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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

28

Job Duties:

Blueberry machine harvester: Perform manual labor on a mechanical blueberry harvester, packing blueberries, hoeing and pulling weeds. Machine harvester workers must handle and sort berries on machine. Grade, sort, or classify berries by size, weight, color, or condition. May prune and remove debris/brush. May cut limbs, pile sticks, pickup roots, and burn debris. THIS JOB DOES NOT INCLUDE HAND-HARVESTING BLUEBERRIES. Prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-hire and is not a part of the interview process. Negative result may be required post-hire and before commencing work. Must be able to lift and carry 75 lbs. repetitively throughout the workday. Must not hinder another worker’s productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Though not a hiring requirement, if a worker drives a company vehicle during the period of employment then at the time of operating the company vehicle the driver must possess a valid driver’s license issued by a U.S. state or foreign equivalent and operate the company vehicle in accordance with the license restrictions and vehicle classifications applicable to that license. Requires one month verifiable prior work experience machine harvesting blueberries. Packing shed duties include dumping berries on packing line, picking out bad fruit, placing packaged berry containers in boxes, stacking and palletizing boxed fruit, making boxes by hand or with box maker. May operate fork lift or electric pallet jack. Pay station duties include operating box truck, operating scanners to scan field worker badges, dumping picked berries from buckets to lugs, weighing berries, handing field worker receipt from scanner, palletizing lugs, and transporting berries from field to packing shed. All workers are required to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly important when touching crops for human consumption. Workers are required to cleanse their hands by washing thoroughly with soap and water before entering field for harvest activities and after each break. Smoking and the use of tobacco products prohibited during working time. Workers may be required to perform work that is incidental to farming the crops listed in the application. All other duties, if any assigned, will be those duties of Farm Worker, Diversified Crops, DOT code 407.687-010 (SOC (ONET/OES) code 45-2092.02). This is a very demanding and competitive business in which quality specifications must be rigorously adhered to. Sloppy work cannot and will not be tolerated. The worker understands that if he abandons his employment or is terminated for cause prior to the end of the anticipated period of employment, the worker will forfeit the ¾ guarantee and reimbursement of certain transportation costs. Excessive absences and/or tardiness cannot be tolerated and may result in termination. Daily individual work assignments, crew assignments, and location of work will be made by and at the sole discretion of the employer and/or worker’s supervisor. Workers may be assigned a variety of duties in any given day and/or different tasks on different days. Workers will be expected to perform any of the listed duties and work on any crop as assigned by the employer and/or worker’s supervisor.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

1

Special Requirements:

Prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-hire and is not a part of the interview process. Negative result may be required post-hire and before commencing work. Must be able to lift 75 lbs. to shoulder height repetitively throughout the workday and able to lift and carry 75 lbs. in field. Must not hinder another workers productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination. Requires one month verifiable prior farmworker experience in the crop activities listed.

Number of Hours Per Week:

54

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Legacy Blueberry Farms, Inc.

Location:

Ivanhoe, NC 28447

Worksite

Address:

493 Lake Creek Farm Ln, Ivanhoe, NC 28447

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-23040-763064

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

2/17/2023

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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