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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

9

Job Duties:

Duties will include operation of farm equipment including, but not limited to, tractors with various implements, sprayers, combines, and trucks to prepare and maintain land and irrigate, fertilize, cultivate, plant, harvest, sort, grade, pack, load, and transport horticultural plants; also perform repair and maintenance on farm equipment when required. Use hand tools, such as but not limited to shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Transplant, weed, thin and prune plants; apply pesticides; detect the presence of insects or disease; inform farmers or farm managers of crop/plant progress. Record information about plants and plant growth. Transplant or pot and label plants; work in nursery facilities. Regulate greenhouse conditions and participate in irrigation activities such as maintaining, repairing, and operating irrigation equipment, set up and/or maintain a ridge of earth around fields to maintain an adequate water supply, drain excess water from fields; create openings for drainage overfill; walk each field to check for standing water. Perform sanitation duties that will include removing trash or debris from work areas, farm buildings, and fields; assist in upkeep of sanitation standards required by OSHA such as change potable water quality when necessary; keep hand-washing facilities neat and orderly, clean toilet area of any personal contaminates, and proper disposal of trash or garbage from the facilities. Mow grass around fields and around farm shop locations; dig ditches or channels for drainage or seedlings. Construct trellises, repair farm buildings, or other structures as well as using hand tools to perform maintenance or repairs to fencing (barrier, railing, or other upright structure) around fields and around farm. There are few typical days and workers may be required to change duties and/or locations often and engage in various general functions. All other duties, if assigned, will be duties as per SOC/OES Occupation Code (onetonline.org)

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

Once hired worker may be required to submit to a random drug test at no cost to worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. The employer may terminate a worker if a worker: refuses without justified cause to perform work for which the worker was recruited and hired; or commits a serious act of misconduct; or fails, after completing any training period, to be able to perform all of the tasks described in the job order. If the worker voluntarily abandons employment before the end of the contract period or is terminated for cause, and the employer notifies the SWA, DOL, and USCIS in the case of an H2A worker, the employer will not be responsible for providing or paying for the subsequent transportation and subsistence expenses of that worker, and the worker is not entitled to the three-fourths guarantee.

Number of Hours Per Week:

35

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Rayco Trees

Company Name:

Rocky Ray

Location:

Glenmora, LA 71433

Worksite

Address:

263 McNary Cutoff Road, Glenmora, LA 71433

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24214-237795

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

per 3 Gallon Bucket: Trees/Hardwood Shrubs (minimum 74 gallons per hour). Estimated hourly wage rate equivalent is $14.80. $14.53 per hour guaranteed.

Date Posted:

8/6/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.20

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