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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

5

Job Duties:

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Sweet Potatoes and vegetable hand picking: Workers will transplant, pull weeds, and harvest sweet potatoes in the fields indicated. Transplanting sweet potatoes plants into the soil by hand and machine. Pulling weeds by hand in sweet potatoes fields. The worker will pick the potatoes up by hand into buckets. These buckets will be carries to a truck in the fields with empty bin boxes. Walking long distances, in hot or cold weather conditions. Tobacco Planting: Transplanting tobacco plants into the ground by hand. Suckering and Topping tobacco by hand. Worker will remove the tobacco plant from trays by hand and drop it in the ground. Remove weed by hand from the tobacco fields along with any suckers that might be growing in the plant. Tobacco Harvesting: Harvest tobacco by hand (workers will pull 3 or 4 leaves at a time from each plant and put it in a trailer.) Once it reaches the barn, the worker will place the tobacco in boxes to prepare for the heating process. After the curing process, the worker will remove the tobacco and bale it by filling a metal container to desired weight that will compact the leaves together into bales. Bucket Unloading: Worker will be standing inside the plastic or wood boxes and receiving full buckets of sweet potatoes from the other workers that harvesting and unloading buckets full of sweet potatoes into the plastic or wood boxes. Workers are required to lift and carry at least 35 pounds. Soybean/Wheat Field Weeding: Workers will walk through the soybean fields, raking, shoveling, hand pulling weeds. Weeds are left in the field, not put in containers. Operating Agricultural Equipment: Duties may vary from time to time. Applicants must be 18 years or older. Following the Supervisor’s instructions, the workers will operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production in the fields to seed, and haul tools, plants, weeds, fruits, vegetables, and water for the crops. The agricultural equipment to be operated includes, but is not limited to, heavy farm water trucks or semis used to haul water tanks to and from the farms.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

1

Special Requirements:

EB Harvesting may conduct a Drug/Alcohol test or conduct a criminal background post-employment at the employer's expense. Per the Department of Labor O-Net survey for job code 45.2092.02, Job Zone 1, SVP <4.0, the employer requires 1 month verifiable harvesting experience. Workers must have a valid drivers license or obtain one within 30 days. To perform any job duty that may require employees to drive any agricultural equipment vehicle, the driver must possess proper and current valid driver license class C as it is required in North Carolina, or its foreign equivalent.

Number of Hours Per Week:

36

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

EB Harvesting LLC (NC #3)

Location:

Arcadia, FL 34266

Worksite

Address:

Jeff Barnes LLC- 3314 E Hwy 42 W, Wilson , NC 27893

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24018-650527

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Sweet Potato Harvesting - $0.50 per bucket. Estimated hourly wage equivalent is $18.00 or 36 buckets per hour. $15.81 per hour guaranteed.

Date Posted:

2/9/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.50

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