H-2A · Agriculture

Farmworkers and Laborers

Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

D & K Harvesting Inc

Clewiston, FL — United States

Job duties

Official text in English.

D & K Harvesting attests and confirms that no workers will be charged any fee to obtain a job with the company. The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, and harvesting of citrus and celery. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting 50 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the crops grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm. Crops Contained in Request: Citrus and Celery Workers may perform the following job duties on any of the commodities listed above and various points during the duration of the contract. Citrus Harvesting Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the supervisors’ instructions, the worker will place a picking sack over their shoulder and carry a 18’ to 20’ ladder from the field truck to the particular area of the grove to be harvested. The picking sack is a canvas bag equipped with a shoulder strap for support, an opening for the insertion of fruit, and an opening to remove fruit. A fully loaded sack weighs between 80 and 100 pounds, depending on the size, condition, and variety of fruit. Worker positions ladder against the tree and within reach of the fruit in a leaning position, taking care not to break limbs, damage the tree, know off fruit, or interfere with other workers, in a secure position to prevent slipping or falling and possible injury to themselves or other workers. Workers will remove fruit from the tree and place it into a pick sack. When the pick sack is full, the worker will take the pick sack to the fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into tub. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 7 hours per day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub. Orchard Maintenance Workers involved in orchard maintenance may be required to hoe trees, girdle, spread fertilizer, pick up roots and limbs, strip suckers or unwanted growth from trees, dig root suckers, knock fruit off trees, remove vines, lay irrigation pipe, repair, and maintain drip system, drill holes in the tree trunk to insert nutrients, and strap and tie fruit trees. The employer will provide all equipment. Instructions will be given for each task and expectations will be communicated to workers. The expectations for these duties will change based on crops and weather conditions. Workers will be required to pick up and return ladders to the designated location as provided by the grower at the end of each workday or as directed by the grower or designated supervisor. BROKEN LADDERS SHOULD NOT BE USED, NOTIFY THE SUPERVISOR IMMEDIATELY IF A LADDER IS BROKEN. General Clean-up of Grove Property and Housing for Harvesting Workers Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on grove property, on structures utilized in the grove operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include the sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair; and general grove clean-up as required.

Requirements

Employer may conduct criminal background checks post-employment and at the employer's expense. Employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post-employment and at the employer's expense.

Housing

Housing is provided at no cost to workers who are not reasonably able to return the same day to their respective residences. Housing is not provided to non-workers. If both male and female workers are hired, separate toilet and shower facilities are available and will be provided by the employer. There is no family housing provided as that is not the prevailing practice. The housing is the designated pickup location. Employer owned #26-52-4126364

Transportation

After a worker has completed fifty percent of the work contract period, the employer will reimburse the worker for the cost of transportation and subsistence from the place the worker came from to the place of work, if such costs are borne by the worker.

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