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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

380

Job Duties:

Crops/Commodities: Cabbage, kale, collards, green beans, greens, lettuce, onions, sweet corn, melons, beet root, bell peppers, cilantro, cucumbers, fennel, hard squashes, herbs, peppers, Romaine lettuce, Swiss chard, tomatillos, turnips, including conventionally and organically raised varieties. Workers will perform field work associated with vegetable cultivation and harvest including weeding, thinning and transplanting by hand, harvesting/picking and field packing/loading vegetables into containers. Employer will provide gloves and kneepads for any activities associated with hand-weeding or thinning. Picks, cuts, lifts, or pulls crop to harvest them. Workers must be able to distinguish between vegetable plants and weeds. May assist with irrigation and shovel/clean irrigation ditches. Workers will use hand tools, such as but not limited to hoes and shovels. Once workers have been instructed in food safety rules pertaining to commodity production, compliance with such will be expected. The majority of the work will be performed in the field rather than company's packing sheds but workers may be asked to work in the packing sheds to sort, pack, ice and load vegetables onto trucks. Workers must be physically able to perform the work which involves lifting boxes weighing up to 70 pounds to a height of 5 feet. Workers may operate tractors occasionally. Workers with an insurable driver's license may be asked to drive farm vehicles to transport produce from field to market/storage facilities within a 50-mile radius of farm. Workers will be trained in USDA Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) certification standards. Failure to abide by GAP standards will be grounds for dismissal. Employer has a strict prohibition on tobacco usage. No smoking or tobacco use of any kind will be permitted in the fields, in worker housing, or anywhere on company premises. This is necessary to maintain the integrity of the farm's production certification as well as to protect against the Tomato-Tobacco Mosaic Virus disease, which is transmitted by hands and tools contaminated with tobacco by-products. Employer reserves the right to discharge any employee found smoking or found in possession of smoking materials including cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, marijuana or smoking paraphernalia.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

2

Special Requirements:

Candidates must have at least two (2) months of recent and verifiable experience within the past two (2) years working on a diversified vegetable crop farm handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities. This position requires a minimum of two (2) months for the employee to get a full understanding of the job and responsibilities. Must be able to understand work & safety instructions in English or Spanish, the languages spoken and written in the workplace. Drug testing is conducted at employer's expense: pre-employment/post hire, upon reasonable suspicion, post-accident and at random or periodically.

Number of Hours Per Week:

48

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

6:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Petrocco Farms, Inc.

Location:

Brighton, CO 80601

Worksite

Address:

14110 Brighton Road, Brighton, CO 80601

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-26012-551654

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

$15.16/hour H-2A workers. See Addendum A.

Date Posted:

1/22/2026

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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