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Farmworkers and Laborers
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 22
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 36
- Wage: 16.83 USD / Hour
- Start date: 06/16/2025
- End date: 11/01/2025
- Process date: 04/22/2025 13:35:30
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
The farm work position includes duties associated with the cultivating, harvesting, distribution and packing of strawberry plants. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 25 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on size, coloring, and ripeness according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the fresh produce grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm. Plastic and Drip Irrigation: Workers will help install black plastic and drip irrigation on rows in the field being careful to cover all of the exposed edges of plastic cover with soil and being careful not to tear or punch holes in plastic. Workers may be asked to utilize implements associated with the installation of the plastic row covers incidental to performing required tasks on the ground. Workers will pick up by hand, band strawberry plants, box and load register non-dormant plants. Workers will pick up strawberry plants, box and load register dormant plants. Workers will cut the tips of strawberry plants, box and load onto trailer. Workers will cut the tips of strawberry plants, box and place in trays. Strawberry Field Maintenance: Removing weeds, cutting runners, cutting leaves, fixing row beds, removing plastic and drip tape, Etc. When packing is completed, the workers will assist in removing the berry plants from the plastic and prepare for planting the next crop. In some instances, workers may be required to remove the plastic and drip irrigation tape from the row and load on the trucks for removal from field. Loading & Unloading: Workers will be required to load and unload produce for sale at markets. Workers must take care when handling produce to not drop, damage, or scar produce. Wheel and/or cooler door chocks must be used at all times. Farm, Field and Shed Sanitation: Workers may be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping and mopping floors, cleaning packing line equipment and other similar farm and shed sanitation as part of SOPs and SSOPs within Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), Good Handling Practices (GHPs), and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for Food Safety. This includes personal hygiene and handling the fruit in the field and shed with an emphasis on food safety, sanitizing all harvesting and packing equipment and keeping the fields and shed as clean as possible. For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations.