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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

167

Job Duties:

The job requires a minimum of three months experience in tasks associated with farm experience. The job requires extensive standing and walking. Workers are frequently required to use their hands and arms to handle, feel, reach, climb or balance. Workers are occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl under trellis wires. Workers must be able to lift/carry up to 60 lbs. throughout the course of the day. Thinning: Thinning is a manual process used as part of orchard maintenance to control the size and quality of grown fruit. All workers will be provided appropriate training to supervisors to ensure proper techniques for thinning are utilized. Workers must have the ability to pick up, use and safety handle a 16-foot orchard ladder weighing approximately 40 pounds to perform thinning tasks. Thinning requires the worker to remove, in some cases but not limited to, the smallest fruit from within a cluster of other fruits. Workers will be expected to be able to identify and remove fruit that is misshapen, damaged and/or with other quality problems as directed by supervisors. Pruning: Workers may be required to prune numerous varieties of apple trees according to established company procedures based on the difference in the treatment of different varieties. Workers are required to possess or acquire pruning skills to be able to correctly identify and remove branches which rub against each other, downward-growing branches, shaded interior branches, stubs or broken branches, dead wood and shoots/suckers and selectively remove diseased limbs and branches due to fire blight and/or bacterial canker with hand pruning saws and clippers, and pole pruners. Such pruning may occasionally require workers to use chain saws or other mechanized equipment.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Drug/Alcohol Testing: Alta Citrus may conduct a drug/alcohol test at the employer's expense on all new applicants post-employment.

Number of Hours Per Week:

36

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

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

Employer Information

Company Name:

ALTA Citrus, LLC (MI Apples #2)

Location:

Avon Park, FL 33826

Worksite

Address:

EDS Schoenborn Orchards, LLC 2270 Coolidge Street, Conklin, MI 49403

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24179-154170

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Apple Harvest (fresh): $0.70 per bushel (minimum 10.36 bushels per hour); Estimated hourly wage rate equivalent is $22.40, or 32 units per hour. $18.50 per hour guaranteed.

Date Posted:

7/9/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.70

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