers a hand-full of watercress with one hand and cuts through the stems with the knife in their other hand.\n Individual stems must be between 2.0 and 4.0 inches in length unless specified differently for a special order.\n The cut watercress is then placed in the harvest carton or tote and the worker begins to cut the next handful of watercress.\n The cutter must pull any weeds and cut any watercress that was not harvested to leave uniform stubble in the bed after harvest.\n When the cutter has 30 pounds of cress, which will fill the carton or tote, they will bring the carton or tote to scale for weighing.\n The worker deposits their wooden stick, (paint stirrer) pre-numbered with their cutter number to identify it as having been cut by them, in a receptacle used for keeping track of the number of totes cut by each cutter.\n If the product is being loaded into a cardboard carton, then the worker must close the flaps of the carton.\n If the weight of the carton is less than 30 pounds, the cutter may be asked to return to the bed and complete the weight.\n The completed tote or carton is then loaded onto the harvest truck.\n The cutter will place an electronic probe against their employee badge at the counting station to confirm the number of cartons or totes cut by them.\n The cutter will then take another empty carton or tote and return to cut another tote.\n As harvest of an area is completed, the cutters in the cutting crew are responsible for cleaning out any remaining watercress or weeds from the edges of the bed that might interfere with the free flow of water.\n At all times, the worker is responsible for following directions from the cutting supervisor to ensure uniform, high-quality product.\n \nBunch Watercress and Water Spinach Harvest\n Watercress is grown in a bed which is a growing area surrounded by low banks and with water about inches deep flowing through it.\n Worker will be issued a set of waterproof rubber boots, kevlar mesh gloves, a plastic apron, wire rubber band holders and a harvesting knife.\n Worker is responsible for keeping their knife sharp and for preparing as many sets of exactly 100 rubber bands as they will need to complete their days work.\n Rubber bands are prepared by counting out exactly 100 bands and placing two sets on each wire holder, which will be slipped to the workers belt.\n Prior to entering the bed, the worker must wash and sanitize their hands for food safety reasons.\n Worker enters the bed with their knife, a harvest tote and a shallow plastic tray to keep water out of the harvest tote and moves to an area of uncut watercress.\n The worker must avoid harvesting poor quality product, such as areas of yellowing leaves, diseased plants, weeds, insects or snails.\n Worker bends down and gathers a bunch of watercress with one hand and cuts through the stems with the knife in their other hand.\n Bunches must be uniform in size, and the bundled stems must measure 2 to 2.5 inches in diameter.
GENERAL LABOR: The worker will place irrigation lines, lay plastic mulch in the growing area, tractor operations as necessary, plant watermelons, chop weeds, pull up and dispose of plastic mulch and irrigation lines used to grow the watermelons. General clean-up and other miscellaneous farm labor duties may also be done in the field. \n\n\n
Crops/Commodities: \nvegetables, including, but not limited to, broccoli, cauliflower. \nThis job requires a minimum of 3 months of prior verifiable experience working in a field harvest/field packing crew on a vegetable farm. Workers must be able to perform all duties with accuracy, efficiency and an eye to quality standards to ensure the production of a premium quality product. Workers will harvest crops, including, but not limited to, broccoli and cauliflower. Workers will field pack broccoli and cauliflower in cartons at a rate of 4 pallets per hour for crown and 3 pallets per hour for bunches. There will be no mechanical cultivation or planting tasks involved under this labor certification, other than transplanting cauliflower and broccoli. Work will involve cutting broccoli and cauliflower, bunching broccoli, stacking cartons, making cartons. Considerable stooping and kneeling is required. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce.\n \nWork is to be done in the field for long periods of time. Workers will perform duties including boxing, weighing and loading of product. Workers will assist in loading trucks with product weighing up to and including 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet for long periods of time. \n\nWorkers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs.\n\nWork required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 20 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. \n\nEmployer assures that workers will be provided, at no cost, transportation from living quarters to work site every day (for workers who must be provided housing under the applicable regulations).\n\nPersons seeking employment as experienced vegetable harvester/field packer must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. \n\nApplicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. All workers will be subject to a trial period of up to five days during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker if the employer reasonably finds worker's performance during the trial period to be unacceptable.\n\nWorkers failing to produce a sufficient number of piece rate units to earn the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) for all hours worked during a pay period will be paid on an hourly basis at the AEWR for that pay period. Workers paid on an hourly basis who fail to perform their duties in a timely and proficient manner will be provided up to three warnings, and will be coached/instructed on working faster and more efficiently. Worker may be terminated upon issuance of third warning. \n\nRaises and/or bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker employed pursuant to this job order, at the company's sole discretion, based on individual factors including work performance, skill, and tenure. \n\nEmployer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.
The worker will perform job duties as assigned by supervisor. They will vary from time to time depending on crop\nripening and weather. The vegetable Planting, harvesting, packing, and field work season is temporary and will last from October to May.\n\nIn order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside 6 to 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather including, but not limited to extreme cold and hot conditions, direct sunlight, and rain and have the required physical strength and endurance to perform the work rapidly and skillfully with their hands. Workers will perform prolonged walking, bending, stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, and carrying 0-75 lbs. \n\nDue to the nature of this type of work, there will be a Probationary Period of six (6) days beginning on the first day of employment for the employee to acclimate to the job specifications listed under the Job Descriptions and Requirements. The worker will be given specific instructions as to how to properly perform the work specified in the Job Description and Requirements Section on the first day of work. Quality work must be performed and adhered to and no messy work will be permitted. If the worker works by the piece rate he/she must make the federal minimum salary after the Probationary Period. At the end of the first work week, the worker will be evaluated. If the worker does not perform the work as specified under the Job Descriptions and Requirements, he/she may be terminated. \n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nField Work- The employee will perform various field work to include but not limited to the following: Prepare the fields for planting-this will consist of installing, repairing, and resetting ground cover and irrigation, planting, weeding, picking up trash, burning trash, handling food safety-bucket and general cleaning, and other miscellaneous work. Stringing and Unstringing crop-the employee will take the plant, vine, or bush and place down stakes by hammering them into the ground and tying string from stake to stake and then securing the vine or bush around the twine to help keep it off the ground. At the end of the harvesting season the workers will remove the stakes, twine, and ground cover.\n\nCucumber Hand Harvesting and Packing- In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to walk\ndown the field row carrying a harvesting bucket or box bend down and look for the ripe cucumbers, gently twist\nthem off the vine and place them in the harvesting bucket or box. Some cucumber may be put in plastic bags or\ncartons before it is packed in the box. The worker then takes the full bucket or box of cucumbers over to the\nloading truck and hands it to the truck loader to dump them into large plastic bins or to leave the full boxes on the\ntruck. An empty bucket or box is given back to the worker and the process is started again. \n\nPepper Hand Harvesting (Hot pepper, Bell pepper, Jalapeno, Cubanelle, Long Hots, and Poblano)- In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to walk down the field row carrying a harvesting bucket, bend down and look for the ripe peppers, gently twist them off the bush and place them in the harvesting bucket. The worker then takes the full bucket of peppers over to the loading truck and hands it to the truck loader to dump the bucket into large plastic bins. The empty bucket is given back to the worker and the process is started again.\n\nGreen Bean Hand Packing- The green beans are machine picked in the field and brought to the packing shed and placed on a conveyer belt to be sorted and packed.\n\n
WATERMELON- Perform manual labor to hand cut watermelons. Use hand tools such as shears and knives. Duties also include cleaning, loading, and unloading harvested products. Grade and sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel and quality to ensure correct processing and usage. Discard inferior or defective products and/or foreign matter, and place acceptable products in containers for further processing. Weigh products or estimate their weight, visually or by feel. Measure, weigh and count products and materials. Examine and inspect containers, materials and products. Clean and maintain work areas. Must assist with all Good Agricultural Practice policies. Perform prolonged bending, reaching, and lifting up to 80 lbs.\n\nGrove Clean-up and duties: Workers may be required to perform miscellaneous grove clean-up work. These activities may included removing debris, boxes, discarded fruit from fields to clean growing area , pruning, painting trees, repair and or replace irrigation equipment , may maintain fence lines and moving farm equipment . Workers performing grove clean-up work will be paid the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing rate minimum wage rate, the agreed upon collective bargaining wage or the Federal or State minimum wage which ever is higher, except where a special procedure is approved for an occupation or specific class of agricultural employment.. A copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications , will be provided to the worker on the day the work commences. \n\nVolunteer Bus drivers: will drive passenger bus a}Drivers are required to have a valid CDL class B driver's license with passenger endorsement to operate School buses. b} Must provide MVR with no points and accidents .c} Must pass Certification of road test.d} Valid DOT Medical certificate.e} Pre-Employment Drug and Alcohol testing and subject to random drug testing. f} Inquiry to Previous Employers: Safety Performance History Records Request .g} Insurance company must accept driver to hire CDL drivers. h}Drivers will be paid a hourly wage rate during the time of operating passenger buses, and during crop harvest activities an applicable piece rate.i}Drivers will assist service mechanics in servicing or repairing buses as needed and preform daily maintenance & safety checks.j} driver is required to have valid FLC card. \n\nThe employer will be asking for volunteer drivers.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the supervisor's instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18' to 20' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending on the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take full sack to fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into tub. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for a least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub. After harvesting is complete at each grove, workers will help clean all equipment, including but not limited to, fruit tubs, and any harvesting equipment from all leaves, limbs, and debris. Workers will then load ladders back into ladder truck.\n\nGeneral clean-up of grove property and housing: Workers on physical work restrictions or when equipment operation work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in grove operation, and on housing. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and planting of trees: debris, weed, and vine removal: irrigation repair: housing and structure cleaning and repair: and general grove clean up as required. Additional alternative work may include planting young trees, pruning trees, painting trees, cutting down trees, pulling weeds, cleaning weeds, processing fruit, and land preparation, and other duties as needed. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent for performing such clean-up work.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools. The employer will provide the first pick sack free of charge to the worker. Any sacks destroyed intentionally, outside normal wear and tear, must be replaced by the worker.
Crops/Commodities: \nCitrus Commodities. \nCitrus Harvesting Activities: \n\nWorkers will perform hand harvesting of citrus crops. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will walk down the rows/aisles for the purposes of harvesting citrus crops by placing a picking sack over their shoulder and carrying a 18' to 20' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. Supervisors will explain and demonstrate picking requirements to all workers at the start of the season and as needed thereafter to ensure quality standards. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions the ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Workers will remove fruit from the tree and place it into a pick sack. When the pick sack is full, workers will take the full sack to the fruit box/tub located in the grove and drop fruit from the pick sack into the box/tub. Bruised or damaged fruit will be noted by supervisors during quality control checks. Supervisors may issue written disciplinary notice to workers with a significant number of culls, bruised or damaged fruit. Repeated failure to follow quality control instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.\n\nWorkers may operate agricultural machinery to load and unload harvesting containers off of trailers to place in harvesting groves. Operate ag machinery to load filled containers in groves and place on trailers for shipment.\n\nIn order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the field box or tub. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking.\n\n\nGeneral Citrus Planting & Grove Maintenance:\n\nFollowing the supervisors instructions, the worker will drive and control farm equipment for mowing,spraying, and maintaining harvest crops. Operate agricultural equipment to spray pesticides to groves for maintenance of crops. Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available will be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Plant, cultivate and harvest citrus fruits. Clean-up activities include the sprouting, and pruning; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work. Alternate work may be included.\n\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, group preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, \nshears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, and skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction.
Crops/Commodities: \nfruits and vegetables. \nPlant, cultivate and harvest fruits and vegetables. Use hand tools including, but not limited to: shovels, hoes and knives. Plant roots, seeds and bulbs. Spread plastic or other groundcovering. Clean plastic by hand from ground upon removal. Till soil. Weed and thin plants. Transplant plants by hand. Stake/tie plants, trellis/prune plants, and set poles and wires for vine plants. Pick, cut, lift, or pull crops. Tie vegetables in bunches. Grade, size and field pack product. Take care to prevent damaging produce and plants. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Mix and apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences. \n\nWork on production line. Grade, size, sort, and pack product. Bunch/bundle product pursuant to supervisor instructions. Fill bins/trays and other containers with product, level bins, and prepare product for shipment to market or storage. Perform quality control on inbound/outbound loads. Follow quality control standards and production procedures. Handle product carefully to prevent damage. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Palletize and stack boxes/containers. Use power equipment including, but not limited, to: fork lifts, conveyor belts, and cooling equipment/refrigeration units. Operate equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with regular maintenance on equipment. Clean/sanitize work station and equipment. \n\nPlanting: Propagate plants by placing buds/scions. Plant seedlings or 'liners' by hand or with mechanical planter. Clear cull stock, brush and debris. Dig holes and shovel dirt. \n\nTree Training: hoeing, tree painting, weed mat application. Tie/position trees and limbs, together and to trellises, using string, tape, wire or other fasteners and supports. \n\nThinning: Hand thin to control the size and quality of fruit. Remove fruit blossom, bud and/or identifiable fruit from within a cluster of other fruits. Must accurately identify and remove misshapen, damaged or otherwise unmarketable fruit. \n\nPruning: Hand pruning based on fruit variety. Use manual and mechanized pruning tools and equipment. Identify and remove stubs or broken branches, downward-growing branches, branches rubbing against each other, shaded interior branches, dead wood and shoots-suckers. Use/handle ladders or perform work on motorized platform. \n\nHarvest: Spot and/or strip pick fruit based on seasonal need. Snap fruit off tree with thumb and palm of hand to avoid stem pulls, punctures, bruising, or other damage. Pick culls and peelers. Fill fruit buckets and place fruit in bins. Follow supervisor/foreman's instructions on color/size requirements. Must be able to differentiate between colors and fruit varieties accurately. Grade and pack fruit by hand or with mechanized packing equipment, including but not limited to bagging machines, bin feeding machines, box machines, labeling machines, regular and high stacking forklifts. Sort graded fruit in appropriate containers according to packing instructions. Deliver pallets of finished product to cold storage. Load/unload product. Prepare orders for shipping. Keep material and product records accurately.
Plant, cultivate and harvest bell pepper & specialty pepper, zucchini, squash & eggplant, green beans, watermelon, sugar cane, rice, lettuce, Asian leafy vegetables & leafy vegetables, herbs, radishes, celery, sweet corn. Land preparation, minor maintenance, weeding, crop maintenance, miscellaneous clean up, hauling produce or any other farm related material including mill mud. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \n\nPlante, cultive y coseche pimiento morrón y pimiento especial, calabacín, calabaza y berenjena, judías verdes, sandía, caña de azúcar, arroz, lechuga, verduras de hoja asiática y verduras de hoja, hierbas, rábanos, apio, maíz dulce. Preparación de la tierra, mantenimiento menor, deshierbe, mantenimiento de cultivos, limpieza miscelánea, transporte de productos agrícolas o cualquier otro material relacionado con la granja, incluido el lodo del molino. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Debe ser capaz de levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Assist with the packaging of produce in a climate-controlled production facility with rooms kept at 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit. Tasks include: dumping product from bins onto processing and packing lines, packing clamshells of product into shipping boxes, ensure presence of label/apply label if missing, stack finished product on pallets for shipping. Must maintain a safe work area. Entry level; requires supervision.
Under direction of a licensed supervisor, use hand or power tools and equipment to maintain and restore environmentally protected wetlands, national parks and preserves; treat invasive exotic vegetation and trees; implement mitigation and habitat restoration plans; clear brush and debris, and apply herbicides as directed, in accordance with all laws and label instructions.
***RFI Response***\n\nworkers will pack and seal food products such as fish in plastic containers as it comes off conveyor belt in preparation for shipment \n\n***Original F.a.2***\n\nPROCESSING OF FOOD PRODUCTS SUCH AS SEAFOOD AND VEGETABLES. PACKAGING, PLACING PRODUCT ONTO PALLETS IN PREPARATION TO LOAD ONTO TRUCKS\nWorkers will pack and seal food products such as fish in plastic containers as it comes off conveyor belt in preparation for shipment 10/01/22-05/31/23. Days vary Monday-Saturday. Hours vary 7am-4am. 11.69-13.75/hour & 17.54-20.63/hour overtime depending of performance. Optional housing available for 115.00/week to be dedusted weekly from paycheck. H-2B workers will be reimbursed in the first workweek for all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees,\nincluding those mandated by the government (excluding passport fees).\nTransportation (including meals and, to the extent necessary, lodging), to the place of employment\nwill be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the worker completes half of the employment\nperiod. Employer agrees to reimburse inbound transportation and subsistence expenses (subsistence\nis $14 per day minimum, without receipts, to a maximum of $59 per day, with receipts) from the\nplace from which the worker has come to work for the employer, whether in the US or abroad, to the\nplace of employment. Return transportation and subsistence will be provided if the worker\ncompletes the employment period or is dismissed early by the employer\nAll tools, supplies and equipment required to perform the job will be provided.\nThis is in connection with an H-2B job order. Interested and qualified applicants may contact the employer by mailing their resume to Danny Woodson PO Box 750 Dover FL 33527 Attn: HR Department or apply at the CareerSource Tampa 4902 Eisenhower Blvd Suite 250, Tampa FL 33634\n\n
This position is focused on the harvesting of tomatoes, including post-harvest and misc. clean-up work.\n\nPerformance Standards: Must be able to meet Production Standards. Four weeks of not meeting the required production standards, an employee maybe terminated or ineligible to return to work for Gargiulo, Inc.. Must be available to work every day during the season and Sunday and Federal holidays when needed on a voluntarily basis. \n\nResponsibilities: Arrive at bus sites on time as instructed. Bring company I.D. to scan in and out. Must follow work instructions and proper safety procedures. Understand and adhere to all company safety rules, policies and safety practices. Perform all job activities as assigned by the farm manager / staff. \n\nPhysical Requirements: Tolerate hot and cool temperatures for 6 to 8 hours a day. Comply with requirements for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clothing. Workers must wear pants, shirts with long sleeves, shoes or boots (no sandals) and no jewelry (except for wedding band or medical bracelet). Work in outdoor environment; able to tolerate pests, weeds, grasses and allergens. Must be able to stand, walk, stoop, bend, kneel, stretch, crouch and squat for extended periods of time.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. The employer may require pre-hire drug testing. Must be able to lift and carry 75 lbs. repetitively throughout the workday. Must not hinder another workers productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Requires three months verifiable prior work experience in the crop activities listed. Must commit to entire anticipated period of employment. \n\nBell Pepper: Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape, and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers may cut developed produce from plant and place into bucket. Workers may carry full bucket containing vegetables and empty into field bin or load onto truck or trailer. May be required to pull and discard culls as directed by supervisor. Workers must take care not to bruise or scar produce. Worker will return to assigned row/area and repeat the process. Worker must pick plants clean of correct size and maturity. Produce may be graded and packed in the field. Hand harvesting long bell pepper will be paid on a piece rate. \n\nCucumbers: Move along row, stoop and bend to pick developed long green cucumbers and place into 5/8th bushel bucket. Carry full buckets to a nearby truck for dumping, receive ticket or token in emptied bucket and return to assigned row to continue task. Workers must clean the vines (pick all cucumbers of marketable size) and larger as specified by employer. Workers will be required to stay on their assigned row. Worker must be careful to avoid damaging vines, blooms and smaller cucumbers. May be required to block and thin cucumbers and perform general cultivation work and move tractors or trucks on the farm incidental to picking. Workers may be required to perform other duties as required by employer. Hand harvesting long green cucumbers will be paid on a piece rate.
Cultivate and harvest cucumbers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Cultivate and harvest peppers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care - tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\nCultive y coseche pepinos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cultive y coseche pimientos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cuide las plantas de campo, ate las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Cultivate and harvest cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Must be able to operate motorized farm equipment. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 40lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 40lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \n\nCultive y coseche pepinos, tomates y pimientos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cuide las plantas de campo, ate las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. Debe poder operar maquinaria agrícola motorizada. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 40 libras. a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 40 libras. en campo El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Cultivate and harvest cucumbers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Cultivate and harvest peppers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\nCultive y coseche pepinos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cultive y coseche pimientos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cuide las plantas de campo, ate las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Citrus Harvesting: Harvesting citrus fruit by hand under supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over his shoulder and carry an 18 to 20 ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A full loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock of fruit or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take full sack to fruit tub. \nGeneral grove caretaking: Irrigation system maintenance and operation of agriculture equipment.\nHand weeding: Workers will walk through the fields pooling the weeds around the plants using their hand or a hoe.\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties with out charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications: \n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. \n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency. \n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.
Operate and maintain farm machinery utilized in lettuce production to include GPS steering assisted tractors, electronic driven seeders with variable speed motors, liquid storage tank and hydraulic motors, irrigation pumps with chlorine injection systems, irrigation pumps for flood irrigation, spray tractors with on board computer for field and crop row identification, sprayer controls of volume, pressure, and individual spray nozzle aperture, sophisticated crop protection netting equipment and custom-made lettuce harvesters with hydrostatic driven and computer-controlled capabilities. \n\nUtilize onboard tractor computers by selecting programs, inputting field data, modifying operational parameters, and executing commands. Understand the concepts of tractor speed, land area, and pressure and volume of liquids in spraying systems. Assist a team of workers on the correct operation of specialized farm machinery that is used to plant, irrigate, fertilize, spray, maintain and remove vertical frog prevention net and crop protective netting with metal supports, and harvest lettuce. \n\nCalibrate, maintain, and adjust custom-made farming equipment. Adjust lettuce production equipment to include lettuce harvester cutting head, speeds of cutters, blowers, and conveyors according to the type, height, weight, and condition of the lettuce being harvested and contour of the terrain. \n\nInstall, maintain, and operate high pressure water pumps and sprinkler irrigation systems.\nOperate and maintain large water pumps for flood irrigation and weed control and soil conservation. Preform all task required for the establishment, maintenance, and irrigation of cover crops, such as land preparation, seeding, weed control and flood irrigation. Participate in soil conservation and erosion control practices.\n\nEvaluate, in collaboration with supervisors, field conditions and determine the equipment required to perform all tasks, to include land preparation, seeding, spraying, protective net installation with metal support and daily harvest. Coordinate equipment use in the fields. \n\nEnsure the farming machinery under their responsibility are in good condition and verify daily inspection sheets. Ensure that designated personnel make minor repairs. Report all problematic situations to supervisors. Clean and check machinery prior to use or storage. Disassemble or assemble farm machinery and equipment as required at the beginning or end of the season. Pack, crate, load and unload farm machinery and equipment as required for storage or transport to another farm for use when seasonal lettuce production in FL is not possible.\n\nFollow good agricultural practices and safe working practices. Use personal protective equipment as required by employer. Three months of experience in the job duties is required.
Harvest sweet corn and field care. Some of the job duties include the following: tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Must be able to operate motorized farm equipment on the farm. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCosecha de maíz dulce y cuidado del campo. Algunas de las tareas del trabajo incluyen las siguientes: atar plantas, estacar plantas, podar plantas, limpiar emisores de goteo y microchorros, quitar líneas de goteo de plástico, quitar plantas muertas y quitar malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. Debe poder operar equipos agrícolas motorizados en la granja. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras. en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Planting and Cutting sugar cane, continuous two-stalk plant, chopped into 32-36 lengths. Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach harvestable crop; Pulls, twists, or cuts fibers, leaves, stalks, straw, or vines, selected according to color, size, and shape, from bolls, roots, stalks, or trellises; by hand or using knife, machete, or sickle; Collects crop into containers, such as bags, boxes, and bundles, or piles and stacks crop in windrows; Picks up and carries bundles, bales, containers, or stacks of harvested crop to collection point, and loads crop onto truck or wagon, by hand or using hoist or hooks; May tie leaves, stalks, straws, or vines into bundles, using twine, clamps, or rubber bands; May shake dirt from vines and stack vines or straw around stakes or stalks, by hand or using pitchfork, to protect crop from weathering on damp soil; May gather up and load scattered leaves, vines, or pods on truck; May burn debris, leaves, and stalks. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. During field operations workers may be required to drive a tractor pulling a wagon through the field or between fields incidental to the harvesting jobs being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving. Field Care - Tying plants, planting plants, pruning plants, cleaning drippers and Micro jets, removing plastic drip lines, removing dead plants, and removing herbs. Workers will walk along rows specified by the employer and will remove grass and weeds from the fields using their hands or with a hoe. Workers will be standing, crouching, bending and reaching for an extended period. The work is outdoors and will continue in all kinds of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor, \nCabbage harvesting: The cabbage Cutters will line up in designated cabbage rows. Workers will bend over each cabbage to cut. After cutting the cabbage, workers will inspect and trim. Workers will then put the cabbage in a bag and put the bag on a stainless steel table that will be continually pushed behind the cutters as they proceed on their rows. Workers should be able to keep up with the machine.\nPlanting of cabbage: A tractor will go over the fields making holes for the plants, workers will grab a tray of plants from the truck, walking down the rows the worker will put one plants per hole, when finish with the tray, the worker will walk back to the truck and grab another tray of plants, repeating the process through the work day.\nWeeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area, by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as instructed.\n\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to drive Agriculture Machinery or Equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Sanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities. \n\nCollard Greens, Cabbage Mustard Greens, Turnip Greens, Kale Greens, Herbs (cilantro, and parsley) Green Onions, Leeks, Beets, Broccoli leaves, Cauliflower leaves, Corn and Squash, \n\nWorker may plant and cultivate crops for vegetable production. Worker may set up, operate, and maintain irrigation equipment. Worker may irrigate soil and plants, using portable pipes and ditch systems, and maintain ditches, pipes, and pumps. Worker may pull plants for transplanting. Worker may set plants by hand and perform activities on a plant setter. Worker may thin plants in fields. Worker may perform hand cultivation tasks, hand weeding, and hoeing in field. Worker may load and unload supplies, packing equipment, full and empty containers, etc. in van, trailer, and harvesting machines. Worker may fill water coolers. Worker may make boxes. Worker may repair pallets. Worker may clean van and fields of all trash. Worker may clean roadsides and perform field and grounds maintenance such as bush hogging, mowing, shrubbing, trimming, and picking up roots and limbs. Worker may fill water tanks on farm equipment and machinery with water and soap and chemicals. Worker may be required to burn packaging supplies, trash, roots, and limbs. Worker may drive vans, tractors, pickups, and other farm equipment. Worker may work with irrigation. Worker may conduct van and trailer sanitation. Worker may direct and supervise a crew. Worker may ensure employee job safety and ensure compliance with food safety guidelines in the crew. If worker is supervising a crew, worker is also responsible for the conduct of his crew, responsible for reporting any misconduct of other workers, and responsible for initiating and performing minor disciplinary action. Worker may check port a john, field sanitation, spray signs and weather safety. Worker may keep counts of harvested and loaded crops, ensuring accuracy of all counts, record keeping, overages, shortages, wrong product harvested and other record keeping. Worker may ensure a crew’s quality, paying special attention to poor quality, count pounds per box, number of bunches per container, and box marking. Worker may pick and discard culls and sub-quality vegetables in the fields and on packing equipment. Worker is not to wear jewelry or loose-fitting clothing. Worker should keep shirts tucked into pants. If worker has long hair, be sure it is tied back and tucked in shirt.\n\nCollard Greens, Mustard Greens, Turnip Greens, and Kale Greens: Workers will unload packing supplies from equipment. Worker cuts greens with a knife or may break leaves off by hand according to size, color, shape, and degree of maturity. Worker makes uniform bunches, secures bunch together with rubber band or twist ties, places bunches of greens to a container. Worker may place an identification tag on the bunch. For loose or loose with no stem, worker cuts greens with a knife or may be directed to break leaves off by hand according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and places leaves in container. If container is a box, worker makes box. Worker closes container after packing and loads container onto trailer. Worker may also work on packing equipment where the worker would stand on the back of a harvesting machine and ensure that boxes are filled to the proper level with loose greens. Worker will make the box. Worker will then give the full box to another worker where it will be stacked on a trailer.\n\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency.\n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.
Workers will be harvesting strawberries and performing general farm labor duties (Field maintenance, harvest, prude, pull weeds, replace plastic, irrigation installation and maintenance, replanting, shoveling, hoeing, staking, and driving farm equipment)
Harvest citrus. Following the supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18 to 22' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take to fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit pick sack into tub. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Must be able to work long hours in direct sunlight, where weather conditions may be hot and humid, rain is possible and worker will be exposed to pollen the entire day while performing he job duties. The majority of the workday is spent on ones feet and outdoors. Hours and days of work may vary due to weather conditions. Must be able to lift 80-100lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 80-100lbs. in field. Workers may be required to submit to random drug tests at the discretion of the employer. Drug testing and background checks may be performed during the interview process. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. All physical requirements will take place in an outdoor environment exposed to the elements for extended periods of time.
Cultivate and harvest cucumbers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Cultivate and harvest peppers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCultive y coseche pepinos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cultive y coseche pimientos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cuide las plantas de campo, ate las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Cultivate, plant, weed, harvest and pack broccoli, cabbage, potato and greens by hand and machine. Operate farm vehicles, implements and mechanical equipment including tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plant and harvest crops (5%). Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes and knives.\n\nTransplant crops by either riding on the back of a transplanter and feeding transplants carefully through fingers of the transplanter that places the plant into the ground and covers the root of the plant with soil, or by walking and carrying trays through assigned rows in the field while bending and stooping to carefully place the transplants into pre-dug holes and covering roots with soil.\n\nHarvest broccoli according to supervisor's instructions by walking down assigned rows, bending and reaching to cut mature broccoli using a sharp knife. Heads may only be cut if they are the correct quality and width, approximately 5-6 inches. Workers then may place the cut broccoli into boxes, carry and load their full boxes onto trucks that are moving through the field, or place cut broccoli onto the packing trays of a harvest aide. Some workers will walk and cut, while others will ride harvest aide and pack broccoli that harvesters place in the packing area.\n\nCabbage will be cut at the base using a knife and either tossed into bins, onto a harvest aide, a bulk wagon, or placed into boxes weighing approximately 50 lbs. in the field and loaded onto trailers. Determine maturity level of produce quickly and consistently by color, feel and size and apply correct defect tolerance, handling and harvest standards as instructed by supervisor.\n\nHarvest greens by walking along assigned rows, bending, and cutting the base of greens, bunching, banding, placing tied bunches into boxes, carrying and loading full boxes onto trucks moving in front of group. Greens may require ice to be applied after placing into boxes. Palletize boxes of greens. \n\nParticipate in irrigation activities including setting up, shoveling ditches to find spigots, operating and maintaining drip and other irrigation equipment including drain pipes on drainage end of fields. Manually pull weeds, mow and weed eat. Clean fields when harvest activities are complete. Till soil. Clear and maintain fields and irrigation ditches. Remove stumps and roots from fields after harvest. \n\nWorkers must select harvestable produce based on correct size, maturity and quality. Workers will not break skin, damage, drop or bruise produce, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Workers must discard and destroy produce that has been in contact with blood. Any produce harvested or still on the plant that has been exposed to blood shall be discarded and destroyed. Workers must pass by or discard any produce that bears obvious signs of pest activity, fecal contamination, plant disease, or physical damage, or any produce that has been dropped on the ground. Workers must wash buckets, tools and equipment to avoid unnecessary introduction of soil into harvest containers and field bins, or onto tools or other harvesting equipment. Harvest knives will be collected and sanitized and given back to workers before harvest each day. Count and check harvested produce in the field. Repair fences and farm buildings. Workers who have a valid driver's license and doctor's certificate may drive transportation vehicles to transport workers and may be offered additional hours. Assist with Good Agricultural Practices policies. \n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer.
The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, harvesting of various fruits and vegetables. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the crops grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.\n\nCrops Contained in Request: Citrus (Fresh and Process).\n\nWorkers may perform the following job duties on any of the commodities listed above and various points during the duration of the contract.\n\nCitrus Harvesting\nWorkers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry a 18’ to 20’ ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bah equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between 80 and 100 pounds, depending on the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, know off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Workers will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full, worker will take the pick sack to the fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into tub. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours per day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub.\n\nOrchard Maintenance\nWorkers involved in orchard maintenance may be required to hoe trees, girdle, spread fertilizer, pick up roots and limbs, strip suckers or unwanted growth from trees, dig root suckers, knock fruit off trees, remove vines, lay irrigation pipe, repair and maintain drip system, drill holes in the tree trunk to insert nutrients, and strap and tie fruit trees. Employer will provide all equipment. Instruction will be given for each task and expectations will be communicated to workers. The expectations for these duties will change based on crop and weather conditions.\n\nWorkers will be required to pick up and return ladders to the designated location as provided by the grower at the end of each workday or as directed by the grower or designated supervisor. BROKEN LADDERS SHOULD NOT BE USED, NOTIFY SUPERVISOR IMMEDIATELY IF A LADDER IS BROKEN. \n\nGeneral Clean-up of Grove Property and Housing for Harvesting Workers\nWorkers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities including the sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work.\n\n
Perform manual labor to plant, cultivate and harvest mini-sweet pepper, bell pepper, broccoli, kale, brussel sprout, and plant sugarcane. Workers will pull weeds; pull plastic; and cut string. Hand harvest mini sweet pepper, bell pepper, broccoli, kale, and brussel sprouts, place in bucket or RPC and take to dumper/trailer. Keep up with agricultural equipment during harvest. Each worker will have a badge that will be scanned for piece work. Workers are also responsible for farm and field maintenance and sanitation including, picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and other farm sanitation duties. Workers must use care not to damage or bruise produce. Stake and unstake mini-sweet and bell peppers. Install or remove stakes, wire, netting or string. Cover crop using a cloth for crop protection. Participate in irrigation activities including clearing and maintaining irrigation ditches, as well as fields and work areas. Assist with Good Agricultural Practices policies. At the option of the employer, local transportation may be contracted to a registered farm labor contractor.\n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time.\n\n\n Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur anytime throughout the season. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and different tasks on different days.\n\n\nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a two day introductory period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker at the conclusion of the introductory period if the worker's performance fails to satisfy the employer's reasonable expectations, or is otherwise unacceptable. Employer may terminate a worker for lawful job-related reasons, including but not limited to situations in which the worker: (1) Is repeatedly absent or tardy; (2) malingers or otherwise refuses, without cause, to perform the work as directed; (3) commits act(s) of misconduct or repeatedly violates the Work Rules; and/or (4) fails, after completing the two day introductory period, to perform work in a competent and skillful manner, consistent with the employer's reasonable expectations. Non-U.S. workers may be displaced as a result of one or more U.S. workers becoming available for the job during the employer's recruitment period. Job abandonment will be deemed to occur after five consecutive workdays of unexcused absences. Workers may not report for work under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Possession or use of illegal drugs or alcohol on company premises is prohibited and will be cause for immediate termination.
Cultivate and harvest cucumbers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Cultivate and harvest peppers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCultive y coseche pepinos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cultive y coseche pimientos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cuide las plantas de campo, ate las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Harvest citrus and blueberries; and, field care. Citrus Harvesting - Following the supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18 to 20' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take to fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit pick sack into tub. Field care Clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, cleaning alleys, pruning dead wood from skirts and sucker/watersprout removal, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Blueberry Harvesting - Pluck blueberries from bush by hand, place in baskets, in flats or in masters, turn fruit in at site being collected. Workers must follow supervisors' instructions on ladder safety, food safety, han washing, use of restrooms, and handling of fruit. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Must be able to work long hours in direct sunlight, where weather conditions may be hot and humid, rain is possible and worker will be exposed to pollen the entire day while performing he job duties. The majority of the workday is spent on ones feet and outdoors. Hours and days of work may vary due to weather conditions. Must be able to lift 80-100lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 80-100lbs. in field. Workers may be required to submit to random drug tests at the discretion of the employer. Drug testing and background checks may be performed during the interview process. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. All physical requirements will take place in an outdoor environment exposed to the elements for extended periods of time.
Sweet potato harvesting and field care. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole expense and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \n\nCosecha de camote y cuidado del campo. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Las pruebas de drogas y la verificación de antecedentes pueden ocurrir durante el proceso de la entrevista y se realizarán a expensas y discreción exclusivas del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Cultivate and harvest cucumbers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Cultivate and harvest peppers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCultive y coseche pepinos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cultive y coseche pimientos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cuide las plantas de campo, ate las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Duties required: Harvesting, planting, counting, loading and unloading strawberries and blackberries. Other duties may include field walking, general farm labor such as field and camp sanitation, maintenance, laying irrigation pipes and plastic, pulling weeds and plastic, raking, occasional grading and packing in the field, digging ditches, and cleaning around shed areas. This will be done under extreme weather conditions. Heavy bending, stooping and lifting will be involved on a daily basis. Background check and random drug testing will be post hire at employers expense.\n\n(Continued on Addendum C.)
Cultivate and harvest vegetables. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 20-50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 20-50lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\nCultivar y cosechar vegetales. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo está al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 20-50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 20-50 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate equipment used to harvest crops. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and drivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Must be able to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving record and background. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Operate forklifts and equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the field. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 50 pounds. Must be able to work outdoors in dusty/dirty conditions, at extreme heat and cold inclement weather. Must be able to listen to, understand, and follow simple instructions of supervisors and dispatcher. Must be able to work in fields where ants, snakes and poison ivy are encountered. The alternative work is truck maintenance and farm maintenance including the repair, irrigation, vehicles and various equipment and tools used on the farm. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n\nOperador de equipos agrícolas para operar equipos utilizados para cosechar cultivos. Debe tener el tipo correcto de licencia requerida por las leyes estatales y federales, y los conductores responsables del transporte de trabajadores deberán tener un Contratista de trabajo agrícola federal válido y vigente o un Registro de empleado de contratista de trabajo agrícola federal con autorización de conducción. Será responsable de operar los vehículos utilizados para mover cultivos en la finca. Debe poder operar de manera segura los autobuses que se utilizan para transportar trabajadores hacia y desde los lugares de trabajo. Debe poder proporcionar prueba de antecedentes y antecedentes de conducción sin accidentes. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Operar montacargas y equipos utilizados para mover suministros y equipos de cosecha en el campo. Mantener el equipo de cosecha. Debe poder alcanzar, doblar y levantar artículos que pesen 50 libras. Debe poder trabajar al aire libre en condiciones polvorientas / sucias, con calor extremo y frío inclemente. Debe poder escuchar, comprender y seguir instrucciones simples de supervisores y despachadores. Debe poder trabajar en campos donde se encuentran hormigas, serpientes y hiedra venenosa. La alternativa laboral es el mantenimiento de camiones y mantenimiento de la finca incluyendo la reparación, riego, vehículos y diversos equipos y herramientas que se utilizan en la finca. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Packing House Labor: Watercress, Arugula, Kale, and Spinach products are transported to the packinghouse on trucks. The product is unloaded, packed, and stored in the cooler by the packinghouse employees. Prior to work, all Packing House employees must wash and sanitize their hands for food safety reasons. Proper protective gear must be put on, hair net, beard net, gloves, sleeves, and white smocks. All according to company GMPs.\n\nDumpers\n- Once dumper has product, dumper has to check produce quality and report to the manager if there are any problems. \n- Dumper removes totes from pallets, places on dumping platform, dumps according to timed dumping speed measured by dumping light. \n- The Dumper dumps the product down the shaker, which will feed into the sorter. \n- The Dumper must maintain sufficient product flow to keep production flowing.\n\nGraders\n- Once product has passed through sorter, graders inspect product on conveyor belt. \n- Grader removes foreign material or product that does not meet B&W standards.\n- Grader inspects the product prior to entering wash tanks and cooling tunnel.\n\nScale/Bag Operator\n- Once product exits cooling tunnel and escalator, product falls onto scale. \n- Operators disperse product into buckets, buckets should weight approx. 700 grams each. \n- Product is then bagged and passes through metal detector.\n- Operator must verify weight is correct and bags are sealed and printed properly.\n\nPackers\n- If metal detector signals, packer must return bag through detector. If detector continues to signal, Packer must notify supervisor.\n- Packers are responsible for assembling their cases.\n- Packers must inspect and place finished bagged product into cases. The basic function is to remove questionable, improperly sealed, or improperly coded bags from the inspection table, packing only product that meets standards.\n- Packers makes certain that each box is properly closed and place on conveyor belt.\n\nStackers\n- Stackers then stack each box in the applicable manner on the pallet that will then be shrink wrapped and loaded into the cooler.\n- Stacker must stack 130 cases on each pallet.\n- Stacker is responsible for tagging pallets, and timing start and finish time of each pallet.\n- Stacker wraps pallets with shrink-wrap and loads into cooler.\n\nGeneral Packing House Labor\n- Workers are responsible for following the recommendations of supervisors in performing these tasks.\n- Workers may be asked to operate pallet jackets to move product.\n- Workers will be responsible to maintain their work to ensure the area clean and free of debris.\n- Workers may need to sweep floors and clean work areas as needed.\n- Dispose of boxes or packaging straps.\n- At the end of operation, workers will help clean the packing house according to the established procedures, pick up trash around buildings, clean restrooms, and clean lunchroom as needed.\n- Blow down and pick up of gross materials remaining on the processing equipment.\n- Rinse equipment with potable water rinse to remove fine particulates, followed by foam down either using a cleaning agent, soap rinse using potable water, and sanitizer application.\n- Nightly drain cleaning, by applying dry quat to floors.\n- Floor scrubbing, de-cobwebbing, washing walls, washing doorways including forklift and man doors.\n- Sanitizing cooler decks in cooler and dock bays.\n\nEquipment and tools\nThe following items will be provided to the employee as necessary to do work assigned. There will be no charge for items given to the employee the first time. Any worn out or damaged items must be returned to the farm manager and they will be replaced at no charge to the employee (all replacements are limited).\n- Smocks\n- Badge\n- Knee Boots\n- Rubber Gloves\n- Sleeves\n- Hair / Beard nets\n- Apron\nAny items lost or abused will be charged to the employee at the actual purchase cost to the company. Any items charged to the employee will be deducted from employees paycheck.
