Job details

Farm Utility Worker

• Country: United States
• Visa type: H-2A
• Job ID: H-300-25139-989899 (Open on offer list)
• Employer name: Confidential
• Employees needed: 35
• E-mail (employer): Confidential
• E-mail (agent): Confidential
• Phone: Confidential
  
  
  
  
• Agent phone: Confidential
  
  
  
  
• Working hours per week: 40
• Wage: 16.23 USD / Hour
• Start date: 07/31/2025
• End date: 12/13/2025
• Process date: 05/28/2025 08:28:12
• Submit date: Confidential
• Offer description:

  Job Description The Farm Utility Worker position includes the planting, growing, maintenance, and packing of plant material. All workers are required to adhere to important safety, quality and production standards alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers. Primary Responsibilities include: • Accurately and quickly planting young plant material (plugs or liners) while on potting line conveyor • Accurately and quickly pruning plant material to designated specifications • Applying cares tags and bar codes • Assembling, disassembling and/or repairing shipping racks for use or storage • Assembling and/or moving plant material on shipping trays • Applying fertilizer • Unloading trucks and rearranging racks with or without plant material • Pulling, loading, offloading and/or consolidating plant material (plants, plugs or liners) to/from field or production barn as needed and according to job orders and instructions • Repairing and maintaining production and non-production areas such as ground cover repair, grass trimming and weeding at times using mower or gas-powered trimmers • Re-spacing, spreading, consolidating or dumping plant material according to task/job orders • Executing task work orders and documenting quantities and the status of completion • Performing general housekeeping duties such as sweeping, mopping, and picking up trash or debris around the farm • Weeding plant material • Identifying and reporting plant quality issues including removing debris, dirt or poor-quality foliage prior to shipping • Operating or working on production line using soil mixers, flat fillers, conveyors, and potting machines • Replacing plant containers as needed prior to shipping • Placing lot tags in production lots • Pruning or trimming plants as instructed by a grower using pruning shears, scissors, or mechanical trimming equipment • Operating a forklift, farm tractor, golf cart and/or electric tug Additional Responsibilities include: • Monitoring soil moisture levels and evaluating environmental factors in order to create and execute an irrigation plan • Performing basic preventive maintenance or minor repairs of farm equipment such as tractors, golf carts, sanitation and/or irrigation equipment such as hoses, water breakers, fog lines, drip lines, sprinkle heads, and wands . Incidental maintenance of equipment and buildings. • Opening and/or closing of shade/greenhouses according to schedule • Installing and/or removing winter plastic • Maintaining and cleaning farm drainage ditches and roadways • Using and maintaining spray equipment as needed to apply fertilizer or other chemicals as may be required • Placing or stacking pots • Properly mixing, measuring, and applying a wide range of pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides in order to execute work orders for sprays and drenches • Repairing or replacing benches and/or growing structures • Operating a front-end loader or bobcat • Staging production items including coconut coir, hydra fiber (wood fiber) and chemicals • Transporting hard goods (pots, trays, tags, etc.) to correct farm location

Copy link