Campus Pride Jobs

6 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 03/25/2024 - 11/16/2024.

Crops/Commodities: Assorted organic vegetables and fruits, including strawberries and melons, herbs, and flowers. This job requires a minimum of three months of prior verifiable agricultural field work employment experience handling both manual and machine tasks associated with vegetable production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Plants, cultivates, harvests a variety of organic vegetables, fruits (strawberries and melons), herbs and flowers, in fields and greenhouses. Washes, field grades and packs vegetables, fruits (strawberries and melons), herbs and flowers. Cultivates, hand weeds and thins plants. Plants transplants plants, riding on transplanter or by hand. Picks, cuts, lifts, or pulls crop to harvest them. Harvests crops into crates bins boxes or onto a conveyor belt. Loads seedlings and crops onto wagons and trucks. Assists with irrigation installation and removal, moving irrigation pipe by hand. Washes harvest bins and empty seedling flats. May spread or remove plastic or other ground covering, move and lay hoops, bags, and floating row covers. May stake tie plants, trellis prune plants, and set poles and wires for vine plants. May be required to shovel, hoe, rake, spread compost, straw, leaves, fertilizer.

Considerable stooping and kneeling is required. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. May operate hand-operated equipment. May assist with general farm building maintenance and greenhouse preparation. Employees will receive instruction from supervisor, and will be required to maintain standards of quality, speed and efficiency, as well as respectfully follow directions. Must harvest crops according to predetermined customer specific count, quality and bunch size, and follow good agricultural practices.Workers must follow all food safety standards. Workers must be able to distinguish horticultural plants from weeds.

In addition, workers may be required to perform variable tasks such as the following: irrigation, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation and other tasks related to general farming.

Requirements:

3 months experience in duties listed Lifting requirement 60 lbs. Exposure to extreme temperatures 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