All Activities: Workers will perform described job specifications as instructed by the Farm Manager or Crew Supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include one or more of the following job specifications:\n\nHarvesting Citrus: Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisor's instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18' to 20' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place it into a pick sack. When pick sack is full, take full sack to fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into tub. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub.\n\nGrove Clean-up/General Farm Work: Workers may be required to perform miscellaneous grove clean- up work. These activities include pruning, painting trees, repair, and/or replacing irrigation equipment, removal of debris, and other general grove clean-up work as required. Workers performing grove clean- up work will be paid the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing rate or the minimum wage rate whichever is higher. Workers may need to assist in the use of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks and harvesting machinery, etc.\n\nStrawberry\nRunner Cutting/Trimming: Workers will walk down row as instructed and cut/trim runners, leaves, and blooms as directed from each strawberry plant as necessary.\n\nFreeze Protection Activities: May assist regardless of time of day, in keeping overhead irrigation rain birds free of ice during freezing weather.\n\nAssist in Plastic Laying: Workers will hold plastic at the end of row as the machine moves down row unrolling plastic. Workers will even up ends of row with a shovel to make them straight, also will clean out ditches at end of row. Unload plastic and drip-tape from truck and load plastic and drip-tape on field machine as needed. May be instructed to remove or reinstall rain bird.\n\nDrip-tape Hook Up: Workers will be required to cut drip-tape at end of bed as instructed and hook up drip-tape to main water line.\n\nStrawberry Planting: While carrying a bag of strawberry plants, workers will walk down row, while bending, and place one or two plants into each hole in the plastic as instructed and firm dirt around plant.\n\nWeeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walkway and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area, by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as instructed.\n\nPlastic and Drip-tape Removal: Unhook drip-tape from main water line, walk down row while pulling plastic down the bed until it is completely removed. Take removed plastic to proper disposal or burning station, as instructed.
The essential work activity involves moving highly perishable agricultural crops (sugarcane, citrus, vegetables, and other agricultural commodities) directly from the fixed site agricultural properties of the associations growers/members to the farm fields to the processing plant, the locations of which are detailed in the attached schedule. The haulers are required to complete each step of the haul as part of necessary field to processing facility activities for the harvest. Haulers must be physically and mentally healthy. Each worker is expected to operate hauling vehicles efficiently and safely through all types of routes. Haulers must be able to operate tractors, trailers, semi-trailers, and have adequate knowledge to make minor adjustments or repairs to these vehicles. Must have a CDL, or equivalent license, pass a required drivers license background check, ad mandated drug/alcohol test. Haulers must have and maintain a suitable driving record and be insured by the employers insurance company. \n\nDaily job assignments will be made by, and at the sole discretion of, the Company Farm Managers as the progression of the growing season dictates. Workers must perform the assigned work as described in ETA 790, and work at the assigned Company locations. Workers may not switch work at Company locations without specific authorization of the Farm manager. At the direction of the Farm Manager and/or Supervisor workers may be re-assigned to different farm locations within the company at various times of the work day and/or on different days.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools, equipment, materials, protective clothing, including gloves where required to perform all job specifications at no cost to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nNon-workers will not be permitted at the work sites or on company property without permission from the employer. Importantly, no non-working minor children under the age of 18 shall be present at the work site, or left unattended in vehicles at the worksite during the day. Workers arriving at the worksite with non-working minor children or other non-workers will be sent home.
Equipment operator mechanics service and repair agricultural equipment used to haul citrus, vegetables and other agricultural commodities from the fixed-site agricultural properties of the Association's Growers/Members on a seasonal basis and during harvest season. \n\nEmployees must have sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in a mechanic shop environment; walk, stand and sit for prolonged periods of time; frequently stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach and twist, push, pull, lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds; operate assigned vehicles and equipment and verbally communicate information. Monday through Saturday, 40 hours per week. Workers will work 7AM to 3PM. Workers may be requested to submit to a background check and random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-offer/pre-employment and is not part of the interview process.\n\nWork Environment: Primarily in a shop environment, occasional field environment with some travel from site to site; exposure to noise, dust, grease, smoke, fumes, noxious odors, gases, and all types of weather and temperature conditions; exposure to hazardous traffic conditions; work and/or walk on various types of surfaces or terrain.\n\nEssential Functions and Basic Duties: Following the supervisors instructions, the mechanics will diagnose, repair and overhaul engines, transmissions, components, electrical and fuel systems, etc. for various powered and rolling equipment such as cars, trucks, buses, farm equipment and generators. The workers will maintain appropriate service and repair records.\n\nAll mechanics will work only for the employer listed in the ETA 790. The work will consist only on equipment and on worksites owned and/or controlled by the employer.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nDaily job assignments will be made by, and at the sole discretion of, the Company Farm Managers as the progression of the growing season dictates. Workers must perform the assigned work as described in ETA 790, and work at the assigned Company locations. Workers may not switch work at Company locations without specific authorization of the Farm manager. At the direction of the Farm Manager and/or Supervisor workers may be re-assigned to different farm locations within the company at various times of the work day and/or on different days.\n\nEmployer will provide tools, equipment, harvest materials, protective clothing, including gloves, where required to perform all job specifications at no cost to the worker. The reasonable repair or replacement cost of tools or equipment assigned to the worker may be deducted from the workers paycheck for willful damage or loss of such tool or equipment. \n\nNon-workers will not be permitted at the work sites or on company property without permission from the employer. Importantly, no non-working minor children under the age of 18 shall be present at the work site, or left unattended in vehicles at the worksite during the day. Workers arriving at the worksite with non-working minor children or other non-workers will be sent home.
The farm work position includes duties associated farm labor tasks for production of tomatoes. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds along with time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes adherence to instruction given in regard to proper procedures & technics based on operation of the machinery to be used to complete each task. \n\n-Daily Work-Misc. farm tasks\n-Plastic Laying/Repair – Ride plastic machine and change out drip tape and plastic roles (weight +/- 100 lbs.) with 2 people. Shovel dirt on row ends (bury). Ride fertilizer hopper and maintain flow of fertilizer with shovel. \n-Mark and Measure – walk fields to mark 100’ intervals with spray paint \n-Irrigation Hook-up/Installation/Drainage – use shovel to make shallow trench to connect irrigation pipe or redirect water \n-Planting (Machine)- Load planter with plant trays and ride or walk behind planter to assure plants are at center of hole, proper depth, and no skips.\n-Replant- Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and replanting weak, dead, or missing plants at proper depth\n-Stake Repair – carry stakes (+/- 40’) to repair/replace areas with broken stakes, and/or tie broken stake to a new one\n-Mopping Bed Top- Mopping top of beds \n-Rouging plants/weeds- removing unwanted plants/weeds\n-Hand Punch Fertilizer – punch hole in plant bed and apply dry fertilizer with cup\n-Farm Truck Safety Cutouts- Cutting walk ways within plant beds every 50 feet\n-Planting (by hand) – Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and assuring that plants are planted at the center of pre punched plant hole at proper depth. Return empty plant trays to truck/trailer. (No empty trays to be left in field)\n-Watering In Plants- Walking beside plastic bed with water hose applying water to each plant hole, fill/plant any skips with plants provided.\n-Staking\n o Combo (Stab & Hammer)-Combination of the Stab & Hammering Tasks. Carry stakes (+/-40) from flatbed truck and stab in plant bed between every plant or marked hole. Ride hammer machine and use air hand hammer to drive every take 14” deep.\n o FRP- carry FRP Stakes from flatbed truck and stab by hand in plant bed between every plant or hole marked.\n-Tying – tie plants upright with tie stick and string/twine, looping each stake.\n-Pruning – walk field and bend-over at each plant, hold plant carefully and remove number of suckers directed by supervisor \n-Weeding – pull weeds from plant bed and around plant holes.\n-Plastic/Drip Tape Removal (Pull)- pull plastic and drip tape by hand and place in road way or at 100’ cross walk.\n-Cutting String- walk field and cut and remove string/twine with a small knife and place where directed by supervisor\n-Stake Pulling (Machine)- ride stake pull machine to assure stakes bundle evenly and/or walk field to pull stakes by hand and place small bundle at 100’ cross walks to pick-up and load onto flat-bed truck\n-Stake Pulling (Manual)- A crew of 14 persons will pull stakes by hand. 2 persons will ride on the back of the truck, 12 persons will walk on the ground and pull stakes by hand. Workers will ensure that stakes are pulled, bundled and tied.\n-Bale Plastic, Drip Tape, & String- walk field and load baler with bundled plastic, drip tape and string by hand\n-Farm Field Clean Up (PW)- Walk field and remove miscellaneous debris
Harvest tomatoes - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care - tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, stuffing, clean drip emitters and microjets, pull plastic, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Must be able to operate motorized farm equipment. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must adhere to all proper food and safety procedures, security procedures, crew leader/manager/supervisor instructions, company polices and procedures. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field.\n\nCultive y coseche tomates: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y aranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe las cubetas en los contenedores. Cuidado de campo: ate las plantas, estaque las plantas, pode las plantas, rellene, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microjets, tire del plástico, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de los surcos especificados por el empleador y eliminarán las malas hierbas y el césped de los campos a mano o con una azada. Debe estar de pie, encorvarse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. Debe poder operar equipo agrícola motorizado incluyendo tractores si es necesario. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo para el trabajador. No cumplir con la solicitud o dar positivo en la prueba puede resultar en la terminación o despido inmediata. Las pruebas de detección de drogas y las verificaciones de antecedentes pueden ocurrir durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se llevarán a cabo a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe poder levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo.
Planting and Cutting sugar cane, continuous two-stalk plant, chopped into 32-36 lengths. Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach harvestable crop; Pulls, twists, or cuts fibers, leaves, stalks, straw, or vines, selected according to color, size, and shape, from bolls, roots, stalks, or trellises; by hand or using knife, machete, or sickle; Collects crop into containers, such as bags, boxes, and bundles, or piles and stacks crop in windrows; Picks up and carries bundles, bales, containers, or stacks of harvested crop to collection point, and loads crop onto truck or wagon, by hand or using hoist or hooks; May tie leaves, stalks, straws, or vines into bundles, using twine, clamps, or rubber bands; May shake dirt from vines and stack vines or straw around stakes or stalks, by hand or using pitchfork, to protect crop from weathering on damp soil; May gather up and load scattered leaves, vines, or pods on truck; May burn debris, leaves, and stalks. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. During field operations workers may be required to drive a tractor pulling a wagon through the field or between fields incidental to the harvesting jobs being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving. Field Care - Tying plants, planting plants, pruning plants, cleaning drippers and Micro jets, removing plastic drip lines, removing dead plants, and removing herbs. Workers will walk along rows specified by the employer and will remove grass and weeds from the fields using their hands or with a hoe. Workers will be standing, crouching, bending and reaching for an extended period. The work is outdoors and will continue in all kinds of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.
Planting and Cutting sugar cane, continuous two-stalk plant, chopped into 32-36 inch lengths. Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach harvestable crop; Pulls, twists, or cuts fibers, leaves, stalks, straw, or vines, selected according to color, size, and shape, from bolls, roots, stalks, or trellises; by hand or using knife, machete, or sickle. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \n\nSiembra y corte de caña de azúcar, planta continua de dos tallos, cortada en trozos de 32 a 36 pulgadas de largo. Camina, se agacha, gatea o se sienta entre hileras de plantas para alcanzar cultivos cosechables; Arranque, tuerza o corte fibras, hojas, tallos, paja o enredaderas, seleccionadas según el color, tamaño y forma, de cápsulas, raíces, tallos o espalderas; a mano o con cuchillo, machete u hoz. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
JOB # l \nTree is harvested from the ground with a tractor Roots are pruned, shaped and trimmed with a shovel Rootball is wrapped in plastic wrap \nTrees is laid down so the trunk and fans can be trimmed with loppers and shovel Tree is placed on rack where it will be watered, fertilized and cultivated until ready for harvest OR Holes are dug Tree is planted where it will be watered, fertilized, cultivated and grown until ready for harvesting .\n\nJOB # 2 \nTrees need to be watered daily \nJOB#3 \nThe entire farm must be weeded \nJOB#4 \nFertilizer must be applied to the trees
Sugarcane: Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. Planting and Cutting sugar cane, continuous two-stalk plant, chopped into 32-36” lengths. Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach harvestable crop; Pulls, twists, or cuts fibers, leaves, stalks, straw, or vines, selected according to color, size, and shape, from bolls, roots, stalks, or trellises; by hand or using knife, machete, or sickle; Collects crop into containers, such as bags, boxes, and bundles, or piles and stacks crop in windrows; Picks up and carries bundles, bales, containers, or stacks of harvested crop to collection point, and loads crop onto truck or wagon, by hand or using hoist or hooks; May tie leaves, stalks, straws, or vines into bundles, using twine, clamps, or rubber bands; May shake dirt from vines and stack vines or straw around stakes or stalks, by hand or using pitchfork, to protect crop from weathering on damp soil; May gather up and load scattered leaves, vines, or pods on truck; May burn debris, leaves, and stalks. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers will walk along rows specified by the employer and will remove grass and weeds from the fields using their hands or with a hoe. Workers will be standing, crouching, bending, and reaching for an extended period. During field operations workers may be required to drive a tractor pulling a wagon through the field or between fields incidental to the job being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving. The work is outdoors and will continue in all kinds of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. \nFailure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All drug testing and background checks will occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. \n\nMust be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Workers must be able to lift 70 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70 lbs. in field. Workers must work at a sustained (continuing for an extended period of time without interruption), vigorous pace (quick and steady) and make bona fide efforts (made in earnest intent) to work efficiently (performing or functions in the best possible manner with the least water of time and effort), and consistently (same way for a long time) that are reasonable under the climatic and other working conditions to ensure they meet the employers established production and quality standard. \n\n
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor. \nHarvesting berries by hand, the worker will walk down the berry field rows where the blueberry will be harvested. The worker will place a 1 gallon picking bucket with a strap over his/her shoulder from the field truck to the particular area of the field where the fruit will be harvested. The 1 gallon picking bucket is a canvas, equipped with a shoulder strap for support. Worker positions him/herself in front of the berry tree and will remove the fruit from the tree and place into the 1 gallon picking bucket taking care not to break any limbs, damage the tree, or knock off the fruit. When the 1 gallon picking bucket is full the worker will take it to the truck at the end of the row where the worker will unload the fruit into a small tub or container. \nField Maintenance: workers will tie, stake and prune plants, clean micro jets and remove plastic drip lines, using hands or a hoe workers will remove dead plants and weeds. The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in a possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly. The employer will provides the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.\n\n
The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools. \n\nHarvesting\nFlower Hand Harvesting- The worker will cut the flower stems using shears to the indicated length. The worker will then place it in a plastic harvesting bucket with water until it is full and carry it and then place it in a harvesting crate until it is full and carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new harvesting crate and begin the process again.\n\nArugula Hand Harvesting- The worker will cut the salad greens at the indicated length using sharp scissors. The worker will then place it in a harvesting crate until it is full and carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new harvesting crate and begin the process again.\n\nBean Hand Harvesting - The worker will pinch off the mature pods and bunch using rubber bands. The worker will then place it in a harvesting crate until it is full and carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new harvesting crate and begin the process again.\n\nBerry Hand Harvesting- The worker will pinch off the mature berries and place in a berry basket on a berry flat. The worker will continue filling baskets until the berry flat is full. Alternatively, the worker may place berries directly in a berry flat without the baskets. When the flat is full, the worker will carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new berry flat and begin the process again. \n\nBroccoli and Mini Broccoli Hand Harvesting- The worker will cut the mature heads at the indicated length using sharp knife. The worker will then place it in a harvesting crate until it is full and carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new harvesting crate and begin the process again.\n\nBrussel Sprouts Hand Harvesting- The worker will cut the mature heads at the indicated length using sharp scissors. The worker will then place it in a harvesting crate until it is full and carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new harvesting crate and begin the process again.\n\nCarrots Hand Harvesting- The worker will pull up the mature plants with roots and trim the tops at the indicated length using sharp knife. The worker will then place it in a harvesting crate until it is full and carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new harvesting crate and begin the process again. \n\nCabbage, (Chinese, Red, and Green) Hand Harvesting- The worker will cut the mature heads at the base using sharp knife and strip off the wrapper leaves. The worker will then place it in a harvesting crate until it is full and carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new harvesting crate and begin the process again.\n\nCauliflower Hand Harvesting- The worker will cut the mature heads at the indicated length using sharp knife. The worker will then place it in a harvesting crate until it is full and carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new harvesting crate and begin the process again.\n\nRomanesco Hand Harvesting- The worker will cut the mature heads at the indicated length using sharp knife. The worker will then place it in a harvesting crate until it is full and carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new harvesting crate and begin the process again.\n\nCelery Hand Harvesting- The worker will cut the mature stalks at the base using sharp knife and strip off the outer petioles. The worker will then place it in a harvesting crate until it is full and carry it and place it on the nearest trailer. The worker will then get a new harvesting crate and begin the process again.\n
Worker must possess requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities for which they were hired. Workers may not leave trash, or other discarded items in work areas or vehicles but must dispose of such items in provided receptacles. Workers must wash hands with soap and water after all bathroom and meal breaks. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect workers ability to perform the work described herein. Workers should be physically able to do the work described with or without reasonable accommodation. \n\nSanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations.\n\nWorkers will work in teams during harvest work. Workers must coordinate with their fellow team members to ensure they work in conjunction with the truck or trailer. Workers working on piece rate must work in teams. \n\nCabbage: Workers may be required to plant cabbage plants. Worker cuts cabbage with a knife or may break off by hand according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity. Worker places cabbage in a container. Products will then be placed into sacks or boxes and placed on trailer for transport. Workers may grade products removing bad or damaged leaves and repack for shipment. Workers will be required to stay on their assigned row. Workers will work as a team and paid accordingly to the piece rate. \n\nHarvesting Vegetables: Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape, and degree of maturity. Removing product from the vine will be done by hand so the vegetable is not bruised or scarred. Vegetable must be gently placed in field container. Worker must be careful that vines, trash, and field debris are not put in field containers. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately sixty (60) lbs. and gently place contents into large produce bins. Produce bins should be filled level full unless directed otherwise by the driver or supervisor. Workers are required to work in fields when plants are wet with dew or rain. Temperatures in fields during work hours can range from 32 to over 100 degrees. \n• Harvest Pickles: Workers are expected to harvest pickles in crews of 9 people by filling buckets to dump on a long band which is immediately in front of them which in turn goes up to trucks that are to be filled with pickles to be driven to packing house which is onsite and subsequently weighed to determine piece work total for worker.\n• Weed Pickle Fields: Workers will be assigned on a per acre basis field areas to pull weeds around the pickle plants on an as needed basis.\n• Corn Harvest: Workers are expected to pull corn to fill crates on the field, which are then loaded on trucks to be driven to packing house onsite.\n• Sod: Workers will plant cultivate and harvest Sod. Workers will work in groups of 4 to stack sod onto pallets.\n\nPacking, & Grading Pickles: Workers may be required to perform various duties associated with packing and grading pickles. Workers may also be required to perform packing house cleanup. \n\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engaged in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. \n
Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate equipment used to harvest vegetables and sugarcane. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and drivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Must be able to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving record and background. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Operate forklifts and equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the field. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 70 pounds. Must be able to work outdoors in dusty/dirty conditions, at extreme heat and cold inclement weather. Must be able to listen to, understand, and follow simple instructions of supervisors and dispatcher. Must be able to work in fields where ants, snakes and poison ivy are encountered. The alternative work is truck maintenance and farm maintenance – including the repair, irrigation, vehicles and various equipment and tools used on the farm. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n\nOperador de Equipos Agrícolas para operar equipos utilizados para la cosecha de hortalizas y caña de azúcar. Debe tener el tipo correcto de licencia requerida por las leyes estatales y federales, y los conductores responsables del transporte de trabajadores deberán tener un Contratista de trabajo agrícola federal válido y vigente o un Registro de empleado de contratista de trabajo agrícola federal con autorización de conducción. Será responsable de operar los vehículos utilizados para mover cultivos en la finca. Debe poder operar de manera segura los autobuses que se utilizan para transportar trabajadores hacia y desde los lugares de trabajo. Debe ser capaz de proporcionar prueba de antecedentes y antecedentes de conducción sin accidentes. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Operar montacargas y equipos utilizados para mover suministros y equipos de cosecha en el campo. Mantener el equipo de cosecha. Debe poder alcanzar, doblar y levantar artículos que pesen 70 libras. Debe poder trabajar al aire libre en condiciones polvorientas / sucias, con calor extremo y frío inclemente. Debe poder escuchar, comprender y seguir instrucciones simples de supervisores y despachadores. Debe poder trabajar en campos donde se encuentran hormigas, serpientes y hiedra venenosa. El trabajo alternativo es el mantenimiento de camiones y el mantenimiento de la finca, incluida la reparación, riego, vehículos y diversos equipos y herramientas que se utilizan en la finca. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Planting sugar cane. Workers will be required to insert the plant to the proper depth in the plant hole, ensure the correct amount of dirt is covering the root ball and pack dirt around the base of the plant. Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach planting area. During field operations workers may be required to drive motorized farm equipment, or a tractor pulling a wagon through the field or between fields incidental to the jobs being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving. All tractor driving will be done in the field during the harvest. Lay Plastic - Use a shovel to remove dirt, then cut and shape trenches for drainage. Use shovel to tuck and form fit plastic in the trenches. Field Care - Tying plants, planting plants, pruning plants, cleaning drippers and Micro jets, removing plastic drip lines, removing dead plants, and removing debris. Workers will walk along rows specified by the employer and will remove grass and weeds from the fields using their hands or with a hoe. Workers will be standing, crouching, bending and reaching for an extended period. The work is outdoors and will continue in all kinds of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n
This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team- based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.\n\nCabbage: Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and cut/pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. Workers will also be responsible for shovel work and weed pulling to ensure the health of the crops.\n\nThey will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or bruising. Workers will drive tractors once cabbage is loaded as Cabbage will be transported from field to be packed in packing house with containers weighing 50lbs – 54lbs. Workers may be required to lift up to 65lbs.\n\nWorkers may be required to operate farm vehicles and equipment such as trucks, tractors, and forklifts. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the vehicle/equipment before operating. All vehicles should be driven in a manner to protect workers, harvested produce, in-field crops, and equipment. Operators should ensure all equipment is functioning correctly before operating. The use of all necessary PPE and safety equipment including wearing of seatbelt at all times when operating farm equipment is mandatory. Workers may assist with the repair, service, & maintenance of farm equipment including the prep, cleaning, lubrication, assembly, inspection, dismantling of equipment parts.\n\nFarm, Field Sanitation and Packing Shed Sanitation: Workers may be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, and other similar farm sanitation as part of SOPs and SSOPs within Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), Good Handling Practices (GHPs), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for Food Safety. This includes personalhygiene and handling the fruit in the field with an emphasis on food safety, sanitizing all harvesting tools and keeping the fields as clean as possible. Workers may be responsible for pulling plastic, picking up trash, cleaning bins and other similar farm sanitation.\n
Crops/Commodities: \nnursery stock. \nGREENHOUSE AND GENERAL LABOR:\nThe worker will work in greenhouse facility planting, cultivating, harvesting, transplanting plants, spraying, weeding, fertilizing, trimming, and watering plants, using hand tools and gardening tools. The worker must understand greenhouse quality control standards and have working knowledge of production procedures. Must harvest crops according to specific standards. Plants must be handled carefully to prevent/avoid damage. The worker will work in the production facility on the assembly line placing inserts or pots into trays on the conveyors, sticking plant cutting into medium, fixing plants that are missing in trays. Tag or label plants or pots. Load trays on wagons from conveyors, accompany tractors and wagons to the field where the worker will unload wagons and lay trays in the bed in with uniform spacing. Workers may operate tractors, transplanters, flat filling equipment. Workers may take cuttings according to specifications. Stick cuttings and transplant liners by hand or mechanical planter Pick up plants from the field for orders and load on to wagons, lay plants down for growing, move and space plants in the field. Pick plants from wagons by variety for orders on loading dock and load on to delivery racks. Move racks around dock as needed or push racks on to truck for delivery. Unload carts from returning trucks. Unload carts, pallets, boxes and supplies from trucks that are delivered to the farm. Perform cleaning and sanitation in production and dock areas as required. Perform bed preparation by cleaning, sweeping beds and putting down weed control before plants are put down. Perform general plant maintenance. Move, space, weed, trim, and cull plants. Workers will count, grade and inventory plants in beds. Workers may be required to dispose of unsaleable plants from time to time. Workers will go to the designated areas where unsaleable plants will be loaded onto wagons and sent to the disposal area. At the disposal area, workers may be assigned to separate plant material from plastic, and sort plastic for recycle or reuse. Plant material is accumulated there for decomposition. Plastic is accumulated and sorted for baling and recycling. On the loading dock, Workers will remove racks from trucks, unload plastic waste and sort accordingly. Workers will also be required to assemble racks for plants to be shipped on. Racks are custom built for each individual order and may vary in size. Workers may use powered tools or mallets in the assembly process. Workers may clean/maintain greenhouse buildings, structures, equipment, and work areas. And assist with greenhouse maintenance and repairs. Greenhouse workers will also assist in preparing the ground by leveling and removing old ground cover cloth and replacing with new cloth to place plants. Remove and apply shade cloth or plastic to greenhouses. Repair and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Worker may also apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Mix and apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, and other plant related treatments at the correct time depending on plant type, growth, climate, and crop conditions. Cover and uncover plants with Frost/Freeze protection fabrics. Worker will be exposed and not limited to standing, bending, stooping and kneeling for long periods of time. In addition, worker will be exposed to but not limited to moderate to loud noises and outdoor weather conditions in all seasons, including variable temperatures; wet, hum and heat. Also work requires repetitive movements, extensive walking, standing, bending and kneeling. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 50 pounds. Worker will use hand tools and power equipment. The tools/ equipment will include but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, forklifts, leaf blowers, and cart movers.
Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to livestock on the open range: feeds and waters livestock, herds livestock to pasture for grazing; examines animals to detect diseases and injuries; assists with the vaccination of livestock by herding into corral and/or stall or manually restraining animal on the range; applies medications to cuts and bruises; sprays livestock with insecticide; assists with castration; clips ID notches on or brands animals. Workers must be physically able to perform all duties described. Must be able to ride and handle horses in a manner to assure the safety of the worker, coworker, and livestock. Must be able to find and maintain bearings to grazing areas. Must be willing and able to occasionally live and work independently or in small groups of workers in isolated areas for extended periods of time. If a worker is able to obtain a valid US driver's license, he or she may be asked to transport other H-2A workers. Workers may be asked to prepare communal meals for other H-2A workers. 10 hours per day is normal but workers may be on call for up to 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Minimum 3 months verifiable work experience required. Employer-paid post-hire, random, upon suspicion and post-accident drug testing required.\n\nPhysical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job: Cannot be afraid of heights; Near vision, far vision; Reasonable dust tolerance; Ability to work different shifts or variable hours; Ability to work quickly; Ability to lift and carry 50 pounds; Ability to work in all types of weather conditions, i.e. fog, wind, heat, etc.; Prolonged standing, riding and / or walking on uneven ground during the work shift, and bending over repeatedly; Good finger dexterity; Firm grip; Repetitive movement of arms and shoulders, above and below head level; Repetitive use of wrists and hands; Pull, push and stretch repeatedly. \nThe work activities involve the herding or production of livestock (which includes work that is closely and directly related to herding and/or the production of livestock), as defined under § 655.210(b)(2).\n
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor. \nPlanting of vegetables: A tractor will go over the fields making holes for the plants, workers will grab a tray of plants from the truck, walking down the rows the worker will put one plants per hole, when finish with the tray, the worker will walk back to the truck and grab another tray of plants, repeating the process through the work day. \nHarvesting vegetables: Once at the picking location, doing a row at a time, workers will move down the rows plucking the vegetables from the plants and putting them in a container. Once the container is full the worker will take the container to the truck and dump the content. The worker will go back to his picking area and fill his container up again, repeating the process through the work day. \nField Maintenance: workers will tie, stake and prune plants, clean micro jets and remove plastic drip lines, using hands or a hoe workers will remove dead plants and weeds. The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in a possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly. The employer will provides the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time.\n\nStrawberry Planting: Workers will place the strawberry plant in a machine dug hole. Worker will fill in hole on all sides making sure the strawberry plant is securely in place.\n\nStrawberry Harvest: The top of each flat or clamshell will be hand-placed correctly, meaning only the red of the strawberries will be shown in the presentation. All pint cups are to be covered where they are not seen. Each worker will get rows at the beginning of the season and that will be their row all year long. It is the workers responsibility to maintain the upkeep of the rows, including cleaning the bushes each time you pick of berries not suitable for sale (too small, deformed berries, rotten, etc.)\n\nCutting Strawberry Runners: Move down the rows and cut and remove all strawberry runners as instructed.\n\nTomato Harvest - Grape, Plum, or Cherry: Unless otherwise instructed, only tomatoes that have broken color on the bottom (turning pink) are to be picked. All green tomatoes are UNACCEPTABLE! Grape tomatoes will only be picked red & high orange - no pink, no breakers and no green. All buckets will be filled to the top without being "shaken" (making it appear more tomatoes are in the bucket than there really are).\n\nStaking: Move down row and pound in wooden stake next to each plant as instructed.\n\nTying: Move down row tying plant to stake as instructed.\n\nPlastic and Drip-tape Removal: Unhook drip-tape from main water line, walk down row while pulling plastic down the bed until it is completely removed. Take removed plastic to burning station located at the end of row.\n\nSquash Harvest: Move down assigned row and pick proper size, shape and color of squash, place into container and when full, take to field shed.\n\nPepper Harvest: Move down assigned row and pick proper size, shape and color, place into a container and when full, take to field shed.\n\nBean Harvest: Worker will move down assigned row picking all mature beans. Beans are placed into a container.\n\nPea Harvest: Move down row, pick peas and place in bucket until bucket is full.\n\nWatermelon: Workers will be required to turn watermelon vines from drive-rows. Instruction will be given for each task and standards of performance communicated to worker. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness.\n\nWatermelon Harvesting: The worker will walk through the field and cut only those watermelons that are ripe. The worker will take the watermelon to the field truck. Repeat process.\n\nCantaloupe Harvesting: The worker will talk through the field and cut only those cantaloupes that are ripe. The worker will take the cantaloupe to the field truck. Repeat process.\n\nOnion Harvesting: Pick mature onions out of the ground. Onions will be sorted by small, medium, and large sized and placed in bins.\n\nWeeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand.\n
We have to start our season September 2 this year to prepare/service machinery and equipment before the harvest time. We were short on workers last year and it put us behind on servicing our machinery/equipment. \n\nWe operate a tree nursery , growing ornamental shade trees and palms . We need seasonal employees to assist with growing , pruning , fertilizing , digging , loading , off -loading and planting. Employees will assist with harvesting trees , mowing and weeding . Employer may pay performance -based incentive bonuses at the end of the contract period at the employer 's discretion . Employer may provide pay increases for longevity and experience. Employer will conduct random post - hire drug testing at employer 's expense and will conduct post -hire background checks at employer ' s expense. Require 3 months experience.
Crops/Commodities: \nsweet corn and green beans. \nPlant, cultivate and harvest vegetables. Use hand tools including, but not limited to: shovels, hoes and knives. Plant roots, seeds and bulbs. Spread plastic or other groundcovering. Clean plastic by hand from ground upon removal. Till soil. Weed and thin plants. Transplant plants by hand. Stake/tie plants, trellis/prune plants, and set poles and wires for vine plants. Pick, cut, lift, or pull crops. Tie vegetables in bunches. Grade, size and field pack product. Take care to prevent damaging produce and plants. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Connect irrigation drip tape using scissors, screwdriver and/or tweezers. Check daily for water leaks. Repair water leaks as needed. Disconnect irrigation hoses to avoid disrupting harvesting equipment. \n\nWork is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. \n\nWorkers will stand at a conveyor belt grading and/or packing sweet corn or green beans. Workers may also harvest and pack corn by hand in the corn fields in which the corn is growing. The workers may be placing hand picked corn on a conveyor belt or into bins/crates/RPC/eco boxes or other containers. Workers may also pack crates/RPC/eco boxes or other containers with 48 ears of corn on a packing line at the packinghouse. Workers on the bean packing line may grade beans, fill and close containers, weigh containers or stack containers of beans on pallets. Workers may stack crates/RPC/eco boxes or other cases onto pallets. \n\nWorkers will operate machines to trim and wrap corn. Workers may operate machines to label and detect metal in packages of corn. Individuals will work in teams packing trays containing 4, 5, or 8 trimmed cobs of sweet corn. Workers will also work to ensure all quality control processes and policies are met. Workers may also pack crates/RPC/eco boxes or other containers with 48 ears of corn. Trimmed ears will be placed into styrofoam trays in 4, 5, or 8 packs depending on the specifications of the customer. Workers will also pack trays into cases and stack cases onto pallets. Excellent manual dexterity is required in both hands to grasp corn repeatedly throughout the shift. Workers may occasionally empty containers of corn weighing up to 50 lbs. for packing or disposal purposes. Employees must be able to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs. repeatedly throughout the day. Must be able to work in 34 – 90 degree F work environment or outside temperature.
\nTHIS IS A DESCRIPTION FOR Field Laborer/Cutter Harvesting Ornamental Greenery Leatherleaf, Plumosus, Sprengeri\n\n1. Replanting and maintaining plants and general cleanup.\n\n2. Select and cut fern according to size, types, or grades as instructed by the supervisor.\n\n3. Provide general labor to assist in the establishment of new fields properties by clearing property, planting trees, building greenhouses, repair and spreading of composted material and any other labor considered necessary for the efficient structure of new greenhouse properties.\n\n4. Care for trees during growing process- recognize tree disease\n\n5. Repair sprinklers on overhead cooling system.\n\n6. Farm clean up tasks to include picking up garbage around the farms, removing old building supplies, and other hand tasks.\n\n7. The Worker must be adept at safely placing and using ladders. Much of the work will be done from an aluminum ladder up to 12 feet in height.\n\n8. Hand tools, such as pruning hooks, shears, and/or picking bags will be utilized.\n\nWorkers can also:\n\n1. Drive tractors\n2. Spray and mix chemicals and fertilizers\n3. Operate trucks to carry farm equipment, crops and farmworkers\n4. Perform general repair of agricultural equipment.\n5. Pack crops into containers.\n\n
Job duties include operating farm equipment for the purposes of unloading and loading fresh fruit boxes in the field, loading and unloading tubs in the field for processed fruit, moving farm equipment between fields, operating a bus with a CDL license with Passenger endorsement for the purposes of transporting workers to the worksite. Also transporting raw citrus products owned by Sorrells Citrus, Inc. from the field to the processing plant.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all the following job specifications. \n\nDrive and Service Tractors: Workers are required to service and maintain all machinery that they will be using to perform their assigned tasks. This will include, but is not limited to, checking, and maintaining all fluid levels, greasing all Zerk fittings, blowing out debris from air filters and radiators, cleaning windows and maintaining the general cleanliness and day to day functionality of the equipment. Worker is required to fill fuel tanks.\n\nDisking Fields: Workers are required to disk fields both pre-crop and post-crop. They will be informed the number of times and the direction of travel by their supervisor.\n\nHarvesting: Workers are required to operate a tractor pulling a field wagon. Workers will load wagon with empty pallets and empty crates either with a forklift or by hand and move them to the field. Workers will back wagon up, and safely maintain contact with the mule train, while the wagon is loaded. Workers will be required to move the loaded wagon to the ramp for the loaded pallets to be offloaded. This process will be repeated throughout the day.\n\nCultivation: Worker will be required to use provided tractor and cultivator to cultivate fields in a proper and safe manner. Worker will be required to maintain this equipment.\n\nFertilizing: Worker will be required to maintain tractors and fertilizer equipment, and to use equipment to fertilize the corn as directed by their supervisor.\n\nForklift: Workers will be required to operate a forklift for purposes which include, but are not limited to, the loading and unloading of pallets for the field wagons and the trucks. \n\nTopper: Workers are required to maintain the topping equipment, and to use equipment to top the corn as directed by their supervisor.\n\nIrrigation: Workers are required to set up, provide general maintenance, and operate the rain reels as directed by their supervisor.\n\nDrainage: Workers are required to maintain field drainage channels. This includes clearing blockages, re-digging clogged channels, and digging more channels. The employer will provide a shovel.\n\nSecuring Loads: Workers are required to assist in the securing of loads with straps and cables to facilitate their safe transport. \n\nMaintain Clean Environment: The worker will be required to pick up by hand and place debris from throughout the production area into containers provided. \n\nPick Corn: Worker will be required to walk along behind the mule train and pick corn and throw it into the appropriate bin, while keeping pace with the speed of the mule train.\n\nPack Corn: Worker will be required to pack corn, into the appropriate crates, as designated by their supervisor. Worker will be required to keep pace with the pickers filling the bin in the workers area.\n\nLight Mechanical Work: Worker will be required to perform light mechanical work on various pieces of equipment.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all the following job specifications. \n\nThe essential work activity involves moving highly perishable agricultural crops. The haulers are required to complete each step of the haul as part of necessary field to processing facility activities for the harvest. Haulers must be able to operate tractors, trailers, semi-trailers and harvesters. Haulers must be physically and mentally healthy. Each worker is expected to operate hauling vehicles efficiently and safely through all types of routes. Haulers must be able to operate tractors, trailers, semi-trailers, and have adequate knowledge to make minor adjustments or repairs to these vehicles. Must have a CDL, or equivalent license, pass a required drivers license background check, and mandated drug/alcohol test. Haulers must have and maintain a suitable driving record and be insured by the employers insurance company.
Picking tangerines, fresh or juice, place the ladder in the tree and cut stem with a hand pruner at the point where the stem enters the tangerine, harvest fruit by clipping off their stems with hand pruner. Do not injure the skin with tree branches or pruner during harvesting. Use picking sack to put fruit into, take picking sack to the bin and gently remove the fruit from the sack and put into the bins. When picking oranges, fresh or juice, place ladder in the tree and secure and pick oranges by snapping the orange off the stem put orange into pick sack and then empty into the tub or bin in the field. Pumelo fresh or juice spot pick on color and size then clip with a hand clipper, place in the basket on the ground, then take basket when full to the bin at the end of the row and place fruit in bin one fruit at the time not to damage the fruit. When picking blueberries, using both hands until each hand is full and empty in the buckets approx. weight 6 lbs. When buckets are full the worker will immediately carry the bucket to the weight wagon, workers will dump each filled bucket into a lug where the worker will sort through the harvested berries and remove any berries that do not meet the company standards, worker will return to blueberry row where he will repeat the process.
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. Planting and Cutting sugar cane, continuous two-stalk plant, chopped into 32-36” lengths. Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach harvestable crop; Pulls, twists, or cuts fibers, leaves, stalks, straw, or vines, selected according to color, size, and shape, from bolls, roots, stalks, or trellises; by hand or using knife, machete, or sickle; Collects crop into containers, such as bags, boxes, and bundles, or piles and stacks crop in windrows; Picks up and carries bundles, bales, containers, or stacks of harvested crop to collection point, and loads crop onto truck or wagon, by hand or using hoist or hooks; May tie leaves, stalks, straws, or vines into bundles, using twine, clamps, or rubber bands; May shake dirt from vines and stack vines or straw around stakes or stalks, by hand or using pitchfork, to protect crop from weathering on damp soil; May gather up and load scattered leaves, vines, or pods on truck; May burn debris, leaves, and stalks. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers will walk along rows specified by the employer and will remove grass and weeds from the fields using their hands or with a hoe. Workers will be standing, crouching, bending, and reaching for an extended period. During field operations workers may be required to drive a tractor pulling a wagon through the field or between fields incidental to the job being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving. The work is outdoors and will continue in all kinds of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. \nFailure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All drug testing and background checks will occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. \n\nMust be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Workers must be able to lift 70 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70 lbs. in field. Workers must work at a sustained (continuing for an extended period of time without interruption), vigorous pace (quick and steady) and make bona fide efforts (made in earnest intent) to work efficiently (performing or functions in the best possible manner with the least water of time and effort), and consistently (same way for a long time) that are reasonable under the climatic and other working conditions to ensure they meet the employers established production and quality standard. \n\n
Crops/Commodities: \nsugar cane. \nPlant and harvest sugarcane. Prepare fields for planting. Hand plant sugarcane in rows at designated intervals. Drain excess water from fields. Chop/segment sugarcane stalks with machetes or other tools as directed by employer. Operate and control sugarcane combine, and/or follow harvester on foot through field and pick up dropped sugarcane. Load and unload harvested sugarcane. Transport harvested sugar cane on farm. Before moving their assigned tractor on the farm, the operator will complete a pre-trip inspection of the tractor, including adding engine fluid, changing the oil, checking brakes and tires, and cleaning filters. Once the raw sugarcane crop is cut, meaning the sugarcane stalks are severed from their roots by a self-powered mechanical harvesting machine, the sugarcane is mechanically deposited into the field cart that is moved by the tractor to a location within the growing field for loading. The operator is not hauling the harvested sugarcane of the farm. They are moving it by tractor to a location for loading. At the end of the shift, the tractor driver will make sure that the tractor is clean and ready for the next worker.\n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates.\n \nApply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nWorkers must operate all equipment properly and in a manner that protects operator, others, the employer's products and property. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination.\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\n\nOutdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Work is done outdoors for long periods of time and requires prolonged periods of standing and/or walking, repetitive movements, and frequent bending and/or stooping. Workers must be able to handle, lift, and carry heavy or bulky objects (product, containers) in accordance with the specified lifting requirements. \n\nEmployer requires all newly-hired employees to take and pass an employer-paid drug test before starting work. Drug test not required for prospective applicants prior to hiring decision. All testing is conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. Workers testing positive will be immediately terminated and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any. In the case of a non-local or foreign worker who is terminated for failure to pass a drug test, the employer will arrange least-cost transportation to the worker's place of recruitment, at the worker's expense.
