Job Information
Holmberg Orchards, Inc Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, in Gales Ferry, Connecticut
4 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 03/20/2024 - 11/07/2024.
Workers will manually plant, cultivate and harvest fruits and vegetables. Harvested fruits and vegetables shall be picked into buckets. For fruits, most of the time this is done while standing on ladders or on moving platform. Harvested fruits and vegetables shall be transferred by hand into bins box. Use of hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning shears, scissors and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and fertilizer application; transplant, weeding, thinning or pruning crops; mowing trimming invasive grass and brush within orchard, application of pesticides; cleaning, sorting, grading, packing and loading harvest products, repair of trellis and fences along with other general related orchard work. 3 months verifiable experience in fruit tree harvesting and vegetable work required. Workers must be able to lift 50 pounds, be able to communicate without line of sight and have good balance and experience working from ladders and or moving platforms.
Requirements:
- 3 months experience in duties listed
- Lifting requirement 50 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