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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

32

Job Duties:

Workers will be expected to perform the following: harvest squash, zucchini, corn, and okra, as well as complete assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Workers may be expected to participate in field picking and packing. Furthermore, workers will be required to pick by hand according to the criteria both described demonstrated by managers. These criteria include things such as size, color, and the maturity of the squash, zucchini, corn, and okra. Moreover, workers may also be expected to participate in field packing with duties including the following: grading and hand sorting, visual inspections, removal of debris, waste, and other foreign materials as the squash, zucchini, corn, and okra are sorted and packed by size. Workers may be asked to drive farm equipment in the field, shovel, haul, spread manure, dig holes, ditches and trenches, stake rows or tie off plants. Continuing, workers may also be asked to manually plant, cultivate, harvest, count, load, and unload vegetables (squash, zucchini, corn, and okra). Hand tools the workers may use are shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Also, workers may be asked to repair fences, farm buildings, and land improvement projects as well as clean farm equipment, as needed. Other tasks workers may perform are irrigation duties such as watering squash, zucchini, corn, green beans, and okra fields, moving and weed whacking pivots and wells, checking well dripper oil, drops and sprinklers for leaks, trimming headland tree limbs, and retrieving fertilizer tanks. This also includes cleaning and rinsing fertigation tanks between rounds, as well as assisting in the changing of draining of gearboxes, and flat tires on pivots. May drive workers to/from housing to fields and to grocery store once a week.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

See Addendum C

Number of Hours Per Week:

36

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

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

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Pride Harvesting, LLC

Company Name:

Pride Harvesting, LLC

Location:

Lehigh Acres, FL 33974

Worksite

Address:

20001 SW 344 Street, Florida City, FL 33034

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24261-344169

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

zucchini/squash .90/ per picked bucket. Estimated hourly rate $18.00 based on workers averaging 20 buckets per hour. Piece rate varies based on quality of crop. $14.77 per hour guaranteed.

Date Posted:

9/23/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.90

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