Crops/Commodities: \nspinach. \nThis job requires a minimum of 12 months of verifiable prior experience performing duties associated with operating and performing routine maintenance on GPS equipped farming equipment, and/or 12 months of verifiable experience repairing and maintaining electrical systems and hardware of pivots. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. \n\nDriving tractors and planters, will plant, cultivate, and harvest spinach. Workers will drive and operate one or more GPS equipped farm machines, such as tractors, Bottom Switch plows, Grimme planters, Windrowers, line equipment with holding tanks, dry brushers, grading tables, harvesters, pumps, tilling equipment, trucks, holding tanks, case-loaders, pivots, pilers, windrowers, Dammer Dykes (cultivators) and other mechanized, electrically powered or motor-driven equipment, on farms or in farm equipment repair shops. Workers will operate the farm machinery, equipment and vehicles. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the equipment before driving the equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate equipment, with or without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors, other employees, crops, trees, facilities and equipment. Failure to comply with operating and safety standards may result in termination. This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality specifications must be rigorously adhered to. The equipment workers will be operating and maintaining is expensive and dangerous. Workers are expected to follow the employer's requests to not only prevent damage to the equipment, but to also prevent injuries to workers. Any equipment damaged by a worker's failure to follow instructions or damaged due to malice will be charged to the worker. \n \nWorkers may hitch soil conditioning implements, such as plow or harrow to tractor, and operate tractor and towed implement to furrow and grade soil. Workers will drive tractors and operate designated towed machines, such as drill or manure spreader, to plant, fertilize, dust and spray crops. Prepares harvesting machine by adjusting speeds of cutters, blowers and conveyors and height of cutting head or depth of digging blades according to type, height, weight and condition of crop being harvested, and contour of terrain. Attaches towed or mounted-type harvesting machine to tractor using hand tools or drives self-propelled harvesting machine to cut, pull up, dig, thresh, clean, chop, bag or bundle crops. \n \nWorkers will perform irrigation activities, including setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment. \n \nWhile the workers main duties are associated with operation of the spinach growing equipment, workers will also be required to perform routine maintenance on the equipment, as well. Examines and listens to machines, motors, gasoline and diesel engines and equipment for operational defects and dismantles defective units, using hand-tools. Repairs or replaces defective parts, using hand tools and shop tools. Workers will replace components, such as carburetors, fuel pumps, generators, ignition points and spark plugs. Reassembles, adjusts and lubricates machines and equipment to ensure efficient operation. May install and repair wiring and motors to maintain farm electrical system. May assist other workers in more complex maintenance tasks, such as overhaul of machinery and equipment. May construct and repair buildings and other farm structures. May assemble new farm machinery and equipment.\n \nWorkers will be required to prepare farm land for planting. This includes removing trash, trees, stumps, rocks and any other debris or material that will interfere with planting and harvesting crops. Workers will be required to dig ditches for the installation of pipe and to prevent erosion.
Deckhand will haul traps, harvest seafood,clean boat, and any additional duties related to the boat.\n\nDeckhand will load traps and bait into the vessel; tie market float to the line, attach the line to trap; fasten bait inside trap, and lower trap into the water using a hydraulic winch, once loading trap onboard the vessel, deckhand #1 slides from the trap and places it on a conveyor to deckhand #2 who pressure-washes trap using a water hose and removes traps lid. Deckhand #3 takes out only legal-size crab from the trap and places it on a live well or container and breaks off only legal-size claws from the crab. Deckhands will repair it on the spot in a manner that does not slow the overall fishing operation. If major repairs are needed, deckhands will set the trap/pot aside and bring it to the dock to be repaired. Deckhands will also secure and remove the vessel's docking lines to and from docks and other vessels, deckhands will load traps on vessels and unload them onto the dock by hand or using hoisting equipment. The deckhand will wash the deck, traps, and conveyors using water hoses and assist the captain as required. Working conditions may include excessive heat and/or cold, rainy days and cold weather on deck, confined spaces, sleep deprivation, and fatigue. Must be able to repeatedly lift, slide and/or stack traps/pots weighing from 30 to 75 pounds up to two (2) meters high. Deckhands will convene very early in the morning to be taken to predetermined fishing grounds where traps/pots were dropped at the beginning of the season. N
Workers will perform various duties associated with planting, cultivating, and harvesting Sugarcane.\n\nWorkers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Workers will be trained in the proper field and shed sanitation. Workers must follow field and shed sanitation requirements at all times. Not following these requirements are cause for Discipline and/or Termination.\n\nWorker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. \n\nPlanting and Cutting sugar cane, continuous two-stalk plant, chopped into 32-36” lengths. Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach harvestable crop; Pulls, twists, or cuts fibers, leaves, stalks, straw, or vines, selected according to color, size, and shape, from bolls, roots, stalks, or trellises; by hand or using knife, machete, or sickle; Collects crop into containers, such as bags, boxes, and bundles, or piles and stacks crop in windrows; Picks up and carries bundles, bales, containers, or stacks of harvested crop to collection point, and loads crop onto truck or wagon, by hand or using hoist or hooks; May tie leaves, stalks, straws, or vines into bundles, using twine, clamps, or rubber bands; May shake dirt from vines and stack vines or straw around stakes or stalks, by hand or using pitchfork, to protect crop from weathering on damp soil; May gather up and load scattered leaves, vines, or pods on truck; May burn debris, leaves, and stalks. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers will walk along rows specified by the employer. Workers will be standing, crouching, bending, and reaching for an extended period. During field operations workers may be required to drive a tractor pulling a wagon through the field or between fields incidental to the job being performed. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving. The work is outdoors and will continue in all kinds of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All drug testing and background checks will occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nWorkers must be able to lift 70 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70 lbs. in field. Workers must work at a sustained (continuing for an extended period of time without interruption), vigorous pace (quick and steady) and make bona fide efforts (made in earnest intent) to work efficiently (performing or functions in the best possible manner with the least water of time and effort), and consistently (same way for a long time) that are reasonable under the climatic and other working conditions to ensure they meet the employers established production and quality standard. New planters and choppers will have a 3-day probation period in which afterwards they will be expected to plant a minimum of 1 row, ½ mile long per hour. Any worker not meeting this standard after the probation period is subject to discharge. \n
Crops/Commodities: \nsugar cane. \nPlant and harvest sugarcane. Prepare fields for planting. Hand plant sugarcane in rows at designated intervals. Drain excess water from fields. Chop/segment sugarcane stalks with machetes or other tools as directed by employer. Operate and control sugarcane combine, and/or follow harvester on foot through field and pick up dropped sugarcane. Load and unload harvested sugarcane. Transport harvested sugar cane on farm. Before moving their assigned tractor on the farm, the operator will complete a pre-trip inspection of the tractor, including adding engine fluid, changing the oil, checking brakes and tires, and cleaning filters. Once the raw sugarcane crop is cut, meaning the sugarcane stalks are severed from their roots by a self-powered mechanical harvesting machine, the sugarcane is mechanically deposited into the field cart that is moved by the tractor to a location within the growing field for loading. The operator is not hauling the harvested sugarcane of the farm. They are moving it by tractor to a location for loading. At the end of the shift, the tractor driver will make sure that the tractor is clean and ready for the next worker.\n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates.\n\nApply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nWorkers must operate all equipment properly and in a manner that protects operator, others, the employer's products and property. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination.\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\n\nOutdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Work is done outdoors for long periods of time and requires prolonged periods of standing and/or walking, repetitive movements, and frequent bending and/or stooping. Workers must be able to handle, lift, and carry heavy or bulky objects (product, containers) in accordance with the specified lifting requirements. \n\nEmployer requires all newly-hired employees to take and pass an employer-paid drug test before starting work. Drug test not required for prospective applicants prior to hiring decision. All testing is conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. Workers testing positive will be immediately terminated and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any. In the case of a non-local or foreign worker who is terminated for failure to pass a drug test, the employer will arrange least-cost transportation to the worker's place of recruitment, at the worker's expense.
Duties include field and greenhouse work: seed sowing, planting (by hand and mechanical), weeding, staking, trellising crops, harvesting, irrigation maintenance/installation, greenhouse crop culture, washing and packing produce in totes and boxes, occasional packing organic produce, and loading and unloading trucks of harvested produce. Crops include eggplant, pepper, tomato, tomatillo, okra, potato, sweet potato, onion, cucumber, squash, green bean, lettuce, cabbage, greens, kale, spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, celery, carrot, radish, beet, snap pea, strawberry, watermelon, various herbs and spices, ginger, turmeric, leek, roselle, and flowers. \n\n(Continued on Addendum C)
Agricultural equipment operators use a variety of farm equipment to plow and sow seeds, as well as maintain and harvest crops. They may use tractors, fertilizer spreaders, balers, combines, threshers, and trucks. These workers also operate machines such as conveyor belts, loading machines, separators, cleaners, and dryers. Workers may make adjustments and minor repairs to equipment. Drives gasoline or diesel-powered tractor to move materials, draw farm implements, tow trailers, pull out objects embedded in ground, or pull cable of winch to raise, lower, or load heavy material or equipment: Fastens attachments, such as graders, plows, and rollers, to tractor with hitchpins. Drive and control farm equipment to till soil and to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops.\n\nLos operadores de equipos agrícolas utilizan una variedad de equipos agrícolas para arar y sembrar semillas, así como para mantener y cosechar cultivos. Pueden utilizar tractores, esparcidores de fertilizantes, empacadoras, cosechadoras, trilladoras y camiones. Estos trabajadores también operan máquinas como cintas transportadoras, máquinas de carga, separadores, limpiadores y secadores. Los trabajadores pueden hacer ajustes y reparaciones menores al equipo. Conduce tractores de gasolina o diésel para mover materiales, arrastrar implementos agrícolas, remolcar remolques, sacar objetos incrustados en el suelo o tirar del cable del cabrestante para elevar, bajar o cargar materiales o equipos pesados: Sujeta accesorios, como niveladoras, arados , y rodillos, al tractor con enganches. Conduzca y controle el equipo agrícola para labrar el suelo y plantar, cultivar y cosechar cultivos.
Crops: Cabbage, Broccoli, Potatoes, Leafy Greens, Cauliflower, Corn & Lettuce\nSanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities. All workers must report all injuries and illnesses to their employer. As well any communicable disease such as but not limited to diarrhea, or any other infectious disease or illness. Workers shall report immediately any cuts or abrasions that cause open bleeding. \n\nWorkers will plant, cultivate, and harvest employer’s crops. Workers will perform support duties such as preparing fields and for planting, and general field clean-up such as, weeding, rock pick up, and digging drainage ditches. Workers will perform general shop/yard/farm cleanup and maintenance such as power washing, painting, raking, leveling, firewood, and fence repair. Workers will operate tractors and farm vehicles on the farm as an incidental activity Workers will also using riding planter and harvester. Workers will also stack, sort, pick, pack, and grade crops.\nWorkers will work in all duties involved in planting, growing and harvest all listed crops. Workers will plant, cultivate and harvest crops. Workers will cut planting slips, and place in container according to instructions. Workers will use care when working with a knife. Workers will walk along row that have been previously plowed. Workers will drip potato slips into ground and cover back up with dirt. Workers will remove weeds manual either by hand or with a hoe. Workers will stoop, bend and kneel to pick up potatoes using hands and fingers to dig out exposed potatoes. Workers may grade in the field separating #1’s and #2’s into separate 5/8 field hampers. Canners, when harvested will be placed into a separate bin. Damaged and diseased potatoes will not be harvested. Full hampers weighting up to 35 lbs. will be carried to ruck row to be loaded into truck or trailer. Workers will be required to stay on their assigned row. Workers may also be required to wash the potatoes and get the ready for sale. \n\nPacking House: Workers will perform various duties associated with packing employer’s products. Workers will flow standard work methods and practice safe work habits to ensure production is as efficient and safe as possible. Workers must follow all standard food safety methods and practices to ensure product is handled in clean and safe manner. Workers must remove sprouts and/or strings from potatoes as they move along the line. Workers will sort potatoes according to customers’ specifications by removing rotten, and damaged and out of specification potatoes from pack line. Workers will fold and stack cardboard and/or reusable plastic containers. All production workers are expected to be available to work in all areas of production. \n\nFarm Equipment Operation During Field Operations: Workers will be required to operate tractors, forkifts, trucks, sprayers, fertilizer applicators, and other farm equipment as an incidental activity in the production of crops. Workers will use mechanical potato harvesting equipment. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, the worker will be instructed in the proper and safe operation of tractor. Workers must notify supervisor of any mechanical issues. Workers will be required to operate tractors according to instructions and in a manner, that protects the operator, other workers, trees, crops and equipment. Failure to obey operating and safety instructions may result in termination. Failure to obey traffic laws will result in termination of driving privileges. \n\n
Perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, harvest, grade and field pack cucumber, bell pepper, chili peppers, squash, tomotoes and cabbage by hand and machine. Operate farm vehicles, implements and mechanical equipment including tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plant and harvest crops. Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes and knives.\n\nTill soil. Work alongside tractor and trailer that are moving through the field while workers harvest produce. Workers will not break skin of tomato, drop tomato, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Clean, pack and load harvested tomatoes. Install or remove items required in plasticulture. Install and remove stakes, wire, netting and string. Grade, sort, wash, select, label, pack and load harvested products.\n\nBell peppers, chili peppers and cucumbers will be manually harvested by walking through the field and picking into baskets, carrying full baskets to dumpers riding on trailers moving alongside rows, and dumping into bins on the trailer. Pick squash by hand, field pack into boxes and load full boxes onto the back of trailers.\n\nCabbage will be cut at the base using a knife and either tossed into bins or a bulk wagon, or placed into boxes weighing approximately 50 lbs. in the field and loaded onto trailers. Pack cabbage on line. Determine maturity level of produce quickly and consistently by color, feel and size and apply correct defect tolerance, handling and harvest standards as instructed by supervisor.\n\nLay, tuck and/or remove plastic. Clean plastic of debris. Participate in irrigation activities including setting up, repairing, operating and maintaining drip and other irrigation equipment. Manually pull weeds, mow, weed eat and remove used stakes and string. Stake, string, tie, prune, sucker, thin and prune crops, as instructed by supervisor. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from ground or trellises. Train vines or plants on strings or trellises. Clean fields when harvest activities are complete. Till soil. Clear and maintain fields and irrigation ditches.\n\nWorkers in warehouse will stack, grade and pack produce into appropriate containers. Make boxes for produce. Operate forklifts for feeding packing line.\n\nWorkers must select harvestable produce based on correct size, maturity and quality. Workers will not break skin, damage, drop or bruise produce, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Workers must discard and destroy produce that has been in contact with blood. Any produce harvested or still on the plant that has been exposed to blood shall be discarded and destroyed. Workers must pass by or discard any produce that bears obvious signs of pest activity, fecal contamination, plant disease, or physical damage, or any produce that has been dropped on the ground. Workers must wash buckets, tools and equipment to avoid unnecessary introduction of soil into harvest containers and field bins, or onto tools or other harvesting equipment. Count and check harvested produce in the field. Repair fences and farm buildings. Workers with a valid license and doctor's certificate may transport other workers using approved vehicles and may be offered additional hours.\n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays.
Frontline Supervisor - Must be able to drive a forklift and farm tractor. Able to communicate in English verbally and in writing. Should be able to lift up to 40 pounds and be up and moving around for up to 9 hours per day. Must be willing to work weekends when required.\n\nSeeding - Ornamental and Vegetable seed sown into trays filled with peat. Will be trained to use our seeding machines. Should be able to supervise a crew of up to 15 employees. Foliage- harvesting cuttings, sticking cuttings in media, placing into a greenhouse. Must have the ability to learn requirements for up to 50 different varieties. Assist in shipping once the crop has grown.\n\nBusiness to Consumer - Assist in hand seeding 80+ varieties of vegetable and ornamental plants into stabilized media. Learn how to monitor those crops in the germination chambers and when to remove them for placement into the greenhouse.\n\nMaintenance - Able to follow instructions for replacing greenhouse plastic. Must be able to work in hot greenhouses repairing benches (with instructions).\n\nPerform manual and mechanized tasks associated with the production of greenhouse plants and other horticultural products. Plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery stock, trees, shrubs, bedding plants, plugs, liners, hanging baskets, and other horticultural varieties. Propagate plants from cuttings. Plant/pot seedlings, fill and label trays, move product to/from greenhouses and/or loading/unloading areas. Crimp wire baskets. Attach hangers to baskets and hang throughout holding houses. Move containerized plants using rolling/electric carts. Unload/unload trucks and product from conveyor belt. Install/remove plastic coverings. Clean/maintain work area.\n\nPrune, trim, and perform other general plant maintenance. Water or irrigate plants, and apply fertilizer or other chemicals. Maintain irrigation systems. Tie/position plants by tying or wrapping as necessary. Wrap plants with burlap and other coverings as necessary. Count, inventory, and grade plants and trees. Pack, label, tag, pull, sort, and store plants by variety. \n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates. \n\nApply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nWorkers must operate all equipment properly and in a manner that protects operator, others, the employer’s products and property. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination. Internal forklift and tractor licenses will be issued by Speedling after training and certification requirements have been completed.\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\n\n
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor. \nPlanting of vegetables: A tractor will go over the fields making holes for the plants, workers will grab a tray of plants from the truck, walking down the rows the worker will put one plants per hole, when finish with the tray, the worker will walk back to the truck and grab another tray of plants, repeating the process through the work day. \nHarvesting of vegetables: Once at the picking location, doing a row at a time, workers will move down the rows plucking the vegetables from the plants and putting them in a bucket/bushel. Once the bucket/bushel is full the worker will take the bucket/bushel to the truck and dump the bucket/bushel. The worker will go back to his picking area and fill his bucket/bushel up again, repeating the process through the work day.\nPacking: Trucks will take the harvested vegetables to the packing house (which is located inside the farm) where they will be separated by size, labeled and packed.\nField Maintenance: workers will tie, stake and prune plants, clean micro jets and remove plastic drip lines, using hands or a hoe workers will remove dead plants and weeds. The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in a possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly. The employer will provides the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.\n
The job activities focus on tomato production from summer through spring.\nPerformance Standards: Must be able to meet Production Standards. Four weeks of not meeting the required production standards, an employee maybe terminated or ineligible to return to work for Gargiulo, Inc.. Must be available to work every day during the season and Sunday and Federal holidays when needed on a voluntarily basis. \n\nResponsibilities: Arrive at bus sites on time as instructed. Bring company I.D. to scan in and out. Must follow work instructions and proper safety procedures. Understand and adhere to all company safety rules, policies and safety practices. Perform all job activities as assigned by the farm manager / staff. \n\nPhysical Requirements: Tolerate hot and cool temperatures for 6 to 8 hours a day. Comply with requirements for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clothing. Workers must wear pants, shirts with long sleeves, shoes or boots (no sandals) and no jewelry (except for wedding band or medical bracelet). Work in outdoor environment; able to tolerate pests, weeds, grasses and allergens. Must be able to stand, walk, stoop, bend, kneel, stretch, crouch and squat for extended periods of time.\n\nRequisitos físicos: tolerar temperaturas cálidas y frías durante 6 a 8 horas al día. Cumplir con los requisitos de Equipo de Protección Personal (EPP) y vestimenta. Los trabajadores deben usar pantalones, camisas de manga larga, zapatos o botas (sin sandalias) y sin joyas (excepto el anillo de matrimonio o el brazalete médico). Trabajar en ambiente al aire libre; capaz de tolerar plagas, malas hierbas, maleza y alérgenos. Debe poder pararse, caminar, agacharse, doblarse, arrodillarse, estirarse, inclinarse y ponerse en cuclillas durante largos períodos de tiempo.\n
Perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, harvest, grade and field pack cucumber, bell pepper, chili peppers, squash, tomotoes and cabbage by hand and machine. Operate farm vehicles, implements and mechanical equipment including tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plant and harvest crops. Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes and knives.\n\nTill soil. Work alongside tractor and trailer that are moving through the field while workers harvest produce. Workers will not break skin of tomato, drop tomato, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Clean, pack and load harvested tomatoes. Install or remove items required in plasticulture. Install and remove stakes, wire, netting and string. Grade, sort, wash, select, label, pack and load harvested products.\n\nBell peppers, chili peppers and cucumbers will be manually harvested by walking through the field and picking into baskets, carrying full baskets to dumpers riding on trailers moving alongside rows, and dumping into bins on the trailer. Pick squash by hand, field pack into boxes and load full boxes onto the back of trailers.\n\nCabbage will be cut at the base using a knife and either tossed into bins or a bulk wagon, or placed into boxes weighing approximately 50 lbs. in the field and loaded onto trailers. Pack cabbage on line. Determine maturity level of produce quickly and consistently by color, feel and size and apply correct defect tolerance, handling and harvest standards as instructed by supervisor.\n\nLay, tuck and/or remove plastic. Clean plastic of debris. Participate in irrigation activities including setting up, repairing, operating and maintaining drip and other irrigation equipment. Manually pull weeds, mow, weed eat and remove used stakes and string. Stake, string, tie, prune, sucker, thin and prune crops, as instructed by supervisor. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from ground or trellises. Train vines or plants on strings or trellises. Clean fields when harvest activities are complete. Till soil. Clear and maintain fields and irrigation ditches.\n\nWorkers in warehouse will stack, grade and pack produce into appropriate containers. Make boxes for produce. Operate forklifts for feeding packing line.\n\nWorkers must select harvestable produce based on correct size, maturity and quality. Workers will not break skin, damage, drop or bruise produce, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Workers must discard and destroy produce that has been in contact with blood. Any produce harvested or still on the plant that has been exposed to blood shall be discarded and destroyed. Workers must pass by or discard any produce that bears obvious signs of pest activity, fecal contamination, plant disease, or physical damage, or any produce that has been dropped on the ground. Workers must wash buckets, tools and equipment to avoid unnecessary introduction of soil into harvest containers and field bins, or onto tools or other harvesting equipment. Count and check harvested produce in the field. Repair fences and farm buildings. Workers with a valid license and doctor's certificate may transport other workers using approved vehicles and may be offered additional hours.\n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays.
Crops/Commodities: \nPotted Flowering and Tropical Plants. \nThe following duties are a general outline of the Grower position:\n\nPerform daily tasks to ensure plants are growing to their capacity.\n\nIncluding watering, fertilization, weed control and pest management.\n\nLearn and integrate techniques for quality production for each variety grown.\n\nRespond quickly and effectively to crop requirements.\n\nDevelop a sense of when things are not right and then ask or act.\n\nAssist staff in all areas of planting through packing. \n\nCommunicate effectively with the Operations Manager to ensure quality expectations are met.\n\nKeep care of company assets under your control.\n\nBe responsible for maintaining an organized, clean and safe environment.\n\nSupervise horticultural workers performing indoor and/or outdoor plant production activities. Assign daily work duties, train workers in planting, cultivating, or harvesting techniques. Train workers on safety protocols and safe equipment handling/operation. Perform quality control inspections on products. Observe workers to detect inefficient or unsafe work procedures. Review work to evaluate timeliness and proficiency. Direct or assist with repair of farm equipment or machinery. Prepare reports on production and yield. Supervise chemical application and other associated work activities.\n\nOutdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Work is done outdoors for long periods of time and requires prolonged periods of standing and/or walking, repetitive movements, and frequent bending and/or stooping. Workers must be able to handle, lift, and carry heavy or bulky objects (product, containers) in accordance with the specified lifting requirements. \n\nPersons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. \n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays. Workers will have an unpaid lunch break. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time. \n \n \nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a five-day trial period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker at the conclusion of the trial period if the worker's performance fails to satisfy the employer's reasonable expectations, or is otherwise unacceptable. Employer may terminate a worker for lawful job-related reasons, including but not limited to situations in which the worker: (1) Is repeatedly absent or tardy; (2) malingers or otherwise refuses, without cause, to perform the work as directed; (3) commits act(s) of misconduct or repeatedly violates the Work Rules; and/or (4) fails, after completing the five day trial period, to perform work in a competent and skillful manner, consistent with the employer's reasonable expectations. Non-U.S. workers may be displaced as a result of one or more U.S. workers becoming available for the job during the employer's recruitment period. Job abandonment will be deemed to occur after five consecutive workdays of unexcused absences. Workers may not report for work under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Possession or use of illegal drugs or alcohol on company premises is prohibited and will be cause for immediate termination.
Plant, cultivate and harvest bell pepper & specialty pepper, zucchini, squash & eggplant, green beans, watermelon, sugar cane, rice, lettuce, Asian leafy vegetables & leafy vegetables, herbs, radishes, celery, sweet corn. Land preparation, minor maintenance, weeding, crop maintenance, miscellaneous clean up, hauling produce or any other farm related material including mill mud. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \n\nPlante, cultive y coseche pimiento morrón y pimiento especial, calabacín, calabaza y berenjena, judías verdes, sandía, caña de azúcar, arroz, lechuga, verduras de hoja asiática y verduras de hoja, hierbas, rábanos, apio, maíz dulce. Preparación de la tierra, mantenimiento menor, deshierbe, mantenimiento de cultivos, limpieza miscelánea, transporte de productos o cualquier otro material relacionado con la granja, incluido el lodo del molino. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Debe ser capaz de levantar 50 libras. a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras. en campo El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nWorkers will either harvest and pack various vegetables in the field, load the trucks in the field and/or wash, grade and pack vegetables at the packinghouse. In addition, workers will weed the crops and lay pipes for irrigation.\n\nHarvest and Pack vegetables in field: Worker will walk down assigned rows and cut or pull vegetables from ground, rubber band as needed, and place in assigned container and take to field truck.\n\nTruck Crew (Flat Bed Pick-Up): Load vegetable crates in truck in the field and unload truck at the packinghouse. May be required to drive field trucks. Driver must maintain valid drivers license and approval by the employer's insurance company to drive while hired in driving position.\n\nWash, Grade and Pack vegetables: Worker will wash field vegetables to remove dirt and grade the quality then pack in assigned box in the packinghouse.\n\nLay Pipes for Irrigation: Place irrigation pipes in fields to start irrigation, and remove irrigation pipes from the specified field when watering is complete.\n\nThe employer will provide picking containers and other tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools. The worker must be physically able to work in hot, humid weather, bending and stooping to harvest crop and perform pre-harvest activities.
The worker will perform job duties as assigned by supervisor. They will vary from time to time depending on crop\nripening and weather. The vegetable Planting, harvesting, packing, and field work season is temporary and will last from August to May.\n\nIn order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside 6 to 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather including, but not limited to extreme cold and hot conditions, direct sunlight, and rain and have the required physical strength and endurance to perform the work rapidly and skillfully with their hands. Workers will perform prolonged walking, bending, stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, and carrying 0-75 lbs. \n\nDue to the nature of this type of work, there will be a Probationary Period of six (6) days beginning on the first day of employment for the employee to acclimate to the job specifications listed under the Job Descriptions and Requirements. The worker will be given specific instructions as to how to properly perform the work specified in the Job Description and Requirements Section on the first day of work. Quality work must be performed and adhered to and no messy work will be permitted. If the worker works by the piece rate he/she must make the federal minimum salary after the Probationary Period. At the end of the first work week, the worker will be evaluated. If the worker does not perform the work as specified under the Job Descriptions and Requirements, he/she may be terminated. \n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nField Work- The employee will perform various field work to include but not limited to the following: Prepare the fields for planting-this will consist of putting down and taking off the ground cover, digging trenches, installing and repairing irrigation, planting, weeding, picking up trash, burning trash, and other miscellaneous work. Stringing and Unstringing crop-the employee will take the plant, vine, or bush and place down stakes and tie string from stake to stake and then secure the vine or bush around the twine to help keep it off the ground. At the end of the harvesting season the workers will remove the stakes, twine, and ground cover.\n\nCucumber Hand Harvesting and Packing- In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to walk\ndown the field row carrying a harvesting bucket or box bend down and look for the ripe cucumbers, gently twist\nthem off the vine and place them in the harvesting bucket or box. Some cucumber may be put in plastic bags or\ncartons before it is packed in the box. The worker then takes the full bucket or box of cucumbers over to the\nloading truck and hands it to the truck loader to dump them into large plastic bins or to leave the full boxes on the\ntruck. An empty bucket or box is given back to the worker and the process is started again.\n\nPepper Hand Harvesting (Bell pepper, Jalapeño, Cubanelle, Long Hots, and Poblano)- In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to walk down the field row carrying a harvesting bucket, bend down and look for the ripe peppers, gently twist them off the bush and place them in the harvesting bucket. The worker then takes the full bucket of peppers over to the loading truck and hands it to the truck loader to dump the bucket into large plastic bins. The empty bucket is given back to the worker and the process is started again.\n\nGreen Bean Hand Packing- The green beans are machine picked in the field and brought to the packing shed and placed on a conveyer belt to be sorted and packed.
The worker will perform job duties as assigned by supervisor. The work is temporary and will last from August to April. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for 6 to 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather including, but not limited to extreme cold and hot conditions, direct sunlight, and rain. Workers must have the required physical strength and endurance to repeat the harvesting process rapidly and skillfully involved in this type of work. These job duties include fruit and vegetable harvesting and field work to included the following but not limited to:\n\nPepper Harvesting & Packing- In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to walk down the field row carrying a harvesting bucket, bend down and look for the ripe peppers, gently twist them off the bush and place them in the harvesting bucket or in plastic bags. The worker then takes the full bucket or full boxes of peppers over to the loading truck and hands it to the truck loader to dump the bucket into large plastic bins or to place on the truck. The empty bucket or a new box is given back to the worker and the process is started again.\n\nSquash and Eggplant Harvesting & Packing- In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to walk down the field row carrying a harvesting box, bend down and look for the ripe squash or eggplant and cut the\ncrop off the vine with a knife and place them in the harvesting box. The squash may be bagged before being placed in the box. The worker then takes the full box of squash or eggplant to the loading truck. An empty box is given\nback to the worker and the process is started again.\n\nStrawberry Harvesting & Packing-In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to walk down the field row pushing a harvesting cart that holds a harvesting box, bend down and look for the ripe strawberries. The worker will pick the ripe strawberries off the bush by grasping the stem between their forefinger and thumbnail, then lightly pulling and twisting at the same time and letting the berry roll into the palm of their hand being careful not to bruise them. The worker will then gently place the fruit in a container that sit in the harvesting box until it is full taking care not to overfill the container or over pack the berries. The full harvesting box will be taken to a loading truck. An empty box is given back to the worker and the process is started again. \n\nBlueberry Harvesting & Packing-The worker will pick the ripe blueberries off the bush by grasping the blueberries between their forefinger and thumbnail, then lightly pulling and gently twisting the fruit off the bush and letting the blue berries roll into the palm of the hand. The blue berries will then be placed in a harvesting bucket being careful not to overfill the container. The filled bucket will be taken to the nearest trailer where it will be dumped. The worker will then get their harvesting bucket back and start the process again.\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency.\n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.\n
Citrus Harvesting - Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instruction, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18? to 22? ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weights between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limps, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take full sack to fruit container located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into container. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying g a large number of sacks of fruit from the arena in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the container. When the worker obtains their Farm Labor Company Employee license, the worker will be required to drive a bus to transport workers to the various worksites. \n
Citrus Harvesting - Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instruction, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18’ to 22’ ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weights between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limps, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take full sack to fruit container located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into container. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying g a large number of sacks of fruit from the arena in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the container. \n
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Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will fulfill the following duties to harvest and maintain various fruits and vegetables:\n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Shoveling also includes across row to allow drainage to occur. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n \n\nLay Plastic (Seep): Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Worker is to cut plastic at each hundred foot marked area to create a walkway by slicing with shovel and tuck plastic after removing excess dirt to create walkways for harvest. Worker is required to dig a spillway at each row designated; by the removal of dirt and forming a plastic barrier with rolls of plastic to create a spillage for water to drain. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nV DITCHES - End & Row Cutting: Worker is to cut plastic at each hundred foot marked area to create a walkway by slicing with shovel and tuck plastic after removing excess dirt to create walkways for harvest. Worker is required to dig a spillway at each row designated; by the removal of dirt and forming a plastic barrier with rolls of plastic to create a spillage for water to drain.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nShovel Work (End): Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. \n\n\n\n
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Workers may not leave trash, or other discarded items in work areas or vehicles but must dispose of such items in provided receptacles. Workers must wash hands with soap and water after all bathroom and meal breaks. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. \n\nSuccessful applicants will be subject to a trial period of up to 2 days during which their performance of required tasks will be evaluated. If the performance is not acceptable to the employer in its sole discretion the worker will be terminated. \n\nSanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations.\n\nCrops Cucumbers, Bell Peppers, Egg Plant and Squash and Onions. Workers will plant, cultivate, harvest and pack crops. Workers will aid in irrigation and operate farm equipment such as tractors. Workers will install and uninstall plastic. \n\nCucumber – Plant, cultivate and harvest cucumbers, lay plastic, cutting ditches, riding the plastic machine to collect and feed, walk behind the plastic machine and cut plastic at each ditch, tuck plastic, cleaning up and picking up/burning trash, handling food safety-bucket/general cleaning, weeding, picking, planting, plastic repair, pull plastic, reset, complete weather related horticultural/cultivation tasks, clean beds, cover cloth labor, driving field truck, driving tractor, applying fertilizer, driving semi-truck, maintain irrigation, maintain water and pack at packing house.\n\nSquash and Egg Plant - Lay plastic, cutting ditches, riding the plastic machine to collect and feed, walk behind the plastic machine and cut plastic at each ditch, tuck plastic, cleaning and picking up/burning trash, handling food safety-bucket/general cleaning, weeding, picking, planting, field packing, plastic repair, pull plastic, reset, complete weather related horticultural/cultivation tasks, clean beds, cover cloth labor, driving field truck, driving tractor, applying fertilizer, driving semi-truck, maintain irrigation, maintain water and pack at packing house.\n\nBell Peppers -Lay plastic, cutting ditches, riding the plastic machine to collect, and feed, walk behind the plastic machine and cut plastic at each ditch, tuck plastic and picking up/burning trash, handling food safety-bucket/general cleaning, weeding, picking, planting, field packing, plastic repair, pull plastic, reset, complete weather related horticultural/cultivation tasks, clean beds. Workers will install/remove cover-cloths, drive field trucks, drive tractors, apply fertilizer, drive semi-truck, maintain irrigation, maintain water and pack at packing house.\n\n
All Activities: Workers will perform all job specifications as instructed by the Farm Manager or Crew Supervisor. Each worker will receive and identification badge and pre-printed numeric stickers, to be used during harvest activities and throughout the employment period. \n\nDuties may vary from time to time and may include all of the\nfollowing job specifications:\n\nRunner Cutting/Trimming: Worker will walk down row as instructed and cut/trim runners, leaves and blooms as directed from each strawberry plant as necessary.\n\nFreeze Protection Activities: May assist regardless of time of day, in keeping overhead irrigation rain birds free of ice during freezing weather\n\nStrawberry Harvest: Workers will move down assigned rows picking all ripe berries, grading berries while harvesting, taking care to sort and pack containers by size, shape, color, quality and quantity as directed. Each worker must pick the plants clean of all ripe fruit, sort and pack all good berries into specified containers, within the box, according to very high quality standards as set forth in the Company Production and Quality Standard. Bad berries will be packed or disposed of as determined by the Supervisor. Each worker shall handle berries carefully to avoid bruising. Bruising will weaken the berry. Each harvesting worker is expected to move with the crew from row to row to maintain the efficiency level. Upon completion of each box picked, the worker will place their assigned numeric sticker on the box, take his/her packed box to the crate shed to be viewed for grade, receive credit on his/her assigned numeric sticker, and receive a new box with containers. Any containers that are over or under packed, or consist of poor quality fruit, will be returned to the worker for repacking. Upon completion of an assigned row, the worker will move to the next vacant row to be picked. Harvester may receive disciplinary notice if quality standards are an issue.\n\nHarvest Processing Strawberries: As instructed, worker will move down assigned row picking all ripe strawberries, and discarding any bad berries that show evidence of rot or insect damage. Worker will be instructed to remove the cap (flower) of the strawberry with the aid of a slicing tool that is attached to the workers picking cart. Worker will pick the berry, slide it across slicer to remove cap. Uncapped berry will be dropped into harvesting tray, weighing approximately 20 lbs. when full. Trays are then taken to crate shed at the end of the row (worker receives credit on his/her assigned numeric sticker), and a new tray is obtained.\n\nHarvest Juice Strawberries: As instructed, worker will move down assigned row picking all ripe strawberries, and discarding any bad berries that show evidence of rot or insect damage. Berry will be dropped into harvesting tray, weighing approximately 20 lbs. when full. Trays are then taken to crate shed at the end of the row. Worker receives credit on his/her assigned numeric sticker, and a new tray is obtained.\n\nSquash Planting (Green, Yellow, Summer): As instructed, move down row placing two (2) seeds in each hole firmly packing dirt in hole.\n\nSquash Harvest (Green, Yellow, Summer): As instructed, worker will move down assigned row and pick proper size, shape and color of squash, place into bucket. When full, take to washing station, receive credit on his/her badge and obtain empty bucket.\n\nSquash Packing (Green): As instructed, worker will place green squash in the washing trough, thoroughly wash, and pack in bushel box taking care to not bruise or damage the squash.\n\nFruit &Vegetable Planting/Harvesting: From time to time the worker may also plant, and harvest a variety of fruit & vegetables during the season. It is unknown at this time exactly what vegetables may be harvested and/or planted, however, the workers will be paid the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage, or the minimum wage\nwhichever is higher.
Prepare traps to fish, maintain boat, prepare for fishing season\npull clean lobster & crabs from traps.
Equipment operator mechanics service and repair agricultural equipment used to haul citrus, vegetables and other agricultural commodities from the fixed-site agricultural properties of the Association's Growers/Members on a seasonal basis and during harvest season. \n\nEmployees must have sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in a mechanic shop environment; walk, stand and sit for prolonged periods of time; frequently stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach and twist, push, pull, lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds; operate assigned vehicles and equipment and verbally communicate information. Monday through Saturday, 40 hours per week. Workers will work 7AM to 3PM. Workers may be requested to submit to a background check and random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-offer/pre-employment and is not part of the interview process.\n\nWork Environment: Primarily in a shop environment, occasional field environment with some travel from site to site; exposure to noise, dust, grease, smoke, fumes, noxious odors, gases, and all types of weather and temperature conditions; exposure to hazardous traffic conditions; work and/or walk on various types of surfaces or terrain.\n\nEssential Functions and Basic Duties: Following the supervisors instructions, the mechanics will diagnose, repair and overhaul engines, transmissions, components, electrical and fuel systems, etc. for various powered and rolling equipment such as cars, trucks, buses, farm equipment and generators. The workers will maintain appropriate service and repair records.\n\nAll mechanics will work only for the employer listed in the ETA 790. The work will consist only on equipment and on worksites owned and/or controlled by the employer.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nDaily job assignments will be made by, and at the sole discretion of, the Company Farm Managers as the progression of the growing season dictates. Workers must perform the assigned work as described in ETA 790, and work at the assigned Company locations. Workers may not switch work at Company locations without specific authorization of the Farm manager. At the direction of the Farm Manager and/or Supervisor workers may be re-assigned to different farm locations within the company at various times of the work day and/or on different days.\n\nEmployer will provide tools, equipment, harvest materials, protective clothing, including gloves, where required to perform all job specifications at no cost to the worker. The reasonable repair or replacement cost of tools or equipment assigned to the worker may be deducted from the workers paycheck for willful damage or loss of such tool or equipment. \n\nNon-workers will not be permitted at the work sites or on company property without permission from the employer. Importantly, no non-working minor children under the age of 18 shall be present at the work site, or left unattended in vehicles at the worksite during the day. Workers arriving at the worksite with non-working minor children or other non-workers will be sent home.
