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Farm Worker Supervisor
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 2
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 48
- Wage: 30.45 USD / Hour
- Start date: 03/26/2025
- End date: 01/09/2026
- Process date: 02/13/2025 10:03:14
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Agricultural crops/commodities include apples, peaches, blueberries, blackberries, pears, plums, nectarines, cherries, apricots, tomatoes, flowers. Supervise, train, and assist employees in the following tasks: -Pruning-use hand saw and loppers to cut off branches. -Planting-use shovel to dig holes large enough to accommodate tree roots, back fill with soil, firm soil around tree. -Thinning-use hands to remove excess fruit from branches. -Weeding-use hands to pull weeds in berry rows, lay weeds to side of row. -Picking berries-use hands to pick ripe blueberries/blackberries from bushes, place berries in 30 pound bucket, carry bucket (about 500 feet) to barn, weigh bucket, pour into 30 pound flats, put flats in cold storage in barn. -Picking peaches and apples-hand pick ripe fruit, put in 40 pound picking bag, dump bag in bins located in orchard. -Grading-remove culls and put in 40 pound discard boxes, put good fruit in 40 pound boxes, put boxes on pallets. -Processing-press apples into apple cider. -Tractor and Forklift operation More broadly, the duties the farm supervisor will perform are as follows: - Assign work tasks, issue equipment, and communicate to coordinate overall work - Monitor crop progress and report status to farmer or farm manager - Provide training to workers on crop/farming techniques - Maintain irrigation equipment - Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs - Maintain inventory/order materials as required by farmer or farm manager - Plan/schedule work crews, equipment, or transportation for worksite(s) - Drivers license required - Repair and maintain farm vehicles, equipment, fences, and other structures. - Load agricultural products into trucks, and drive trucks to market or storage facilities. - Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting. - Direct processing of crops including grading and cider pressing. - Maintain cold room storage crop inventory inventory - Operate and maintain agricultural equipment including tractors, forklifts, tractor-drawn machinery. Worker may attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, and harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. Worker may load containers and products using forklifts Driving/trucking details: -Use 14000 GVWR straight truck to transport crops between storage facilities or to local market(s). -Use 37000 GVWR straight truck to transport crops between additional orchard property (2820 Creamery Rd) and main property with storage facility (3325 Creamery Rd).