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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

102

Job Duties:

Manually plant, cultivate and harvest apples. Grow fruit trees in nursery. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning tools, shears, and knives. Duties include tiling soil and applying fertilizers, transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops, applying chemicals (fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides). Cleaning, packing, and loading harvested products. Work in nursery which will include planting, budding, care of nursery trees, grafting, and weeding as directed. Construct trellises, repair fence, general equipment maintenance, and farm buildings or participate in irrigation activities. Operate and tend equipment used in agricultural production (tractors, tractor drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery, plows, discs, sprayers, trailers to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray, prune, train, and harvest crops. Use machinery or tools to mow grass, cut brush, plant young trees. Workers will be expected to be able to operate farm equipment, with or without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors, other employees, crops, trees, facilities and equipment. Failure to comply with operating and safety standards may result in termination. Inform farmer or farm managers of crop progress. Identify plants, pests, and weeds to determine the selection and application of pesticides and fertilizers. Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs. Pick apples. All fruit is to be handled with care to avoid bruising. Apples injured by bruising during picking shall not exceed 0 percent (WNY) for fresh and 0 percent (WNY) for processing. Productivity must be at least 6 bins (120 bushels) fresh market and or 8 bins (160 bushels) processing fruit per day. Workers will be working in groups of up to 8 workers per self-propelled machine. Working in nursery all small trees should be handled with care to not damage the trees. When budding/tying trees you are expected to make a minimum of 135 trees per hour, when grafting/tying trees you are expected to make 75 trees per hour. Workers are expected to work at least the number of days and hours specified. Depending on weather, crop or other conditions, workers may be requested, not required, to work up to seven days per week, and up to 12 hours per day. Lunch is taken at the job site. Employer will furnish to workers, without cost, all tools and equipment required in the performance of the duties assigned. Workers should report for work with their own clothing, which includes raincoat, insulated coat, boots, gloves, eye protection. Clothing is not a tool to do the job. Field temperatures may range from 0 to 90+ degrees (with possible wet morning conditions and possible snow and rain). Workers referred to against this order must have a minimum of 1 month experience in performing tasks described in the order. Workers must be able to understand and communicate in basic English or Creole.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

1

Special Requirements:

Operate tractors, tractor drawn machinery, and self propelled machinery. Must be able to lift 60 pounds. Wafler Farms Inc assures that workers hired under this order who will be handling pesticides will be provided the appropriate training.

Number of Hours Per Week:

52

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Wafler Farms, Inc.

Location:

Wolcott, NY 14590

Worksite

Address:

10748 Slaght Road, Wolcott, NY 14590

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25043-687191

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

2/14/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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