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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

5

Job Duties:

Crops/Commodities: Fruits and vegetables. This job requires a minimum of three months of prior experience working in a vegetable or fruit farm. Workers must be able to perform all duties of entry level workers as well as perform additional mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Applicants must be able to furnish verbal or written statement establishing relevant prior work experience. Plants, cultivates, harvests and packs vegetables and fruit. Works on planter, plants roots, seeds, and bulbs. Workers may spread or remove plastic or other groundcovering and drip tape from fields. Weeds, thins, plants. Transplants plants, riding on transplanter or by hand. May set poles and wires for vine plants. Workers must also stake/tie plants. Workers will trellis and prune plants. Picks, cuts, lifts, or pulls crops to harvest them. May tie vegetables in bunches or top them. Considerable stooping and kneeling is required. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. May assist with irrigation; apply agricultural chemicals: herbicides and insecticides and applying fertilizer. May operate and help maintain tractors or hand-operated equipment. May assist with general farm building maintenance. Work is to be done in the field for long periods of time. Workers are expected to perform duties including boxing, weighing and loading of produce. Workers may assist in loading trucks with products weighing up to and including 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers' ability to perform the job. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day, working in fields. Temperatures may range from 10 to 100 F. Workers will be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs. In addition, workers may be required to perform variable tasks such as the following: irrigation, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, weeding and other tasks related to a farming operation. Work may also include mechanized field work using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators and other equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction. Employer assures that workers will be provided transportation from living quarters to work site every day (for workers who must be provided housing under the applicable regulations). Employer-paid post-hire drug testing is required upon reasonable suspicion of use. Persons seeking employment as experienced Farm Worker must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Raises and/or bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker employed pursuant to this job order, at the company's sole discretion, based on individual factors including work performance, skill, and tenure. All terms and conditions included in the job order will apply equally to all workers, both U.S. workers and H-2A workers, employed in the occupation described in this clearance order. Employer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

This job requires a minimum of three months of prior experience working in a vegetable or fruit farm. Applicants must be able to furnish verbal or written statement establishing relevant prior work experience. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs. Employer-paid post-hire drug testing is required upon reasonable suspicion of use.

Number of Hours Per Week:

38

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

6:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

New Century CSA, LLC

Location:

Circleville, OH 43113

Worksite

Address:

7370 Bell Station Rd., Circleville, OH 43113

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25006-595650

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Green beans, Green beans - at least $12.00 per bushel. The average worker can pick one bushel in 35 minutes resulting in an average hourly rate of $20.57/hour.

Date Posted:

1/14/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$12.00

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