Loose Watercress and Water Spinach Harvesting\n Watercress is grown in a bed which is a growing area surrounded by low banks and with water about inches deep flowing through it.\n Worker will be issued a set of waterproof rubber boots, Kevlar mesh gloves, a plastic apron and a harvesting knife.\n Worker is responsible for keeping their knife sharp.\n Prior to entering the bed, the worker must wash and sanitize their hands for food safety reasons.\n Worker enters the bed with their knife, either a cardboard carton or a plastic harvest tote and a shallow plastic tray to keep water out of the harvest carton or tote and moves to an area of uncut watercress.\n The worker must avoid harvesting poor quality product, such as areas of yellowing leaves, diseased plants, weeds, insects or snails.\n Worker bends down and gathers a hand-full of watercress with one hand and cuts through the stems with the knife in their other hand.\n Individual stems must be between 2.0 and 4.0 inches in length unless specified differently for a special order.\n The cut watercress is then placed in the harvest carton or tote and the worker begins to cut the next handful of watercress.\n The cutter must pull any weeds and cut any watercress that was not harvested to leave uniform stubble in the bed after harvest.\n When the cutter has 30 pounds of cress, which will fill the carton or tote, they will bring the carton or tote to scale for weighing.\n The worker deposits their wooden stick, (paint stirrer) pre-numbered with their cutter number to identify it as having been cut by them, in a receptacle used for keeping track of the number of totes cut by each cutter.\n If the product is being loaded into a cardboard carton, then the worker must close the flaps of the carton.\n If the weight of the carton is less than 30 pounds, the cutter may be asked to return to the bed and complete the weight.\n The completed tote or carton is then loaded onto the harvest truck.\n The cutter will place an electronic probe against their employee badge at the counting station to confirm the number of cartons or totes cut by them.\n The cutter will then take another empty carton or tote and return to cut another tote.\n As harvest of an area is completed, the cutters in the cutting crew are responsible for cleaning out any remaining watercress or weeds from the edges of the bed that might interfere with the free flow of water.\n At all times, the worker is responsible for following directions from the cutting supervisor to ensure uniform, high-quality product.\n \nBunch Watercress and Water Spinach Harvest\n Watercress is grown in a bed which is a growing area surrounded by low banks and with water about inches deep flowing through it.\n Worker will be issued a set of waterproof rubber boots, kevlar mesh gloves, a plastic apron, wire rubber band holders and a harvesting knife.\n Worker is responsible for keeping their knife sharp and for preparing as many sets of exactly 100 rubber bands as they will need to complete their days work.\n Rubber bands are prepared by counting out exactly 100 bands and placing two sets on each wire holder, which will be slipped to the workers belt.\n Prior to entering the bed, the worker must wash and sanitize their hands for food safety reasons.\n Worker enters the bed with their knife, a harvest tote and a shallow plastic tray to keep water out of the harvest tote and moves to an area of uncut watercress.\n The worker must avoid harvesting poor quality product, such as areas of yellowing leaves, diseased plants, weeds, insects or snails.\n Worker bends down and gathers a bunch of watercress with one hand and cuts through the stems with the knife in their other hand.\n Bunches must be uniform in size, and the bundled stems must measure 2 to 2.5 inches in diameter.\n Worker then places one rubber band from the holder over the bunch from the top and secures it around the stems of the bunch just below the leaves.\n
Crops being planted and harvested: Strawberries, Melons, Squash, Cucumbers, Beans, and Peppers.\nGeneral Specifications and Physical Requirements of the Job: majority of the workday is spent on ones feet, constantly in movement, and outdoors. Workers are rarely in one place for any period of time. It is estimated that 10% growing and maintaining, and 90% harvesting and containerizing products. Workers must be able to stand, walk, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, lift and carry items weighing up to 60 pounds during the course of performing all required job specifications.\nAll work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold and other natural elements. Worker must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight, and conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required job duties. Workers should come prepared wearing appropriate clothing and footwear for the environmental and working conditions described.\nWork entails exposure to soil, plants, insects, fertilizers, pesticide residues, ect. Employer will comply with all worker protection standards and restrictions applicable to the use of pesticides and other chemicals. Workers are required to comply with all applicable worker protections standards as communicated by supervisors and managers. Required posters will be placed at applications areas displaying date and time that re-entry is allowed. For the company to ensure the highest level of food safety within its operation, workers must be able to listen to, and follow verbal instruction by any farm manager and/or supervisors and understand the purpose of required posters that are in place.\nEmployer will provide tools, equipment, harvest materials, protective clothing, where required to perform all job specifications at no cost to the worker. Workers with proper training can assist with use of harvest aid machinery. The reasonable repair or replacement cost of tools or equipment assigned to the worker may be deducted from the workers paycheck for willful damage or loss of such tool or equipment.\nAll Company Employee Safety and Hygiene Policies, including Harvest Crew Hygiene, Employee Conduct, Food Safety and Security, must be followed by each worker. Employer will provide mandatory pesticide and Food Safety Training to employees that comply with all federal, state and local statues and regulations. Each hired worker will receive by the first day of work, a copy of the Employee Handbook outlining such policies and procedures. Worker is responsible to read thoroughly the information provided, and to seek assistance of a Farm Manager for questions or clarity.\nDaily job assignments will be made by, and at the sole discretion of supervisors, managers or farmer as the progression of the growing season dictates. Workers must perform the assigned work as described, and work at the assigned locations. Workers may not switch work at company locations without specific authorization of their supervisor or manager. At the direction of the manager and/or supervisor workers may be reassigned to different farm locations within the company at various times of the work day and/or on different days. Workers will perform all job specifications as instructed by the manager or crew supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:
Agricultural Equipment Operator: \nWorker will operate power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, general tillage equipment, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, fork lifts, skid loaders, and pick up trucks. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without discretion in a manner that protects the operator, other employees, crops, trees, facilities, and equipment. Apply pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and other crop protectants. Mix and apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatment at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Work as a mechanic - Perform maintenance, fabrication, and other mechanical tasks on vehicles, production equipment, packing equipment, tractors, wagons, and farming implements. May perform work in shop as incident to or in conjunction with such farming operation. Must wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Workers with a clean driving record and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be required to drive company vehicles. \n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n \nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Cultivate and harvest vegetables - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, pull plastic, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Must be able to operate motorized farm equipment. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field.\nCultiva y cosecha vegetales: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y aranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe las cubetas en los contenedores. Cuidado de campo: ate las plantas, estaque las plantas, pode las plantas, rellene, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microjets, tire del plástico, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de los surcos especificados por el empleador y eliminarán las malas hierbas y el césped de los campos a mano o con una azada. Debe estar de pie, encorvarse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. Debe poder operar equipo agrícola motorizado incluyendo tractores si es necesario. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo para el trabajador. No cumplir con la solicitud o dar positivo en la prueba puede resultar en la terminación o despido inmediata. Las pruebas de detección de drogas y las verificaciones de antecedentes pueden ocurrir durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se llevarán a cabo a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe poder levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will fulfill the following duties to cultivate/harvest vegetables, leafy vegetables, and tomatoes:\n\nLay Plastic (Drip): Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nLay Plastic (Seep): Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Worker is to cut plastic at each hundred foot marked area to create a walkway by slicing with shovel and tuck plastic after removing excess dirt to create walkways for harvest. Worker is required to dig a spillway at each row designated; by the removal of dirt and forming a plastic barrier with rolls of plastic to create a spillage for water to drain. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nV DITCHES -End & Row Cutting: Worker is to cut plastic at each hundred foot marked area to create a walkway by slicing with shovel and tuck plastic after removing excess dirt to create walkways for harvest. Worker is required to dig a spillway at each row designated; by the removal of dirt and forming a plastic barrier with rolls of plastic to create a spillage for water to drain. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate. \n\nLay Plastic (Drip): Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lbs. rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Shoveling also includes across row to allow drainage to occur. Clean up of drip and plastic scraps, paper and wood. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Pile and burn or load on wagon for disposal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Harvesting of vegetables: Once at the harvesting location, doing a row at a time, workers will move down the row plucking the vegetables from the plants and packing them into a container. Once the container is full, worker take container to the truck/ or dump at truck. The worker will go back to his picking area and fill his container up again, repeating this process through the workday.\nHarvesting Blueberries: by hand, the worker will walk down the blue berry field row plucking fruit from the tree and placing it in the container, making sure not to damage fruit, or break/ damage the tree and not knocking down unripe fruit. When the container is full the worker will take container to the truck at the end of the row. The worker will go back to his picking area and fill his container up again, repeating this process through the workday.\nHarvesting strawberries: by hand the worker will walk down the strawberry field row plucking and packing the strawberries into a container, making sure not to damage the fruit while plucking/or packing or damage the plant. When the container is full worker will take container and deliver it to the truck that's at the end of the row. The worker will go back to his picking area and fill his container up again, repeating this process through the workday.\nField Maintenance: workers will tie, stake, prune plants, clean micro jets, remove plastic, remove plastic drip lines, using hands or a hoe workers will remove dead plants and weeds. The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly. The employer will provide the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable cost related to the worker refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\nWorkers that qualify may be required to drive Agriculture Machinery or Equipment such as tractors, forklifts, buses and trucks.\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when worker is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little to no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods may occur any time during the season, if the workers request leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA790A. \nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2a workers no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa , or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H2A worker going from an H2A employer to a subsequent H2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H2A employer.
All Activities: Workers will perform described job specifications as instructed by the Farm Manager or Crew Supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include one or more of the following job specifications:\n\nHarvesting Citrus: Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18' to 20' ladder from the grove truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full, take full sack to fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into tub. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub.\n\nGrove Clean-up/General Farm Work: Workers may be required to perform miscellaneous grove clean- up work. These activities include pruning, painting trees, repair and or replace irrigation equipment, removal of debris, and other general grove clean-up work as required. Workers performing grove clean- up work will be paid the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing rate or the minimum wage rate whichever is higher. Workers may need to assist in the use of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks and harvesting machinery, etc.\n\nStrawberry\nRunner Cutting/Trimming: Workers will walk down row as instructed and cut/trim runners, leaves, and blooms as directed from each strawberry plant as necessary.\n\nFreeze Protection Activities: May assist regardless of time of day, in keeping overhead irrigation rain birds free of ice during freezing weather.\n\nAssist in Plastic Laying: Workers will hold plastic at end of row as machine moves down row unrolling plastic. Workers will even up ends of row with a shovel to make them straight, also will clean out ditches at end of row. Unload plastic and drip-tape from truck and load plastic and drip-tape on field machine as needed. May be instructed to remove or reinstall rain bird.\n\nDrip-tape Hook Up: Workers will be required to cut drip-tape at end of bed as instructed and hook up drip-tape to main water line.\n\nStrawberry Planting: While carrying a bag of strawberry plants, workers will walk down row, while bending, and place one or two plants into each hole in the plastic as instructed and firm dirt around plant.\n\nWeeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walkway and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area, by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as instructed.\n\nPlastic and Drip-tape Removal: Unhook drip-tape from main water line, walk down row while pulling plastic down the bed until it is completely removed. Take removed plastic to proper disposal or burning station, as instructed.\n
Job requires workers to: supervise general farm laborers/harvesters to assure jobs are completed in accordance with company policies, report any issues to Employer management, inspect produce for quality control, and utilize scanning/computer system to track production.\n\nGeneral employment conditions and specific job requirements are detailed below. \n\nGeneral Conditions: Full Growing Season Commitment: Job offered requires worker be available for work every day that work is available for full Item 9 employment period. Worker agrees to be available for and perform the assigned work whenever work is available through full employment period. \n\nWorker must be able to perform all duties within job description in safe manner adhering to all established field safety guidelines, practices and procedures.\n\nWorker must possess requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat supervisory and general labor duties throughout workday. Worker must work at sustained pace and make good faith efforts to work efficiently as reasonable under working conditions. Supervisor position requires extensive walking and repetitive stooping to pass through fields throughout the day. \n\nField work begins at assigned time shortly after daylight. Worker may be required to work in field when crops are wet with dew/rain and should have suitable clothing for variable weather conditions. \n\nEmployer provides instructions and supervisor will be responsible for communicating instructions to workers. Supervisor must review worker production to assure worker has conformed to specific instructions given for each day's work. \n\nWorker may never ride on agricultural equipment not designed for riding purposes. All work related injuries must be immediately reported to Employer. \n\nEmployer conducts and worker must attend orientation on workplace rules, harvest methods, crop specific issues, policies, and safety information. \n\nSupervisor must follow work rules listed below. Supervisor will be required to identify and address any work rule violations with workers in farm laborer/hand harvester position. \n\nField Supervisor: Worker will provide supervision to crew members in the farm laborer/hand harvester position. Workers will be assigned to harvest team members during harvest season. \n\nWorker must be familiar with Employer food safety policies, and work rules for farm laborer/hand harvester position. Worker must identify and address any violations of employment policies.\n\nWorker will be required to clock farm laborers/hand-harvesters in and out.\n\nWorker will be required to report any farm laborer/hand harvester worker absences or separations from employment to Employer immediately. \n\nWorker will be required to communicate with other supervisors and farm management. \n\nHarvest Supervision: Worker will be responsible for supervising workers in the farm laborer/hand harvester position. During crop harvest season, Employer will assign worker to a crew of harvest team members, who worker will directly supervise. Team members will vary from day to day, and can change throughout day depending on Employer needs and crop conditions.
Nursery Workers (Production/Shipping/Loading): \n\n[60%] Manual tasks related to the production of nursery stock will include some combination of the following: Fill pots with soil and set them in the field/greenhouses; plant crops (plants) into pots and set them in the field/greenhouses; Open and close poly in houses for cold protection; Open and close frost protection cloth; cutting, pulling or removing and mowing weeds or grass; upgrade plants with sleeves, tags, pots, etc.; prepare fields for planting by clearing cull stock, brush and debris; planting seedlings or 'liners' by hand (including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter); hand digging, loading, unloading or transplanting bare-root nursery stock; straightening, tying, pruning and shearing trees and shrubs; moving irrigation equipment; spraying herbicides and insecticides and applying fertilizer; keep the production area clean and organized. \n\n[40%] Manual tasks related to the shipping and loading of nursery stock will include some combination of the following: \n\nPlace plants into the isles or driveways for shipping; clean, water and put plants onto trucks/trailers; upgrade plants with sleeves, tags, pots, etc.; take inventory and grade plants, prepare trees and shrubs for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary; dig wrapping burlap or other covering around root balls and secured with twine and/or staples; crimp wire baskets; lift, carry and load nursery stock, plants and staged products that are ready to ship onto racks or trailers; unload, move, or load supplies, including wire baskets; set aside and put back all returned/bad plants to the field/greenhouses; push loaded racks onto trailers.\n\nPerform work in the field with little to no supervision. \n\nPlants must be handled carefully to ensure that minimal leaves, limbs and roots are not broken during digging, handling, wrapping and/or transplanting processes.\n\nOne (1) month of experience in agricultural and/or horticultural settings. \n\nWorkers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers' ability to perform the job. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day, working in fields. Temperatures may range from 25 F to 100 F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 50 lbs.\n\nEmployer assures that non-commuting workers will be provided transportation from living quarters to work site every day (for workers who must be provided housing under the applicable regulations).\n\nCandidates seeking employment as experienced nursery worker must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Workers hired pursuant to this job order will be subject to a trial period of up to 14 business days during which their performance of required tasks will be evaluated. If the performance during the trial period is not acceptable to the employer, the worker's employment will be terminated.\n\nAll terms and conditions included in the job order will apply equally to all workers, both U.S. workers and H-2A workers, employed in the occupation described in this clearance order, unless specifically exempted (i.e. federal/state tax, etc.).\n\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry a 18' to 20' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs approximately 80 to 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition, and variety of fruit. A ladder is placed against a tree within reach of the fruit in a leaning position. While taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Workers will remove fruit from the tree and place into a pick sack. When the pick sack is full, take the full sack to the fruit tub located in the grove. Drop fruit from pick sack into the tub. Workers will be required to perform general farm labor activities such as mowing, maintaining weeds, sprouting soil drenching, planting, as well as perform tree-training/maintenance activities. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather. Be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub. \n\nGeneral Clean-up of Grove Property and Housing for Harvesting Workers: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities may be performed regularly or in the event of a hurricane/tropical storm that may include the planting, sprouting, trimming, pruning, and painting and maintenance of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required. May be necessary to assist in the use and repair of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks, Goats/Loaders, buses, trailers, and harvest machinery, etc. It is estimated that 20% of the time will be spent growing and maintaining, and 80% harvesting the products. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the supervisor's instruction, workers will harvest, load, and grade various citrus, and vegetables. The worker will require the use of hand tools such as shears and knives. All workers are required to wear a mask in common areas, while on the bus and in the field when social distancing is not possible. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 100 pounds for long periods outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, and shipped from the farm.\n\nCitrus Harvesting: Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18' to 20' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove the fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition, and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. The worker will remove the fruit from the tree and place it in the pick sack. When the pick sack is full take the full sack to the fruit tub located in the grove and drop the fruit from pick sack into the tub. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub. After harvesting is complete at each grove, workers will help clean all equipment, including but not limited to, fruit tubs, and any harvesting equipment from all leaves, limbs, and debris. Workers will then load ladders back into ladder truck.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers wilful damage or destruction of the tools. The employer will provide the first pick sack free of charge to the worker. Any sacks destroyed intentionally, outside normal wear and tear, must be replaced by the worker. All Citrus harvesters are required to wear a special safety hat that contains a mesh front for eye protection free of charge. Any safety hats that are lost or destroyed, outside of normal wear and tear, must be replaced by the worker at a cost of $10.00. All strawberry harvesters will be required to wear an ID badge on a lanyard that will be provided by the company. Any ID card and or lanyard that is lost or destroyed, outside of normal wear and tear, must be replaced by the worker at a cost of $3.00\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will perform grove caretaking activities to include mowing, spraying, and maintaining crops. Spraying fertilizer and pesticides to groves for maintenance of crops. Workers will be required to perform sprouting activities, soil drenching, planting, injecting, maintaining weeds, as well as clean-up work on grove property. Workers will be required to perform general farm labor activities such as tree-training/maintenance activities. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather. Be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat these processes rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands. \n\nGeneral Clean-up of Grove Property and Housing for Harvesting Workers: Workers will be required to perform clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities may be performed regularly or in the event of a hurricane/tropical storm that may include the planting, sprouting, trimming, pruning, painting and maintenance of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required. May be necessary to assist in the use and repair of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks, Goats/Loaders, buses, trailers, and harvest machinery, ect. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work.\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry a 18' to 20' ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs approximately 80 to 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition, and variety of fruit. A ladder is placed against a tree within reach of the fruit in a leaning position. While taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Workers will remove fruit from the tree and place into a pick sack. When the pick sack is full, take the full sack to the fruit tub located in the grove. Drop fruit from pick sack into the tub. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub.\n\nGeneral Clean-up of Grove Property and Housing for Harvesting Workers: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities may be performed regularly or in the event of a hurricane/tropical storm that may include the planting, sprouting, trimming, pruning, and painting and maintenance of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required. May be necessary to assist in the use and repair of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks, Goats/Loaders, buses, trailers, and harvest machinery, etc. It is estimated that 80% of the time will be spent growing and maintaining, and 20% harvesting the products. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work.
Job Duties: \nField Supervisor:\nWorker must follow all work rules listed below.\nJob requires worker to provide supervision to crew members in the farm laborer/hand harvester position and assure jobs are completed in accordance with company policies, report any issues to Employer management, inspect produce for quality control. Workers will be assigned to harvest team members during harvest season. Worker must be familiar with Employer Food and Safety policies, and work rules for Farm laborer/ hand harvester position. Worker must identify and address any violations of employment policies. Worker will be required to assist farm laborers/ hand-harvesters clock in and out using tablet or smart phone. Worker will be required to report any farm laborer/hand-harvester worker absences or separations from employment and Employer immediately. Worker will be required to communicate with other supervisors and farm management. Workers will be required to obtain FLCE Driver authorized card in the event it is necessary to transport workers to worksites and to obtain necessities under Dunson Harvesting, Inc. FLC License. Employer will require worker to drive in Employer-provided vehicles to and from worksites. Workers must have a valid drivers license. Worker must understand and agree to driving rules, as outlined in work rules, and must provide proof of no infractions from official source. Worker may be required to operate farm vehicles to move between fields and blocks. Employer provides instructions and supervisor will be responsible for communicating instructions to workers. Supervisor must review worker productions to assure worker has conformed to specific instructions given for each day's work. Worker will be responsible for providing harvest team members with necessary water supply and work tools, if necessary. Harvest supervision requires extensive walking throughout the day and frequent stooping/ bending. Worker will be required to consistently check crops containers throughout the day to verify compliance with quality standards. Worker must be able to identify any bruising or other damage, and check produce size, color, and grade. Worker will be responsible for communication standards to harvest members to work more efficiently. Worker will be required to scan badges and containers throughout the day. Scanning is the process of tracking produce and harvest productivity during the crop harvest. Worker will be required to accurately enter company and harvester information, price, variety, and block codes into handheld scanner. Once container is full, worker will scan harvester bar codes or manually enter harvester information. At the end of the day, worker may be required to connect scanner to computer system. Worker will be required to properly store scanning equipment in office, as directed by manager. Worker may be required to check data in computer to ensure accuracy. Supervisor will supervise the following activities: Runner/ Cutting/ Trimming, Freeze protections activities, Drip tape Hook-up, Strawberry planting, weeding, Plastic drip tape Removal, Strawberry, Blueberry, lug washing, and General Farm labor. All in which are Farm Laborer/Hand Harvester job positions as various job duties listed in addendum C. All workers are provided a one-day (6-hour) training. \n\n\n\n
See Addendum C\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will perform grove caretaking activities to include mowing, spraying, and maintaining crops. Spraying fertilizer and pesticides to groves for maintenance of crops. Workers will be required to perform sprouting activities, soil drenching, planting, maintaining weeds, as well as clean-up work on grove property. Workers will be required to perform general farm labor activities such as tree-training/maintenance activities. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather. Be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat these processes rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands. \n\nGeneral Clean-up of Grove Property and Housing for Cartaking Workers: Workers will be required to perform clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for caretaking workers. Such clean-up activities may be performed regularly or in the event of a hurricane/tropical storm that may include the planting, sprouting, trimming, pruning, painting and maintenance of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required. May be necessary to assist in the use and repair of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks, Goats/Loaders, buses, trailers, and harvest machinery, ect. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such clean-up work.\n
The farm work position includes duties associated with the pruning, thinning, picking, spraying and packing of tomatoes, peppers, watermelon, squash, and eggplant. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards.\n\nThis work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.\n\nTomatoes/Peppers: Pre-harvest duties for tomatoes may include laying plastic, planting, staking, and weeding plants by hand and/or hoe. Harvest primarily consists of harvesting tomatoes by hand. The outlined job duties will require workers to stand, walk, stoop, bend, and lift up to 50 pounds continuously. These tasks will require individuals to work quickly and consistently and for long\nperiods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness to not damage or bruise the fruit and vegetables. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be\nassigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or\nbruising. Help with post-harvest cleanup including pulling, piling, and sorting plastic, stakes, string, and field row irrigation components. Instruction will be given for each task and standards of performance communicated to workers.\nSquash/Eggplant/Watermelon: Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers must use care when performing their farm work duties and\nexercise consciousness to not damage or bruise the fruit and vegetables. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be assigned a row or series of rows and required to select and pick produce according to criteria outlined and demonstrated by managers such as size, coloring, and ripeness. They will be responsible for in-field grading and discarding of poor quality, rotting, and/or over-ripened produce. Workers will gently load the good quality produce into containers, taking care to avoid damage or\nbruising. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately fifty (50) lbs and empty into field bin or load onto trailer.\n
Mechanically plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetable (Nappa, Radishes, Chives, Chonggskmoo/ Baby Radish, Baby nappa, Pepper, Melon) crops. Use hand and mechanized tools to till, fertilize, transplant, weed, thin, prune, clean, irrigate, and load produce. Operate, repair, maintain tractors/implements to grow and harvest crops. Maintain fences and buildings. Lift up to 50 pounds. 3 months verifiable experience.\n\nSembrar, cultivar, y cosechar manualmente vegetales, y pacas de pasto. Utilisa equipos mechanizados para harar, abonar, transplantar, deshierbar, podar, aplicar pesticidas, limpiar, regar agua, y cargar producto. Operar, reparar, y mantener tractores/implementos para cultivar y cosechar cultivos. Mesclar y aplicar agroquimicos, mantener edificios y cercas. Levantar hasta 50 libras. Require 3 meses de experiencia en lo mencionado.\n
Crops/Commodities: \nIceberg lettuce, cabbage, and kale. \nPlant, cultivate, and propogate produce in a greenhouse/warehouse operation. Lower and clip plants, remove shoots, prune, and de-leafcrops. Raise and lower vines. Use hand tools including, but not limited to: shovels, brooms, clippers, rakes, and knives. Plant, interplant, and transplant by hand. Pick, cut, lift, or pull crops. Install drippers and hang hooks. Weigh product. Prepare product for shipment to customers. Stack and de-stack product and supplies. Take care to prevent damaging produce and plants. Perform quality control on inbound/outbound loads. Follow quality control standards and production procedures. May use mechanized equipment including but not limited to: forklifts and other power tools/equipment. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with greenhouse and warehouse maintenance and repairs. All work activities occur on the farm as incident to or in conjunction with such farming operation. \n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates. \n\nApply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nWorkers must operate all equipment properly and in a manner that protects operator, others, the employer's products and property. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination.\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Prepare and/or clear land for planting using mechanized or hand equipment to remove trash, rocks, or other debris or material that may interfere with planting or harvesting activities. Level land by moving dirt and other materials. Equipment will include, forklifts, trucks, or other vehicles. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\n\nOutdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Work is done outdoors for long periods of time and requires prolonged periods of standing and/or walking, repetitive movements, and frequent bending and/or stooping. Workers must be able to handle, lift, and carry heavy or bulky objects (product, containers) in accordance with the specified lifting requirements. \n\nWorkers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may transport other workers. \n\nSupervisor(s) will provide instructions and directions to workers. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised.
Crops/Commodities: \nIncluding, but not limited to the following:\nBeans, Beet, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Chilis, Cilantro, Cucumber, Dill, Eggplant, Gourds, Green Onion, Greens, Hard Squash, Herbs, Corn, Kohlrabi, Leek, Lettuce, Okra, Onion, Parsley, Pepper, Pickle, Potato, Pumpkins, Radish, Squash, Sweet Corn, Swiss Chard, Tomatillo, Tomato, Turnips, Watermelon. \nPlant, cultivate and harvest vegetables. Use hand tools including, but not limited to: shovels, hoes and knives. Plant roots, seeds and bulbs. Spread plastic or other groundcovering. Clean plastic by hand from ground upon removal. Till soil. Weed and thin plants. Transplant plants by hand. Stake/tie plants, trellis/prune plants, and set poles and wires for vine plants. Pick, cut, lift, or pull crops. Tie vegetables in bunches. Grade, size and field pack product outdoors in the field. Fill bins/boxes trays and other containers with product. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies to farm trucks. Take care to prevent damaging produce and plants. \n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, knives, broom, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences. Install, hook up, maintain, operate, and remove irrigation equipment. \n\nWork is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions or upright for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Workers should be able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. \n\nWork on production line. Grade, size, sort, and pack product. Label product, boxes, containers and pallets. Operate sorting, packing, and sticker machinery. Bunch/bundle product pursuant to supervisor instructions. Fill bins/trays and other containers with product, level bins, and prepare product for shipment to market or storage. Perform quality control on inbound/outbound loads. Follow quality control standards and production procedures. Handle product carefully to prevent damage. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Palletize and stack boxes/containers. Use power equipment including, but not limited, to: fork lifts, conveyor belts, and cooling equipment/refrigeration units. Operate equipment safely, with or without direction. Perform maintenance on tractors, vehicles, equipment, and facilities. Clean/sanitize work station and equipment. \n\nWorkers may be required to operate mechanized equipment, including but not limited to, tractors, wagons, light/medium trailers, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders, hoses and pressure washers. Workers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be required to drive company vehicles, such as light/medium field trucks or buses. Workers with appropriate licenses may drive field trucks to transport boxes, produce, and supplies to various fields.
Field preparation. Dig ditches with shovels. Harvesting cucumber,cantaloupe, bell pepper, broccoli, & melon. Packing products. Farm field & shed sanitation. Lay Plastic. Will work in hot/cold temperatures and in rain as long as no lightening.
Duties required: harvest, count, plant, stack, load and unload strawberries and blueberries. Other duties may include installation/maintenance of drip-tape irrigation, pruning, scanning, cutting/trimming, weeding, pulling plastic/drip-tape and general farm labor. This will be done under extreme weather conditions. Heavy bending, stooping and lifting will be involved on a daily basis. Random drug testing will be post hire at employers expense. Workers must pick at least 5 units per hour in strawberries and 2.5 units per hour in blueberries.\n\n(Continued in Addendum C)
Plant, cultivate and harvest bell pepper & specialty pepper, zucchini, squash & eggplant, green beans, watermelon, sugar cane, rice, lettuce, Asian leafy vegetables & leafy vegetables, herbs, radishes, celery, sweet corn. Land preparation, minor maintenance, weeding, crop maintenance, miscellaneous clean up, hauling produce or any other farm related material including mill mud. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will fulfill the following duties to harvest and maintain passion fruit and hemp:\n\nShovel Work: Workers are required to use a shovel to make a hole 6" to 1' depending on the size of trans plant. \n\nPlanting: Worker is required to loading and unloading the plant/tree from plant delivery vehicle and loading fam equipment and which is taken to the fields and place into holes pre-dug by shovel work.\n\nIrrigation installation & removal: Worker will be connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed.\n\nTying/wiring of plants: Worker is required to take material and place in hand to guide along post to neighboring post/stake to hold plant up by material. Procedure may be preformed on both sides of plants/trees.\n\nStaking(Stand/ and Pound): Using both hands gathering bundles of stakes/post from bed farm equipment and carrying to place a stake/post between each plant. Each stake/post must remain upright. Repeat process through entire field. Once the first procedure is performed the worker drives in the stake 12" - 14" into the ground. If using manual hammers, worker must place opening over stake and pound stake into the ground.\n\nSpraying: Worker is required fill back pack with water & mix material into back pack sprayer. Once completed worker is to place back sprayer on back by strapping on and applying material to designated areas of the farm, plant, tree and ground. Note: (This will require work to receive Worker Protection Stander training to the level of Handler)\n\nRemoval of String/material from plants/trees: Worker is required to use a knife/scissors that is provided by employer and with hands to cut through string/material. from the top to the bottom of the plant/tree with a downward motion and cutting through sting/materials while gathering material and placing into designated areas of filed. Worker will stop and place string/material that has been collected and into a trash bag provide by employer and continue the process until each are assigned is completed for the day. Once completed for the day or bags are full worker must place bags of string/materials at the end of the roadways for collection. \n\nClean Up: The worker will be required to pick up by hand and place the post-harvest debris throughout the production area into containers provided. This clean-up includes digging out with shovel and picking up any unwanted trash, vegetation, and debris.\n\nWeeding: With both hands, worker grab on wanted vegetation from field and remove it from the plant/trees beds or field. Placing vegetation in middles of field. Repeat process throughout entire field.\n\nStake Pulling (by hand operation): Worker removes stakes/post from ground and places into bundles, straps around bundles and tightens straps before placing on farm equipment for removal.
Watermelon duties may vary from time-to-time.\nWorkers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Perform manual labor. Workers will harvest, cut, pick, and field pack watermelons in the field. Use hand tools such as shears and knives. Duties also include typing, loading, and unloading stakes, cleaning, loading, and unloading harvested products. Duties will also include operating a forklift, assisting mechanics, and pulling weeds. Grade and sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel and quality to ensure correct processing and usage. Discard inferior or defective products and/or foreign matter, and place acceptable products in containers for further processing. Weigh products or estimate their weight, visually or feel. Place products in containers according to grade and mark grades on containers. Measure, weigh and count products and materials. Examine and inspect containers, materials, and products to ensure that packing specifications are met. Workers must perform manual labor to pull plastic from the field and load onto a trailer. Laying plastic, cutting ends. You will also be assisting in irrigation maintenance, marking 100 feet and doing hog ditches. Removal of irrigation equipment. Clean and maintain the work area.\nVegetables:\nWorkers will harvest vegetables. Shovel, haul, spread. Manure, dig holes, ditches, and trenches. Manually plant, cultivate, harvest, count, load, and unload vegetables, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Workers will field pick and pack vegetables in the field. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil, applying fertilizers, transplanting, pulling weeds, raking, cleaning around shed area, thinning or pruning crops, applying pesticides, cleaning, grading, and packing harvested products. Workers will also do staking, tying, loading, removing, and unloading of stakes. All tools, supplies, and equipment will be provided at no cost to the worker. May repair fences and farm buildings and participate in irrigation activities. May drive workers to the store and/or fields.\n**The ability of an employee to safely operate machinery and vehicles will be left up to the discretion of management. To ensure the safety of all employees, those interested in operating machinery and vehicles must be able to communicate with employer and adequately follow instructions given by management. Management reserves the right to restrict employees from operational duties who do not show a proficiency to effectively communicate with management and may therefore place other employees? safety at risk. \nJob Requirements:\nMust be 18 years or older. If driving vehicles, a valid driver?s license is required. The employer may conduct a\ncriminal background check on all new applicants for employment. Must assist with all Good Agricultural Practices policies. Most of the workday is spent on one?s feet and outdoors. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach and lift 10-100lbs.\n
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Workers may not leave trash, or other discarded items in work areas or vehicles but must dispose of such items in provided receptacles. Workers must wash hands with soap and water after all bathroom and meal breaks. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. \n\nSuccessful applicants will be subject to a trial period of up to 2 days during which their performance of required tasks will be evaluated. If the performance is not acceptable to the employer in its sole discretion the worker will be terminated. Workers working on a piece rate must make Federal Minimum Wage after the trial period. \n\nSanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations.\n\nCrops Cucumbers, Eggplant, Pepper Green, Pepper Colored, Hot Peppers, Specialty Pepper and Squash. Workers will plant, cultivate, harvest and pack crops. Workers will aid in irrigation and operate farm equipment such as tractors. Workers will install and uninstall plastic. List of job duties include lay plastic, cleanup, planting, cover cloth labor, field packing, Food Safety-Bucket/General Cleaning, Maintain Weed, Picking, plastic Repair, Pull Plastic, Reset, Weather related, Driving Field Truck, Driving Tractor, Applying Fertilizer, Driving Semi-Truck, Maintain Irrigation, maintain Water, Stake & Hammer, Tie, and pack at packing house.\n\nCucumber – Plant, cultivate and harvest cucumbers, lay plastic, cutting ditches, riding the plastic machine to collect and feed, walk behind the plastic machine and cut plastic at each ditch, tuck plastic, cleaning up and picking up/burning trash, handling food safety-bucket/general cleaning, weeding, picking, planting, plastic repair, pull plastic, reset, complete weather related horticultural/cultivation tasks, clean beds, cover cloth labor, driving field truck, driving tractor, applying fertilizer, driving semi-truck, maintain irrigation, maintain water and pack at packing house.\n\nSquash - Lay plastic, cutting ditches, riding the plastic machine to collect and feed, walk behind the plastic machine and cut plastic at each ditch, tuck plastic, cleaning and picking up/burning trash, handling food safety-bucket/general cleaning, weeding, picking, planting, field packing, plastic repair, pull plastic, reset, complete weather related horticultural/cultivation tasks, clean beds, cover cloth labor, driving field truck, driving tractor, applying fertilizer, driving semi-truck, maintain irrigation, maintain water and pack at packing house.\n\nPeppers (Bell, Hot, Green, Colored, Specialty) -Lay plastic, cutting ditches, riding the plastic machine to collect and feed, walk behind the plastic machine and cut plastic at each ditch, tuck plastic and picking up/burning trash, handling food safety-bucket/general cleaning, weeding, picking, planting, field packing, plastic repair, pull plastic, pull stake/cut string pepper greens, stake/hammer, tie, reset, complete weather related horticultural/cultivation tasks, clean beds. Workers will install/remove cover-cloths, drive field trucks, drive tractors, apply fertilizer, drive semi-truck, maintain irrigation, maintain water and pack at packing house.\n\n
Cultivate and harvest potatoes, broccoli, peanuts, corn and carrots; and, field care. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field. \nCultivar y cosechar papas, brócoli, maní, maíz y zanahorias; y cuidado de campo. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Es posible que se realicen pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo.
The farm work position includes duties associated farm labor tasks for production of tomatoes. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds along with time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes adherence to instruction given in regard to proper procedures & technics based on operation of the machinery to be used to complete each task. \n\n-Daily Work-Misc. farm tasks\n-Plastic Laying/Repair – Ride plastic machine and change out drip tape and plastic roles (weight +/- 100 lbs.) with 2 people. Shovel dirt on row ends (bury). Ride fertilizer hopper and maintain flow of fertilizer with shovel. \n-Mark and Measure – walk fields to mark 100’ intervals with spray paint \n-Irrigation Hook-up/Installation/Drainage – use shovel to make shallow trench to connect irrigation pipe or redirect water \n-Planting (Machine)- Load planter with plant trays and ride or walk behind planter to assure plants are at center of hole, proper depth, and no skips.\n-Replant- Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and replanting weak, dead, or missing plants at proper depth\n-Stake Repair – carry stakes (+/- 40’) to repair/replace areas with broken stakes, and/or tie broken stake to a new one\n-Mopping Bed Top- Mopping top of beds \n-Rouging plants/weeds- removing unwanted plants/weeds\n-Hand Punch Fertilizer – punch hole in plant bed and apply dry fertilizer with cup\n-Farm Truck Safety Cutouts- Cutting walk ways within plant beds every 50 feet\n-Planting (by hand) – Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and assuring that plants are planted at the center of pre punched plant hole at proper depth. Return empty plant trays to truck/trailer. (No empty trays to be left in field)\n-Watering In Plants- Walking beside plastic bed with water hose applying water to each plant hole, fill/plant any skips with plants provided.\n-Staking\n o Combo-Combination of the Stab & Hammering Tasks. Carry stakes (+/- 40’) from flatbed truck and stab in plant bed between every plant or hole marked. Ride hammer machine and use air hand hammer to drive every stake 14” deep.\n o FRP- carry FRP Stakes from flatbed truck and stab by hand in plant bed between every plant or hole marked.\n-Tying – tie plants upright with tie stick and string/twine, looping each stake.\n-Pruning – walk field and bend-over at each plant, hold plant carefully and remove number of suckers directed by supervisor \n-Weeding – pull weeds from plant bed and around plant holes.\n-Plastic/Drip Tape Removal (Pull)- pull plastic and drip tape by hand and place in road way or at 100’ cross walk.\n-Cutting String- walk field and cut and remove string/twine with a small knife and place where directed by supervisor\n-Stake Pulling (Machine)- ride stake pull machine to assure stakes bundle evenly and/or walk field to pull stakes by hand and place small bundle at 100’ cross walks to pick-up and load onto flat-bed truck\n-Stake Pulling (Manual)- A crew of 14 persons will pull stakes by hand. 2 persons will ride on the back of the truck, 12 persons will walk on the ground and pull stakes by hand. Workers will ensure that stakes are pulled, bundled and tied.\n-Bale Plastic, Drip Tape, & String- walk field and load baler with bundled plastic, drip tape and string by hand\n-Farm Field Clean Up (PW)- Walk field and remove miscellaneous debris
Prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. The employer may require pre-hire drug testing. Must be able to lift and carry 75 lbs. repetitively throughout the workday. Must not hinder another workers productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Requires three months verifiable prior work experience in the crop activities listed. Must commit to entire anticipated period of employment. \n\nBell Pepper: Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape, and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers may cut developed produce from plant and place into bucket. Workers may carry full bucket containing vegetables and empty into field bin or load onto truck or trailer. May be required to pull and discard culls as directed by supervisor. Workers must take care not to bruise or scar produce. Worker will return to assigned row/area and repeat the process. Worker must pick plants clean of correct size and maturity. Produce may be graded and packed in the field. Hand harvesting long bell pepper will be paid on a piece rate. \n\nCucumbers: Move along row, stoop and bend to pick developed long green cucumbers and place into 5/8th bushel bucket. Carry full buckets to a nearby truck for dumping, receive ticket or token in emptied bucket and return to assigned row to continue task. Workers must clean the vines (pick all cucumbers of marketable size) and larger as specified by employer. Workers will be required to stay on their assigned row. Worker must be careful to avoid damaging vines, blooms and smaller cucumbers. May be required to block and thin cucumbers and perform general cultivation work and move tractors or trucks on the farm incidental to picking. Workers may be required to perform other duties as required by employer. Hand harvesting long green cucumbers will be paid on a piece rate.
Strawberries: Duties may vary from time to time. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Workers will lay plastic to build bed of strawberry fields and plant strawberries from containers from specified locations. Fruit pickers harvest, sort and gather fruit with their hands. Gently remove fruit from branches and vines making sure not to damage fruit. Pickers are expected to work quickly and efficiently. Strawberries grow on low-lying plants, so you must have the endurance and strength to bend over for a long period of time. You will need to be kneeled for a long period of time collecting the strawberries, once you have removed fruit from the plant you will need to place them in a bucket carefully so no injury may occur to them. Once the container is full, you will take to the shed or designated quality area (located on the farm). Fruit pickers must be detail-oriented, fast, and reliable so they can remove fruit without loss. Prune strawberry bushes by hand using pruning shears and loppers. Remove debris from fields using hoes, shovels, baskets, etc. Worker must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight and weather conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required duties. Fruit harvesters must carefully, yet quickly, inspect fruit and bushes for signs of disease, insect manifestations, worms, rot and remove or replace bushes as directed by farm manager. Each worker must pick the plants clean of all ripe fruit. It is the picker's responsibility to sort good product from contaminated or rotting fruit to ensure produce is routed to appropriate facilities for cleaning and distribution. Shovel, haul, spread manure, dig holes, ditches, and trenches. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil, applying fertilizers, transplanting, pulling weeds, raking, cleaning around shed area, thinning or pruning crops, applying pesticides, cleaning, grading, and packing harvested product. Inspect field irrigation systems; replace damaged pipes, valves, water jets, sprinklers, etc. using necessary equipment. **The ability of an employee to safely operate machinery and vehicles will be left up to the discretion of management. To ensure the safety of all employees, those interested in operating machinery and vehicles must be able to communicate with employer and adequately follow instructions given by management. Management reserves the right to restrict employees from operational duties who do not show a proficiency to effectively communicate with management and may therefore place other employees’ safety at risk. **Use hand tools such as: shovels, hoes, brooms, scissors, shears, and knives. Duties also include cleaning, loading, and unloading harvested products. May be asked to drive a tractor in Strawberry fields spraying herbicides, spreading fertilizer, plowing, and laying plastic. Blueberries: Manually plant, cultivate, harvest, sort, and grade blueberries. Prune blueberry bushes using pruning shears and loppers. Workers may receive adequate harvesting equipment to harvest and carry 2- 1-gallon picking buckets as they move down assigned rows picking all ripe berries, placing them in the bucket. Each worker must pick the plants clean of all ripe fruit. When buckets are filled, the worker will take to the Supervisor where it will be weighed, and worker will be given credited weight amount. Harvest by use of mechanical equipment, load and transport blueberries to processing shed (located on farm). Use hand tools, shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, knives, and baskets as needed. Inspect field irrigation systems; replace damaged pipes, valves, water jets, sprinklers, etc. using necessary equipment. Workers may also be place packing in the field into designated containers.
