Farmworkers & Laborers & Agricultural Equipment Operator

Qué va a hacer

Texto original en inglés, tal como se registró en el Departamento de Trabajo.

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.

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