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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: 199
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 35
- Wage: 17.13 USD / Hour
- Start date: 02/02/2026
- End date: 11/15/2026
- Process date: 01/09/2026 16:59:55
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
GENERAL CONDITIONS: Field work begins at assigned time shortly after daylight. Work may be performed during light rain and in high humidity and in freezing or high heat temperatures. The worker may be required to work in the orchard when trees are wet with dew/rain and should have suitable clothing and footwear for variable weather conditions. Specific Job Requirements: Thinning: Thinning is a manual process performed to regulate the size, quality, and quantity of developing fruit. The Worker must possess the ability to pick up and handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing up to 40 pounds. The Worker must also be able to safely use scissor-type hand clippers as required. Thinning duties require the Worker to remove fruit, including but not limited to the smallest fruit blossom, bud, or other identifiable fruit within a cluster. The Worker must be able to identify and remove fruit that is misshapen, damaged, diseased, or that otherwise fails to meet quality standards as directed by the employer or designated supervisors. Thinning may be performed from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or a ladder. The Worker must perform all duties safely, efficiently, and according to employer-provided instruction. Training: Training is a process in which fruit trees are manipulated to increase yield and/or quality. The Worker must possess the ability to pick up and handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing up to 40 pounds. Training may be performed from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or a ladder. Training duties include, but are not limited to: tying, taping, or clipping apple, pear, or cherry limbs to wires; tying limbs up or down; positioning and training limbs of apple, pear, and cherry trees; shoot thinning; sucker removal; cluster thinning; shoot positioning; hedging; leaf removal; and propping and supporting apple, pear, and cherry trees. The Worker must follow all employer instructions and perform tasks in a safe and efficient manner. Pruning: Pruning numerous varieties of apple, cherry, and pear trees according to established company procedures based on the difference in the treatment of the varieties. Work will be performed on ladders for long periods of time using a variety of pruning equipment including but not limited to hand shears, hand loppers, hand saws. Furthermore, the worker must possess ability to pick-up, handle a 10 ft or 12 ft orchard ladder weighing 40 lbs. Pruning may be done from the ground or a ladder up to 12 feet in height or a motorized platform. The Worker may be required to selectively prune only trees of a certain size and color as instructed by the crew supervisor. The Worker is expected to possess or acquire pruning skills in order to identify and remove stubs or broken branches, downward-growing branches, branches which rub against each other, shaded interior branches, dead wood and shoots/suckers with hand pruning saws and clippers, mechanized equipment in pruning activities. Grape harvest: Workers will hand or machine harvest wine grapes. Worker will harvest numerous varieties of grapes according to established company procedures accounting for difference in the treatment of different varieties. When asked by Supervisor, Worker will operate grape harvesting machine. The fruit will be placed on either a plastic tub or stainless steel bin. Care must be exercised at all time to prevent breaking of vineyards and to maximize the quality of the fruit. Some workers may be required to examine harvested fruit in bins and sort out any fruit not meeting the grade, color, and size specifications. The workers will care for young, non-producing grape vines, including but not limited to planting, pruning, training, tying and thinning grape vines.