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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

52

Job Duties:

All the following job duties are subject to a crop and weather conditions, walking long distances in extreme hot, wet & cold temperatures. Tobacco Planting & Maintaining activities: Maintain greenhouse while tobacco plants are growing and are ready to be transplanted into the fields, on the transplant process workers will transplant tobacco plants into the ground by machine, once fields are planted employees will maintain fields pulling weeds that may be interfering on the tobacco growing process, workers repeatedly from time to time or as it is needed will sucker and topping tobacco plants by hand. Tobacco Harvesting: Tobacco fields will be harvested by machine and hand (workers will pull 3 or 4 leaves at a time from each plant and put it in a trailer.) Once it reaches the barn, the worker will place the tobacco in boxes to prepare for the heating process. After the curing process, the worker will remove the tobacco, sort and bale it by filling a metal container to desired weight that will compact the leaves together into bales. Sweet Potatoes Planting, Maintaining & Hand Harvesting: Workers will cut plant from plant beds and green house, transplant plants into the soil by hand and machine, once fields are planted workers will maintain pulling weeds that may be interfering with the sweet potatoes maturing process, once the sweet potatoes are ready to be harvested workers will be repeatedly walking long distances in hot or cold weather conditions, harvesting by hand sweet potatoes into buckets; these buckets will be carried to a truck in the fields with empty bin boxes, at the end of the day employees should wash/ clean the buckets, wash/clean hydration stations or coolers and refill with clean water or ice. Soybean/Wheat Field Weeding: Workers will walk through the soybean fields, raking, shoveling and by hand pulling weeds that may be interfering on the crop growing process. VEGETABLES (Onions, Cucumbers, Watermelon, etc) Field Maintenance, Harvest and Field/Warehouse Pack: Workers will maintain fields pulling weeds that may be interfering on the crop maturing process, once the fields are ready to harvested workers will be repeatedly walking long distances in hot or cold weather conditions, harvesting by hand, pulling, cutting roots, tops and filling buckets, these buckets will be carried to a Truck in the field with empty bins that will be transported to a packing house. Bucket Unloading: Worker will be standing inside/next to the plastic, wood or cardboard bin boxes and receiving full buckets of sweet potatoes or vegetables from the other workers that are harvesting and unloading buckets full of produce into the plastic or wood bin boxes. Workers are required to lift and carry at least 50 pounds. Packing House Worker: Hand-jack operators: Dump boxes onto conveyor belt, stacking empty boxes on a pallet and taping them up empty rejected by size and sorter into giant bin. Pick out damaged sweet potatoes/vegetables on packing line. Stack completed boxes onto a pallet. Clean packing line at the end of each day, sweep floors, clean conveyor belts and machinery, clean drains. Patching pallets, sorting out damaged fresh produce. Forklift Operator: moving sweet potatoes/vegetables to packing line, moving completed pallets away from the packing line. Wrapping completed pallets and moving pallets to cooler. Packing houses are co-located on farm sites where some of the product is harvested. Workers will only pack produce harvested by the farmer who grew the product.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

1

Special Requirements:

EB Harvesting may conduct a Drug/Alcohol test or conduct a criminal background post-employment at the employer's expense. Per the Department of Labor O-Net survey for job code 45.2092.02, Job Zone 1, SVP <4.0, the employer requires 1-month verifiable harvesting experience. To perform any job duty that may require employees to drive any agricultural equipment vehicle, the driver must possess proper and current valid driver license class C as it is required in North Carolina, or its foreign equivalent. Workers must have a valid drivers license or obtain one within 30 days.

Number of Hours Per Week:

36

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

EB Harvesting LLC (NC #8)

Location:

Arcadia, FL 34266

Worksite

Address:

Jeff Barnes LLC- 3314 E Hwy 42 W, Wilson , NC 27893

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25167-096033

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Sweet Potato Harvesting: $0.50 per bucket. Estimated hourly wage equivalent is $18.00 or 36 buckets per hour. $16.16 per hour guaranteed

Date Posted:

7/2/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.50

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