12 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 03/26/2024- 11/15/24.

Crops/Commodities: Vegetables and melons, including, but not limited to sweet corn, pumpkins, broccoli, and cauliflower. This job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable prior experience working on a vegetable/melon farm handling both machine and manual tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities.

Workers must be able to safely perform all duties, manual as well as mechanized, with accuracy and efficiency. Plants, cultivates, harvests and packs vegetables. Works on planter, plants roots, seeds, and bulbs. Workers may spread or remove plastic or other ground covering and drip tape from fields.

Weeds, thins, plants . Transplants plants, riding on transplanter or by hand. May set poles and wires for vine plants. Workers must also stake ie plants. Workers will trellis and prune plants. Picks, cuts, lifts, or pulls crops to harvest them. May tie vegetables in bunches or top them. Considerable stooping and kneeling is required. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. May assist with irrigation; apply agricultural chemicals: herbicides and insecticides and applying fertilizer. May operate and help maintain tractors or hand-operated equipment. Clear debris from field and clean/maintain farm buildings, structures, equipment, and work areas. Assist with farm and field maintenance and repairs.

Work may also include mechanized field work using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators and other farm and packing house equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction.

Requirements:

• 3 months experience in duties listed
• Lifting requirement 60 lbs.
• Exposure to extreme temperatures
• Extensive pushing or pulling, 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