Job Information
NJ Employer Farmworker in South Harrison, New Jersey
Anticipated period of employment: 04/08/2024 to 10/14/2024
All applicants must have at least 3 months experience hand harvesting a perishable crop.
Crops: Asparagus, Squash (summer & winter), Cucumbers, Pickles, Peppers, Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Okra, Turnips, Radish and Kale. Workers will perform manual labor to plant, cultivate, harvest, grad, pack and load products. Harvest will be done 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 transplanter machine or while bending and stooping to carefully place the transplants into pre-dug holes and covering roots with soil. Vegetables will manually harvest 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. 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. Workers will remove or clean plant debris or vines from the ground. Workers will use hand tools such as shovels, tampers, pruning hooks, machetes, hoes, and knives. Works will till soil. Clear and maintain fields and irrigation ditches. Workers must select harvestable produce based on correct size, maturity and quality. Workers will not break skin, damage, drop and bruise produce, or leave any appropriate product on the plant during harvest
See ETA 790 for a complete job description.
Interested candidates should contact their local State Workforce Office to receive a copy of the ETA790 and applicable attachments. Workers should be fully apprised by their local employment office of the terms, conditions, and nature of employment prior to referral. Once the applicant has a copy of the job order they may call or email employer to schedule an interview Monday-Thursday from 8:00am to 3:00pm.
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