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Field Worker: Strawberry Harvester (Ground & Harvest Aid)
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 17
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 39
- Wage: 16.9 USD / Hour
- OFLC Certification: ACCEPTED - PENDING RECRUITMENT
- Start date: 04/26/2026
- End date: 06/11/2026
- Process date: 03/15/2026 21:00:00
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Job duties - description of the specific services or labor to be performed: Employee picks strawberries in varying weather conditions, while adhering to quality and standards determined by company, using physical body motions, including picking fruit, pushing carts and carrying cardboard crates (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 harvest strawberries using the harvest aid. The employee harvests by walking behind the harvest aid as the harvest aid moves across the row from one end to the other. When the employee completes a crate, he/she places the full crate on a platform on the harvest aid and begins a new one. 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 the crown from the berry. When working with the harvest aid or ground crew, the employee is required to work as part of a team of harvesters and team members must coordinate with each other to complete the harvest process each day. Harvest ground crews work individually. The aid harvest team is able to control the speed at which the harvest aid moves across the field. Employee will be responsible for ensuring the quality of the harvested strawberries meets quality and inspection requirements. Employees will also be responsible for cleaning the field and discarding all fruit from the furrow that does not meet Driscoll’s quality 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,. 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. 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. Open 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 open road that separates each harvesting block where the picking trailers will be parked. Open entry way for furrows by cleaning out/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. Employees engaging in hand weeding, hand thinning, 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.