Farmworkers & Laborers & Agricultural Equipment Operator
Shelburne Orchards Company
📍 Shelburne, VT · Chittenden County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26185-078627
- 📞 Phone: +1 (802) 985-2753
- ✉️ Email: shelburneorchards@gmail.com
Employer instructions
The applicant holding office is requested to refer to all qualified and available applicants through the local order holding office (802) 828- 4369. Applicants may also contact the employer directly by telephone at (802) 985-2753 from Monday to Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or by email at shelburneorchards@gmail.com to inquire about the position or to schedule an interview.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Farmworkers & Laborers & Agricultural Equipment Operator (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26185-078627
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
All applicants must be able, willing and qualified to perform the work described in the job order and must be available for the entire period of employment specified in Section A.3 & A.4. Workers will perform a variety of agricultural duties related to apple production, cider processing, greenhouse production, vegetable, mushroom, and fruit production, egg collection, packing, and general farm maintenance. Duties include planting seeds; transplanting; cultivating; weeding; hoeing; thinning; pruning; training; suckering; lowering; clipping; harvesting; grading; sorting; washing; weighing; labeling; branding; dating; packing; and preparing apples, fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, and other farm products for storage, shipment, or retail sale. Workers will perform orchard duties including preparing soil; planting and maintaining apple trees; pruning, thinning, training, and harvesting apples; mowing; spraying; repairing storage bins, fences, and trellises; collecting orchard debris; and performing general orchard and farm maintenance. Workers must possess the knowledge and ability to prune, thin, and train apple trees and perform greenhouse tomato production tasks including harvesting, grading, suckering, lowering, clipping, and thinning. Workers assigned to cider production will set up, operate, clean, and store cider-making equipment. Duties include loading apples into processing equipment using forklifts; operating grinders, cider presses, transfer pumps, and other processing equipment; distributing apple mash onto press racks; manually bottling cider; and cleaning equipment, tanks, floors, and work areas after each production run using water, cleaning solutions, pressure washers, and other cleaning tools. Workers will safely operate, adjust, and maintain tractors, forklifts, harvest vehicles, trucks, irrigation systems, and other agricultural equipment used in fields, orchard, greenhouse, packing, and cider production operations. Workers may load and unload trucks, transport harvested crops, tools, supplies, and equipment between fields, storage facilities, farm buildings, and retail stands, and set up and operate irrigation systems. Workers may use hand tools including, but not limited to, shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, pruning shears, hand saws, knives, irrigation pumps, drills, saws, powered screwdrivers, and similar tools required to perform assigned duties. Workers may be asked to operate trucks or other multi-purpose vehicles to transport workers from housing (whether on or off farm) to the farm properties; haul tools, supplies, or crops; transport workers from place to place around the farm properties during the workday (including on public roads to reach farmer's fields); and/or transport workers to the grocery store, bank, or laundry facilities on an as needed basis. Workers that are requested to drive will be required to possess a valid driver’s license; no worker will be rejected for not having a driver's license. Workers who do drive will still perform the same field work and other duties as non-driving workers; driving is not a primary duty. The work is physically demanding and requires prolonged standing, walking, bending, stooping, kneeling, climbing, repetitive motions, and frequent lifting and carrying of up to 50 pounds. Workers performing orchard harvest duties must be able to repeatedly climb a 20-foot ladder while carrying an apple-picking bucket harnessed over their shoulders. Workers must be able to work in environmental conditions ranging from cold, damp spring and fall weather to hot, humid summer conditions. Workers are required to work 6-hour shifts within the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m from Tuesday to Friday. Duties at the farm, including greenhouse operations, vegetable, mushroom, and fruit production, packing, cider processing, and related farm maintenance, will generally be performed Tuesday through Friday.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 1 month |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 50 lb |
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 7:00 A.M. – 7:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Pay details | $18.83/hr (H-2A) |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Vergennes, Vt) |
| Housing | This is a one (1) bedroom house with two (2) beds to accommodate two (2) workers, one (1) bathroom, fully furnished house with separate living and full equipped kitchen with stove, refrigerator, pots, pans and utensils. With laundry facility onsite with washer and dryer. This housing is approved by the Housing, Health and Safety standard by the state of Vermont and OSHA. The accommodations are provided at no cost to the workers and are available to the public for rental. |
| Meals | The employer will not provide meals. Workers will be responsible for purchasing and preparing their own food in the employer-provided (or secured) housing. The housing unit will include a fully equipped kitchen with a refrigerator, stove, cooking utensils, pots, pans, and adequate counter space, provided at no cost to the worker. The employer will provide transportation in a five (5) passenger seater Volkswagen Jetta or in a five (5) passenger seater Toyota Prius at least once per week at no cost to workers residing in employer-provided housing, so they may attend to personal errands such as grocery shopping, banking, and other essential needs. |
| Daily transportation | 1. The employer-provided or secured housing is located at 38 West Street, Vergennes, VT 05491. Workers will be provided with daily transportation, at no cost, between the housing and the primary worksite at 216 Orchard Road, Shelburne, VT 05482 as well as to additional worksites, including the following location: 2246 Tyler Bridge Road, Bristol, VT 05443. |
| Travel to the job | The employer will reimburse the H-2A worker in the first workweek for all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees, including those mandated by the government, incurred by the H-2A worker. If the worker completes 50% of the work contract period, employer will reimburse the worker for transportation and subsistence from the place of recruitment to the place of work. Upon completion of the work contract or where the worker is dismissed earlier, employer will provide or pay |
| Pay deductions | Social Security Federal Taxes State Taxes Medicare Any other state or federal deduction required by law |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26185-078627 |
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| Official occupation | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | Reliable Labor Services |
| Posted | Jul 8, 2026 |