All Activities: Workers will perform all job specifications as instructed by the Farm Manager or Crew Supervisor. Each worker will receive and identification badge and pre-printed numeric stickers, to be used during harvest activities and throughout the employment period. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nRunner Cutting/Trimming: Worker will walk down row as instructed and cut/trim runners, leaves and blooms as directed from each strawberry plant as necessary.\n\nFreeze Protection Activities: May assist regardless of time of day, in keeping overhead irrigation rain birds free of ice during freezing weather.\n\nAssist in Plastic Laying: Workers will hold plastic at end of row as machine moves down row unrolling plastic. Workers will even up ends of row with a shovel to make them straight, also will clean out ditches at end of row. Unload plastic and drip-tape from truck and load plastic and drip- tape on field machine as needed. May be instructed to remove or reinstall rain bird.\n\nDrip-tape Hook Up: Workers will be required to cut drip-tape at end of bed as instructed and hook up drip-tape to main water line.\n\nStrawberry Planting: While carrying a bag of strawberry plants, worker will walk down row, while bending, and place one or two plants into each hole in the plastic as instructed and firm dirt around plant.\n\nWeeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area, by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as instructed.\n\nPlastic and Drip-tape Removal: Unhook drip-tape from main water line, walk down row while pulling plastic down the bed until it is completely removed. Take removed plastic to proper disposal or burning station, as instructed.\n\nStrawberry Harvest: Workers will move down assigned rows picking all ripe berries, grading berries while harvesting, taking care to sort and pack containers by size, shape, color, quality and quantity as directed. Each worker must pick the plants clean of all ripe fruit, sort and pack all good berries into specified containers, within the box, according to very high quality standards as set forth in the Company Production and Quality Standard. Bad berries will be packed or disposed of as determined by the Supervisor. Each worker shall handle berries carefully to avoid bruising. Bruising will weaken the berry. Each harvesting worker is expected to move with the crew from row to row to maintain the efficiency level. Upon completion of each box picked, the worker will place their assigned numeric sticker on the box, take his/her packed box to the crate shed to be viewed for grade, receive credit on his/her assigned numeric sticker, and receive a new box with containers. Any containers that are over or under packed, or consist of poor quality fruit, will be returned to the worker for repacking. Upon completion of an assigned row, the worker will move to the next vacant row to be picked. Harvester may receive disciplinary notice if quality standards are an issue.\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency.\n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.
Harvest tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n\nCoseche tomates, pepinos y pimientos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cuide las plantas de campo, ate las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
H-2A's will harvest strawberries, laying plastic, cutting, trimming, pruning, drip tape removal and general farm labor in the 2022-2023 season.\nLos H-2A cosecharn fresas, colocarn plstico, cortarn, recortarn, podarn, quitarn la cinta de goteo y trabajarn en general en la granja en la temporada 2022-2023.\nMinimum of 5 units per hour of harvesting strawberries. Minimo de 5 unidades por hora de la cosecha de fresas.\n
Working with the bees to strengthen the stamina and physical condition of beehives in order to pollinate farm crops and therefore to produce honey. A beekeeping job is essential as the beekeeper is the one accountable for the distribution of hives to different yards, for their preparation before production and for their constant supervision to uphold their wellbeing. These tasks are performed when the beekeeper detects any menace to the colonies as a result of diseases, parasites, mites or even due to the climate. This job requires commitment and passion, to prevent any of the plagues previously mentioned, beekeepers tend to medicate the colonies with antibiotics to neutralize any harm to the hives, they also feed the hives with cakes and liquid syrup, and when its required they also replace the old queen with a new one to strengthen the colony for its successful performance. This job rank also requires the basic knowledge as the beekeeper is responsible for determining when the hives can be split, when another box needs to be added or removed, and when the honey should be removed. Most of the time, beekeepers remain outside carrying out all their tasks to keep the bees healthy but they are also in charge of recording the treatment, arrangement, nourishment, or any other pursuit regarding the hives and their colonies.\n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Watermelon-Duties may vary from time-to-time. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Perform manual labor. Workers will harvest, cut, pick, and field pack watermelons in the field. Use hand tools such as shears and knives. Duties also include tying, loading, and unloading stakes, cleaning, loading, and unloading harvested products. Duties will also include operating forklift, assisting mechanic, and pulling weeds. Grade and sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel and quality to ensure correct processing and usage. Discard inferior or defective products and/or foreign matter, and place acceptable products in containers for further processing. Weigh products or estimate their weight, visually or by feel. Place products in containers according to grade and mark grades on containers. Measure, weigh and count products and materials. Examine and inspect containers, materials, and products to ensure that packing specifications are met. Workers must perform manual labor to pull plastic from the field and load onto a trailer. Removal of irrigation equipment. Clean and maintain work area. Vegetables Workers will harvest vegetables Shovel, haul, spread manure, dig holes, ditches, and trenches. Manually plant, cultivate, harvest, count, load and unload vegetables, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Workers will field pick and pack vegetables in the field. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil, applying fertilizers, transplanting, pulling weeds, raking, cleaning around shed area, thinning or pruning crops, applying pesticides, cleaning, grading, and packing harvested product. Workers will also do staking, tying, loading, removing, and unloading of stakes. May repair fences and farm buildings and participate in irrigation activities. May drive workers to the store and/or fields. OFLC Administrator publishes new AEWR rates yearly and we reserve the right to adjust our job order to the new published rate regardless of rate increases or decreases. Raises and end of the season bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker, at the employer’s discretions, based on individual factors including but not limited to, performance, experience, number of hours worked in the season, number of seasons worked with the company, adherence to work rules and ability to follow supervisor instructions.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\n\nEmployee Badge: At the beginning of the employment period, each worker will be assigned an employee badge for identification and payroll purposes. The worker will be required to keep the badge throughout his/her employment period and must have the badge in possession at all times while working. The worker will present their badge to the Supervisor at the beginning and end of each workday, and from time to time throughout the workday, for payroll purposes. The employer will provide the worker with the badge free of charge. \n\nLay Plastic: Workers are required to load 75 to 80 lb rolls of plastic and drip tape rolls weighing approximately 50lbs on to machinery and ride on the back of machinery to ensure rolls are distributed evenly on beds of dirt. Worker is required to ride fertilizer wagon and use a shovel to make sure there is no clogging of fertilizer at distribution. Worker is required to remove casing when rolls of plastic and drip tape have emptied and repeat process. Plastic machine riders have other tasks required to lay plastic such as: bed pressing, clean out fertilizer hoppers, painting numbers and measuring row lengths. Workers are required to use a shovel to tuck in the ends of the plastic being laid by machinery at the ends of each row. Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\n\nPlastic Repair: Repairs are to be made to plastic and splices as necessary throughout field.\n\nIrrigation Installation, Removal & Maintenance: Connecting and installing irrigation (poly) lines at various points in fields for irrigation practices of crops. Removal of irrigation (poly) lines and connections at end of crop season. This task will include shovel work as needed. Maintenance includes, but not limited to, replacing jets, repairing leaks, flushing lines and other tasks needed for maximum efficiency.\n\nPlanting: Loading and unloading of plant trays from plant delivery boxes to planting machine, unloading empty trays from planter back onto plant boxes. Riding on plant machine and placing one plant into each hole made by plant machine and gathering soil to fill in space around the plant with soil using hand. Walking also behind planting machine placing a plant in hold that was missed and also filling in the hole with soil by using hand. Removing plants at walkways. Units covered will be divided by number of workers on the crew times the pay rate.\nReplanting: When needed, replanting will require employee to carry trays that weigh 1 -5lbs into field to replace injured or dead plants in field rows.
Raises honey bees to produce honey and maintain colony health through feed/supplements; find and cage queens, install queen cells; assembles bee hives, inserts honeycomb of bees into hives; forces bees from hives; uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts approx. 75 pounds of honey from honeycombs; must be able to lift 75 pound boxes for honey transport; build and paint boxes; driving farm vehicle to obtain supplies, honey extracting equipment, and misc. tools used to work with honey bees; minor daily and incidental upkeep to equipment, worksite, and colony boxes.
Raises honey bees to produce honey and maintain colony health through feed/supplements; find and cage queens, install queen cells; assembles bee hives, inserts honeycomb of bees into hives; forces bees from hives; uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts approx. 75 pounds of honey from honeycombs; transporting bee boxes from hives to extracting facility; driving farm vehicle such as Ford F-550 pulling trailer loaded with skid steer for moving bees and equipment; minor daily and incidental upkeep to equipment, worksite, and colony boxes.
Cultivate and harvest watermelons; and, field care. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCultivar y cosechar sandías; y cuidado de campo. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras. a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras. en campo El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate equipment used to harvest watermelon crops. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and drivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Must be able to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving record and background. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Operate forklifts and equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the field. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 70 pounds. Must be able to work outdoors in dusty/dirty conditions, at extreme heat and cold inclement weather. Must be able to listen to, understand, and follow simple instructions of supervisors and dispatcher. Must be able to work in fields where ants, snakes and poison ivy are encountered. The alternative work is truck maintenance and farm maintenance – including the repair, irrigation, vehicles and various equipment and tools used on the farm. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n\nOperador de equipos agrícolas para operar equipos utilizados para cosechar cultivos de sandía. Debe tener el tipo correcto de licencia requerida por las leyes estatales y federales, y los conductores responsables del transporte de trabajadores deberán tener un Contratista de trabajo agrícola federal válido y vigente o un Registro de empleado de contratista de trabajo agrícola federal con autorización de conducción. Será responsable de operar los vehículos utilizados para mover cultivos en la finca. Debe poder operar de manera segura los autobuses que se utilizan para transportar trabajadores hacia y desde los lugares de trabajo. Debe poder proporcionar prueba de antecedentes y antecedentes de conducción sin accidentes. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Operar montacargas y equipos utilizados para mover suministros y equipos de cosecha en el campo. Mantener el equipo de cosecha. Debe poder alcanzar, doblar y levantar artículos que pesen 70 libras. Debe poder trabajar al aire libre en condiciones polvorientas / sucias, con calor extremo y frío inclemente. Debe poder escuchar, comprender y seguir instrucciones simples de supervisores y despachadores. Debe poder trabajar en campos donde se encuentran hormigas, serpientes y hiedra venenosa. El trabajo alternativo es el mantenimiento de camiones y el mantenimiento de la finca, incluida la reparación, riego, vehículos y diversos equipos y herramientas que se utilizan en la finca. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following supervisors instruction, workers will harvest, load, grade, and pack various types of peppers. The worker will require use of hand tools such as shears and knives. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools. The employer will provide the first pick sack free of charge to the worker. Any sacks destroyed intentionally, outside normal wear and tear, must be replaced by the worker.\n\nPepper Planting (Tomatillo, Jalapeno, Serrano, Anaheim, Hungarian Wax/Banana, Long Hot/Chile Chicote, Poblano, Cubanelle/Chile Cubanele, Baby Bell/Bellafina, Finger Hot/Chile Dedo, Habanero, Red Fresno, Cherry Hot, Mini Sweet): As instructed, the worker will be given several trays of pepper plants. He will walk down the row, placing a plant from the tray in each hole in the bed until the tray is empty. He will then get another full tray and continue planting until he has completed his row. He is then responsible for removing from the field the flats he just planted from. \n\nStaking Pepper (all): As instructed, the worker gets an armful of stakes from the field truck (approximately 30 stakes, ranging in length from 36 to 48) The workers will stick stakes upright in the bed in each of the 2 lines of peppers on the bed every 6th plant. After he has put stakes in the entire row he comes back with a stake hammer and drives them into the ground.\n\nStringing Pepper (all): As instructed, the worker receives a box of twine and moves down the row circling twine around each stake on one side of the bed row. At the end of the row, the worker circles twine on the opposite side of the bed row on the second stake, making a full circle of each row. Twine is tied at the beginning and end of circled row.\n\nPepper Harvesting (all): As instructed, worker will move down assigned row and pick proper size, shape and color of pepper, place into bucket. When full, take to field truck, receive credit on his/her badge and obtain empty bucket. \n\nWeeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeks from the growing area, by raking piles of debris and dispose of it as instructed.\n\nGeneral Farm Work: Tasks the worker must be able to perform include: field cleanup including cutting and removing string from stakes, removing stakes and stacking them on a field truck, tying, pulling plastic off of the beds and putting it in a baler; using a shovel to finish plastic bed ends and install drainage inlets to field ditches; irrigation maintenance, ride on plastic laying machine and maintain operation of drip tape and plastic rolls; remove debris, discarded plant materials, or other items to maintain a clean growing area, wash harvest buckets with provided cleaner and brushes.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time and may include all of the following job specifications:\nWorkers will be assigned any or all of the following tasks and functions as needed by the employer: harvest and/or pack various crops in the field, load the trucks in the field and/or wash, grade and pack crops at the packing house, forklift driving, box stacking, icing of crops (harvested commodities) in the packing house ice room, pulling plastic in the field and loading/unloading plastic in the field, and non-harvest activities listed in the attachment.\n\nHarvest and pack crops in field: Worker will walk down assigned rows and cut at the appropriate height from the soil or pull crops from ground, discard poor quality crops, rubber band or apply twist ties as needed or required by the customer or employer, and place required quantity in assigned container and take and load onto the field truck. Workers will be given barcode stickers to affix to the boxes, crates, RPC's, and bins as they are packed in the field or the packing house. When harvesting radishes and beets the harvesters will be given a sticker for each type of harvest occurring and are scanned. The washing / packers will place barcode stickers on every unit packed and scanned. Barcode scanners will be used to scan all units and account for the workers piece rate with the exception of radishes and beets, where either barcode stickers or tokens will be used. Tokens will be given to each worker for each unit of beets or radishes that is harvested and packed when barcode scanners are not working. All piece rates include putting the box/crate together. Unloading of the truck is done at the packing house, by a forklift driver.\n\nWash, grade and pack crops: Worker will wash field crops to remove dirt and grade for quality and then pack the necessary quantity in the assigned box.\nForklift driving and stacking boxes of crops in the packing house and icing of various crops in the packing house ice room.\nPulling plastic from the fields during the cleanup stage of the season after all crops have been harvested. Loading and/or unloading of the pulled plastic onto and off of a truck after it has been pulled from the fields and disposed of in the location directed by the crew foreman. Various non-harvest activities such as, but not limited to weeding, thinning, staking, tying, seeding, planting, tractor work, driving of van or bus, occasional heavy equipment operation, field cleanup, irrigation maintenance, packing of crops, equipment maintenance, etc. as directed by the employer.\n\nThe employer will provide the picking containers and other necessary tools to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools. The worker must be physically able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to fulfill the essential duties described herein that also require the worker to be able to lift 75 pounds for long periods of time, work in hot, humid weather (including work when the heat index is 110 degrees for sustained periods) and in cold, wet weather, bending and stooping to harvest crop and perform pre-harvest activities.
Workers will be responsible for preparation of shellfish products for market. These duties will include but are not limited to: Washing of shellfish, removing shells, unloading pallets, transporting shellfish to and from machinery, cleaning machinery after processing or as needed, preparing machinery for processing of shellfish, assisting farmers employees unload to the processing plants, placing shellfish into and removing shellfish from machinery, and preparing packaging for shellfish processing.
Sanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities. \n\nCollard Greens, Cabbage Mustard Greens, Turnip Greens, Kale Greens, Herbs (cilantro, and parsley) Green Onions, Leeks, Beets, Broccoli leaves, Cauliflower leaves, Corn and Squash, \n\nWorker may plant and cultivate crops for vegetable production. Worker may set up, operate, and maintain irrigation equipment. Worker may irrigate soil and plants, using portable pipes and ditch systems, and maintain ditches, pipes, and pumps. Worker may pull plants for transplanting. Worker may set plants by hand and perform activities on a plant setter. Worker may thin plants in fields. Worker may perform hand cultivation tasks, hand weeding, and hoeing in field. Worker may load and unload supplies, packing equipment, full and empty containers, etc. in van, trailer, and harvesting machines. Worker may fill water coolers. Worker may make boxes. Worker may repair pallets. Worker may clean van and fields of all trash. Worker may clean roadsides and perform field and grounds maintenance such as bush hogging, mowing, shrubbing, trimming, and picking up roots and limbs. Worker may fill water tanks on farm equipment and machinery with water and soap and chemicals. Worker may be required to burn packaging supplies, trash, roots, and limbs. Worker may drive vans, tractors, pickups, and other farm equipment. Worker may work with irrigation. Worker may conduct van and trailer sanitation. Worker may direct and supervise a crew. Worker may ensure employee job safety and ensure compliance with food safety guidelines in the crew. If worker is supervising a crew, worker is also responsible for the conduct of his crew, responsible for reporting any misconduct of other workers, and responsible for initiating and performing minor disciplinary action. Worker may check port a john, field sanitation, spray signs and weather safety. Worker may keep counts of harvested and loaded crops, ensuring accuracy of all counts, record keeping, overages, shortages, wrong product harvested and other record keeping. Worker may ensure a crew’s quality, paying special attention to poor quality, count pounds per box, number of bunches per container, and box marking. Worker may pick and discard culls and sub-quality vegetables in the fields and on packing equipment. Worker is not to wear jewelry or loose-fitting clothing. Worker should keep shirts tucked into pants. If worker has long hair, be sure it is tied back and tucked in shirt.\n\nCollard Greens, Mustard Greens, Turnip Greens and Kale Greens: Workers will unload packing supplies from equipment. Worker cuts greens with a knife or may break leaves off by hand according to size, color, shape, and degree of maturity. Worker makes uniform bunches, secures bunch together with rubber band or twist ties, places bunches of greens to a container. Worker may place an identification tag on the bunch. For loose or loose with no stem, worker cuts greens with a knife or may be directed to break leaves off by hand according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and places leaves in container. If container is a box, worker makes box. Worker closes container after packing and loads container onto trailer. Worker may also work on packing equipment where the worker would stand on the back of a harvesting machine and ensure that boxes are filled to the proper level with loose greens. Worker will make the box. Worker will then give the full box to another worker where it will be stacked on a trailer.\n\n
Perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, harvest, grade and field pack cucumber, bell pepper, chili peppers, squash, tomotoes and cabbage by hand and machine. Operate farm vehicles, implements and mechanical equipment including tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plant and harvest crops. Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes and knives.\n\nTill soil. Work alongside tractor and trailer that are moving through the field while workers harvest produce. Workers will not break skin of tomato, drop tomato, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Clean, pack and load harvested tomatoes. Install or remove items required in plasticulture. Install and remove stakes, wire, netting and string. Grade, sort, wash, select, label, pack and load harvested products.\n\nBell peppers, chili peppers and cucumbers will be manually harvested by walking through the field and picking into baskets, carrying full baskets to dumpers riding on trailers moving alongside rows, and dumping into bins on the trailer. Pick squash by hand, field pack into boxes and load full boxes onto the back of trailers.\n\nCabbage will be cut at the base using a knife and either tossed into bins or a bulk wagon, or placed into boxes weighing approximately 50 lbs. in the field and loaded onto trailers. Pack cabbage on line. Determine maturity level of produce quickly and consistently by color, feel and size and apply correct defect tolerance, handling and harvest standards as instructed by supervisor.\n\nLay, tuck and/or remove plastic. Clean plastic of debris. Participate in irrigation activities including setting up, repairing, operating and maintaining drip and other irrigation equipment. Manually pull weeds, mow, weed eat and remove used stakes and string. Stake, string, tie, prune, sucker, thin and prune crops, as instructed by supervisor. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from ground or trellises. Train vines or plants on strings or trellises. Clean fields when harvest activities are complete. Till soil. Clear and maintain fields and irrigation ditches.\n\nWorkers in warehouse will stack, grade and pack produce into appropriate containers. Make boxes for produce. Operate forklifts for feeding packing line.\n\nWorkers must select harvestable produce based on correct size, maturity and quality. Workers will not break skin, damage, drop or bruise produce, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Workers must discard and destroy produce that has been in contact with blood. Any produce harvested or still on the plant that has been exposed to blood shall be discarded and destroyed. Workers must pass by or discard any produce that bears obvious signs of pest activity, fecal contamination, plant disease, or physical damage, or any produce that has been dropped on the ground. Workers must wash buckets, tools and equipment to avoid unnecessary introduction of soil into harvest containers and field bins, or onto tools or other harvesting equipment. Count and check harvested produce in the field. Repair fences and farm buildings. Workers with a valid license and doctor's certificate may transport other workers using approved vehicles and may be offered additional hours.\n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays.
Perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, harvest, grade and field pack cucumber, bell pepper, chili peppers, squash, tomotoes and cabbage by hand and machine. Operate farm vehicles, implements and mechanical equipment including tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plant and harvest crops. Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes and knives.\n\nTill soil. Work alongside tractor and trailer that are moving through the field while workers harvest produce. Workers will not break skin of tomato, drop tomato, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Clean, pack and load harvested tomatoes. Install or remove items required in plasticulture. Install and remove stakes, wire, netting and string. Grade, sort, wash, select, label, pack and load harvested products.\n\nBell peppers, chili peppers and cucumbers will be manually harvested by walking through the field and picking into baskets, carrying full baskets to dumpers riding on trailers moving alongside rows, and dumping into bins on the trailer. Pick squash by hand, field pack into boxes and load full boxes onto the back of trailers.\n\nCabbage will be cut at the base using a knife and either tossed into bins or a bulk wagon, or placed into boxes weighing approximately 50 lbs. in the field and loaded onto trailers. Pack cabbage on line. Determine maturity level of produce quickly and consistently by color, feel and size and apply correct defect tolerance, handling and harvest standards as instructed by supervisor.\n\nLay, tuck and/or remove plastic. Clean plastic of debris. Participate in irrigation activities including setting up, repairing, operating and maintaining drip and other irrigation equipment. Manually pull weeds, mow, weed eat and remove used stakes and string. Stake, string, tie, prune, sucker, thin and prune crops, as instructed by supervisor. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from ground or trellises. Train vines or plants on strings or trellises. Clean fields when harvest activities are complete. Till soil. Clear and maintain fields and irrigation ditches.\n\nWorkers in warehouse will stack, grade and pack produce into appropriate containers. Make boxes for produce. Operate forklifts for feeding packing line.\n\nWorkers must select harvestable produce based on correct size, maturity and quality. Workers will not break skin, damage, drop or bruise produce, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest. Workers must discard and destroy produce that has been in contact with blood. Any produce harvested or still on the plant that has been exposed to blood shall be discarded and destroyed. Workers must pass by or discard any produce that bears obvious signs of pest activity, fecal contamination, plant disease, or physical damage, or any produce that has been dropped on the ground. Workers must wash buckets, tools and equipment to avoid unnecessary introduction of soil into harvest containers and field bins, or onto tools or other harvesting equipment. Count and check harvested produce in the field. Repair fences and farm buildings. Workers with a valid license and doctor's certificate may transport other workers using approved vehicles and may be offered additional hours.\n\n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays.
Citrus Harvesting: Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Following the supervisors instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry an 18 to 20 ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between approximately 80 and 100 pounds, depending upon the size, condition and variety of fruit. Worker position ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, knock off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in secure position to prevent slipping or failing and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place into pick sack. When pick sack is full take to fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit pick sack into tub. Based upon work performance, advancement is a possibility. This advancement includes, but is not limited to supervising/managing a crew as well as possibly driving a loader and/or bus as long as licensing requirements are met. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub.\nGrove Clean-up: Workers will be required to perform miscellaneous grove clean-up work. These activities include pruning, painting trees, and repair and/or replace irrigation equipment, removal of debris, and other general grove clean-up work as required. \nGeneral Farm Labor: Some of the work required from the worker to be performed that is incidental to fanning crops listed in this application may be described as performing hand cultivation duties, weeding or hoeing crops, cleaning, setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment. Tasks the worker must be able to perform include: apply mulch by row mulcher or by hand; remove debris from ground preparation process to clean growing area; finish row ends with shovels provided by employer; unload plants by hand from trucks and move plants to planting location by hand; assist in pest controls; install culverts for field drainage; remove and reinstall sprinklers during bed preparations, re-plant missing or unhealthy plants as directed; remove or pull up strawberry plants in preparation for next crop; remove blossoms (de-blossom) to improve fruit quality; remove debris, boxes, and discarded fruit from fields to keep clean growing areas; general ranch maintenance; basic irrigation maintenance; make sandbags, clean and maintenance equipment and tools, assist in equipment cleaning, assist in applications by hand or tractor or fertilizers and or/pesticides; frost control of sprinklers, frost blanket coverings, or hoop coverings. May be necessary to assist in the use of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks, and harvest machinery, etc.\nWeeding: Workers will remove weeds by use of a hoe/pickaxe from the walk-way and remove all weeds growing around plants by hand. Workers will remove weeds from the growing area by ranking piles of debris and dispose of it as directed by the farm manager and or/crew supervisor.\n
Duties required: Harvesting, planting, counting, loading, unloading and packing strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, cantaloupe, watermelon, squash, zucchini and eggplant. Other duties may include field walking, general farm labor such as field and camp sanitation, maintenance, laying irrigation pipes and plastic, pulling weeds and plastic, raking, occasional grading and packing in the field or shed, digging ditches, and cleaning around shed areas. This will be done under extreme weather conditions. Heavy bending, stooping and lifting will be involved on a daily basis. Background check and random drug testing will be post hire at employers expense.\n\n(Continued on Addendum C.)
The farm work position includes duties associated farm labor tasks for production of tomatoes. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds along with time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes adherence to instruction given in regard to proper procedures & technics based on operation of the machinery to be used to complete each task. \n\n-Daily Work-Misc. farm tasks\n-Plastic Laying/Repair – Ride plastic machine and change out drip tape and plastic roles (weight +/- 100 lbs.) with 2 people. Shovel dirt on row ends (bury). Ride fertilizer hopper and maintain flow of fertilizer with shovel. \n-Mark and Measure – walk fields to mark 100’ intervals with spray paint \n-Irrigation Hook-up/Installation/Drainage – use shovel to make shallow trench to connect irrigation pipe or redirect water \n-Planting (Machine)- Load planter with plant trays and ride or walk behind planter to assure plants are at center of hole, proper depth, and no skips.\n-Replant- Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and replanting weak, dead, or missing plants at proper depth\n-Stake Repair – carry stakes (+/- 40’) to repair/replace areas with broken stakes, and/or tie broken stake to a new one\n-Mopping Bed Top- Mopping top of beds \n-Rouging plants/weeds- removing unwanted plants/weeds\n-Hand Punch Fertilizer – punch hole in plant bed and apply dry fertilizer with cup\n-Farm Truck Safety Cutouts- Cutting walk ways within plant beds every 50 feet\n-Planting (by hand) – Walk along plant bed holding plant tray and assuring that plants are planted at the center of pre punched plant hole at proper depth. Return empty plant trays to truck/trailer. (No empty trays to be left in field)\n-Watering In Plants- Walking beside plastic bed with water hose applying water to each plant hole, fill/plant any skips with plants provided.\n-Staking\n o Combo (Stab & Hammer)-Combination of the Stab & Hammering Tasks. Carry stakes (+/-40) from flatbed truck and stab in plant bed between every plant or marked hole. Ride hammer machine and use air hand hammer to drive every take 14” deep.\n o FRP- carry FRP Stakes from flatbed truck and stab by hand in plant bed between every plant or hole marked.\n-Tying – tie plants upright with tie stick and string/twine, looping each stake.\n-Pruning – walk field and bend-over at each plant, hold plant carefully and remove number of suckers directed by supervisor \n-Weeding – pull weeds from plant bed and around plant holes.\n-Plastic/Drip Tape Removal (Pull)- pull plastic and drip tape by hand and place in road way or at 100’ cross walk.\n-Cutting String- walk field and cut and remove string/twine with a small knife and place where directed by supervisor\n-Stake Pulling (Machine)- ride stake pull machine to assure stakes bundle evenly and/or walk field to pull stakes by hand and place small bundle at 100’ cross walks to pick-up and load onto flat-bed truck\n-Stake Pulling (Manual)- A crew of 14 persons will pull stakes by hand. 2 persons will ride on the back of the truck, 12 persons will walk on the ground and pull stakes by hand. Workers will ensure that stakes are pulled, bundled and tied.\n-Bale Plastic, Drip Tape, & String- walk field and load baler with bundled plastic, drip tape and string by hand\n-Farm Field Clean Up (PW)- Walk field and remove miscellaneous debris\n
Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate equipment used to harvest crops. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Must be able to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving record and background. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Operate forklifts and equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the field. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 50 pounds. Must be able to work outdoors in dusty/dirty conditions, at extreme heat and cold inclement weather. Must be able to listen to, understand, and follow simple instructions of supervisors and dispatcher. Must be able to work in fields where ants, snakes and poison ivy are encountered. The alternative work is truck maintenance and farm maintenance including the repair, irrigation, vehicles and various equipment and tools used on the farm. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\n\nOperador de equipo agrcola para operar el equipo utilizado para cosechar cultivos. Debe tener el tipo correcto de licencia requerido por las leyes estatales y federales. Ser el encargado de operar los vehculos utilizados para trasladar cultivos en la finca. Debe poder operar con seguridad los autobuses que se utilizan para transportar a los trabajadores hacia y desde los lugares de trabajo. Debe poder proporcionar prueba de antecedentes y antecedentes de conduccin sin accidentes. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo para el trabajador. No cumplir con la solicitud o dar positivo en la prueba puede resultar en la terminacin inmediata. Opere montacargas y equipos utilizados para mover suministros y equipos de cosecha en el campo. Mantenga el equipo de cosecha. Debe poder alcanzar, doblar y levantar artculos que pesen 50 libras. Debe poder trabajar al aire libre en condiciones polvorientas / sucias, con calor extremo y clima fro e inclemente. Debe poder escuchar, comprender y seguir instrucciones sencillas de los supervisores y el despachador. Debe poder trabajar en campos donde se encuentren hormigas, serpientes y hiedra venenosa. El trabajo alternativo es el mantenimiento de camiones y el mantenimiento de la granja, incluida la reparacin, el riego, los vehculos y diversos equipos y herramientas utilizados en la granja. El uso de un telfono celular personal u otro dispositivo electrnico personal durante el horario de trabajo est estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas o emergencias relacionadas con el trabajo y la violacin puede resultar en la terminacin inmediata.
Crops harvesting are: Tomato, bell pepper, squash, cucumber and watermelon\n\nLaying plastic-shoveling, making trenches, sitting on machine and examining the plastic rolls, loading plastic and fertilizer on to equipment\n\nIrrigation-examining hoses to ensure there are no ruptures, putting on couplings and fittings, shoveling to clean the area, cutting hose to proper length\n\nplanting-handing out plant trays, taking the plants out of the tray and putting them in the pre-dug holes and topping off with soil to ensure the plant is covered\n\nstaking-taking a bundle of stakes and placing them in the ground in-between each plant, also inspecting any stakes that have fallen are fixed and upright\n\nhammering-taking the hammer and walking alongside the bed and hammering the stakes into the ground\n\npruning-taking 2-3 prunes off the bottom of the plant and make sure there are no weeds coming out of the hold around the plant\n\ntying- tie string around the stakes to ensure the plant stays in an upright motion\n\npicking- harvesting the fruit of the crop and placing them softly in a bucket and taking it to be unloaded at the loading truck or picking up fruit and gently tossing them to a person on top of the truck to be loaded softly\n\ndumping-receiving the buckets from the pickers and softly dumping the fruit into a plastic bin, also inspect plastic bins to ensure they are up to food safety code.\n\nweeding-pulling out weeds alongside plastic and on top of plastic in the holes\n\ncleaning-picking up trash around loading stations, in-between rows, filling up stations and anywhere else.\n\npacking-inspecting fruit to ensure it is free of damage and is of good quality, placing fruit inside of a box or bin properly, taking pallets and placing them in the proper location so that boxes or bins may be placed on them, making boxes or bins, placing tags or stickers on fruit or boxes or bins, cleaning the area where packing is done and maintaining the area clean, strapping the boxes or bins to ensure they are in good form, stacking boxes or bins full of fruit or empty on pallets or on top of each other, culling and throwing away culls in a predetermined location.\n\npulling plastic-pulling plastic and drip tape from the bed and placing piles of tape and plastic on top of the bed next to the road way every 20 feet\n\ncutting string-cutting string and bunching it up and plastic bunches at 100 feet intervals and ensure that all string has been pulled from the stakes\n\npulling stakes-pulling stakes from each bed in 21 pile groups and placing the 21 stakes in-between the last bed and second to last bed next to the road way and tying the stakes with string in a tight bunch.\n\npicking up stakes-picking up the piles of stakes and handing them to a person on the truck or standing on the truck and receiving the piles of stakes and placing them on pallets to be unloaded.\n\nburning string and plastic- walking along the piles and lighting them up with a small propane torch.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Duties consist of planting seeds from the fruit collected, cutting the scions to be grafted onto tropical fruit trees. Cuttings and air laying plants as well. Moving plants after grafting to greenhouses. Check the trees that were grafted weeks previously to check their growth. Move the trees once ready to shade house. Move outdoor when ready. \n\n
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Workers may not leave trash, or other discarded items in work areas or vehicles but must dispose of such items in provided receptacles. Workers must wash hands with soap and water after all bathroom and meal breaks. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. \n\nWorks duties may vary from time to time. Job duties include Manually planting, cultivate, transplant and harvest trees. Works will also trim limbs, tie tops of trees, cut trees, wrap tree trucks in protective felt, transferring/ repotting plants/trees, tiling soil, clearing/removing debris from land, weeding, organizing materials, preparing, setting metal, cording, and crimpling metal baskets, general maintenance, sorting and packing trees into trucks. Workers will load and unload trucks, unload inventory, trench and watering liners dally, prepare and plant liner-using setter, work with overhead watering system and do any other work deemed necessary to ensure trees are cultivated productively.\n\nThe employer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able to but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product.\n\nFarm, Field, and Shed Sanitation: All workers will be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping floors and other farm, and shed sanitation duties\n\nGENERAL CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL CROPS: Work may begin at daylight. Work is performed during all weather conditions and in temperatures ranging from 15 degrees F to 120 degrees F. Worker may lift and move objects in excess of 100 pounds. Worker should be able to work on his/her feet and/or in bent position for long periods of time. Worker will supply his/her own work clothes. Employer will provide tools and equipment at no cost to worker to perform the job description. These tools and equipment will be returned to the employer at the end of the task. Worker will be charged for any willful damage, loss, or failure to return such tools and equipment. Instructions and general supervision will be provided by the crew leader, supervisor, or a designated employee. However, worker will be expected to perform his/her duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision. All tasks and rules in this job description and job order constitute one (1) job. Worker is required to perform any task and abide by all rules in any area at any time within this job description and job order. Failure to abide by any task or any rule in this job description and job order will subject the worker to disciplinary action, up to and including termination.\n\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engaged in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. \n
Worker will operate power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, general tillage equipment, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, fork lifts, skid loaders, and pick up trucks. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without discretion in a manner that protects the operator, other employees, crops, trees, facilities, and equipment. \n\nApply pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and other crop protectants. Mix and apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatment at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs.\n\nWork as a mechanic - Perform maintenance, fabrication, and other mechanical tasks on vehicles, production equipment, packing equipment, tractors, wagons, and farming implements. May perform work in shop as incident to or in conjunction with such farming operation. \n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. \n\nWorkers with a clean driving record and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be required to drive company vehicles. \n\nPersons seeking employment in this position much be available for the entire period requested by the employer.
Worker will be required to perform a variety of duties related to the production of honey bees. The majority of the work activities during the overall contract period, however, will be related to the production of honey bees.\nDuties related to the production of honey bees will include the following: check physical characteristics, observe general condition of bees/hives and apply the appropriate care; remove supers (bee boxes) from storage and load onto flatbed trucks; add and remove supers from the hive as needed; place empty supers in storage; prepare bee colonies for winter; gather supers and strap onto trucks for transport; inspect maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yard, and fences; blow smoke into hives to quiet bees using smoke producing device; assemble beehives using hand tools; open hive and pour sugar on tops of frames to feed bees; mix and knead specified types and quantities of ingredients to make bee candy; places screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees and set hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen; scrape out parasites such as wax moth larva and remove vermin such as birds and mice; destroy superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming; burn hives of diseased bee colony or sterilize hive using caustic soda solution; mow weeds and grass in apiaries and around worksites; weed eat to clean entrance of grass and shrubs from entrance of active hives; roll straps from hive pallets for summer storage; remove straps for placement back on hive pallets in fall; place pollen patties on colonies; inspect and install/remove entrance cleats; transfer damaged hive equipment and replace/repair equipment; maintain, drive, attach, and operate farm implements/tractors/equipment; make minor mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm machinery; may mix and/or spray chemicals (according to appropriate restrictive use laws, when/if applicable); remove undesirable and excess growth from farm grounds or bee yards; paint/repair/maintain farm structures; perform general cleanup of farm areas; drive, load/unload trucks; operate vehicle, motor bike, or all-terrain vehicle in the course of performing duties; all other duties necessary for the production and care of honey bees.
Workers must follow direction from the supervisor in charge. Sod Planting: Tree/weed removal, picking up scrap sod from fields. Using the following hand tools: wrenches, ratchets, sockets, screw drivers, hammer/nails, pitchforks, shovels, rakes, string trimmer, ratchet straps, and machetes. Workers may use the following machines: fuel pumps, air compressors, grinders and forklift. Sod Harvesting: Assisting the Sod Harvesting Manager with performing a second level of quality control. Sod Stacking (by hand): Hand stacking sod on back of the tractor. On days when there are large orders or the mechanical sod stacker breaks down, manual sod stackers are used. Taking slabs and manually stacking them on a pallet. Sod Loading (by forklift): Sod is harvested by hand or sod harvester and stacked on a pallet in the field. Customers come out to the field and workers take pallets of sod load them on a customer’s trailer or rear of truck. Slabs of sod weight about 3-8 pounds each. Must be able to transfer 160 slabs of sod by hand to a pallet. Workers may install Sod. May transport workers to fields and grocery store. OFLC Administrator publishes new AEWR rates yearly and we reserve the right to adjust our job order to the new published rate regardless of rate increases or decreases. Raises and bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker, at the employer’s discretion, based on individual factors including but not limited to, performance, experience, number of hours worked in the season, number of seasons worked with the company, adherence to work rules and ability to follow supervisor’s instructions.
Cultivate and harvest tomatoes - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, pull plastic, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Must be able to operate motorized farm equipment. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field.\n\nCultiva y cosecha tomates: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y aranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe las cubetas en los contenedores. Cuidado de campo: ate las plantas, estaque las plantas, pode las plantas, rellene, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microjets, tire del plástico, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de los surcos especificados por el empleador y eliminarán las malas hierbas y el césped de los campos a mano o con una azada. Debe estar de pie, encorvarse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. Debe poder operar equipo agrícola motorizado incluyendo tractores si es necesario. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo para el trabajador. No cumplir con la solicitud o dar positivo en la prueba puede resultar en la terminación o despido inmediata. Las pruebas de detección de drogas y las verificaciones de antecedentes pueden ocurrir durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se llevarán a cabo a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe cumplir con todos los procedimientos de seguridad y alimentos adecuados, los procedimientos de seguridad, las instrucciones del líder de cuadrilla / gerente / supervisor, las políticas y los procedimientos de la empresa. Debe poder levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo.
Operate agricultural equipment while cultivating and harvesting cucumbers and peppers. Employees hired for transporting workers must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and drivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization. Will also be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Must be able to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Should be able to provide proof of accident-free driving record and background. Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. Agricultural equipment operators use a variety of farm equipment to plow and sow seeds, as well as maintain and harvest crops. They may use tractors, fertilizer spreaders, balers, combines, threshers, and trucks. These workers also operate machines such as conveyor belts, loading machines, separators, cleaners, and dryers. Workers may make adjustments and minor repairs to equipment. Drives gasoline or diesel-powered tractor to move materials, draw farm implements, tow trailers, pull out objects embedded in ground, or pull cable of winch to raise, lower, or load heavy material or equipment: Fastens attachments, such as graders, plows, and rollers, to tractor with hitchpins. Drive and control farm equipment to till soil and to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops. May operate forklift; Paint equipment; Shovel cross ditches and install plastic spillways; Shovel cross ditches after rain to speed removal of water; Cut grass, pull weeds, operate a weed eater; Repair pallets; Drive tractors; Mechanical duties. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 75lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 75lbs. in field. All work experience must be verifiable. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.
Two temporary position opening. $12.41 per hour + housing at no cost to the worker. A signed contract may be required. 3/4 time guarantee. Work tools, supplies and equipment will be provided at no cost to the worker. Transportation & subsistence expenses to worksite provided by employer or paid by employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract. Must be able to ride ATV in order to move the livestock safely. Must have 3 months experience and provide (1) reference from previous employer with knowledge of applicants skills. Must be able to lift 75 pounds. Must have knowledge of building and repair of fence, irrigation knowledge and management, planting, cultivating and harvesting hay for livestock. Irrigate fields and row crops using gravity flow. Shovels and packs dirt in low spots on ditch banks, cuts trenches in high areas to direct water flow. Closes turnouts in ditch when bordering area is flooded. Removes obstructions from rows and builds up edges of rows with dirt. Shovels soil to clear ditches and furrows, builds up edges of rows with dirt. Shovels soil to clear ditches and furrows, builds embankments to channel water to designated areas. Workers must be willing to perform all duties according to the employer's requirements during the contract period. Skills to maintain equipment in a working condition and observe safe practices. Longer hours and more days (up to 7 days per week) may be required during irrigation and hay season. Workers must be willing and able to perform all duties according to the employers requirements during the contract period. Workers will be expected to work in conditions normally associated with FL climatic conditions.
Fern cutters. Worker will cut leatherleaf fern in fields. The worker will be required to cut 20 stems per bunch. The worker must separate bunches by approximate sizes. Large leatherleaf fern bunches should have stems between 25 and 28 inches in length. Regular leatherleaf fern bunches should have stems between 22 and 24 inches in length. The worker must look for the best-looking leatherleaf sprays and cut it at the bottom with a fern clipper supplied by the owner. The worker will keep the sprays in one hand until they have 20 good stems of the appropriate size, then they will tie it with a rubber band and keep moving forward looking for more stems to cut. They repeat this process over and over until the leader says it's time to bring in the bunches. The worker will load bunches onto a basket for transport to the packing shed. Workers will be provided fern clippers and rubber bands. The worker is responsible for keeping clippers sharp for the best and cleanest cut of each fern stem. When the workers are not cutting ferns, they will be pulling weeds in the same fields. The workers will be paid at the hourly AEWR rate for their time spent pulling weeds.\n\nFern Cutters get paid for piece work or bunches cut per hour unless they are pulling weeds (see above). The average cutter cuts between 25-40 bunches per hour. Regular Leather Stem (roughly 22-24 inch stems) are 40 cents per 20-stem bunch. Large Leather Stem (roughly 25-28 inch stems) are 45 cents per 20-stem bunch. We offer an assurance guaranteeing that if the workers’ piece rate earnings in a week are less than the AEWR wage rate, we will supplement the workers’ wages to match the AEWR wage rate.
