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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

106

Job Duties:

This order covers hand harvesting cucumbers, hand harvesting blueberries, mechanically harvesting blueberries, hand harvesting apples, hand harvesting pears, packing cucumbers, packing blueberries, pruning apples, pruning pears, pruning blueberries, and thinning apples. Plastic maintenance/repair and removal. Workers are designated seasonal employees. Sanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations. All workers must report all injuries and illnesses to their employer. As well as any communicable disease such as but not limited to diarrhea, or any other infectious disease or illness. Workers shall report immediately any cuts or abrasions that cause open bleeding. Cucumber Harvesting & Packing: Move along row, stoop, and bend over to pick all cucumbers in the size range specified by the supervisor, being careful to not damage or puncture plastic. Discard all jumbo/oversized cucumbers as specified by the supervisor in the row middle and place desirable cucumbers in a bucket. Workers will carry full buckets, weighing approximately fifty (50) lbs. to a nearby trailer for dumping. When the containers on the trailer are full, the trailer is driven to the unloading area specified for that field. The workers will be given a voucher for the filled container or containers. Worker must be careful to avoid damaging vines, blooms, and smaller cucumbers. Workers must "clean the vines"(pick all cucumbers of marketable size) and larger as specified by the supervisor. It is extremely important that the workers do not remove the undersized cucumbers. Workers will be required to stay on their assigned row. Workers must take care at all times not to bruise, scrape, or drop any cucumbers.

Job Classification:

45-2092.02 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

All applicants must have at least 3 months verifiable experience hand harvesting vegetables, blueberries, and tree fruit on a commercial farm. Applicants must be able to furnish affirmative job references from recent employers operating comparable operations establishing acceptable previous experience. Must be physically able to meet and perform all job specifications stated in job order. Must be able to work in the hot humid weather for extended periods of time. Workers are subject to random drug testing at no cost to the employee. All drug testing will occur after the worker begins his or her employment and is not a part of the interview process. Failing or refusing a drug test will result in immediate termination.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Lakeshore Homestead

Location:

South Haven, MI 49090

Worksite

Address:

6679 111th Ave, South Haven, MI 49090

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-21105-226551

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

4/29/2021

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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