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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

8

Job Duties:

Workers are required to perform all assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor, which includes the safe operation of farm tractors, forklifts, semi-trucks, and harvest equipment. Responsibilities include moving crops, transporting supplies, and performing light mechanical maintenance on farm machinery. All drivers must maintain a valid driver’s license as required by State and Federal laws; specifically, those responsible for transporting workers must possess a valid, unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Employee Registration with appropriate driving authorization and must demonstrate the ability to safely operate transport buses. In addition to equipment operation, workers must be physically capable of reaching, bending, and lifting items weighing up to 100 pounds. When not engaged in primary transportation or machinery duties, workers will perform alternative tasks, including manual labor and general farm work. During these times, drivers may be tasked with directing and monitoring casual or seasonal help during planting and harvesting, ensuring all progress or personnel issues are reported directly to the farm manager or supervisor. Nursery Work: Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor. PROPAGATION: Workers will take cuttings from existing plants and bundle with like cuttings until targeted quantities are achieved. Workers will then stick cuttings into trays of soil or sand beds by hand. PLANTING: Workers will work on a conveyor belt to fill empty growing containers with soil mix. Workers will then set these containers down by hand on growing block (depending on container size workers may carry as many as four containers in each hand). Workers will use a drill to create a hole in the center of each can of soil, and fill each drilled hole with a plant liner, covering the hole firmly. SPACING: Using a spacing rack, workers will position container plants in a grid pattern, carrying container plants from an adjacent location on the block or using a cart or trailer to transport. SHEARING: Workers will use either hand shears or machine shears to shear the top and/or sides of the plants on a particular block location. Shearing specifications will vary by plant variety and supervisor/foreman will instruct worker of each variety needs. PULLING/LOADING: Workers will harvest container plants by loading noted varieties on trailers. Workers are responsible for ensuring correct variety and size according to pull tags and also those plants pulled are uniform in regard to height, width, etc. Workers will load harvested plants onto racks for the purpose of distribution. Plants may weigh (75 to 100Lbs). The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in a possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly. Some workers may need to drive tractors when harvesting plants. Some workers may need to drive forklifts when loading the empty and full racks of plants onto the dock and trucks. Greenhouse Tobacco- first workers will help fill tobacco trays with a composite dirt, then they will seed to the trays with tobacco seeds, and at last they will place each tray in the designated area of the greenhouse. Workers will then need to help fill the greenhouses with water and water the greenhouses as needed. When the plants have grown workers will need to help mow the plants to keep at a certain height until they are ready to be transplanted to the ground.

Job Classification:

45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning. CDL Class A or B with passenger endorsement Drivers license or an approved valid international CDL approved by US, Mexico, and Canada required by State and Federals laws, and a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization.

Number of Hours Per Week:

36

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:30 A.M. - 1:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Luis Alfonso Becerra Jr.

Location:

Arcadia, FL 34266

Worksite

Address:

179 NC 97 East, Tarboro, NC 27886

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25352-493622

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Wage applicable to foreign H-2A workers is $14.70/hr

Date Posted:

12/22/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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