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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

50

Job Duties:

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Tobacco Planting & Maintaining activities: Maintain greenhouse while tobacco plants are growing and until they are ready to be transplanted into the fields, on the transplant process workers will transplant tobacco plants into the ground by machine, once fields are planted employees will maintain fields pulling weeds that may be interfering on the tobacco growing process, workers repeatedly from time to time or as it is needed will sucker and topping tobacco plants by hand. Tobacco Harvesting: Tobacco fields will be harvested by machine and 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, sort, and bale it by filling a metal container to desired weight that will compact the leaves together into bales. Sweet Potatoes Planting, Maintaining & Hand Harvesting: Workers will cut plant from the plant beds and green house, transplant plants into the soil by hand and machine. Once fields are planted workers will maintain pulling weeds that may be interfering with the sweet potatoes maturing process. Once the sweet potatoes are ready to be harvested workers will be repeatedly walking long distances in hot or cold weather conditions, harvesting by hand sweet potatoes into buckets; these buckets will be carried to a truck in the fields with empty bin boxes. Soybean/Wheat Field Weeding: Workers will walk through the soybean fields, raking, shoveling and by hand pulling weeds that may be interfering on the crop growing process.

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. To perform any job duty that may require employees to drive any agricultural equipment vehicle, the driver must possess or obtain within 30 days a current valid driver license class C, 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 #5)

Location:

Arcadia, FL 34266

Telephone Number:

+18639904834

Worksite

Address:

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

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24038-700347

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

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

Date Posted:

2/14/2024

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