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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

6

Job Duties:

CHRISTMAS TREE OPERATIONS: Lift and carry 80-pound trees continuously throughout the day and after dark with lighting provided. Cut trees using hand saw or chainsaw. Bundle trees, prepare for transport, and load them into containers. Field work and clean up. Maintain a safe and healthy work area and report any safety concerns to the supervisor. Other job specifications include: 1. Workers will perform maintenance in Christmas tree fields and related product grown for Christmas sales fields including cone picking, weeding, hoeing with long-handled hoes, trunk painting, spreading fertilizer, culturing Christmas trees, base pruning and tagging Christmas trees. 2. Workers must be able to use hand pruners, machetes and other hand tools involved with the harvesting and culturing of Christmas trees. 3. Christmas tree/related produce operations, workers must harvest/cut full-grown trees/product, lift, and carry trees up to 80 pounds, and load them into a container, continuously throughout the day. 4. Provide general labor to assist in planting new trees by clearing property, planting seedlings, assembling trellises, installing irrigation, spreading of composted material and other labor considered necessary to develop new properties. 5. Cares for trees during the growing process - recognize tree diseases. 6. Farm clean up tasks include picking up garbage around the field and harvest landings and cutting and burning unmarketable trees located in clear-cut sections. 7. Spot weed spraying, Limb removal, hoeing weeds, maintaining areas at the Shop, Office, or Housing. 8. Maintain a safe and healthy work area and report any safety concerns to the supervisor. Workers may also: 1. Utilize tractors to haul harvested trees, cones, foliage, and crops 2. Mix and apply chemicals and fertilizers 3. Operate trucks on farm to carry farm equipment to worksites, move freshly harvested trees and crops. Basic maintenance of agricultural equipment. 5. Put crops into boxes, gaylord containers, and trucks. 6. Operate farm equipment used to produce and harvest Christmas trees/related products. This would include balers, elevators, small tractors, packaging equipment and other automated devices. Workers who possess a valid driver’s license and meet all applicable legal requirements, including holding a doctor’s certificate as required by 29 CFR § 500.105, may be asked to drive vehicles for transporting workers, goods, or commodities. This task is voluntary, compensable, and not a mandatory job duty. Workers without a valid driver’s license or doctor’s certificate will still be fully eligible for employment and are not disqualified from any other job responsibilities outlined in this application. POTATO OPERATIONS: 1. Operate a pressure washer to wash buildings, equipment and vehicles. 2. Provide general labor to assist in grading and sorting potatoes in the potato house. 3. Operate farm trucks and pickups to carry crops and farm workers to and from the field. 4. Operate lawn mowers and weed whackers to mow lawns and trim up grass around buildings, fields, and equipment. 5. Lift bags of potatoes ranging from 5 lbs. up to 50 lbs. 6. Operate a forklift and/or skid steer to move pallets and boxes around the farm dooryard and buildings. 7. Operate a bin piler used to fill trucks and fill the potato house. 8. General clean up including shoveling and sweeping dirt and debris around harvest equipment and buildings. 9. General repair of agricultural equipment. 10. Hand pick, wash, and bag potatoes.

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 able to lift and/or load 80 lbs. - 3 months of verifiable experience required working in a Christmas tree nursery. Applicants must furnish verifiable job references or comparable third-party documentation from recent employers to establish acceptable prior experience. - Employer will train. - There will be a demonstration period to familiarize workers with specific jobs and to demonstrate proper methods of working. - OT/Holiday is not mandatory. - Crops listed may or may not be planted and employer is not limited to crops listed. - Work may take place when temperatures are below freezing and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. - May require extensive pulling and/or pushing of tools, wheelbarrows, fruit containers, etc. - May require worker to sit and/or walk for extensive periods of time while sorting, picking, examining, weeding, transporting, pruning, etc.

Number of Hours Per Week:

35

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 1:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Kirk Laborers Association LLC

Location:

Oregon City, OR 97045

Worksite

Address:

223 East Blaine RD, Blaine, ME 04734

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25035-662682

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

2/11/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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