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Field Workers Strawberry Ground Harvester,
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 70
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 39
- Wage: 19.97 USD / Hour
- Start date: 03/24/2025
- End date: 05/24/2025
- Process date: 02/20/2025 10:46:09
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Employee picks strawberries in varying weather conditions, while adhering to quality standards determined by Company, using physical body motions, including picking fruit, pushing carts and carrying cardboard crates (organic or conventional) weighing up to 10-13 lbs. and plastic crates (freezer and juice) weighing up to 22 lbs when full. Employees will be required to perform the responsibilities of Strawberry Ground crew. The employee will harvest by walking in the furrow from the middle of the block towards the road where the harvest trailer is located. Once the worker completes the full box of strawberries, he/she will walk to the harvest trailer to place the harvested box on the table for quality inspection and will take an empty box to repeat the process. When harvesting juice or freezer, the employee will be required to perform this manually or in the case of freezer, it may require the use of a blade to remove berry from the plant. When working with the ground crew, the employee is required to work as part of a team of harvesters and the employee is expected to maintain a similar pace to ground crew team members. Employee will be responsible for ensuring the quality of the harvested strawberries meets quality and inspection requirements. Employee will also be responsible for ranch maintenance, which will include pulling weeds by hand or with use of sickle, picking up trash throughout the ranch, fixing plastic fence with use of plyers or sickle. The workers will complete weed removal job duties for less than 20 % of their weekly work time. Employer will provide training to perform the weed removal job duties. Employees engaging in hand weeding, hand thinning, or hand hot-capping shall be provided gloves as necessary to perform the job. Kneepads will not be provided as kneeling is not required to perform the weeding duties. Weeds are not on the ground level. The Employer complies with California Code Regulations at Title 8, Section 3456. Repair strawberry beds with use of shovel to pull plastic and reshape the bed. Pre-plant Irrigation pipe set up, which includes loading/unloading a pair of 40-ft aluminum pipe weighing approximately 18 lbs. each. Setting up aluminum pipes on open ground and manually connecting them. This activity is done in pairs. Bed up, includes filling the strawberry bed with soil and lining of the edge of each bed with use of rope and shovel. Cut roads, by using a sickle and shovel to cut the mulch on the marked edge of the bed that’s installed on the beds to create the road that separates each harvesting block where the picking trailers will be parked. Open entry way for furrows by shoveling the soil out of the way. Install/remove irrigation system, drip tape and plastic. Plant clean-up performed by manually pulling dry/old leaves from each plant, throughout the furrows.