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor. Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate\nequipment used to harvest crops. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and\ndrivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have\na valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration\nwith driving authorization. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Must be\nable to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Operate forklifts and\nequipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the\nfield. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 70 pounds. The alternative\nwork if needed will be to assist with the harvesting.\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional\nperiods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These\nperiods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of\nno work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be\nprovided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in\ncorresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A\nemployer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of\nemployment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer
Field Laborers will assist with potting, trimming, taping and loading plants; weeding, cleaning and applying fertilizers around the nursery. Prepare soil and growth media, cultivate, prune and otherwise participate in horticulture activities. Operate tractors and tractor-drawn machinery and self-propelled machinery to grow and harvest nursery stock, plants and shrubs. Harvest full-grown crops requiring digging, balling and heavy lifting (50 lbs over head). Work in all weather conditions. Hours may vary based on weather and crop conditions. \nLos trabajadores del campo ayudaran a sembrar, recortar, vendar, y cargar plantas; desmalezar, limpiar y aplicar abono en el vivero. Preparar la tierra y media de cultivo, cultivar, recortar y participar de otra manera en las actividades de horticultura. Operar tractores, maquinas jaladas por tractor, y maquinaria autopropulsada para hacer crecer y cultivar mercancia del vivero, plantas y arbustos. Cultivar cosechas maduras, el cual requiere cavar, poner las plantas en arpillera, y levantar cosas pe\n
The employee will perform any combination of the following tasks:\nPrepare soil and growth medium, haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, lime, and other soil conditions on sod grass and turf areas. This does not include work with herbicides/pesticides. The employer only allows licensed managers to work with these products;\n\nThe worker will dig, rake and screen soil; fill tanks with water and handle irrigation equipment; sow grass seed; cut, roll and stack sod; plant Sod. \n\nWorkers must operate farm equipment / machinery to mow grass, plot fields, load and unload trucks, forklifts, and sod cutters. \n\nWhen work in sod is not available, the workers may be offered other general agricultural duties associated with sod farming including building and equipment maintenance, repairing fences and similar tasks; plowing, and mowing corn and sugarcane fields; drive water tank tractor to water crops, and on occasion workers may operate other motor equipment.\n\nQualification:\n - Must have the ability to understand and carry out oral instructions.\n - Be physical ability to perform various manual tasks.\n - Be experienced in farm equipment operation.\n\nEducation\n - Sufficient to follow oral instructions\n\nJob Location and Work Conditions:\nWork is performed outdoors in various field locations on the farm. The workers will be exposed to all temperature and weather extremes (i.e. heat, rain, wind, cold, and dusty conditions), moving equipment, loud noises, wetness, dust, fumes, and requires walking on soft much and hard and uneven surfaces.\n\nPhysical Demands:\nMust be able to work outdoors in a variety of weather conditions. Exposure to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, extreme cold and extreme heat. Have the requisite strength to do manual work requiring strenuous physical exertion; e.g. continuous walking, bending, standing, pushing, pulling and lifting. Must be able to lift up to fifty- (50) pounds over distances of ten (10) feet or more.\n\n- Must be a team player who is willing to cooperate with others. - - Must be able to accept corrective criticism from supervisor.\n\n- The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n
Crops/Commodities: \nnursery stock. \nPerform manual and mechanized tasks associated with the outdoor production of horticultural products. Plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery stock, trees, shrubs, bedding plants, plugs, liners, and other horticultural varieties. Prepare fields/soil for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using hand tools or mechanized equipment (rakes, shovels, hoes, tractors, mattocks, brush hooks and/or axes).. Plant/pot seedlings or ‘liners’ by hand or mechanical planter. Propagate plants from cuttings. Prepare trees for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Hand dig trees and other plants with shovel or tree spade. \nPerform general plant maintenance. Irrigate and apply fertilizer or other chemicals. Train, prune, trim, shear, space, transplant and cull trees and/or plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Shear trees with proper taper and bud cut angle for quality. Tie/position trees and plants by tying or wrapping as necessary. Count, inventory, and grade trees. Select trees for cutting according to grade. Cut trees using axe or chainsaw. Drag cut trees from cutting area. Bale trees using tree baler. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twice and/or stapes. Pack, label, tag, pull, sort, and store plants by variety. Clean/maintain work area.\n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates. \n\nApply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nWorkers must operate all equipment properly and in a manner that protects operator, others, the employer’s products and property. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination.\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\n\nOutdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. Work is done outdoors for long periods of time and requires prolonged periods of standing and/or walking, repetitive movements, and frequent bending and/or stooping. Workers must be able to handle, lift, and carry heavy or bulky objects (product, containers) in accordance with the specified lifting requirements. \n\nWorkers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may transport other workers. \n\nSupervisor(s) will provide instructions and directions to workers. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors.
Manually caring for and harvesting crops such as peas, butter beans, cabbage, squash; walking fields pulling off-type weeds; pick crops by hand and place in storage container; lift and carry container; cleanup of worksite; minor daily and incidental upkeep to equipment and worksite.
Watermelon and pumpkin harvesting and field care. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process and will be conducted at the sole expense and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 50lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 50lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \n\nCosecha de sandía y calabaza y cuidado de campo. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Las pruebas de drogas y la verificación de antecedentes pueden ocurrir durante el proceso de la entrevista y se realizarán a expensas y discreción exclusivas del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 50 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 50 libras en campo. El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
Duties include harvesting string bean, corn and blackberry. Other duties include planting, grading, field packing, weeding, pruning, cleanup, performing maintenance on the farm and general farm labor. This will be done under extreme weather conditions such as heat, direct sunlight and possible rain. Heavy bending, stooping and lifting will be involved on a daily basis.\n\nWorkers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands. The first week of employment is considered as an introductory period of employment to acclimate the worker to the physical demands of the work and to familiarize workers with job specifications and to demonstrate proper methods and specific issues. On the first work day, the employer will provide specific instructions in the proper way to perform the crop activity. Thereafter, the worker will be expected to perform the task with diligence as instructed. By the beginning of the second work week, workers will be expected to perform the work in a manner specified by the employer and described herein. After the one-week acclimation period, workers who fail to meet the standard and/or fail to perform the work in the manner specified may be terminated.\n\nBlackberry Harvesting: Workers will use picking stand and move down assigned row, picking all ripe berries, taking care to sort and pack containers by size, shape, color, quality and quantity as directed by the supervisor. Each worker shall handle berries carefully to avoid bruising. Bruising will weaken the berry. Upon completion of each flat picked, the worker will take his/her completed flat to the crate shed to be viewed for grade, palletized and receive credit on his/her picking badge. Any containers that are over or under packed will be returned to the worker for repacking. Workers must pick a minimum of four (4) flats (each containing 12 clamshells) per hour.\n\nVegetable Harvesting: Workers will move down assigned row and pick according to size, shape, color and maturity and place into bucket or field box, carefully so as not to bruise. Workers will be responsible for selecting produce according to criteria and discarding poor quality, rotting and/or over-ripened produce. When full, workers will carry bucket or field box and empty into field bin or load onto trailer and receive token or credit.\n\nGeneral Farm Labor: Some of the work required from the worker to be performed that is incidental to farming crops listed in this application may be described as performing hand cultivation duties, pruning, maintenance, cleaning, repairing seed beds and racks, setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment. \n\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the workers for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools. (Continued on Addendum C)
JOB # l \nTree is harvested from the ground with a tractor Roots are pruned, shaped and trimmed with a shovel Rootball is wrapped in plastic wrap \nTrees is laid down so the trunk and fans can be trimmed with loppers and shovel Tree is placed on rack where it will be watered, fertilized and cultivated until ready for harvest OR Holes are dug Tree is planted where it will be watered, fertilized, cultivated and grown until ready for harvesting .\n\nJOB # 2 \nTrees need to be watered daily \nJOB#3 \nThe entire farm must be weeded \nJOB#4 \nFertilizer must be applied to the trees
Duties may vary from time to time. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Perform manual labor. Workers will clear ground of rocks, sticks, and roots by hand and clear brush and trees. Manually weeding fields by hand/using hand tools & other farm tools. Workers will harvest, cut, and pick tomatoes, squash, pepper and Eggplant. Duties also include tying, pull and pile string, staking, pulling plastic, loading, and unloading stakes, cleaning, loading, and unloading harvested products, and pulling weeds. Workers will harvest vegetables in the field. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil, applying fertilizers, transplanting, pulling weeds, raking, cleaning around shed area, thinning, or pruning crops, cleaning, grading, and packing harvested product. All tools, supplies, and equipment will be provided at no cost to the worker. May repair fences and farm buildings and participate in irrigation activities. May drive bus or truck to transport the workers to and from worksites and grocery store.
Crops/Commodities: \nHoney. \nPerform manual and mechanical duties related to commercial beekeeping and honey production. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of beekeeping. \n\nMake, paint and clean boxes. Assemble hives using hand tools. Inserts honeycombs into hive. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feed and medicate bees for diseases, parasites, and pests. Sterilize hive and burn diseased hive or bee colony. \n\nRun queen breeding yard. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination.\n\nHarvest/extract honey. Collect royal jelly. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extracts honey. Remove frames covered with bees and shake into cages. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. \n\nMust have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. \n\nPerform mechanized extraction. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintain extraction equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale.\n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates. \n\nApply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\n\nOutdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. Work is done outdoors for long periods of time and requires prolonged periods of standing and/or walking, repetitive movements, and frequent bending and/or stooping. Workers must be able to handle, lift, and carry heavy or bulky objects (product, containers) in accordance with the specified lifting requirements. \n\nEmployer-paid post-hire random and post-accident drug testing required. Workers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may transport other workers. \n\nApplicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. Supervisor(s) will provide instructions and directions to workers. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised.
SUPERVISOR/DRIVER OF GREENHOUSE AND SOD FARM LABORERS:\nWorker will be required to supervise greenhouse laborers and or sod farm workers. Worker will\nbe required to track and document hours worked by laborers. Worker will be provided with, at no\ncost to the worker, the required tools for time keeping of laborers. Worker will communicate\nwith authorized personnel within Worldwide Harvesting Co, LLC, in order to report time\nrecords, hours refused by laborers, and any laborer that abandons their employment without\nauthorization. Worker will be required to transport greenhouse and sod farm laborers to\ndesignated job site locations on a daily basis, descending from designated housing location and\nreturning to housing location upon completion of daily production. Worker will be given a fuel\ncard to ensure assigned transportation vehicle (labor bus, van, or pickup truck) is properly\nsupplied with the fuel anticipated for daily transportation of laborers. Worker will also transport\nlaborers to and from grocery stores and laundromat on a weekly or as needed basis in order for\nworker and laborers to obtain necessary personal products and wash clothing. Worker will be\nrequired to obtain, if not already in possession of, an FLCE Farm Labor License with the State of\nFL DBPR and WHD- Federal Farm Labor Contractor License with driving/transportation\nauthorization to drive authorized vehicles for WWH, a valid CDL license or equivalent to with\npassenger endorsement to safely and properly drive and transport laborers, a DOT Medical\nCertificate, as well as agree to submit a random drug and alcohol test at any given time during \nemployment as required by DOT. Refusal or failure of a drug and alcohol test will result in\nimmediate termination of employment. Worker must be able to sit or stand for long periods of\ntime, withstand extreme heat or cold temperatures, must be able to listen and follow directions,\nmust be able to lift safely operate a forklift on a sod farm used to move pallets of sod to\ndesignated locations on the farm, as well as transportation vehicles used to transport workers.\nWorker must also be able to walk short distances on a sod farm and within the location of the\ngreenhouse. Worker will not be permitted to use a cell phone during work hours unless in an\nemergency. Ear buds and or headphones will not be permitted for the worker to utilize while\noperating any machine and or vehicle used during work hours. This job is anticipated to last\napproximately 8 months recurrent annually, between the months of May and December to\ncomplete production for growers.
Crops: Tropical’s, Perennials, Ornamental Grasses and Ferns.\n\nGreenhouse/Nursery duties: Planting cutting, micro cuttings, and seeds in trays or pots with soil medium. Planting plants in trays with automated planting machine. Planting seeds in trays with automated seeding machine. Documenting, labeling, and recording daily planting, consolidating, and harvesting activities with name of plant, tray type and quantity planted/harvested/consolidated. Harvesting cuttings from stock plants, seeds, and young plants. Divide plants. Potting and repotting plants of various sizes. Trimming and/or cleaning plants with knives and hand trimmers. Trimming plants with automated machine. Consolidating plants in liner trays for shipping. Watering and fertilizing plants. Cleaning plants which consist of removing dead foliage, dead flowers, and dead shoots. Moving plants in trays and pots from one location to another. Moving tables with and without plants. Workers will fill trays and pots with media/soil. Loading and pushing carts with plants. Cleaning and disinfecting greenhouse floors, walls, tables, work areas, pots, trays, and trays cover. Harvesting micro cuttings from jars and test tubes using scalpel and forceps in tissue culture clean room. Documenting, labeling, and recording daily micro harvesting activities with plant processing documentation. Washing/cleaning tissue culture jars and tubes. Moving plants, rays, tissue culture jars and test tubes from one location to another. Loading plants on rolling carts and moving carts from one location to another. Working in media prep room closing jars with caps, moving, and preparing jars for media and wrapping tools for sterilization. Inspecting tissue culture jars and test tubes for microbial contamination. \n\nGENERAL CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL CROPS: Fieldwork begins at assigned time shortly after daylight. Work is performed during light rain and in high humidity and in temperatures ranging from 100 (+) degrees to 35 degrees F. Workers will work on their feet in bent, stooped, and crouched positions for long periods of time. Workers will make fast, simple, repeated movements of fingers, hands, and wrists. Workers must be able to bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs. Workers will use muscles to lift, push, pull, or carry heavy objects, such as trees or potted plants. These could/will weigh 75 lbs. Workers will supply their own work clothes. All the tasks in this Job Description constitute one (1) job; the employer may assign workers to different tasks on any day or to multiple tasks during the same day in the sole judgment of the employer. Workers may be required to perform work on the farm that is incidental to farming the crops listed in the application, such as performing hand cultivation tasks, weeding, or hoeing, cleaning, and repairing farm buildings, seed beds, racks, or grounds, operate tractor/farm equipment, incidental crop set up, move irrigation pipes and equipment, gardening, weeding and shrubbing, etc. All other duties assigned under this order will be those duties of Horticulture Workers, SOC code 45-2092.01. This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality specifications must be rigorously adhered to. Sloppy work cannot and will not be tolerated.\n\nThe employer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able to but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product.\n\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engaged in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. \n
Cultivate, harvest and pack vegetables - tomato, bell pepper, hot pepper, squash, cucumber, and eggplant. Move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants. Tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. \nCultive, coseche y empaque verduras: tomate, pimiento morrón, pimiento picante, calabaza, pepino y berenjena. Muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas. Amarre las plantas, estaque las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y la eliminación de malezas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras en campo El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
*prune trees\n*pick up miscellaneous plants by hand and load plants onto trucks by hand.\n*operate on the assembly line with potting new plants by hand\n*install bamboo sticks on trees by hand\n*Pick up unwanted brush, trees & shrubs by hand and dispose of them.\n*Drive tractors and Kabuto RTV around the farm only to transport plants to various locations on the farm.\nEmployee must be able to bend, stoop, stand, and walk throughout the work day hours. Employees must be able withstand extreme weather conditions such as but, extreme heat and sunlight, as well as cold temperatures.\nWorkers will report to work at the designated time and place as directed by the supervisor each day. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season. Employees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season.\n
Sanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations.\n\nCrops: Peas, Peanuts, Cucumbers, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Eggplant, Yellow Squash, Zucchini, Squash, Okra, Watermelon, Butterbeans, Corn, Beans, Cantaloupe, Tomatoes, Bell peppers and Peppers\n\nWorkers will perform various duties associated with growing the vegetable crops listed above. Workers will plant cultivate and harvest vegetables. Workers will lay, fix and pull plastic. Workers will hook up, unhook and fix water. Workers will stake and tie pepper and tomato plants. Workers will perform support duties such as making boxes, packing, cleaning buckets and work areas. Workers will assist with weed removal. \n\nWorkers will remove the vegetable (listed above) from the plant according to size and maturity that will be able to be packed and shipped. Then the produce will be placed in a six-gallon picking bucket. After bucket is full the workers will and carry the bucket to a flatbed truck or flatbed field trailer. A person on truck or trailer will receive the full buckets. This person will either dump the produce in plastic bin or set the full bucket on the truck or trailer. The person on the truck on the trailer will give a token to the picker each time they take a full bucket. This process will be repeated throughout the day until the scheduled field is picked. \n\nPlant Bed Preparation: Laying plastic mulch over prepared beds, which are been fumigated. This includes other jobs necessary to get the plant beds ready for planting, including placing drip tube under the plastic and connecting drip tube to lateral lay flat. \n\nCrop Maintenance and Cultivation: Weed removal from crop rows, tightening stakes loosened by wind and water runoff. Helping to drain areas of the field with shovels, cutting the ridged areas of the rows covered in black plastic to allow the pooled water to drain. \n\nWorkers are expected to begin work early in the mornings except with picking tomatoes. If it is necessary for workers to work in the rain, the employer will provide works, without cost to them, appropriate rain gear. Workers should not have allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, pesticide sprays residues or related chemicals. \n\nPacking Operation\nGrading Working carefully remove any leaves and defective fruit as defined by grading supervisor as peaches move across grading tables. Produce must be handled carefully to avoid bruises or fingernail cuts. Workers will pack and shell peas and corn. \n\nFillers Workers box the graded fruit in appropriate containers by attending automatic filler or by hand as necessary according to packaging instructions disclosed by the supervisor.\n
Raises honey bees to produce honey and maintain colony health through feed/supplements; find and cage queens, install queen cells; assembles bee hives, inserts honeycomb of bees into hives; forces bees from hives; uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts approx. 75 pounds of honey from honeycombs; must be able to lift 75 pound boxes for honey transport; transporting bee boxes from hives to extracting facility; driving farm vehicle to obtain supplies, honey extracting equipment, and misc. tools used to work with honey bees; minor daily and incidental upkeep to equipment, worksite, and colony boxes.
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Workers must work at a sustained (continuing for an extended period of time without interruption), vigorous pace (quick and steady) and make bona fide efforts (made in earnest intent) to work efficiently (performing or functions in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort) and consistently (same way for a long time) that are reasonable under the climatic and other working conditions, Workers may not leave trash, or other discarded items in work areas or vehicles but must dispose of such items in provided receptacles. Workers must wash hands with soap and water after all bathroom and meal breaks. Allergies to varieties of ragweed,\ngoldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc, may affect workers ability to perform the work described herein.\n\nJob Description: Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction.\n\nPrepare bees and bee equipment. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of beekeeping. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feeding and medicate bees for diseases and pests. Maintain hives in healthy state. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Make, paint and clean boxes. Harvest/extract honey. Run queen breeding yard and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. Ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Harmonize bees with their natural cycle. Raise bees to produce honey. Assemble hives using hand tools. Inserts honeycombs into hive. Induct wild swarming bees into prepared honeycomb frames. Place screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees. Set hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen. Force bees from hive using smoke pot or carbolic acid soaked pad. Inspect hive and to harvest honeycomb. Remove parasites and vermin. Collect royal jelly. Destroy superfluous queen bee cells to prevent colony division. Burn diseased hive or bee colony. Sterilize hive using caustic soda solution. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extracts honey. Find and remove old queens from hives and replace with new queen. Remove frames covered with bees and shake into cages. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintenance of all mechanical equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. Must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. Must have field-based honey bee experience. Must assess colonies to determine if colonies require additional storage capacity, more time for honey to be finished, or whether honey is ready for removal. Carefully remove honey from colony to prevent loss of queen. Take careful consideration of procedures to prevent hazardous conditions. Workers will load and unload bees for shipment.
Temporary, seasonal workers needed for nursery; job duties include: Potting and repotting nursery plants such as, but not limited to trees, palms, shrubs, perennials, tropical foliage, and annuals. Pruning, trimming, and weeding plants materials. Pulling plant material for orders, this will require lifting 50 pounds or more with assistance of larger material. Relocating plant material as needed. \nTrabajadores temporales de temporada necesarios para la guarderia; las tareas incluyen: Macetas y replantación de plantas de vivero tales como, entre otras, árboles, palmeras, arbustos, plantas perennes, follaje tropical y anuales. Podar, recorte y deshierbe de materiales vegetales. Tirar de material vegetal para pedidos, esto requerirá levantar 50 libras o más con la ayuda de material más grande. Reubicación del material vegetal según sea necesario.
Crops/Commodities:\nhoney.\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\nPrepare bees and bee equipment for pollination. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of beekeeping. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feeding and medicate bees for diseases and pests. Maintain hives in healthy state. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Make, paint and clean boxes. Harvest/extract honey. Run queen breeding yard and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. Ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Harmonize bees with their natural cycle. Raise bees to produce honey and pollinate crops. Assemble hives using hand tools. Inserts honeycombs into hive. Induct wild swarming bees into prepared honeycomb frames. Place screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees. Set hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen. Force bees from hive using smoke pot or carbolic acid soaked pad. Inspect hive and to harvest honeycomb. Remove parasites and vermin. Collect royal jelly. Destroy superfluous queen bee cells to prevent colony division. Burn diseased hive or bee colony. Sterilize hive using caustic soda solution. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extracts honey. Find and remove old queens from hives and replace with new queen. Remove frames covered with bees and shake into cages. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintenance of all mechanical equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. Must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. Must have field-based honey bee experience. Must assess colonies to determine if colonies require additional storage capacity, more time for honey to be finished, or whether honey is ready for removal. Carefully remove honey from colony to prevent loss of queen. Take careful consideration of procedures to prevent hazardous conditions. \nWork is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. \nEmployer-paid post-hire random, upon suspicion, and post-accident drug testing required. \nClean driving record required. Must have or be able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days following hire. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may be asked to drive other workers.
Crops/Commodities: \ntrees, shrubs, palms. \nAll tasks in this job description constitute one (1) job; the employer may assign workers to different tasks on any day or to multiple tasks during the same day in the sole judgment of the employer. Instructions and overall supervision and direction of workers will be provided by a Team Leader/Supervisor. Employees must perform the assigned work, and may not perform duties not included herein or work in areas not assigned without the specific authorization of the Team Leader/Supervisor. Workers must communicate potential problems to immediate Team Leader/Supervisor for resolution and keep Team Leader/Supervisor informed of issues and challenges. Workers hired pursuant to this labor certification must be able to comprehend and follow instructions of a Team Leader/Supervisor and communicate effectively. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised. Workers will be expected to perform basic duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision.\n\nSMALL CONTAINER SHIFTING:\n\nWorkers will perform manual and/or machine tasks associated with the propagation of 1 to 7 gallon container production of trees and shrubs. Tasks for small container shifting of nursery stock will include some combination of the following: fill 1 to 7 gallon containers or trays with soil in preparation for new plantings; pull long pieces of ‘poly’ (plastic hose) to straighten kinks or bends and secure tightly by pushing hose-end anchoring stakes into ground for each row; fill plant trays; prepare fields/sections for planting by consolidating plant material in sections to allow space for new plantings, prepping, cleaning, dumping, removing weeds and debris; plant seedlings or ‘liners’ by hand (including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter); plant ‘liners’ into containers; dig or transplant bare-root and container-grown nursery stock; follow up on recently planted sections to accommodate for special water needs; weed in shade houses as needed; load and unload containers onto trailers, sections and beds; conduct repair work to sections by removing or replacing ground covers, metal rings, etc. for new sections and existing sections, filling holes and all other tasks associated with shifting/transplanting of container trees and shrubs. \n\nSMALL CONTAINER TREE MAINTENANCE:\n\nWorkers will perform manual and/or machine tasks associated with the cultivation and maintenance of 1 to 7 gallon container production of trees and shrubs. Tasks for small container tree maintenance will include some combination of the following: tree and shrub maintenance; prune trees correctly by applying techniques based on species tree type; stake trees with bamboo or metal using proper protocols; lift and straighten small container trees; apply topdress fertilizer to containers; maintain and clean sections: remove leaf litter and trash, remove weeds and debris; \n\nLARGE CONTAINER SHIFTING:\n\nWorkers will pot (shift) trees; set up holding systems, straighten and align holding system to tree, consolidate, tree stand up and dump. Worker will be trained to know the basic difference of plant identification and container size, proper methods of planting a tree from one size container to a larger container size, moving trees from one location to another, moving cull trees to dump and standing trees up after a major wind event. Following safety rules is a critical part of the job. Workers will plant 15 gallon trees or larger from the original container to a larger container size; set up tree-holding systems such as ropes, trellis, rebar and pipes for the new trees; lift and straighten various size container trees from 15 gallon to 1400 gallon using mechanized equipment. During the shifting process, the new trees are straightened, set into the holding system by a collar, fertilizer is applied and the tree is watered in.
Workers will be fertilizing, removing the weeds, spacing them, labeling them, cleaning the pots, pulling, label and bagging them for orders, sweep the spaces and space plants in the nursey variety. Lemon and oranges plants. \nLos trabajadores estarn fertilizando, quitando las malas hierbas, espaciando, etiquetando, limpiando las macetas, tirando, etiquetando y embolsando para pedidos, barrer los espacios y espaciar las plantas en la variedad de vivero. Plantas de limn y naranjas.
Assist in all aspects of commercial beekeeping. Split and maintain hives beehives. Harvest and extract honey. Transport hives as necessary. Build and repair hives. Feed and medicate bees. Sanitize plant and perform general farm maintenance work. Treat for Varoa mites.
STRATEGICALLY PACK CLIENT’S POSSESSIONS INTO BOXES OR CONTAINERS. CHECK FOR DEFECTS SUCH AS CRACKED ITEMS, LOOSELY SEALED CONTAINERS, OR CHIPS PRIOR TO PACKING. SEAL, LABEL AND LOAD CONTAINERS AND BOXES ONTO MOVING TRUCKS IN A MANNER THAT WILL AVOID DAMAGE OR BREAKAGE. UNPACK ITEMS IN A MANNER THAT REPLICATES THE CLIENTS HOME AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE. ADHERE TO ALL COMPANY SAFETY PROCEDURES.
Seafood processing: including cutting and processing fish and shrimp, packing orders, loading trucks and loading and unloading pallets. Work is supervised. Employer requires 3 months seafood processing experience.\n\nWorksite 1\nAddress\n150 1/2 Riberia St., Saint Augustine, FL 32258\n\nWorksite 2\nAddress\n312 N Front St, Nassau County, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034
Cultivate and harvest cucumbers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Cultivate and harvest peppers - move around field to picking location and pluck vegetables from plants, walk to and empty buckets into bins. Field care tie plants, stake plants, prune plants, clean drip emitters and microjets, remove plastic drip lines, remove dead plants, and weed removal. Workers will walk along rows as specified by employer and remove weeds and grass from fields by hand or using a hoe. Prolonged standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. Drug testing and background checks may occur during the interview process, and will be conducted at the sole cost and discretion of the employer. Must be able to lift 70lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 70lbs. in field. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.\nCultive y coseche pepinos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cultive y coseche pimientos: muévase por el campo hasta el lugar de recolección y arranque las verduras de las plantas, camine y vacíe los cubos en los contenedores. Cuide las plantas de campo, ate las plantas, pode las plantas, limpie los emisores de goteo y los microchorros, elimine las líneas de goteo de plástico, elimine las plantas muertas y elimine las malas hierbas. Los trabajadores caminarán a lo largo de las hileras según lo especifique el empleador y quitarán la maleza y el pasto de los campos a mano o con una azada. Estar de pie, agacharse, agacharse y estirarse durante mucho tiempo. El trabajo es al aire libre y continúa en todo tipo de clima. Se puede solicitar a los trabajadores que se sometan a pruebas aleatorias de drogas o alcohol sin costo alguno para el trabajador. El incumplimiento de la solicitud o la prueba positiva pueden resultar en la terminación inmediata. Se pueden realizar pruebas de detección de drogas y verificación de antecedentes durante el proceso de la entrevista, y se realizarán a exclusivo costo y discreción del empleador. Debe ser capaz de levantar 70 libras. a la altura de los hombros repetidamente a lo largo de la jornada laboral y capaz de levantar y transportar 70 libras. en campo El uso de teléfonos celulares personales u otros dispositivos electrónicos personales durante las horas de trabajo está estrictamente prohibido, excepto para llamadas relacionadas con el trabajo o emergencias, y la violación puede resultar en el despido inmediato.
The agricultural equipment operator position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, harvesting of agricultural commodities. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the crops grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm.\n\nWorkers must use care when performing their farm work duties and exercise consciousness. Workers must adhere to all safety rules as instructed by their supervisors and all farm work operations must meet the standards and specifications given by the employer. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the vehicle/equipment before operating. All vehicles should be driven in a manner to protect workers, in-field crops, and equipment. Operators should ensure all equipment is functioning correctly before operating. The use of all necessary PPE and safety equipment including wearing of seatbelt at all times when operating farm equipment is mandatory. Workers may assist with the repair, service, and maintenance of farm equipment including the prep, cleaning, lubrication, assembly, inspection, dismantling of equipment parts.\n\n
See addendum C
Examine fresh vegetables and packages to ensure specs are met; measure, weigh, count vegetables for packaging, load vegetables into packages; record vegetables weight, packages, and order information on specified forms; clean product, packages, and packing area daily
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor. Agriculture Equipment Operator to operate\nequipment used to harvest crops. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and\ndrivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have\na valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration\nwith driving authorization. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Must be\nable to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Operate forklifts and\nequipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the\nfield. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 70 pounds. The alternative\nwork if needed will be to assist with the harvesting.\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional\nperiods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These\nperiods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of\nno work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be\nprovided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in\ncorresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A\nemployer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of\nemployment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Crops/Commodities: \ntropical plants, cacti, succulents. \nPerform manual and mechanized tasks associated with the production of greenhouse plants and other horticultural products. Plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery stock, plugs, liners, hanging baskets, and other horticultural varieties. Propagate plants from cuttings. Plant/pot seedlings, fill and label trays, move product to/from greenhouses and/or loading/unloading areas. Crimp wire baskets. Attach hangers to baskets and hang throughout holding houses. Move containerized plants using rolling/electric carts. Load/unload trucks and product from conveyor belt. Install/remove plastic coverings. Clean/maintain work area.\nPrune, trim, and perform other general plant maintenance. Water or irrigate plants, and apply fertilizer or other chemicals. Maintain irrigation systems. Tie/position plants by tying or wrapping as necessary. Wrap plants with burlap and other coverings as necessary. Count, inventory, and grade plants and trees. Pack, label, tag, pull, sort, and store plants by variety.\nWork is done for long periods of time and requires prolonged periods of standing and/or walking, repetitive movements, and frequent bending and/or stooping. Workers must be able to handle, lift, and carry bulky objects (product, containers) in accordance with the specified lifting requirements. \nWorkers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may transport other workers. \nPersons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. \n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker’s Sabbath or federal holidays. Workers will have an unpaid lunch break. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time. \n \n \nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a five-day trial period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker at the conclusion of the trial period if the worker’s performance fails to satisfy the employer’s reasonable expectations, or is otherwise unacceptable. Employer may terminate a worker for lawful job-related reasons, including but not limited to situations in which the worker: (1) Is repeatedly absent or tardy; (2) malingers or otherwise refuses, without cause, to perform the work as directed; (3) commits act(s) of misconduct or repeatedly violates the Work Rules; and/or (4) fails, after completing the five day trial period, to perform work in a competent and skillful manner, consistent with the employer's reasonable expectations. Non-U.S. workers may be displaced as a result of one or more U.S. workers becoming available for the job during the employer’s recruitment period. Job abandonment will be deemed to occur after five consecutive workdays of unexcused absences. Workers may not report for work under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Possession or use of illegal drugs or alcohol on company premises is prohibited and will be cause for immediate termination. Regardless of whether the employer requires a background check as a condition of employment, the employer may terminate for cause, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, any worker found during the period of employment to have a criminal conviction record or status as a registered sex offender that the employer reasonably believes will endanger the safety or welfare of other workers, company staff, customers, or the public at large.
Workers will harvest berries by hand and use 5 gallon buckets to place the berries workers will move from plant to plantpicking all berries that are ripe for picking . the workers will repeat these movements ultil the berries have been harvested . theworkers will continue to clean araund all berry plants apply fertilizer spray for insects and any others attention the berry plantsrequire . as all work is performed in a farming manner of berry plants .planting pine trees is an activity that should be done correctly. Pine trees are evergreen trees, young pine need specialattention, and need to be guarded rigo rously against animals and sun damage during their first few years. The activity of cultivation, growing pine trees for sale will take place in a farm operated for profit, the employer will not be planting pine treesseedlings as part of a conservation effort and plants to employ workers in manner whichfits the regulatory confines od the H-2Aprogram.
Regular Farm Laborer tasks include: on a farm, general farm labor, including stacking sod, mowing, fertilizing, cultivating grounds for seeding, and irrigating areas of the farm.\n\n
Honey Production: Working with the bees to strengthen the stamina and physical condition of beehives, workers will be putting boxes on hives as the bees begin to produce honey during plant bloom.\nMonitoring hive production and adding boxes as needed throughout the bloom.\nRemoving the boxes after the bloom is complete.\nExtracting the honey from the combs in the boxes.\n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Workers will care for horses to protect their health and improve their appearance in conjunction with worker's assistance during the employer's foaling, weaning and yearling preparation season. Workers will provide water for the employer's horses, and will measure, mix and apportion feed and feed supplements according to feeding instructions during the aforementioned season. Workers will also assist with maintenance of tools and equipment; and other work that is directly related to the activities for which the workers were hired.\n
Duties may vary from time to time. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Perform manual labor. Workers will clear ground of rocks, sticks, and roots by hand and clear brush and trees. Manually weeding fields by hand/using hand tools & other farm tools. Workers will plant, harvest, cut, and pick tomatoes, squash, pepper and Eggplant. Duties also include tying, pull and pile string, staking, pulling plastic, loading, and unloading stakes, cleaning, loading, and unloading harvested products, and pulling weeds. Workers will harvest vegetables in the field. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil, applying fertilizers, transplanting, pulling weeds, raking, cleaning around shed area, thinning, or pruning crops, cleaning, grading, and packing harvested product. All tools, supplies, and equipment will be provided at no cost to the worker. May repair fences and farm buildings and participate in irrigation activities. OFLC administrator publishes new AEWR rates yearly and we reserve the right to adjust our job order to the new published rate regardless of rate increases or decreases. Raises and bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker at the employer’s discretion, based on individual factors including but not limited to performance, experience, number of hours worked in the season, number of seasons worked with the company, adherence to work with rules and ability to follow supervisor’s instructions.
LeFils Farms has been in operation since 2002. Each year we grow and harvest peanuts, hay, and various grain crops. Perform duties such as tilling the soil, applying fertilizer and pesticides, manage and record the processing and handling of harvested products. Have experience in operating tractors, sprayers, planters, hay mowers, hay balers, loaders, semi-trucks etc. Must be familiar with GPS systems on farm equipment. Operate standard farm equipment including tractor, sprayer, planter, hay harvesting equipment, truck, and forklift. Arrive to work on time each day. Must have the ability to keep accurate records of daily jobs, participate and lead work meetings and train new employees. Perform and record maintenance on equipment (greasing, checking fluids, servicing). Calculate spray and fertilizer rates, formulas and precisely record the application. Possess the ability to accurately record keep daily tasked performed. Maintain a safe and secure work environment. Availability to work and manage seven days a week when necessary. Monitor activities such as irrigation, chemical applications and harvesting to ensure adherence to safety regulations and industry/company standards. Assist with field and shop work as needed. Performs maintenance and repairs on all farm equipment as needed such as troubleshooting malfunctions and completing minor/major repairs. Attend and participate in company meetings. Employer may provide pay increases for performance, longevity and/or experience at employer’s discretion. Employer may provide performance bonuses at the end of the contract at the employer’s discretion.
Crops/Commodities: \nhoney and bees. \nPerform manual and mechanical duties related to commercial beekeeping and honey production. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of beekeeping. \n\nMake, paint and clean boxes. Assemble hives using hand tools. Inserts honeycombs into hive. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feed and medicate bees for diseases, parasites, and pests. Sterilize hive and burn diseased hive or bee colony. \n\nRun queen breeding yard. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination.\n\nHarvest/extract honey. Collect royal jelly. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extracts honey. Remove frames covered with bees and shake into cages. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. \n\nMust have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. \n\nPerform mechanized extraction. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintain extraction equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale.\n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates. \n\nApply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\n\nOutdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. Work is done outdoors for long periods of time and requires prolonged periods of standing and/or walking, repetitive movements, and frequent bending and/or stooping. Workers must be able to handle, lift, and carry heavy or bulky objects (product, containers) in accordance with the specified lifting requirements. \n\nEmployer-paid post-hire random and upon suspicion drug testing required. \n\nWorkers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may transport other workers. \n\nApplicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. Supervisor(s) will provide instructions and directions to workers. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised.
The duties to be performed at the time of hire include assisting with field management, hay and grass processing, irrigation of land, loading up bales of hay, and general field work around maintaining the area of fencing on a 20 acre farm. Additional duties include repair of farm tools, repair of farm buildings and fencing, use of equipment to prepare and grade the land, and other maintenance concerns. Payment will be provided for the airfare, housing, and transportation to and from work.\n\nField management: Candidate must be comfortable with operating heavy equipment, tractoring fields, and mowing the premises. Candidate must be able to lift up to 130lb bales of hay. Additional duties include farm maintenance and repairs, installation of fencing, planting small garden and and tending to the overall upkeep. This is predominantly needed March to October (seasonal) In FL, this is a seasonal position consistent with the competition schedule March thru December.
Workers will perform various activities associated with the growing and harvesting of grass/ sod at a commercial turf grass farm. Work hours are determined by crop and weather conditions. The work day may begin/end earlier or later on any given day and evening, night hours may be required. Workers may be requested to work additional hours, weekends, holidays, and the Sabbath depending on crop conditions and need. These activities will be performed exclusively in an outdoor environment. Workers will aid in soil preparation, will be sodding large areas, sow grass seed, plant sprigs of sod grass, cuts, rolls and stacks sod in accordance with supervisor's instructions. It will be necessary to weed, hoe and propagate. Water, fertilize, spray, monitor, trim, weed, cut, roll & unroll, stack, load, transport, and discard sod. Operate mowing equipment or drive a tractor pulling a trailer through the field or between fields and perform any other activities associated with growing grass for production on a sod farm. Workers will operate trucks, forklifts, and tractors in order to complete various tasks. With the tractors they will drag, disk, till soil, and operate sod specific equipment in the fields. Workers will work with sod planting/seeding equipment, construct and repair pallets for sod, and load and unload empty pallets by hand or with forklift. Prior to seeding fields, and throughout the cultivation and production of sod, they will clean field of rocks, roots, limbs, stumps and trees, along with excessive leaves on edges. Miscellaneous cleaning and debris removal from fields and farm. Workers will be required to use pivot and side roll systems, diesel irrigation pumps. They may also set up and run such irrigation systems, as well as run irrigation lines for long distance use. Cleaning of debris from ditches may be necessary. Fueling of irrigation equipment along with light maintenance. Workers will be responsible for performing general maintenance around the farm. This will include but not limited to mowing, trimming, removing weeds, clearing and maintaining fence lines, and maintaining buildings/ yard in good repair. Workers may be required to operate tractors, bobcats, mowers, field vacs, drags, tillers, rollers. Before any worker is requested to operate any farm equipment, workers will be instructed in the safe operation of the equipment. Licensed workers may be requested to use/drive trucks in and around the farm in supportive rolls to other farming operations and make deliveries of sod to sites on the farm.
