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Dominic S Leonardi Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery in Pilesgrove, New Jersey
8 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 05/17/2024 - 10/25/2024.
Job Duties [A.8a] Crops: Squash (yellow, green, spaghetti, butternut), cucumbers, pickles, string beans, peppers, and cabbage. Workers will perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, harvest, grade, pack and load employers crops by hand and machine. Workers will transplant crops into the ground and cover the root of the plant with soil in assigned rows in the field either by trans planter machine or while bending and stopping to carefully place the trans planter machine or while bending and stopping to carefully place the transplant into pre-dug holes and covering roots with soil. Vegetables will be manually harvested by either picking into baskets, carrying full baskets to dumpers riding on trailers moving alongside rows, and dumping into bins, or by picking and placing sorted produce into boxes, and stacking full boxes onto the trailers. Workers will lay, tuck and/or remove plastic, clean plastic of debris. Participate in irrigation activities including setting up, repairing, operating and maintaining drip and other irrigation equipment. Manually pull weeds and remove used stakes and string. Stake, string, tie sucker, thin and prune crops. Remove or clean plant debris or vines from the ground. Use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning, hooks, machetes, hoes and knives. Till soil. Clear and maintain fields and irrigation ditches. Works must select harvestable produce based on correct size, maturity, and quality. Workers will not break skin, damage, drop or bruise produce, or leave any appropriate produce on the plant during harvest.
Requirements:
- 3 months experience in duties listed
- Drug Screen
- 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