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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

200

Job Duties:

Watermelon - Duties may vary from time to time. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Perform manual labor. Workers will harvest, cultivate, cut, pick, and field pack watermelons in the field. Duties include cleaning, loading, and unloading harvested products. Grade and sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel, and quality to ensure correct processing and usage. 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. Measure, weigh, and count products and materials. Examine and inspect containers, materials, and products to ensure that packing specifications are met. Workers must perform manual labor to pull plastic from the fields and load onto a trailer. Removal of irrigation equipment. Clean and maintain work area and all tools and containers. Vegetables: Workers will harvest vegetables such as tomatoes, bell peppers, and cucumbers as well as cantaloupe and other fruits and vegetables. Shovel, haul, spread manure, dig holes, ditches, and trenches. Manually plants, cultivate, harvest, count, load and unload vegetables, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Workers will field pick and pack vegetables in the field. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include applying fertilizers, transplanting, pulling weeds, raking, cleaning around shed area, thinning or pruning crops, cleaning, grading, and packing harvested products. Workers will also do staking, tying, loading, removing, and unloading of stakes. May do minor repairs to fences and farm buildings and participate in irrigation activities. Duties will also include operating forklift, assisting with minor repairs and maintenance, and pulling weeds.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Must be 18 years or older. The employer may conduct a criminal background check on all new applicants for employment at the owner's expense. Must assist with all Good Agricultural Practices policies. Three months experience in watermelon harvesting. Most of the workday is spent on one's feet and outdoors. Workers may stand in one place for any period of time. Workers must be able to climb, stand, sit, stoop, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, and lift 10-100 lbs. Work is performed in outdoor agricultural fields and involves exposure to sun, wind, rain, soil, mud, dust, heat, cold, and other natural elements. Workers must be able to withstand working in the direct sunlight and weather conditions ranging from hot and humid weather, moderate rain and cold while performing their required job duties. Workers should expect periods of little/no work during harvesting time due to uncontrollable weather conditions.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

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

Employer Information

Company Name:

Anzualda Harvesting, Inc. Petition 2

Location:

Immokalee, FL 34142

Worksite

Address:

B & H Farms, LLC: 21265 Shoults Grade, Immokalee, FL 34142

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24164-103450

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Workers will be paid a piece rate of $_100.00_ per bus to cut watermelon. A worker will unload an average of 1.19 buses per hour at an estimated hourly rate of $14.88. Guaranteed rate of $14.77. (8_Workers)

Date Posted:

7/10/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$100.00

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