Job Duties - Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the supervisor’s instructions, the worker will drive and control farm equipment for mowing, spraying, and maintaining harvest crops. Workers must have at least 3 month of experience in operating/driving aforementioned farm equipment and be able to do so in a timely and safe manner. In order to perform this kind of work, the worker\nmust be able to work outside for at least 8 hours per day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the\nrequisite physical strength and endurance to mount and dismount equipment.\n
Raises honey bees to produce honey and maintain colony health through feed/supplements; split and medicating hives, find and cage queens, install queen cells; assembles bee hives, inserts honeycomb of bees into hives; forces bees from hives; uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts approx. 75 pounds of honey from honeycombs; all duties are manual hand labor that requires the ability to diagnose bee and hive health; must be able to lift 75 pound boxes for moving honey; moving bees from hives; driving farm vehicle to obtain supplies, honey extracting equipment, and misc. tools used to work with honey bees; minor daily and incidental upkeep to equipment, worksite, and colony boxes.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Shovel, haul, spread manure, & dig holes, ditches, & trenches. Manually plant, cultivate, harvest, count, load, & unload vegetables, produce, horticultural specialties & field crops (cucumbers, eggplant, & squash). Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, & knives, & any other farm equipment related to planting cultivating, & harvesting vegetables & watermelons. Duties may include tilling soil, applying fertilizers, transplanting, pulling weeds, raking, cleaning around shed area, thinning/pruning crops, applying pesticides, cleaning, grading, & packing harvested product. Watermelon Perform manual labor to hand cut & pack watermelons. Use hand tools such as shears and knives. Duties also include cleaning, loading, & unloading harvested products. Grade & sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel, & quality to ensure correct processing & usage. Discard inferior/defective products estimate their weight, visually/by feel. Place products in containers according to grade & mark grades on containers. Measure, weigh, & count products & materials. Examine & inspect containers, materials & products to ensure that packing specifications are met. At the beginning of the contract some workers may water and apply fertilizers to the vegetables and melons. OFLC Administrator publishes new AEWR rates yearly and we reserve the right to adjust our job order to the new published rate regardless of rate increases or decreases. Raises and bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker, at the employer’s discretions, based on individual factors including but not limited to, performance, experience, number of hours worked in the season, number of seasons worked with the company, adherence to work rules and ability to follow supervisor instructions.\n
This Job Description will involve many of the jobs required to grow and pack tomatoes. The work period will start out in March with Planting, Stobbing, Staking, Pruning, Tying along with occasional Farm hourly work. During the month of June, the work moves into the Packing House where you will be sitting and sorting tomatoes by Color and Quality. July is back on the Farm to pull and load Plastic and Stakes along with laying of new plastic. August through September will be Planting, Stobbing, Staking, Pruning and Tying the second crop, moving back into the Packing House the month of October through November 5th. The remaining time left on the contract will be pulling and loading plastic and stakes and hourly farm work. \n\nLaying Plastic - Hourly \nWorkers will be required to use a shovel to dig trenches in the formed tomato bed which will then be covered with dirt. Workers may be required to stand and/or walk the entire work day. Workers may also be required to ride plastic machine to ensure formed tomato beds are properly covered with plastic mulch. Worker will be required to lift up to 120lbs. \n\nPlanting - Hourly \nWorkers will be required to ride on Tomato Plant setters for the entire work day. There will be two people per row times three rows for a total of six workers per Plant setter. Workers will be required to walk behind Plant setter to assist in the planting process. Workers may be required to drive Plant setter tractor. Workers will be required to load and unload plant trays from plant trailer to Plant setter. Workers will be required to place the plant at the proper depth and ensure the correct amount of dirt is covering the plant hole. \n\nStobbing - Piece/Contract \nWorkers will be required to load and unload tomato stakes which are in bundles of 20-25 sticks. Workers will be required to lift up to 40lbs. overhead. Workers will be required to Stob the tomato stick in the designated hole between the tomato plants. Workers will ensure all tomato sticks are in the upright position and not laying on the ground. Workers will be required to pick-up any and all broken \nsticks along with any trash affiliated with the stobbing job. Worker will be required to lift up to 35lbs. \n\nHammer Stakes - Hourly \nWorkers will be required to stand/walk for the entire work day. Workers will manually hold a pneumatic Air Hammer which is attached by an air hose to an air compressor. Workers will be required to hammer each Individual stake at the correct depth as well as ensure the stake is standing straight and not at an angle. Workers will be required to walk behind hammer operation to assist in cleaning up any trash or debris. Workers may be required to drive a tractor for this operation. \n\nPruning - Piece/Contract \nWorkers will be required to walk and bend down at the waist for the entire work day. Workers will be required to prune a determined number of suckers from each individual plant by hand. \n\nTying - Piece/Contract \nWorkers will be required to bend down at the waist for the entire work day. Workers will be required to tie plants using a hollow pipe or stick with a hole on each end. Workers will thread twine through the holes in the pipe (or stick). Workers will tie the twine to the first stick of each individual row or walkway. The workers will use the pipe (stick) to loop the tying twine around each tomato stick and will ensure the twine is tight and at the proper height for the plant. Once the worker arrives at the end of row or a marked walkway, worker will then proceed to tie the other side of the plant using the same principal and motion resulting in the plant resting and supported between the twine. \n
MANUALLY PLANT, CULTIVATE, AND HARVEST VEGETABLES, FRUITS, NUTS, HORTICULTURAL\nSPECIALTIES, AND FIELD CROPS. USE HAND TOOLS, SUCH AS SHOVELS, TROWELS, HOES,\nTAMPERS, PRUNING HOOKS, SHEARS, AND KNIVES.\nDUTIES MAY INCLUDE TILLING SOIL AND APPLYING FERTILIZERS; TRANSPLANTING,\nWEEDING, THINNING, OR PRUNING CROPS; APPLYING PESTICIDES; OR CLEANING, GRADING,\nSORTING, PACKING AND LOADING HARVESTED PRODUCTS. MAY CONSTRUCT TRELLISES,\nREPAIR FENCES AND FARM BUILDINGS, OR PARTICIPATE IN IRRIGATION ACTIVITIES.
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor. \nPlanting of vegetables: A tractor will go over the fields making holes for the plants, workers will grab a tray of plants from the truck, walking down the rows the worker will put one plants per hole, when finish with the tray, the worker will walk back to the truck and grab another tray of plants, repeating the process through the work day. \nHarvesting of vegetables: Once at the picking location, doing a row at a time, workers will move down the rows plucking the vegetables from the plants and putting them in a container. Once the container is full the worker will take the container to the truck and dump the content. The worker will go back to his picking area and fill his container up again, repeating the process through the work day. \nWatermelon harvesting, the worker will walk down the watermelon field rows where the watermelon will be harvested. The worker will first cut the vine off the watermelon with a small knife and turn the watermelon over. The worker will bend over harvesting the ripe watermelon which can vary in weight from 20 to 60 lbs from the ground and tossing the watermelon to the worker next to him and this worker will toss the watermelon to the next worker and so on, until the watermelon is then tossed to the person inside the bus who will place the watermelon on the floor. \nPacking: When the bus is full, it will be taken to the packing house which is located inside the farm where the workers will unload the watermelon and put it in a conveyer belt that will transport the watermelon into the packing house where it will be separated by size, labeled and packed.\nHarvesting Blueberry by hand, the worker will walk down the blueberry field rows where the blueberry will be harvested. The worker will place a 1 gallon picking bucket with a strap over his shoulder from the field truck to the particular area of the field where the fruit will be harvested. The 1 gallon picking bucket is a canvas, equipped with a shoulder strap for support. Worker positions himself in front of the blueberry tree and will remove the fruit from the tree and place into the 1 gallon picking bucket taking care not to break any limbs, damage the tree, or knock off the fruit. When the 1 gallon picking bucket is full he will take it to the truck at the end of the row where he will unload his fruit into a small tub or container.\nGeneral Field Maintenance: workers will tie, stake, prune, weed, clean micro jets and layout/remove plastic and drip lines from fields using their hands and tools provided by employer.\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in a possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly. The employer will provides the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.\n\n\n
Temporary Seasonal Position: Ranch Hand | SOC Code: 45-2093\n\nAll applicants must be able, willing, qualified to perform work described & must be available for entire period.\n\nCamo Farms, Inc, Palm City, FL, Martin\n\nPossible shift: 6:30AM-6:30PM. 72+ May be possibility of weekend work. Crops: Cattle, Compost. Duties may include: Operate farm equipment, maintain farm equipment, care for and process livestock, feeding, watering, herding, grazing, branding, weighing, and loading cattle. Maintain records on animals, examine animals to detect diseases and injuries. Maintain fences and farm structures, turn compost piles, load soil, operate fire box, mow and cultivate fields. Working knowledge of basic hand tools. Ability to operate composting equipment in a safe and efficient manner. Assist in birth deliveries, administer medications, vaccinations and insecticides as appropriate. Monitor and maintain health of cattle. & other related Ranch Hand activities as per SOC/OES 45-2093 (onetonline.org). Must have 3 months Farm equipment exp.Static strength; exert max muscle force to lift, push, pull, unload, carry objects up to 100lbs (possible 2-person); may climb, walk, stand, reach, balance, sit, stoop, bend, squat, wash, clean: equip, grounds, area.100lbs. Tools supplies and equipment provided at no cost to worker. Employer guarantees 3/4 of contract. Work outdoors, exposed to weather, hot or cold; hrs may vary (+/-); possible downtimes and/or extended hrs. Dependable: fulfill obligations. Attn. to detail: complete work tasks. Employer provided housing available to those who cannot reasonably return to their residence within the same day. No cell phone use during work hours. \n\n Must be 18 years of age. Drug/alcohol/tobacco free work zone. Worker has 3 days from date of hire to show legal authorization to work in the United States. Cash advances may apply at employer discretion. \n\n
Perform routine, repair and emergency maintenance and service to Diesel engines. Perform routine, repair, emergency maintenance and service to gas-powered equipment, including check and change tires, oil and other fluids, help diagnose mechanical problems. General farm repairs and maintenance. Repair and maintenance of irrigation pipes and farm equipment. 3 mos. experience in agricultural equipment repair and maintenance. Knowledge of Diesel engines. Ability to repair gas-powered equipment. The worker must have experience with electrical, worker must able to read electrical schematics. Standard work week is Sunday through Friday, 10-hour workdays concluding to a 60-hour work week in total. \n\nRealizar mantenimiento y servicio de rutina, reparación y emergencia a motores Diesel. Realizar mantenimiento y servicio de rutina, reparación y emergencia a equipos de gas, incluida la revisión y el cambio de neumáticos, aceite y otros fluidos, ayudan a diagnosticar problemas mecánicos. Reparaciones y mantenimiento general de la granja. Reparación y mantenimiento de tuberías de riego y equipos agrícolas. Tres meses de experiencia en reparación y mantenimiento de equipos agrícolas. Conocimiento de motores Diesel. Abilidad de reparar los equipos de gas. El trabajador debe tener experiencia con trabajos eléctricos, el trabajador debe ser capaz de leer esquemas eléctricos. La semana laboral estándar es de Domingo a Viernes, jornadas laborales de 10 horas que concluyen en una semana laboral de 60 horas en total.
Field Laborers will assist with potting, trimming, taping and loading plants; weeding, cleaning and applying fertilizers around the nursery. Prepare soil and growth media, cultivate, prune and otherwise participate in horticulture activities. Operate tractors and tractor-drawn machinery and self-propelled machinery to grow and harvest nursery stock, plants and shrubs. Harvest full-grown crops requiring digging, balling and heavy lifting (50 lbs over head). Work in all weather conditions. Hours may vary based on weather and crop conditions. \nLos trabajadores del campo ayudaran a sembrar, recortar, vendar, y cargar plantas; desmalezar, limpiar y aplicar abono en el vivero. Preparar la tierra y media de cultivo, cultivar, recortar y participar de otra manera en las actividades de horticultura. Operar tractores, maquinas jaladas por tractor, y maquinaria autopropulsada para hacer crecer y cultivar mercancia del vivero, plantas y arbustos. Cultivar cosechas maduras, el cual requiere cavar, poner las plantas en arpillera, y levantar cosas pe\n
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Applicants must be 18 years or older. Following the Supervisors instructions, the workers will operate or tend the equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, and irrigation equipment. Equipment includes ATV's, and Motorized Mules. Attach farming implements such as plows, disc, sprayers, spreaders, and harvesters to tractors using hand tools and hardware. Workers will clean, inspect, and adjust machinery. Perform maintenance to ensure operating efficiency such as fixing leaks, changing hoses, nozzles, and filters. Fill sprayer tanks with chemicals and water according to formulas provided and keep this area clean. Keep tractors and work areas clean. Complete tractor and/or forklift checklist daily. Complete daily inspection, including cleaning and lubricating record-mechanized sprayer checklist.\n\nGeneral Farm Labor: Handling of pesticides (mixing/loading, disposing/washing containers and applying manually with equipment). Must be able to work in heat wearing P.P.E during spraying of fertilizer or pesticide solutions using a hand sprayer to control insects, fungus, weeds, and diseases according to safety rules. Perform maintenance duties such as mowing grass, hoeing, weeding, cleaning, ditches/canals, applying/replacing protective wraps, fixing, and adjusting reflective material. Planting new trees, resets, and remove trees by pushing or cutting and dispose. Transport dead trees to assigned areas to be burned and/or destroyed with a tiller. Pruning trees, remove sprouts, and picking fruit (for trials, clean-up and activities other than full harvesting). Irrigation cleaning repairs, as well as repair and maintain drainage infrastructure. Water trees in the field or staging areas. Workers who have a legal drivers license may be needed to drive a truck or bus to and from the field. Workers must be able to perform all duties within this job description in what can be considered a safe manner adhering to all established safety guidelines, practices, and procedures. Supplemental to other tasks, workers that can be properly licensed may also transport workers. Workers may be required to fill out paperwork. May be necessary to assist in the use and repair of farm equipment such as tractors, trucks, goats/loaders, buses, trailers, and harvest machinery, etc. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, the worker will be instructed in the proper and safe operation of the tractor. Workers will be required to operate tractors according to the instructions and in a manner that protects the operator, other workers, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey operating and safety instructions may result in termination. Workers will be paid the highest of the adverse effect wage rate, the prevailing wage rate, or the applicable minimum wage rate for time spent performing such general farm work.\n\nOther Requirements: Workers seeking employment under this job order must be available for\nthe entire period requested by the employer.\n\nThe employer retains the right to discharge any obviously unqualified worker, malingerer, or recalcitrant worker who is physically able to complete the work but does not demonstrate a willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.
Temporary Seasonal Position: Farm Worker | SOC Code: 45-2092\n\nAll applicants must be able, willing, qualified to perform work described & must be available for entire period.\n\nKornonville LLC, Quincy, FL, Gadsden\n\nPossible shift: 8:00AM-5:00PM. 40+ May be possibility of weekend work. Crops: Peanuts, Cotton, Corn. Duties may include: perform daily farm operations such as planting, cultivating, irrigating and processing of crops. Maintain farm machines and prepare soil for planting. Weeding, thinning, transplanting, fertilizing and pruning crops. Apply pesticides, herbicides and fertilizer to crops as needed. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes and pruning shears. Cleaning, grading, sorting, packing and loading of harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings. & other related Farm Worker activities as per SOC/OES 45-2092 (onetonline.org). Must have 3 months Farm Worker; Crop exp. Static strength; exert max muscle force to lift, push, pull, unload, carry objects up to 80lbs (possible 2-person); may climb, walk, stand, reach, balance, sit, stoop, bend, squat, wash, clean: equip, grounds, area. Tools supplies and equipment provided at no cost to worker. Employer guarantees 3/4 of contract. Work outdoors, exposed to weather, hot or cold; hours may vary (+/-); possible downtimes and/or extended hrs. Dependable: fulfill obligations. Attn. to detail: complete work tasks. Employer provided housing available to those who cannot reasonably return to their residence within the same day. No cell phone use during work hours. \n\n Must be 18 years of age. Drug/alcohol/tobacco free work zone. Based on Employer's discretion/cost: Worker may have random drug/alcohol testing during employment: positive test/ refusal to abide = dismissal. Possible background check post hire at employer's expense. Worker has 3 days from date of hire to show legal authorization to work in the United States. Cash advances may apply at employer discretion. \n\n
Sanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations.\n\nCrops: Peas, Peanuts, Cucumbers, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Eggplant, Yellow Squash, Zucchini, Squash, Okra, Watermelon, Butterbeans, Corn, Beans, Cantaloupe, Tomatoes, Bell peppers and Peppers\n\nWorkers will perform various duties associated with growing the vegetable crops listed above. Workers will plant cultivate and harvest vegetables. Workers will lay, fix and pull plastic. Workers will hook up, unhook and fix water. Workers will stake and tie pepper and tomato plants. Workers will perform support duties such as making boxes, packing, cleaning buckets and work areas. Workers will assist with weed removal. \n\nWorkers will remove the vegetable (listed above) from the plant according to size and maturity that will be able to be packed and shipped. Then the produce will be placed in a six-gallon picking bucket. After bucket is full the workers will and carry the bucket to a flatbed truck or flatbed field trailer. A person on truck or trailer will receive the full buckets. This person will either dump the produce in plastic bin or set the full bucket on the truck or trailer. The person on the truck on the trailer will give a token to the picker each time they take a full bucket. This process will be repeated throughout the day until the scheduled field is picked. \n\nPlant Bed Preparation: Laying plastic mulch over prepared beds, which are been fumigated. This includes other jobs necessary to get the plant beds ready for planting, including placing drip tube under the plastic and connecting drip tube to lateral lay flat. \n\nCrop Maintenance and Cultivation: Weed removal from crop rows, tightening stakes loosened by wind and water runoff. Helping to drain areas of the field with shovels, cutting the ridged areas of the rows covered in black plastic to allow the pooled water to drain. \n\nWorkers are expected to begin work early in the mornings except with picking tomatoes. If it is necessary for workers to work in the rain, the employer will provide works, without cost to them, appropriate rain gear. Workers should not have allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, pesticide sprays residues or related chemicals. \n\nPacking Operation\nGrading Working carefully remove any leaves and defective fruit as defined by grading supervisor as peaches move across grading tables. Produce must be handled carefully to avoid bruises or fingernail cuts. Workers will pack and shell peas and corn. \n\nFillers Workers box the graded fruit in appropriate containers by attending automatic filler or by hand as necessary according to packaging instructions disclosed by the supervisor.\n\nSpecial Packaging Workers may be required to custom fill trays and marketing gift packs according to supervisor’s instructions.\n\nLevelers Boxed fruit is carefully hand-leveled by worker to assure an even level of fruit/produce in each container. Excess product is removed from overfilled boxes and placed carefully in separate containers as directed by supervisor.\n
Nursery Worker. Perform a variety of complex tasks related to growing, harvesting and protection of field and container-grown plants, trees, shrubbery and other vegetation. Perform heavy manual labor including but not limited to planting, cultivating, pruning, shearing, applying fertilizer, herbicides and insecticides, loading and unloading plant material. Duties include potting, mixing soil, unload plants during potting, pick orders in sales, tag plants for sales, identify and tag plant material, recognize and control plant diseases, tie, bunch and wrap roots, pack plant material to fill orders, and load/unload plant stocks as needed. Prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-hire and is not a part of the interview process. Negative result may be required post-hire and before commencing work. Must be able to lift and carry 75 lbs. repetitively throughout the workday. Must not hinder another workers productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Must commit to entire anticipated period of employment. The job offered is for a skilled nursery worker and requires 3 months verifiable nursery work experience (Horticultural Worker I).\n\nDuties performed in the field will be sporadic all through the contract, including but not limited to, preparing the soil, planting, digging, raking, spraying, weeding, irrigating, and fertilizing all types of plants, shrubs, and small trees. Hauls and spreads topsoil, additives, etc. to condition the land. Workers will transfer plants by truck or wagon into fields for transplanting. Trucks containing, but not limited to, products such as plants, soil, additives, fertilizer, multiple size pots and other miscellaneous equipment, must be loaded/unloaded several times daily. Workers will be required to operate farm equipment such as weed eaters, hedge trimmers, back pack sprayers, etc. Must use shovel, hoe, pruning shears, and other small tools needed to perform job activities. Workers will be required to keep stock and work areas clean and free of weeds, unwanted grass, and debris. Workers must maintain buildings, work sites, housing sites and other areas as instructed by the employer or supervisor. Must clean work area and surroundings daily. Workers may dig out ditches or repair and clear fence rows. Between harvesting, workers will prepare crops for market as described above.\n\nWorkers may be required to perform work that is incidental to farming the crops listed in the application. All other duties, if any assigned, will be those duties of Farm Worker, Diversified Crops, DOT code 407.687-010 (SOC (ONET/OES) code 45-2092.02). This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality specifications must be rigorously adhered to. Sloppy work cannot and will not be tolerated.\n\n\n
Nursery workers will plant, cultivate, and harvest bare root, ball-and-burlap, and containerized trees and shrubs, and perform other duties related to nursery production. Specific duties and skills required include the following:\n\nPlant Cultivation: Through knowledge and judgment, employ proper pruning techniques for a wide range of Clinton Nurseries' plant varieties. Exhibit understanding of pruning protocols to ensure uninterrupted availability goals for key crops. Possess ability to identify individual plants that require staking and then decide on the particular staking protocols for that plant. Stick cuttings, transplant plants, pot plants and space plants.\n\nMust possess ability to understand verbal and/or written work instructions. Must be able to understand and identify plants by botanical name and apply proper identification tag.\n\nPlant Harvest and Shipping Activities: Harvest, pack, label, stack and load trees and shrubs using techniques appropriate for individual varieties of plants. Possess ability to identify and select appropriate color picture tags for placement on plants. Possess ability to determine the exact grades and quantities for selecting trees and shrubs for sale. Must be able to measure and understand Clinton Nurseries' appropriate quality standards for each shipment depending on individual customer demands.\n\nGeneral Nursery Duties: Drive tractors while pulling multiple wagons, including ability to properly back tractors pulling wagons. Work may also include mechanized nursery work using other power equipment. By way of example and not limitation, other power equipment also may include planters, sprayers and other equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment including but not limited to mowers, weed eaters, and ATVs, as well as daily use of field trucks and tractors with or without direction.\n\nCover, uncover, or move the poly-covered winter plant storage facilities ('hoop houses'). May be required to assemble or repair pallets and/or racks and perform general nursery repairs, maintenance, and labor.\n\nJobs are repetitive in nature, extensive walking, and must be performed in all climate conditions including hot, humid weather as well as rain, snow, and sleet. These jobs require the ability to perform heavy lifting. Must be able to lift up to 60-lb containerized plants and transport them by hand up to a distance of 50 feet for up to 8 hours a day when performing spacing and loading trucks with nursery stock and materials.\n\nWorkers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers' ability to perform the job.\n\nPersons seeking employment as an experienced nursery worker must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Workers are encouraged to bring warm clothing and boots.
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor. Planting vegetables: A tractor will go over the fields making holes for the plants, workers will grab a tray of plants from the truck, walking down the rows the worker will put one plants per hole, when finish with the tray, the worker will walk back to the truck and grab another tray of plants, repeating the process through the work day. Harvesting vegetables: Once at the picking location, doing a row at a time, workers will move down the rows plucking the vegetables from the plants and putting them in a container. Once the container is full the worker will take the container to the truck and dump the content. The worker will go back to his picking area and fill his container up again, repeating the process through the work day. \n\nHarvesting Blueberry by hand, the worker will walk down the blueberry field rows where the blueberry will be harvested. The worker will place a 1 gallon picking bucket with a strap over his shoulder from the field truck to the particular area of the field where the fruit will be harvested. The 1 gallon picking bucket is a canvas, equipped with a shoulder strap for support. Worker positions himself in front of the blueberry tree and will remove the fruit from the tree and place into the 1 gallon picking bucket taking care not to break any limbs, damage the tree, or knock off the fruit. When the 1 gallon picking bucket is full he will take it to the truck at the end of the row where he will unload his fruit into a small tub or container. Field Maintenance: workers will tie, stake and prune plants, clean micro jets and remove plastic drip lines, using hands or a hoe workers will remove dead plants and weeds. \n\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in a possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly. The employer will provides the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment.\n\nGeneral farm upkeep and maintenance such as painting, fixing, cleaning, and organizing out building and equipment. \n
Workers will plant various ornamental shrubs and landscape-type trees such as oak, holly, cypress, ligustrum, palms, and pine trees. Workers will make potting soil for plants, lay down fabric for potted plants, remove diseased plants, replant ornamental shrubs, transplant plants. They will use Bush Hog to mow in between rows of plants/trees. Duties also include harvesting pine needles. Other duties include cleaning land, weeding, repairing fences, barn and buildings on the farm, as well as general farm labor. Work will be done under extreme weather conditions and physical conditions such as heavy bending, stooping and lifting.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools and equipment necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the workers for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools and equipment.
Crops/Commodities: \nnursery stock. \n\nPerform manual and mechanized tasks associated with the outdoor production of horticultural products. Plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery stock, trees, shrubs, bedding plants, plugs, liners, and other horticultural varieties. Prepare fields/soil for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using hand tools or mechanized equipment (rakes, shovels, hoes, tractors, mattocks, brush hooks and/or axes).. Plant/pot seedlings or ‘liners’ by hand or mechanical planter. Propagate plants from cuttings. Prepare trees for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Hand dig trees and other plants with shovel or tree spade. \n\nPerform general plant maintenance. Irrigate and apply fertilizer or other chemicals. Train, prune, trim, shear, space, transplant and cull trees and/or plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Shear trees with proper taper and bud cut angle for quality. Tie/position trees and plants by tying or wrapping as necessary. Count, inventory, and grade trees. Select trees for cutting according to grade. Cut trees using axe or chainsaw. Drag cut trees from cutting area. Bale trees using tree baler. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twice and/or stapes. Pack, label, tag, pull, sort, and store plants by variety. Clean/maintain work area.\n\nGrade, size, and sort product according to color, shape, size, appearance, feel, and/or quality, in accordance with supervisor's instructions and employer standards. Inspect products for damage/defects and discard inferior products and foreign matter. Place product in bins/trays and other containers according to grade and mark grades on containers. Weigh products and record weight and/or grade. Handle product carefully to prevent damage. Operate equipment safely, with or without direction. Must follow quality control standards and production procedures. Clean/sanitize work station and equipment.\n\nMust have sufficient hand and finger dexterity to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. Must be able to differentiate colors, textures, and other attributes of product to distinguish varieties and identify defects.\n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates. \n\nApply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nWorkers must operate all equipment properly and in a manner that protects operator, others, the employer’s products and property. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in disciplinary action up to and including immediate termination.\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\n\nOutdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations.
Operate farming equipment in order to plant, irrigate, fertilize, harvest and haul commercial foraging crops. Till the soil. Mow and rake hay. General farm maintenance and upkeep duties such as fencing, servicing equipment and shop work.
Crops/Commodities: \nTrees and Shrubs. \nThis job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable commercial agricultural field work experience, preferably working in a commercial tree and shrub farm or vegetable farm handling both manual and mechanized tasks including ball and burlap field harvesting associated with production of trees and shrubs. Weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Install/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Mix and apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nPlant, cultivate, harvest, cut, bale, pot, stake, and bamboo trees. Plant seedlings or ‘liners’ by hand (including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter) using mattock or dibble. Prepare trees for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Hand dig trees with shovel or tree spade. Selects trees for cutting according to markings, size, species and grade. Cut trees using axe or chain saw. Drag cut trees from cutting area. Runs trees through tree baler. Inventory and grade trees. Must follow supervisor's instructions on pruning/shearing. Shear trees with proper taper and bud cut angle for quality. \n\nWork is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. \n\nWork required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. \nWorkers should be able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. \n\nMust successfully complete and pass a pesticide training course. \n\nSupervisor(s) will provide instructions and directions to workers. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised. Workers expected to perform basic duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision. \n\nEmployer-paid post-hire random, upon suspicion, and post-accident drug testing required. Employer requires all newly hired employees to take and pass an employer-paid background check. All background checks are conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. Applicants found to have felony convictions (including, but not limited to assault, child molestation, sex or drug-related convictions) will be immediately terminated out of concern for general public safety, and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any.
Potatoes packing: Trucks will take the harvested potatoes to the packing house which is located inside the farm, workers will pick out the potatoes that will be used for seed the rest of the potatoes will be separated by size, labeled and packed.\nPacking Onions: Trucks will take the harvested onions to the packing house which is located inside the farm where they will be separated by size, labeled and packed.\nWatermelon Planting: Workers will grab a tray of watermelon plants; working down the rows worker will make a hole on the ground, insert the watermelon plant in the hole and cover the hole with dirt.\nHarvesting Watermelon by hand, the worker will walk down the watermelon field rows where the watermelon will be harvested. The worker will first cut the vine off the watermelon with a small knife and turn the watermelon over. The worker will bend over harvesting the ripe watermelon which can vary in weight from 20 to 60 lbs. from the ground and tossing the watermelon to the worker next to him and this worker will toss the watermelon to the next worker and so on, until the watermelon is then tossed to the person inside the bus who will place the watermelon on the floor. \nPacking: When the bus is full, it will be taken to the packing house where the workers will unload the watermelon and put it in a conveyor belt that will transport the watermelon into the packing house where it will be separated by size, labeled and packed.\nGeneral Maintenance: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on work site property, on structures utilized in the work site operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair. Workers that qualify may be asked to drive agriculture machinery. \n\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nNote: The packing house is located inside the Farm and more than 50% of the product processed is produced by the Fixed Site Employer.\n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
All tasks pertaining to the production and growing of citrus trees during the growing season. Jobs include: mowing grass between planted rows of citrus, distributing fertilizer to the trees, spraying nutrients on the foliage of the trees, spraying nutrients on the ground beneath the trees, repairing irrigation systems, planting new citrus trees, removal of old or dead citrus trees, pruning all citrus trees, hand work associated with the production of citrus, repairing farm buildings, repairing broken equipment, removal of weeds and vines from citrus trees, and land preparation for new citrus trees.
Crops/Commodities: \nnursery stock, flowers, bedding plants, shrubs. \nThe goal of the weed control team is to eliminate existing weeds and inhibit the introduction of new weeds within the nursery. The primary task associated with this is to pull any existing weeds in pots with plants for sale, all areas of the nursery where plants for sale are grown, and all outlying areas of the nursery to include but not limited to roads, canals, canal banks, and other common areas such as the office, housing, and lunch areas. Other tasks associated with the inhibition of new weeds would include the repair and maintenance of weed barriers (ground cloth) in the plant growing areas, applying pre- and post-emergent herbicide in growing and common areas of the nursery with backpack sprayers (up to 50 lbs), agreement to utilize all personal protective equipment (PPE) as necessary per herbicide labels, understand usage and provide daily inspection of electric or gas powered blowers, consolidation of plants in growing areas so open areas can be cleaned and treated, and elimination of old pots or dead plants from growing areas which serve as weed banks.\nEssential duties: Maintain a clean, neat, orderly and safe work area. Ability to read numbers and names and differentiate between plants. Clean pots and plants. Repot/assemble plants in containers as directed by supervisor. \nMust understand nursery quality control standards and have working knowledge of production procedures. \nWork is to be done for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. \nSupervisor(s) will provide instructions and directions to workers. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors. Workers will be working under the direct supervision and management of a certified pesticide applicator in accordance with provisions at 40 CFR Part 170, the federal EPA Worker Protection Standard. \nAccordingly, workers will be required to either possess current WPS handler training (must have been trained as a WPS handler within the last 12 months) or demonstrate the ability to be trained to be compliant with handler requirements under the Part. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised. Workers expected to perform basic duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision. Employer will instruct workers in the safety and operation of equipment before use. Workers must operate equipment in a manner that protects operator, visitors, other workers, products, trees, crops and equipment. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Must wear proper protective footwear that is closed-toe in nature with a non-slip sole, such as work boots or trail-type shoes. Shorts, bathing suits or other casual clothing not permitted. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\nEmployer-paid post-hire drug and alcohol testing is required upon reasonable suspicion of use. Workers may not report for work while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The possession or use of illegal drugs or alcohol on company premises, including housing, is prohibited and will be cause for termination.\nTobacco use strictly prohibited on company property except for specifically designated areas. No smoking, vaping or tobacco use of any kind permitted in the fields, company vehicles, worker housing, or on company premises. This is necessary to protect against transmission of toxins and contamination from tobacco by-products. Employer reserves the right to discharge any employee found using any type of tobacco product in unauthorized areas. \nWork may also include mechanized work using power equipment.
We will plow, plant, haul and harvest, the following crops including sod, corn, green beans and a Spring/Fall peanuts. We need seasonal employees to operate Tractor/Trailer Semis to assist with the upcoming year. Employees will need to drive semi-tractor trailers to haul the commodity from our fields to the farm, storage bins and/or mills. Operate equipment in storage bins, such as forklift. Assist with grain corn, silage harvest and hay hauling. Use power equipment including but not limited to tractors of various horsepower, mowers, plows, excavation equipment, power shears, high lifts, skid loaders, UTV. Service farm machinery, engines, trucks, and trailers make in-field repairs. service/repairs include but is not limited to: fueling, changing filters, inspecting for wear and/or failure, lubricating grease points, inspecting and maintaining fluid levels, tire air pressures, belt and conveyer chain tensions, radiator and filter function, and brake performance, removing and replacing tires, wheels, bearings, belts, wear parts, filters, brake shoes, wheel seals, suspension parts, lights and lenses and chain or chain links. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm shop/ field maintenance and repairs. All workers will be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning equipment, mowing grass, delivering, and receiving goods and supplies, sweeping floors and other farm sanitation duties. Employees will need to do routine maintenance and repairs to equipment/truck. Power-wash trucks, trailers, combine machines, and dump carts. Work is done in the field sometimes for long periods of time, this is to ensure the crop is cared for, harvested, and delivered in a timely manner. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Workers must obey all safety rules and basic instructions and be able to recognize, understand and comply with safety. Employer will instruct workers in the safety and operation of equipment before use. Workers must operate equipment in a manner that protects the operator, other workers, products, and equipment.
Crops/Commodities: \nPlants, cultivates and maintains in condition for shipping and resale to customers nursery stock. Pots seedlings, prunes, spaces, irrigates and culls plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Workers will perform work including but not limited to planting, transplanting, watering in nurseries and seasonal holding houses. Count and inventory plants. Propagate plants from cuttings. Fill, lift and carry various size pots with soil and plants weighing as much as 60 pounds. Plants must be handled carefully so that minimal leaves, limbs and roots are broken during transplanting process. Performs any other duties involved in the maintenance of plant materials and nursery stock and maintenance of holding yards and shipping areas.\nEssential duties: Maintain a clean, neat, orderly and safe work area. Ability to read numbers and names and differentiate between plants. Clean pots and plants. Repot/assemble plants in containers as directed by supervisor. Proficient and safe use of hand tools including but not limited to shovels and clippers. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. \nMust understand nursery quality control standards and have working knowledge of production procedures. Must select plants according to specific standards. Products must be handled carefully to prevent damage.\nWork is to be done for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. \nSupervisor(s) will provide instructions and directions to workers. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised. Workers expected to perform basic duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision. Employer will instruct workers in the safety and operation of equipment before use. Workers must operate equipment in a manner that protects operator, visitors, other workers, products, trees, crops and equipment. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Must wear proper protective footwear that is closed-toe in nature with a non-slip sole, such as work boots or trail-type shoes. Shorts, bathing suits or other casual clothing not permitted. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\nEmployer-paid post-hire drug and alcohol testing is required upon reasonable suspicion of use. Workers may not report for work while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The possession or use of illegal drugs or alcohol on company premises, including housing, is prohibited and will be cause for termination.\nTobacco use strictly prohibited on company property except for specifically designated areas. No smoking, vaping or tobacco use of any kind permitted in the fields, company vehicles, worker housing, or on company premises. This is necessary to protect against transmission of toxins and contamination from tobacco by-products. Employer reserves the right to discharge any employee found using any type of tobacco product in unauthorized areas. \nWork may also include mechanized work using power equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction. \nPersons seeking employment as experienced Nursery Worker must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. \nCOVID-19 Vaccination Requirement: The Company is committed to providing a safe work environment to its workers that reside in Company-provided housing.
Perform manual and mechanized tasks associated with the indoor and outdoor production of containerized horticultural products. Plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery stock, trees, shrubs, bedding plants, plugs, liners and other horticultural varieties. Prepare and clean production beds. Prepare fields/soil for planting. Plant/propagate plants. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using hand tools or mechanized equipment. Plant/pot seedlings or ‘liners’ by hand or mechanical planter, fill and label trays/containers, and move product to/from greenhouses and loading/unloading areas. Attach hangers to baskets and hang throughout holding houses. Move containerized plants using rolling/electric carts. Load/unload trucks and product from conveyor belt. Install/remove plastic coverings. Perform general plant maintenance. Irrigate and apply fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions. Train, prune, trim, shear, space, transplant and cull trees and/or plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Shear trees with proper taper and bud cut angle for quality. Tie/position trees and plants by tying or wrapping as necessary. Count, inventory, and grade trees. Select trees for cutting/harvest according to grade. Cut trees using axe or chainsaw. Drag cut trees from cutting area. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twine and/or staples. Pack, label, tag, pull, sort, and store plants by variety. Crimp wire baskets. Operate, install, move and maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Use hand tools including but not limited to rakes, hoes, mattocks, brush hooks and/or axes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Operate, clean and maintain nursery vehicles and equipment. Assist with nursery building/field sanitation, maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences/greenhouses/nursery facilities. Workers that have proper documentation/licenses may haul product to market. Workers who have a valid driver’s license and doctor’s certificate may drive employer’s vans or other transportation vehicles to transport workers and may be offered additional hours. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker’s Sabbath or federal holidays. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time.\n\n\n Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur anytime throughout the season. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and different tasks on different days.\n\n\nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a two day introductory period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks.
Operating farm equipment and machinery for cultivating, tilling, fertilizing, planting, and harvesting sorghum and beets; dehead sorghum; spread bagasse on fields for fertilizer; irrigate sorghum, repair and maintain irrigation systems; maintain canals and ditches; clean drains; pump excess water off fields; driving farm vehicle; minor daily and incidental upkeep to equipment and worksite.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time.\n\nNursery Labor: Workers will be responsible for planting, weeding, pruning, staking, spraying, and other activities related to growing, and loading potted trees, and shrubs. The workers will also be responsible for maintaining the grounds, and the existing irrigation system.\n\nGeneral Farm Labor: Workers will weed; mow grass, prune trees/hedges, clear land, remove brush, maintain fencing, repair irrigation, and plant young trees and bushes.\n\nBlueberry Harvest: If harvesting, workers will pick gallon buckets of ripe fruit on assigned rows while taking care not to damage or bruise blueberries. Full buckets are delivered to nearby wagon for inspection and weight. Workers are expected to harvest a minimum number of pounds of blueberries per hour, equal to Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) divided by the piece rate and will be subject to disciplinary action for failing to do so. After completion of training and the designated acclimation period, workers are also expected to maintain quality standards by picking all ripe fruit from bush and avoiding the dropping of fruit on the ground.\n\nBlueberry Packing: Packinghouse workers typically do a variety of jobs related the packaging and shipping of blueberries. Duties may include receiving, dumping inspecting, boxing, stacking, and shipping of fruit. Other jobs include making boxes, stickering boxes, cleaning equipment and facilities, and monitoring food safety. All workers in the packinghouse must wear long sleeved shirts, long pants, and closed toe shoes.\n \nAll Jobs: Some workers may be required to have a valid CDL if required to transport workers from housing to work-sites. Driving of farm equipment and other vehicles may be required on the farm only. The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers' refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools. The employer will provide one-day (8 hours) of training. The employer may take disciplinary action and/or terminate the worker with notification to the Job Service local office if the worker fails to perform and maintain the required quality standards after the one-day training and 5-day acclimation period for new workers, or otherwise follow the reasonable work­ related directions of their supervisor.
Workers will plant various ornamental shrubs and landscape-type trees such as oak, holly, cypress, ligustrum, palms, and pine trees. Workers will make potting soil for plants, lay down fabric for potted plants, remove diseased plants, replant ornamental shrubs, transplant plants. They will use Bush Hog to mow in between rows of plants/trees. Duties also include harvesting pine needles. Other duties include cleaning land, weeding, repairing fences, barn and buildings on the farm, as well as general farm labor. Work will be done under extreme weather conditions and physical conditions such as heavy bending, stooping and lifting.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools and equipment necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the workers for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools and equipment.
Workers will plant various ornamental shrubs and landscape-type trees such as oak, holly, cypress, ligustrum, palms, and pine trees. They will also plant blueberry, orange and peach trees. Workers will make potting soil for plants, lay down fabric for potted plants, remove diseased plants, replant ornamental shrubs, transplant plants. They will use Bush Hog to mow in between rows of plants/trees. Duties also include harvesting pine needles. Other duties include cleaning land, weeding, repairing fences, barn and buildings on the farm, as well as general farm labor. Work will be done under extreme weather conditions and physical conditions such as heavy bending, stooping and lifting.\n\nThe employer will provide the tools and equipment necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the workers for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools and equipment.
