4 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 4/24/2024- 11/5/2024.

Plant, cultivate, harvest and pack fruits and vegetables by hand or machine including but not limited to: sweet corn, sweet potatoes, melons, squash, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and pumpkins. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears and knives.

Propagate, transplant, weed, prune and thin. Apply pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers to crops. Lay and/or remove plastic. Clean plastic of debris. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from ground or trellises. Train vines or plants on strings or trellises. Install and take down hooped row cover. Bed sweet potatoes into the dirt and place plastic paper over the beds. Use shovels to shovel dirt onto the beds that are covered with plastic. Remove paper from the beds and put a remake paper over the beds. After the potato plants sprout and come through the ground, cut the plants with a butcher knife. Place the plants into plastic crates. Load crates of slips onto a flatbed trailer. Ride a transplanter to transplant plants. Manually feed the potato plants into the fingers on the transplanter that places the plant into the ground and covers the root of the plant with dirt. Walk behind the transplanter and plant slips by hand using a stick.

Ride a potato digger or harvester and pick up potatoes off of a chain, sort them, and place them into boxes on the digger while harvesting. Workers must select harvestable produce based on correct size, maturity and quality. Clean, pack and load harvested products. Wash and pack potatoes into boxes for shipping. Remove completed or defective products and place them on conveyors or in specified areas such as loading docks. Seal containers using glue, string, nails and hand tools. Load materials and products into package processing equipment. Use hand tools to assemble, line, and pad cartons, crates and containers. Workers may ride on tractor, maintain trellises, repair fences and farm buildings or participate in irrigation activities. Grade and sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel, smell and quality to ensure correct processing and usage.

Requirements:

• 3 months experience in fruit and vegetable duties listed
• Drug Screen
• Lifting requirement 50 lbs.
• Exposure to extreme temperatures
• Extensive pushing or pulling, sitting or walking
• Frequent stooping or bending over
• Repetitive movements

The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov.