H-2A · Agriculture

FARM LABORER

Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Lucky Harvesting, Inc.

Somerton, AZ — United States

Job duties

Official text in English.

Crops: Collards, Kale Workers will manually plant, cultivate and harvest vegetables such as: Regular Green Kale, Stemless Green kale, Collards, Organic Green kale, Organic Collards. Workers will perform a variety of duties related to the production of kale and vegetables. Workers will be required to use hand tools, such as Knives, hoes, shears, carts. Duties may include weeding, thinning, or pruning crops, cleaning, grading, sorting, packing and loading harvested products. There is a considerable amount of stooping and kneeling throughout the various tasks being performed. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. And manually remove weeds by hand or with digging tools. Workers may be asked to pack crops in totes, bins, clamshells, tie or bundle items, weigh product and load product by hand. When work is performed in the field workers must wear assigned personal protective equipment when required.Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work. In addition, workers will be required to perform every day duties applying food safety policies. Workers will also engage in maintaining the equipment, restrooms, and fields in sanitary condition by sanitizing equipment, restrooms, lunch tables, picking up packing material, boxes, labels, trash, and discard of any other unwanted items. Work will also include mechanized fieldwork using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, Trailers, forklifts. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction. Workers must be able to comprehend and follow instructions and communicate effectively to supervisors. Unusual, complex, or non-routine activities will be supervised. Field workers will be expected to perform their general duties in a timely and proficient manner without close supervision. Workers must obey all safety rules and basic instructions and be able to recognize, understand and comply with safety, pesticide warning, etc. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. This is hard, strenuous labor, under cold, wet conditions in the winter and spring.

Requirements

The job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable commercial agricultural employment experience, preferably on a vegetable farm, handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities.

Housing

Housing is only available to non-local workers (permanent residence outside normal commuting distance) and is not offered to non-working family members. Employer possesses and controls premises at all times. Female workers will be provided bedroom and bathroom facilities shared only with other female workers. Common areas of the housing may be shared with male workers. Workers must vacate housing promptly at end of contract period or upon termination, in accordance with state law.

Transportation

Employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier (e.g., van, bus, plane) transportation charges for the distances involved for both inbound and outbound transportation. Inbound transportation provided from the foreign worker's home city to the U.S. consulate and from the U.S. Consulate to the work site.

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