Agricultural Equipment: Workers will be required to operate trucks, tractors, mower, forklift, and other farm equipment. Workers will be required to perform general maintenance and make repairs to farm equipment. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, the worker will be instructed in the proper and safe operation of tractor. Workers must notify supervisor of any mechanical issues. Workers will be required to operate tractors according to instructions and in a manner, that protects the operator, other workers, trees, crops and equipment. Repeated failure to obey operating and safety instructions may result in termination.\nMechanic: Workers will perform minor and major repairs on farm machinery. They will dismantle defective machines for repair using hand tools. They will test operation and make adjustments as necessary. They will clean and lubricate parts. Workers will keep detailed records of repairs made and parts used. \nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engage in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. \nEmployer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malinger, or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product. \nWorkers will keep shop and workspaces clean. \nGENERAL CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL DUTIES: Work begins at assigned time usually shortly after daylight. Work is performed during light rain and in high humidity and in temperatures ranging from 100 (+) degrees to 35 degrees F. Workers will work on their feet in bent, stooped, and crouched positions for long periods of time. Workers will make fast, simple, repeated movements of fingers, hands, and wrists. Workers must be able to bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs. Workers will use muscles to lift, push, pull, or carry heavy objects, such as potted plants. Workers will frequently lift 75 lbs. Workers will supply their own work clothes. All the tasks in this Job Description constitute one (1) job; the employer may assign workers to different tasks on any day or to multiple tasks during the same day in the sole judgment of the employer. Workers may be required to perform work on the farm that is incidental working on vehicles and equipment. This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality specifications must be rigorously adhered to. Sloppy work cannot and will not be tolerated.\n\nThe employer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able to but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product.\n\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engaged in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. \n\nFull Crop Commitment: This is regular work, seven hours per day, Monday-Friday, and five hours on Saturday for the full remainder of the period of employment. The worker agrees to work for assigned employer(s) whenever work is available during the full remaining period of employment even though work may be slack at times. The worker understands that if the worker quits or is terminated for cause prior to the end of the period of employment, the worker will not receive the 3/4 guarantees and will not receive certain transportation reimbursements. Excessive tardiness and/or absences will not be tolerated and will result in termination.\n
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. \nAll production, spacing and planting duties are excluded from this contract. This contract is limited to the duties listed in the contract. \n\nPulling & Racking Product: Workers will pull and rack plants and group according to their supervisor’s instruction. Workers will take care to not damage the product. \nCulling Product: Workers will cull or thin plants from healthy shippable plants. Workers will also clean/cull healthy plants to prepare them for shipping. Workers will do this per their supervisor’s instructions. Workers will take care to not damage the remaining good product. \nLoad and Unload: Workers will load and unload stock per the supervisor’s instructions. Workers will take care to stack and load the product so that they do not injury themselves, fellow workers, equipment, and other product. \nEquipment Operation: Workers may be required to operate tractors, conveyors, electric car and other equipment during daily operations, as an incidental activity. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving the tractor. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination\nGENERAL CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL CROPS: Fieldwork begins at assigned time usually shortly after daylight. Work is performed during light rain and in high humidity and in temperatures ranging from 100 (+) degrees to below 35 degrees F. Workers will work on their feet in bent, stooped, and crouched positions for long periods of time. Workers will make fast, simple, repeated movements of fingers, hands, and wrists. Workers must be able to bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs. Workers will use muscles to lift, push, pull, or carry heavy objects, such as potted plants. These could/will weigh 50 lbs. Workers will supply their own work clothes. All the tasks in this Job Description constitute one (1) job; the employer may assign workers to different tasks on any day or to multiple tasks during the same day in the sole judgment of the employer. This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality specifications must be rigorously adhered to. Sloppy work cannot and will not be tolerated.\nThe employer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able to but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product.\n\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engaged in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. \n
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance (ability to continue or last) to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity. Workers must work at a sustained (continuing for an extended period of time without interruption), vigorous pace (quick and steady) and make bona fide efforts (made in earnest intent) to work efficiently (performing or functions in the best possible manner with the least water of time and effort) and consistently (same way for a long time) that are reasonable under the climatic and other working conditions, Workers may not leave trash, or other discarded items in work areas or vehicles but must dispose of such items in provided receptacles. Workers must wash hands with soap and water after all bathroom and meal breaks. Allergies to varieties of ragweed, goldenrod, insecticides, related agricultural chemicals, etc., may affect worker’s ability to perform the work described herein. \nCDL Driver: Workers will load and unload trucks. Deliver products, pick up and disassemble product racks, transport company equipment, sweep and clean trailers. Workers may be required to maintain products such as water. Workers must operate trucks in a careful and cautious manner. Workers caught not doing so will be terminated. \nGENERAL CONDITIONS: Work begins at assigned time. Work is performed during light rain and in high humidity and in temperatures ranging from 100 (+) degrees to below 30 degrees. Workers will work on their feet in bent, stooped, and crouched positions for long periods of time. Workers will make fast, simple, repeated movements of fingers, hands, and wrists. Workers must be able to bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs. Workers will use muscles to lift, push, pull, or carry heavy objects. These could/will weigh up to 50 lbs. Workers will supply their own work clothes. All the tasks in this Job Description constitute one (1) job; the employer may assign workers to different tasks on any day or to multiple tasks during the same day in the sole judgment of the employer. This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality specifications must be rigorously adhered to. Sloppy work cannot and will not be tolerated. \n\nThe employer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able to but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product.\n\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task. When engaged in teamwork activities workers must coordinate with other members of the team to accomplish the task. \nFull Crop Commitment: This is regular work, seven hours per day, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and five hours on Saturday for the full remainder of the period of employment. Workers will be given 1 full weekday off. That day will be assigned by the employer. The worker agrees to work for assigned employer(s) whenever work is available during the full remaining period of employment even though work may be slack at times. The worker understands that if the worker quits or is terminated for cause prior to the end of the period of employment, the worker will not receive the 3/4 guarantees and will not receive certain transportation reimbursements. Excessive tardiness and/or absences will not be tolerated and will result in termination.\n
Workers will be fertilizing, removing the weeds, spacing them, labeling them, cleaning the pots, pulling, label and bagging them for orders, sweep the spaces and space plants in the nursey variety. Lemon and oranges plants. \nLos trabajadores estarán fertilizando, quitando las malas hierbas, espaciando, etiquetando, limpiando las macetas, tirando, etiquetando y embolsando para pedidos, barrer los espacios y espaciar las plantas en la variedad de vivero. Plantas de limón y naranjas.
Receive bee hives shipped in from out of state. Feed, medicate and maintain bee hives. New division of hives. Transfer larva. Produce, isolate and package queen bees to be shipped to customers across the country. Basic bee yard maintenance work such as building and repairing bee boxes and general facility upkeep. Prepare bee hives to be shipped out of state for pollination services at the end of the season. Winterize facility.
Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Applicants must be 18 years or older, duties may vary from time to time. Duties include driving and operating farm machinery. Workers will load tractor with chemicals and water multiple times a day, lubricating, cleaning and repairing farm machinery, workers must be able to lift 60 lbs., workers will apply herbicides to areas as instructed with caution to keep the treatment off the foliage, fruit or trunk of citrus trees. Employee must have valid drivers license or capable of obtaining one in 30 days. Employee must be able to get approval to operate company vehicles on public roads for the purpose of transporting themselves and other workers to the work sites or running errands upon receipt of applicable licenses. \nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the process rapidly. \nGeneral Specifications and Physical Requirements of the Job: Workers will perform all duties on employers farm and customers farm including maintenance and upkeep of all buildings, grounds, and equipment. Housing provided to the workers must be kept clean and in good condition. The majority of the workday is spent outdoors. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach and lift. Work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold and other natural elements. Worker must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight and weather conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required job duties. Hours and days of work may vary due to weather conditions. Proper work attire is required.\nThe employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Potatoes packing: Trucks will take the harvested potatoes to the packing house which is located inside the farm, workers will pick out the potatoes that will be used for seed the rest of the potatoes will be separated by size, labeled and packed.\nPacking Onions: Trucks will take the harvested onions to the packing house which is located inside the farm where they will be separated by size, labeled and packed.\nWatermelon Planting: Workers will grab a tray of watermelon plants; working down the rows worker will make a hole on the ground, insert the watermelon plant in the hole and cover the hole with dirt.\nHarvesting Watermelon by hand, the worker will walk down the watermelon field rows where the watermelon will be harvested. The worker will first cut the vine off the watermelon with a small knife and turn the watermelon over. The worker will bend over harvesting the ripe watermelon which can vary in weight from 20 to 60 lbs. from the ground and tossing the watermelon to the worker next to him and this worker will toss the watermelon to the next worker and so on, until the watermelon is then tossed to the person inside the bus who will place the watermelon on the floor. \nPacking: When the bus is full, it will be taken to the packing house where the workers will unload the watermelon and put it in a conveyor belt that will transport the watermelon into the packing house where it will be separated by size, labeled and packed.\nGeneral Maintenance: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on work site property, on structures utilized in the work site operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair. \n\nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker’s refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker’s willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nNote: The packing house is located inside the Farm and more than 50% of the product processed is produced by the Fixed Site Employer.\n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Crops/Commodities: \nAlpaca. \nThis job requires a minimum of 3 months of agricultural experience working in a alpaca farm handling both manual and mechanized tasks associated with production of alpacas. Applicants must be able to furnish verbal or written statement establishing relevant prior work experience. Workers must be able to perform manual and mechanized tasks with accuracy and efficiency. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders, power washers. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences. \n\nPerform complete alpaca herd care and maintenance. Prepare alpaca for show/sales. Groom and shear herd. Maintain nutrition and routine herd health. Perform emergency medical care. Clean maintain facilities and paddock. Assist with birthing females. Follow quarantine procedures. Attend to special needs of offspring (cria). \n\nWork is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 75 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 30 to over 110 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations.Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. \nWorkers should be able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. \n\nTobacco use strictly prohibited. No smoking or tobacco use of any kind permitted in the fields, worker housing, or anywhere on company premises. Employer reserves the right to discharge any employee found smoking or in possession of smoking materials, including cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco or smoking paraphernalia. \n\nEmployer-paid post-hire random drug testing required. Employer requires all newly hired employees to take and pass an employer-paid background check. All background checks are conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. Applicants found to have felony convictions (including, but not limited to assault, child molestation, sex or drug-related convictions) will be immediately terminated out of concern for general public safety, and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any. In the case of a foreign worker who is terminated for cause resulting from findings of the background check, the employer will arrange least-cost transportation to the worker's place of recruitment, at the worker's expense. Clean driving record required. Must have or be able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days following hire. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may be asked to drive other workers. \n\nPersons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. \n\nAll workers will be subject to a trial period of up to five days during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks.
Planting, cutting, mowing, digging, watering, fertilizing and harvesting sod, general clean up.
Crops/Commodities: \nhoney. \nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences. \n\nPrepare bees and bee equipment for pollination. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of beekeeping. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feeding and medicate bees for diseases and pests. Maintain hives in healthy state. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Make, paint and clean boxes. Harvest/extract honey. Run queen breeding yard and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. Ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Harmonize bees with their natural cycle. Raise bees to produce honey and pollinate crops. Assemble hives using hand tools. Inserts honeycombs into hive. Induct wild swarming bees into prepared honeycomb frames. Place screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees. Set hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen. Force bees from hive using smoke pot or carbolic acid soaked pad. Inspect hive and to harvest honeycomb. Remove parasites and vermin. Collect royal jelly. Destroy superfluous queen bee cells to prevent colony division. Burn diseased hive or bee colony. Sterilize hive using caustic soda solution. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extracts honey. Find and remove old queens from hives and replace with new queen. Remove frames covered with bees and shake into cages. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintenance of all mechanical equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. Must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. Must have field-based honey bee experience. Must assess colonies to determine if colonies require additional storage capacity, more time for honey to be finished, or whether honey is ready for removal. Carefully remove honey from colony to prevent loss of queen. Take careful consideration of procedures to prevent hazardous conditions. \n\nWork is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. Workers should be able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. \n\nWorkers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be required to drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may be asked to drive other workers. \n\nPersons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer.
Crops/Commodities: \nnursery stock, including, bedding plants, trees, and shrubs. \nThis job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable agricultural experience, preferably in a nursery, handling both manual and mechanized tasks associated with commodity production and harvesting activities. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. Workers must be able to perform manual and mechanized tasks with accuracy and efficiency. All tasks in this job description constitute one (1) job; the employer may assign workers to different tasks on any day or to multiple tasks during the same day in the sole judgment of the employer. Instructions and overall supervision and direction of workers will be provided by a Team Leader/Supervisor. Employees must perform the assigned work, and may not perform duties not included herein or work in areas not assigned without the specific authorization of the Team Leader/Supervisor. Workers must communicate potential problems to immediate Team Leader/Supervisor for resolution and keep Team Leader/Supervisor informed of issues and challenges. Workers hired pursuant to this labor certification must be able to comprehend and follow instructions of a Team Leader/Supervisor and communicate effectively. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised. Workers will be expected to perform basic duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision.\n\nSMALL CONTAINER SHIFTING:\nWorkers will perform manual and/or machine tasks associated with the propagation of 1 to 7 gallon container production of trees and shrubs. Tasks for small container shifting of nursery stock will include some combination of the following: fill 1 to 7 gallon containers or trays with soil in preparation for new plantings; pull long pieces of ‘poly’ (plastic hose) to straighten kinks or bends and secure tightly by pushing hose-end anchoring stakes into ground for each row; fill plant trays; prepare fields/sections for planting by consolidating plant material in sections to allow space for new plantings, prepping, cleaning, dumping, removing weeds and debris; plant seedlings or ‘liners’ by hand (including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter); plant ‘liners’ into containers; dig or transplant bare-root and container-grown nursery stock; follow up on recently planted sections to accommodate for special water needs; weed in shade houses as needed; load and unload containers onto trailers, sections and beds; conduct repair work to sections by removing or replacing ground covers, metal rings, etc. for new sections and existing sections, filling holes and all other tasks associated with shifting/transplanting of container trees and shrubs. \n\nSMALL CONTAINER TREE MAINTENANCE:\nWorkers will perform manual and/or machine tasks associated with the cultivation and maintenance of 1 to 7 gallon container production of trees and shrubs. Tasks for small container tree maintenance will include some combination of the following: tree and shrub maintenance; prune trees correctly by applying techniques based on species tree type; stake trees with bamboo or metal using proper protocols; lift and straighten small container trees; apply topdress fertilizer to containers; maintain and clean sections: remove leaf litter and trash, remove weeds and debris. \n\nLARGE CONTAINER SHIFTING:\nWorkers will pot (shift) trees; set up holding systems, straighten and align holding system to tree, consolidate, tree stand up and dump. Worker will be trained to know the basic difference of plant identification and container size, proper methods of planting a tree from one size container to a larger container size, moving trees from one location to another, moving cull trees to dump and standing trees up after a major wind event. Following safety rules is a critical part of the job.
Crops/Commodities: \nnursery stock, including, bedding plants, trees, and shrubs. \nThis job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable agricultural experience, preferably in a nursery, handling both manual and mechanized tasks associated with commodity production and harvesting activities. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. Workers must be able to perform manual and mechanized tasks with accuracy and efficiency. All tasks in this job description constitute one (1) job; the employer may assign workers to different tasks on any day or to multiple tasks during the same day in the sole judgment of the employer. Instructions and overall supervision and direction of workers will be provided by a Team Leader/Supervisor. Employees must perform the assigned work, and may not perform duties not included herein or work in areas not assigned without the specific authorization of the Team Leader/Supervisor. Workers must communicate potential problems to immediate Team Leader/Supervisor for resolution and keep Team Leader/Supervisor informed of issues and challenges. Workers hired pursuant to this labor certification must be able to comprehend and follow instructions of a Team Leader/Supervisor and communicate effectively. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised. Workers will be expected to perform basic duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision.\n\nSMALL CONTAINER SHIFTING:\nWorkers will perform manual and/or machine tasks associated with the propagation of 1 to 7 gallon container production of trees and shrubs. Tasks for small container shifting of nursery stock will include some combination of the following: fill 1 to 7 gallon containers or trays with soil in preparation for new plantings; pull long pieces of ‘poly’ (plastic hose) to straighten kinks or bends and secure tightly by pushing hose-end anchoring stakes into ground for each row; fill plant trays; prepare fields/sections for planting by consolidating plant material in sections to allow space for new plantings, prepping, cleaning, dumping, removing weeds and debris; plant seedlings or ‘liners’ by hand (including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter); plant ‘liners’ into containers; dig or transplant bare-root and container-grown nursery stock; follow up on recently planted sections to accommodate for special water needs; weed in shade houses as needed; load and unload containers onto trailers, sections and beds; conduct repair work to sections by removing or replacing ground covers, metal rings, etc. for new sections and existing sections, filling holes and all other tasks associated with shifting/transplanting of container trees and shrubs. \n\nSMALL CONTAINER TREE MAINTENANCE:\nWorkers will perform manual and/or machine tasks associated with the cultivation and maintenance of 1 to 7 gallon container production of trees and shrubs. Tasks for small container tree maintenance will include some combination of the following: tree and shrub maintenance; prune trees correctly by applying techniques based on species tree type; stake trees with bamboo or metal using proper protocols; lift and straighten small container trees; apply topdress fertilizer to containers; maintain and clean sections: remove leaf litter and trash, remove weeds and debris. \n\nLARGE CONTAINER SHIFTING:\nWorkers will pot (shift) trees; set up holding systems, straighten and align holding system to tree, consolidate, tree stand up and dump. Worker will be trained to know the basic difference of plant identification and container size, proper methods of planting a tree from one size container to a larger container size, moving trees from one location to another, moving cull trees to dump and standing trees up after a major wind event. Following safety rules is a critical part of the job.
Crops/Commodities: \ntrees, shrubs, palms. \nAll tasks in this job description constitute one (1) job; the employer may assign workers to different tasks on any day or to multiple tasks during the same day in the sole judgment of the employer. Instructions and overall supervision and direction of workers will be provided by a Team Leader/Supervisor. Employees must perform the assigned work, and may not perform duties not included herein or work in areas not assigned without the specific authorization of the Team Leader/Supervisor. Workers must communicate potential problems to immediate Team Leader/Supervisor for resolution and keep Team Leader/Supervisor informed of issues and challenges. Workers hired pursuant to this labor certification must be able to comprehend and follow instructions of a Team Leader/Supervisor and communicate effectively. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised. Workers will be expected to perform basic duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision.\n\nSMALL CONTAINER SHIFTING:\n\nWorkers will perform manual and/or machine tasks associated with the propagation of 1 to 7 gallon container production of trees and shrubs. Tasks for small container shifting of nursery stock will include some combination of the following: fill 1 to 7 gallon containers or trays with soil in preparation for new plantings; pull long pieces of ‘poly’ (plastic hose) to straighten kinks or bends and secure tightly by pushing hose-end anchoring stakes into ground for each row; fill plant trays; prepare fields/sections for planting by consolidating plant material in sections to allow space for new plantings, prepping, cleaning, dumping, removing weeds and debris; plant seedlings or ‘liners’ by hand (including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter); plant ‘liners’ into containers; dig or transplant bare-root and container-grown nursery stock; follow up on recently planted sections to accommodate for special water needs; weed in shade houses as needed; load and unload containers onto trailers, sections and beds; conduct repair work to sections by removing or replacing ground covers, metal rings, etc. for new sections and existing sections, filling holes and all other tasks associated with shifting/transplanting of container trees and shrubs. \n\nSMALL CONTAINER TREE MAINTENANCE:\n\nWorkers will perform manual and/or machine tasks associated with the cultivation and maintenance of 1 to 7 gallon container production of trees and shrubs. Tasks for small container tree maintenance will include some combination of the following: tree and shrub maintenance; prune trees correctly by applying techniques based on species tree type; stake trees with bamboo or metal using proper protocols; lift and straighten small container trees; apply topdress fertilizer to containers; maintain and clean sections: remove leaf litter and trash, remove weeds and debris; \n\nLARGE CONTAINER SHIFTING:\n\nWorkers will pot (shift) trees; set up holding systems, straighten and align holding system to tree, consolidate, tree stand up and dump. Worker will be trained to know the basic difference of plant identification and container size, proper methods of planting a tree from one size container to a larger container size, moving trees from one location to another, moving cull trees to dump and standing trees up after a major wind event. Following safety rules is a critical part of the job. Workers will plant 15 gallon trees or larger from the original container to a larger container size; set up tree-holding systems such as ropes, trellis, rebar and pipes for the new trees; lift and straighten various size container trees from 15 gallon to 1400 gallon using mechanized equipment. During the shifting process, the new trees are straightened, set into the holding system by a collar, fertilizer is applied and the tree is watered in.
Beekeeping duties: employees will be most of the time in FL; once they set up the bees at the out of state worksites (4 to 5 days) they will go back and forth between FL and the out of state work site locations to check on the bees for 2 to 3 consecutive days at a time. \nSplit, medicate, harvest honey, re-queen, etc. general farm work. Farm field/ shed sanitation duties include: mow grass, dig ditches, fences, etc. minor maintenance/operation of farm equipment. Worker may be stung, must be able to climb, lift up to 50 lb, walk, bend, and kneel, etc. for long periods of time. Work is performed in all kinds of weather from extreme heat, cold and rain. Time may vary due to mechanical problems, crop availability and weather conditions. All workers will be expected to work for the total period of employment.\n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Attend to live horses: feeding,\nwatering, loading, maintain records on\nhorses, assist in birthing, administer\nmeds, Vaccinations, or insecticides as\nappropriate, clean and maintain\nhousing areas, clean stalls, pens, and\nequipment. Workers must also halter,\nbreak, and care for young horses. Days\noff rotates. Split shifts 5-11 am and 3-\n5pm. Responsible for managing and\nharvesting grass and hay fields.
Under the Hoof is a 32-acre wooded timber property which we have started to selectly dear for further development into a silvipasture agroforestry farm. Our property has been certified in the FL Forest Stewardship Program. \nThe Gopher Tortoise is a protected species in Flordia. Under the Hoof has been recognized for Gopher Tortoise Habitat management by the FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. We are completing registrations for becoming a Gopher Tortoise Recipient Site allowing us to receive and manage a population of these endangered animals. \nTimberland clearing and land preparation require the removal of all underbrush. Much of this work is done by machine but the remaining removal of vines, roots, and land prep is manual. Workers will assist with finish clearing, preparing land for seeding, and fencing of pastures as they are developed. In addition to clearing and fencing, the preparation of tortoise receiving pens and burrow preparation is done by hand. \nThe FL Forest Service has developed Silviculture Best Management Practices for FL. Following the guidelines in the BMP pastures, reforesting, fencing, and shelters for future livestock will be completed. This is a multi-year project with livestock being introduced at the end of year 2.
The employee will perform any combination of the following tasks:\nPrepare soil and growth medium, haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, lime, and other soil conditions on sod grass and turf areas. This does not include work with herbicides/pesticides. The employer only allows licensed managers to work with these products;\n\nThe worker will dig, rake and screen soil; fill tanks with water and handle irrigation equipment; sow grass seed; cut, roll and stack sod; plant Sod. \n\nWorkers must operate farm equipment / machinery to mow grass, plot fields, load and unload trucks, forklifts, and sod cutters. \n\nWhen work in sod is not available, the workers may be offered other general agricultural duties associated with sod farming including building and equipment maintenance, repairing fences and similar tasks; plowing, and mowing corn and sugarcane fields; drive water tank tractor to water crops, and on occasion workers may operate other motor equipment.\n\nQualification:\n• Must have the ability to understand and carry out oral instructions.\n• Be physical ability to perform various manual tasks.\n• Be experienced in farm equipment operation.\n\nEducation\n• Sufficient to follow oral instructions\n\nJob Location and Work Conditions\n• Work is performed outdoors in various field locations on the farm. The workers will be exposed to all temperature and weather extremes (i.e. heat, rain, wind, cold, and dusty conditions), moving equipment, loud noises, wetness, dust, fumes, and requires walking on soft much and hard and uneven surfaces.\n\nPhysical Demands\n• Must be able to work outdoors in a variety of weather conditions. Exposure to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, extreme cold and extreme heat. Have the requisite strength to do manual work requiring strenuous physical exertion; e.g. continuous walking, bending, standing, pushing, pulling and lifting. Must be able to lift up to fifty- (50) pounds over distances of ten (10) feet or more.\n\n• Must be a team player who is willing to cooperate with others. Must be able to accept corrective criticism from supervisor.\n\n• The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n
Crops/Commodities: \nalligators. \nWork includes feeding and maintenance of alligators, harvesting of alligators and eggs and returning of wild alligators to marshes. Field prep includes manual shovel work on levees and manual hoeing of weeds, spot spraying and general farm labor. Work also includes tractor driving, water maintenance, fertilizing, planting and harvesting. Workers will help repair and maintain alligator houses, buildings, equipment, farm, fences, fields, levees, marshes, roads and workshop. Workers will load and unload trucks. \n\nWorkers must be able to work on their feet in bent positions, stoop, reach and kneel for long periods of time. Workers must be able to lift 80 pounds to a height of 5 feet over the course of the work day. Work is to be done for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers’ ability to perform the job. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop operations. Saturday work required. Must be in good physical health, able to lift/carry 80 lbs. Must be able to work in excessive humidity and temperatures ranging as high as 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Workers should be in good physical health and physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations.\n\n Must have or be able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days following hire. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may be asked to drive other workers. \n\nWhile the employer does not require prospective applicants to take and pass a drug test prior to a hiring decision, the employer has a no-exceptions drug policy requiring newly-hired employees to take and pass an employer-paid drug test. Every new hire must undergo testing before starting work with the company. All testing is conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. If an employee tests positive, he/she is immediately terminated and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any. In the case of a non-local or foreign worker who is terminated for failure to pass a drug test, the employer will arrange least-cost transportation to the worker's place of recruitment, at the worker's expense. The employer will also test upon reasonable suspicion of use.\n\nThe employer requires that all new hires for employment pass an employer-paid background check. All background checks are conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. Applicants found to have convictions for violent (assault, child molestation and similar) and/or burglary/theft convictions within the past five years, will be immediately terminated and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any. In the case of a foreign worker who is terminated for cause resulting from findings of the background check, the employer will arrange least-cost transportation to the worker's place of recruitment, at the worker's expense. \nPersons seeking employment as experienced Alligator Farm Worker must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Successful applicants will be subject to a trial period of up to 5 days during which their performance of required tasks will be evaluated. If the performance during the trial period is not acceptable to the employer the worker‘s employment will be terminated. \n\n\nEmployer retains the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but does not demonstrate the willingness to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.
Perform manual labor to cultivate and trim field grown and containerized trees and shrubs. Select, harvest, prepare and load plants for shipping. Operate, repair and maintain nursery equipment, machinery, and hand tools. Space and prepare planting areas, greenhouses and fields. Insert stakes and string for spacing. Transplant or pot, space, label and tag plants. Workers must keep pace while transplanting within an assembly line on a conveyor belt. Select, prepare and load shrubs and trees for shipping. Weed, fertilize, prune and shape shrubs and trees by hand. Operate tractors and other machinery and equipment to fertilize, load and move materials and containerized plants. Continuously move container field grown plants using hand garden tools and equipment. Place and space plants in growing areas, greenhouses, pads and fields. Plants will be located, identified, selected and loaded into wagons, racks and trucks. Maintain inventory ordering material as required. Operate, repair, manage, maintain and perform improvements to the farm property and the structures, irrigation, equipment, vehicles, machinery and hand tools on the farm. Apply bamboo and metal rods to ensure quality of plants. Using order forms or according to supervisor’s instructions workers will select, harvest, prepare and load plants for shipping. Must assure accurate identification and count of plants when pulling orders to load onto trucks. Handle mulch, haul and spread soil, fertilizer and other materials to condition soil using carts, shovels, wheelbarrows and tractors. Load and unload plants, bushes, trees, tools, and materials. Clean and maintain containers, materials, supplies, and grounds. Workers will be required to work in a safe manner and participate in safety training and practices.\n\nAllergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason.\n \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker’s Sabbath or federal holidays. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time.\n\n\n Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer's control. These periods can occur anytime throughout the season. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and different tasks on different days.\n\n\nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a two day introductory period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker at the conclusion of the introductory period if the worker’s performance fails to satisfy the employer’s reasonable expectations, or is otherwise unacceptable. Employer may terminate a worker for lawful job-related reasons, including but not limited to situations in which the worker: (1) Is repeatedly absent or tardy; (2) malingers or otherwise refuses, without cause, to perform the work as directed; (3) commits act(s) of misconduct or repeatedly violates the Work Rules; and/or (4) fails, after completing the two day introductory period, to perform work in a competent and skillful manner, consistent with the employer's reasonable expectations.
Crops/Commodities: \nhoney. \nWorker must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from the egg through fully developed workers, drones and queens; must work all aspects of commercial bee keeping, including assessing a colony to determine if it needs food or medicine, feeding and medicating bees, maintaining hives in a healthy state, increasing number of hives, raising and replacing queens, making divides, making, painting and cleaning boxes, supering hives. Run queen breeding yard and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures and haul bees to and from different hive locations to ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Must respond correctly to bees to harmonize with their natural cycle and keep them in the healthiest state possible for survival and profitability. Assemble frames and build, paint and repair honey boxes. Load, unload and move bees/boxes. Extract honey and process honey beeswax. Prepare hives for pollination. Perform general maintenance of equipment and facility. \n\nWork is to be done for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Workers may assist in loading trucks with product weighing up to and including 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers’ ability to perform the job. Workers need to have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day. Temperatures may range from 10 to 110 F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop operations. Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. \n\nEmployer-paid post-hire drug testing upon suspicion of use. \n\nValid driving license and clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) required to drive company vehicles. \n\nEmployer assures that workers will be provided transportation from living quarters to work site every day (for workers who must be provided housing under the applicable regulations).\n\nPersons seeking employment as experienced Beekeeper must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Successful applicants will be subject to a trial period of up to 5 days during which their performance of required tasks will be evaluated. If the performance during the trial period is not acceptable to the employer the worker‘s employment will be terminated. \nAn applicant for this job must be available to work for the entire itinerary. An applicant referred to the employer after the labor certification has been granted, but before 50 percent of the work contract period for the entire itinerary has elapsed, must be available and willing to join the employer at whatever place the employer is located at the time and remain with the employer for the duration of the itinerary. \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker’s Sabbath or federal holidays. Workers will have an unpaid lunch break. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time. \n \n \nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a five-day trial period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks.
Crops/Commodities: \nhoneybees, honey. \nThis job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable agricultural experience working in a honeybee farm handling both manual and mechanized tasks associated with beekeeping and the production of honey. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. Workers must be able to perform manual and mechanized tasks with accuracy and efficiency. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of beekeeping. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feeding and medicate bees for diseases and pests. Maintain hives in healthy state. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Make, paint and clean boxes. Harvest/extract honey. Run queen breeding yard and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. Ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Harmonize bees with their natural cycle. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintenance of all mechanical equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale. Must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. Must have field-based honey bee experience. Must assess colonies to determine if colonies require additional storage capacity, more time for honey to be finished, or whether honey is ready for removal. Carefully remove honey from colony to prevent loss of queen. Take careful consideration of procedures to prevent hazardous conditions. \n\nWork is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 50 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. Workers should be able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. \n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Shorts, bathing suits or other casual clothing not permitted. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work. Workers must operate equipment, with or without direction, in a manner that protects operator, visitors, other workers, products, trees, crops and equipment. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination. \n\nEmployer requires all newly-hired employees to take and pass an employer-paid drug test before starting work. Drug test not required for prospective applicants prior to hiring decision. All testing is conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. Workers testing positive will be immediately terminated and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any.
Assess beehives; feed, medicate, super, make splits as needed; graft queen cells, catch and cage queens; extract and harvest honey; repair/assemble hive bodies and pallets; driving farm vehicle to obtain supplies, honey extracting equipment, and misc. tools used to work with honey bees; minor daily and incidental upkeep to equipment, worksite, and colony boxes.
Crops/Commodities: \nbeekeeping. \nThis job requires a minimum of three months of verifiable prior experience working on a honeybee farm handling both manual and machine tasks associated with beekeeping. Worker must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from the egg through fully developed workers, drones and queens; must work all aspects of commercial bee keeping, including assessing a colony to determine if it needs food or medicine, feeding and medicating bees, maintaining hives in a healthy state, increasing number of hives, raising and replacing queens, making divides, making, painting and cleaning boxes, supering hives. Run queen breeding yard and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures and haul bees to and from different hive locations to ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Must respond correctly to bees to harmonize with their natural cycle and keep them in the healthiest state possible for survival and profitability. Assemble frames and build, paint and repair honey boxes. Load, unload and move bees/boxes. Extract honey and process honey beeswax. Prepare hives for pollination. Perform general maintenance of equipment and facility. \nWork is to be done for long periods of time. Workers may assist in loading trucks with product weighing up to and including 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers’ ability to perform the job. Workers need to have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day. Temperatures may range from 10 to 110 F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop operations. Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. Saturday work required. \nEmployer requires all newly-hired employees to take and pass an employer-paid drug test before starting work. Drug test not required for prospective applicants prior to hiring decision. All testing is conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. Workers testing positive will be immediately terminated and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any. In the case of a non-local or foreign worker who is terminated for failure to pass a drug test, the employer will arrange least-cost transportation to the worker's place of recruitment, at the worker's expense. The employer will also test upon reasonable suspicion of use. Clean driving record required. Must have or be able to obtain driver’s license within 30 days following hire. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may be asked to drive other workers. \nPersons seeking employment as experienced Beekeeper must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. Successful applicants will be subject to a trial period of up to 5 days during which their performance of required tasks will be evaluated. If the performance during the trial period is not acceptable to the employer the worker‘s employment will be terminated.\nRaises and/or bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker employed pursuant to this job order, at the company's sole discretion, based on factors including work performance, skill, and tenure.
Crops/Commodities: \nhoney (beekeeping). \nPerform manual and mechanical duties related to commercial beekeeping and honey production. Must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from egg through mature workers, drones and queens. Must work all aspects of beekeeping. \n\nMake, paint and clean boxes. Assemble hives using hand tools. Inserts honeycombs into hive. Access colony to determine if food or medicine is needed. Feed and medicate bees for diseases, parasites, and pests. Sterilize hive and burn diseased hive or bee colony. \n\nRun queen breeding yard. Raise and replace queens. Make divides. Prepare bees and bee equipment for pollination.\n\nHarvest/extract honey. Collect royal jelly. Uncap harvested honeycombs and extracts honey. Remove frames covered with bees and shake into cages. Manipulate and service hive structures. Haul bees to and from different hive locations. \n\nMust have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. \n\nPerform mechanized extraction. Must be familiar with mechanized extraction equipment. Cap and handle combs. Mechanically separate wax from honey. Maintain extraction equipment. Assist with refining wax and processing honey. Prepare honey by filtration and/or moisture reduction before final packaging. Blend and filter wax before final packaging for sale.\n\nInstall/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates. \n\nApply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.\n\nMow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Build/repair fences.\n\nMust wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work.\n\nOutdoor work required when plants are wet, or during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours may vary. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job. Work is done outdoors for long periods of time and requires prolonged periods of standing and/or walking, repetitive movements, and frequent bending and/or stooping. Workers must be able to handle, lift, and carry heavy or bulky objects (product, containers) in accordance with the specified lifting requirements. \n\nWorkers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may transport other workers. \n\nSupervisor(s) will provide instructions and directions to workers. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors. Unusual, complex or non-routine activities will be supervised. Workers expected to perform basic duties in a proficient manner without close supervision. \nAn applicant for this job must be available to work for the entire itinerary.
Crops/Commodities: \nbeekeeping. \nWorker must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from the egg through fully developed workers, drones and queens; must work all aspects of commercial bee keeping, including assessing a colony to determine if it needs food or medicine, feeding and medicating bees, maintaining hives in a healthy state, increasing number of hives, making divides, making, painting and cleaning boxes, supering hives; must recognize and treat parasitic and other invasive pests (e.g. American Foul Brood, trachael mites) and maintain an appropriate treatment regimen as required, and generally maintain a continual assessment of the health of the colonies. Manipulate and service hive structures and haul bees to and from different hive locations to ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Must respond correctly to bees to harmonize with their natural cycle and keep them in the healthiest state possible for survival and profitability. Assemble frames and build, paint and repair honey boxes. Load, unload and move bees/boxes. Extract honey and process honey beeswax. Perform general maintenance of equipment and facility. \nWork is to be done for long periods of time. Workers may assist in loading trucks with product weighing up to and including 75 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers ability to perform the job. Workers must have no fear of bees and be non-allergic to bee stings, pollen, honey or other products of the hive. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day. Temperatures may range from 10 to 110 F. Must be able to work in excessive humidity and heat up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop operations. \nWorkers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be required to drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses may be asked to drive other workers. \nPersons seeking employment as experienced Beekeeper must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. An applicant for this job must be available to work for the entire duration of the itinerary. An applicant referred to the employer after the labor certification has been granted, but before 50 percent of the work contract period for the entire itinerary has elapsed, must be available and willing to join the employer at whatever place the employer is located at the time and remain with the employer for the duration of the beekeeping itinerary. \nAn applicant for this job must be available to work for the entire itinerary. An applicant referred to the employer after the labor certification has been granted, but before 50 percent of the work contract period for the entire itinerary has elapsed, must be available and willing to join the employer at whatever place the employer is located at the time and remain with the employer for the duration of the itinerary. \nEmployer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a workers Sabbath or federal holidays. Workers will have an unpaid lunch break. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time. \n \n \nTERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a five-day trial period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks.
Operating large farm machinery for loading and unloading trucks, placing cargo (hives) in fields; rearranging cargo (hives) based on crop and weather conditions; transport bee boxes from storage/wintering location to the field; select optimal hive placement in the field based on flowering and wind conditions; move boxes between fields during flower bloom; all duties require mechanical knowledge and ability to operate machinery such as tractors, trucks, front end loaders.
Prepare bee colonies for pollination. Check for queens. Split bee colonies. Feed and medicate bees. Treat bee hives for mites. Monitor, maintain and increase bee hives. Load and unload flatbed trucks. Transport bee hives from bee yards to the honey extraction plant. Harvest, extract and package honey. Build and repair bee boxes and other beekeeping equipment. Sterilize all honey extraction equipment and facilities. Winterize all beekeeping facilities and equipment at the end of the beekeeping season.
Worker must be familiar with working with bees in all stages, from the egg through fully developed workers, drones and queens; must work all aspects of commercial bee keeping, including assessing a colony to determine if it needs food or medicine, feeding and medicating bees, maintaining hives in a healthy state, increasing number of hives, raising and replacing queens, making divides, making, painting and cleaning boxes, supering hives. Run queen breeding yard and produce queen bees. Manipulate and service hive structures and haul bees to and from different hive locations to ensure healthy and productive honeybee colonies. Must respond correctly to bees to harmonize with their natural cycle and keep them in the healthiest state possible for survival and profitability. Assemble frames and build, paint and repair honey boxes. Load, unload and move bees/boxes. Extract honey and process honey beeswax. Perform general maintenance of equipment and facility. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers ability to perform the job. Workers with a clean driving record and who obtain a drivers license may be required to drive company vehicles. Workers will work in extreme temperatures. Employer may request but cannot require workers to work on their Sabbath; maintaining of worksite and equipment; also cleaning location and equipment. The nature of farm work may require workers to work after dark and possibly weekends depending on weather conditions. Hours offered may vary based on factors such as weather, bees, or need. Employer may pay workers more depending on how many years of experience they have or other factors such as job performance, skill, punctuality. Workers will have an unpaid lunch break.
Assist in all aspects of commercial beekeeping. Split and maintain hives. Raise queen bees. Harvest and extract honey. Transport, feed and medicate bees. Build and repair hives. Sanitize plant and perform general farm maintenance work.
Raises honey bees to produce honey and maintain colony health through feed/supplements; find and cage queens, install queen cells; assembles bee hives, inserts honeycomb of bees into hives; forces bees from hives; uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts approx. 75 pounds of honey from honeycombs; must be able to lift 75 pound boxes for honey transport; operate lift tractor for transporting bee boxes from hives to extracting facility; driving farm vehicle to obtain supplies, honey extracting equipment, and misc. tools used to work with honey bees; minor daily and incidental upkeep to equipment, worksite, and colony boxes.
JOB OVERVIEW\nThe primary duty of a beekeeper is to keep hives healthy and productive, for agricultural and commercial purposes. Job duties include construct and clean hives, splitting colonies, collect and package any hive products including honey, beeswax, pollen and related honey products.\nThis job may include gathering honey, raising bees to help with pollination in farming areas, or helping create specialty products from honey or honeycomb. Also, this job requires to work directly with honey processing and bottling equipment.\n\n RESPONSIBILITIES\nBeekeeper is responsible for assessing the health of the hive, checking for mite infestations, monitoring, and treating the hive when health problems arise, and maintaining detailed records of health, medication administration, and track inventory of production (honey, syrup, pollen, etc.).\nBeekeepers must wear and maintain special protective clothing and gear such as veils, gloves, and suits. They also must properly use bee smokers and other hive tools to safely access the hive.\nBeekeeper responsible for build and manage queen rearing operations, identify and report hive health concerns, market honey products to consumers, clean and maintain beekeeping equipment and other duties and responsibilities as assigned by manager.\n
Harvesting, count, load, unload, and all farm related to squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, pickles, and onions. Preparing lands for the crops including laying and removing plastic. All these jobs will be done under extreme sunlight: stooping, bending, and heavy lifting will be required of the workers. Workers will also be pulling weeds, raking, cleaning areas around the farms and building, laying irrigation pipes, and digging ditches.
Building Bee boxes and mini queen mating boxes . and 5 and 2 frame Nuc boxes. Feeding the Bees and Grafting Queen bees. Working the Main bee hives to make sure they are heathy and producing the Male bees needed to mate with the queens. Treating bees for Mites and trapping hive beetles adding Honey suppers for honey production and then extracting and bottling honey.
Sod harvesting: Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor; in groups of three people, workers will rotate driving the sod harvesting machine that will cut the sod and place it on a conveyor belt, the other two workers will grab the sod from the conveyor belt and will stack it on wooden pallets.\nAt the end of the day, sod machinery should be greased and topped off with fuel for the following work day. \nThe worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in a possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly.\nThe employer will provides the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due such workers willful damage or destruction of the tools.\n\nWorkers that qualify may be required to operate Agriculture Machinery or Equipment. \n\nEmployees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employers control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season, if workers request a leave of absence during these periods of no work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA 790A.\n\nA copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.
Plant, Water, Weed, Harvest, Count, Load and Unload, Wash, Sort, Pack: Variety of crops: Arugula, Avocado, Banda, Basil, Beans, Beets, Bok Choy, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Cilantro, Collard, Cowpea, Cucumber, Daikon, Dandelion green, Dill, Eggplant, Fennel, Fig, Guava, Kale, Kohlrabi, Leek, Lettuce, Lychee, Macadamia, Mizuna, Mulberry, Onion, Papalo, Papaya, Parsley, Pistachio, Pomegranate, Pumpkin, Radish, Romanesco, Roselle, Scallions, Spinach, Squash, Okra, Sunflowers, Sweet Potato, Swiss Chard, Tatsoi, Tomato, Turnip, Watermelon \n\nWorkers will perform various duties associated with growing the vegetable and fruit crops listed above. Workers will plant, cultivate, and harvest fruits and vegetables. All jobs will be done under extreme weather conditions, repetitive motions like bending, stooping, and heavy listing. Workers will also be pulling weeds, raking, cleaning areas for planting, digging, laying irrigation pipes, placing or pulling plastic.\nWorkers will perform duties that may vary from time to time, including: shovel, haul, dig holes and ditches, manually plant, cultivate, water, harvest, count, load and unload fruit, vegetables, produce and field crops\nWorkers will hook up, unhook and fix water line. Workers will stake and tie plants. Workers will perform support duties such as making boxes, packing, cleaning buckets and work areas. Workers will assist with weed removal. Workers will pick, harvest, box, transport and sell produce. \n\nGeneral Maintenance: Workers will be responsible for performing general maintenance around the farm. This will include fence mending, mowing, and weeding . Workers will repair and maintain buildings and equipment to ensure they are in good repair.\nSupport jobs include bin and pallet repair and after-hours cleanup.\nFarm, and Field Sanitation: All workers will be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping floors and other farm sanitation duties.\nDuring certain duties, workers may be required to work in teams to accomplish a certain task.