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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

7

Job Duties:

Perform manual labor to cultivate and harvest peaches, apples, pears, persimmons, and harvest strawberries. Ongoing orchard maintenance including pruning and thinning. Clean, grade, sort, pack, and load harvested product. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Till soil. Transplant and weed crops. Construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities. Harvest fruits by hand. Grade and sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel, smell, and quality to ensure correct processing and usage. Workers must use care when grading and packing not to damage or bruise produce. Discard inferior or defective products and/or foreign matter, and place acceptable products in containers for further processing. Weigh products or estimate their weight, visually or by feel. Place products in containers according to grade and mark grades on containers. Workers must keep up with fellow workers while grading and harvesting fruit as fruit truck drives down rows. Workers will assemble boxes. As a minor activity, workers may plant trees or operate agricultural equipment. Workers must have a general understanding of how pruning affects competition with fruiting wood and how thinning is done to provide nutrition to the developing fruit. Improper pruning can cause problems with fruit load, fruit size, disease severity, and overall production. Workers are also responsible for orchard sanitation duties including picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, and sweeping floors. Assist with Good Agricultural Practices policies. Using the employer's vehicles, licensed drivers may transport workers and may be offered additional hours. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer reserves the right to discharge an obviously unqualified worker, malingerer or recalcitrant worker who is physically able but is unwilling to perform the work necessary for the employer to grow a premium quality product, or for any other lawful reason. Employer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays. Workers will have an unpaid lunch break. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time. TERMINATION. All workers will be subject to a 2 day introductory period, during which the employer will evaluate workers' performance of required tasks. Employer reserves the right to terminate a worker at the conclusion of the 2 day introductory period if the worker's performance fails to satisfy the employer's reasonable expectations, or is otherwise unacceptable. Employer may terminate a worker for lawful job-related reasons, including but not limited to situations in which the worker: (1) Is repeatedly absent or tardy; (2) malingers or otherwise refuses, without cause, to perform the work as directed; (3) commits act(s) of misconduct or repeatedly violates the Work Rules; and/or (4) fails, after completing the 2 day introductory period, to perform work in a competent and skillful manner, consistent with the employer's reasonable expectations. Non-U.S. workers may be displaced as a result of one or more U.S. workers becoming available for the job during the employer's recruitment period. Job abandonment will be deemed to occur after five consecutive workdays of unexcused absences. Workers may not report for work under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Job Classification:

45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

1

Special Requirements:

One month of farm work experience required. Work outside in inclement weather conditions including rain and extreme temperatures ranging from 32 to 100+ degrees. Perform prolonged walking, reaching, stooping, pushing, pulling, lifting and carrying of up to 50 lbs. Use an 8 ft. ladder while pruning fruit trees above head. Drug testing is conducted post-hire at the employer's expense and is not part of the interview process. Negative results are required before starting work.

Number of Hours Per Week:

45

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

6:00 A.M. - 2:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Mountain View Orchards, LLC

Location:

Jemison, AL 35085

Worksite

Address:

16045 County Road 29, Jemison, AL 35085

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-23004-680962

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

1/20/2023

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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