Berry Workers
Lewis Nursery and Farms, Inc
📍 Rocky Point, NC · Pender County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26306-336174
- 📞 Phone: +1 (910) 675-2394
- ✉️ Email: info@lewisfarms.com
Employer instructions
All interested local and intrastate candidates should contact their nearest career center for pre-employment screening before contacting the employer. Career center staff may only refer candidates who have been apprised of all the material terms and conditions of employment and have indicated, by accepting referral to the job opportunity, that he or she is qualified, able, willing, and available for employment. Career center staff should email a referral card containing the referral candidates name, address and telephone number to employer first, then instruct the candidate to call the employer directly to schedule a personal interview. Hours for referral candidate to call the employer are 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Monday-Friday, excluding all federal holidays. Referral candidates MUST call the employer and schedule an interview appointment prior to coming. No referral candidate is to go to the employers address or work site without a scheduled interview appointment. Candidates recruited from outside normal commuting distance are not required to appear in person for interview. Employer may schedule telephone interview appointments to candidates recruited from outside normal commuting distance.
All interstate applicants interested in this job offer should first contact the nearest career center in their state. Career center staff should contact the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Division of Workforce Solutions Ag Services in Raleigh, North Carolina at h2a.joborders@commerce.nc.gov prior to contacting the employer.
Workers should be fully apprised by the local employment office of the terms, conditions and nature of employment prior to referral. Workers recruited against the job offer from within normal commuting distance will not be provided housing, subsistence or transportation. All workers hired under this job order will be required to provide documentation attesting to legal status to work in the United States. All applicants must be able (with or without reasonable accommodation), willing, and qualified to perform all the work described, and must be available for the entire anticipated period of employment.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Berry Workers (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26306-336174
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Berry Pickers: Hand-harvest strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. Duties may include cleaning, field-packing and loading harvested berries. Field grade, sort, or classify berries by size, weight, color, or condition. May operate forklift or electric pallet jack to unload and load berries. 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. 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 75 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 75 lbs. in field. Must not hinder another worker?s 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 one month verifiable work experience hand-harvesting strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. Must commit to entire anticipated period of employment.
Strawberries: Workers will bend and stoop to pick strawberries according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers will be expected to pick fully ripe strawberries, discard any cat-faced, deformed, decayed or undersized berries according to supervisor's instructions. Also, workers must carefully remove any undesirable berries from plant that would later cause fungi to attack the plant. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately twenty-five (25) lbs. and empty into field bin or load onto trailer. In some instances workers will be expected to fill a 4-quart/one gallon plastic pail, carefully filling the pail to capacity. (Buckets must be full for correct measure and weight) When full, baskets will be carried 2 or 3 per hand, by the wire handles, nestled to avoid bruising or spillage to end of rows at designated truck-loading place. Then the buckets of berries will be inspected for quality and loaded for transportation to roadside market or coolers. Employees will take turns transporting berries to the coolers, but must transport all fruit at least hourly. Depending on market demand, workers may also be required to pick strawberries in cups and/or flats. Strawberries harvested specifically for sale at a roadside stand as fresh market specialty basket containers must be field graded. For berries harvested for sale at roadside stands, extra care must be used to ensure that each strawberry is undamaged and perfect. All berries must be handled carefully to prevent bruises or fingernail cuts. Pickers will take extreme care not to damage the delicate berries. Quality and workmanship is of the utmost importance.
Blackberries: This is a very difficult, scratchy job as these are thorny blackberries. Harvest is a difficult, painful job that requires constantly reaching into thorny blackberry plants. Necessary manual dexterity precludes wearing gloves. And significant briar scratches are normal complications. Workers must be diligent to avoid natural complications related to natural hazards, including poison oak, chiggers, and snakes. Workers will bend and stoop to pick blackberries according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers will be expected to pick fully ripe blackberries, discard any deformed, decayed or undersized berries according to supervisor?s instructions. Also, workers must carefully remove any undesirable berries from plant that would later cause fungi to attack the plant. Workers will carry 2 full containers with 6,2 qt. baskets in each weighing approximately 12 lbs. each to the field trailer. Workers will properly fill all 2 qt baskets.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 1 month |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 75 lb Drug test |
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. 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 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. Requires one month verifiable work experience hand-harvesting strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. Must commit to entire anticipated period of employment.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 8:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Pay details | Wage offer to H-2A workers only is at least $11.15 per hour. La oferta salarial solo para trabajadores H-2A es de al menos $11.15 por hora. |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Rocky Point, Nc) |
| Housing | Housing is group housing. If a female worker is hired, separate toilet, shower, and sleeping room will be provided. Family housing is not available. The provision of family housing is not a prevailing practice in the area of intended employment. La vivienda es para grupo. Si se contrata a una trabajadora, se proporcionarán baño, ducha y habitación separadas. Vivienda para toda la familia no es disponible y la provisión de casa para toda una familia no es imperante para el área de trabajo |
| Meals | Employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so workers may prepare their own meals. Workers will buy their own groceries. Once a week, the employer will provide (on a voluntary basis) transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries. These board arrangements apply only to workers living in employer-provided housing. Empleador proporcionara instalaciones de cocina gratis y conveniente para los trabajadores viviendo en la vivienda proporcionada para que los trabajadores pueden prepararse su propia comida. Tranporte gratuito en un vehculo sera proporcionado al menos una vez cada semana por los trabajadores para comprar sus propios alimentos. Estos arreglos applicar solamente a trabajadores que viven en la vivienda provistos por el empleador. |
| Daily transportation | Employer will offer voluntary transportation at no cost to those workers living in housing provided by the employer and for commuting workers who report to a designated daily job reporting site. The mode of transportation may be 4 buses each with a seating capacity for 44 passengers. -The employer operates at least 6-40 passenger buses and 3-15 passenger vans. |
| Travel to the job | Inbound transportation and subsistence will be reimbursed at the end of the first work week. The employer will provide or pay for charter bus or van or other modes of inbound and outbound transportation to groups of workers, or permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved. Mode of transportation to be arranged by the employer is unknown. |
| Pay deductions | The employer will make the following deductions from the worker's wages: FICA, Medicare and income taxes as required by law (unlike U.S. workers, foreign H-2A workers are not subject to payroll tax deductions for FICA, Medicare or federal withholding.); cash advances and repayment of loans; repayment of overpayment of wages to the worker; recovery of any loss to the employer due to the worker's damage, beyond normal wear and tear, or loss of equipment or housing items where it is shown that the worker is responsible. No deduction not required by law will be made that brings the worker's hourly earnings below the higher of the federal minimum wage and State minimum wage. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26306-336174 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | Andrew Jackson Law P.C. |
| Posted | Nov 3, 2026 |