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Wolk's Tree Farm Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery in Drums, Pennsylvania
7 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 03/01/2024 - 11/30/2024.
Commercial tree nursery worker: Workers will perform heavy manual labor including but not limited to planting, cultivating, harvesting, pruning, applying herbicides and insecticides, and fertilizing all types of trees growing in fields. Workers will perform pinching, pruning, fertilizing, watering, rooting, weeding, loading, transporting, discarding, rotating, grading, storing, and loading and shipping field grown trees according to supervisors instructions. Harvesting includes digging up products, balling and securing delicate dirt and root systems in burlap secured with rope, pins or wire, to be stored until ready for shipment in farm staging area. Grading is done by size, shape, and quality. Products are measured and tied for storage and shipment. May deliver or assist with delivery of our plant material to customers using a single-axle delivery truck with GVWR less than 13 tons. May operate and perform minor maintenance on farm vehicles, implements or equipment. Perform farm, field and shed sanitation duties. Mow grass and operate trimmer around farm buildings. Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting. Operate farm vehicles to haul crops and drive other farmworkers from place to place around the farm properties (including on public roads to reach farmers fields) during the workday. Though not a hiring requirement, if a worker drives a company vehicle during the period of employment then at the time of operating the company vehicle the driver must possess a valid drivers license issued by a U.S. state or foreign equivalent and operate the company vehicle in accordance with the license restrictions and vehicle classifications applicable to that license. Duties performed in the field will be sporadic throughout the contract. Employer will issue appropriate Personal Protective Equipment as appropriate.
Requirements:
- 1 month experience in duties listed
- Drug Screen
- Lifting requirement 75 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive Pushing or Pulling
- Extensive sitting or walking
- Frequent stooping or bending over
- Repetitive movements
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov