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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

14

Job Duties:

The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivating, and harvesting of tobacco along with various vegetables. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 75 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase and consume the product grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm. Job Specifications Tobacco: Harvest workers will move into a row of mature tobacco plants. The tobacco plant may be from 4 to 6 feet tall and spaced about 20 inches apart in each row. With manual harvesting, starting at the bottom of the plant, the worker will bend over at the waist and pick the bottom two or three leaves from each plant. Staying bent over, the worker will move down the row of mature tobacco repeating the above process. The bottom leaves may be as low as two inches from the ground. The worker will place the picked leaves under his arm. Once the worker has gathered an armload of leaves, he will carry it to a field sled. The leaves must be laid neatly onto the field sled. The worker will then return to the row and repeat the process. All workers must be able to distinguish ripe tobacco by observing the color of the leaves. Care must be exercised to prevent breaking of the plants. Workers must be able to move quickly along the rows and move in unison with the field sleds. With mechanical harvesting, worker may be asked to pick up leaves in field that has fell on the ground. Workers may be asked to help ensure tobacco leaves are properly loaded on hauling trailer and from time to time helping the tobacco harvester operator mechanic on tobacco harvester. Workers may ride mechanical transplanter and drive mechanical harvester. Workers may be asked to extract weeds from tobacco fields by the use of a hoe or manually. Workers may be asked to distribute fertilizer to tobacco with the use of a 5 gallon bucket or by hand. Workers may walk behind transplanter to reset missing plants. Workers must remove all flowering tops and suckers from tobacco plants. Workers may assist in removing tobacco from barn, placing on sheets to be bound and loaded on trucks. Weight of sheets of tobacco may be 300 lbs and bales may be 800 lbs. Workers may manually compact tobacco in a mechanical bailor by stomping tobacco as tobacco is being conveyed in. Workers may be asked to operate a hydraulic bailor to compact bailor after being trained to do so. Worker may be asked to separate tobacco based on grade. Workers may be asked to open big metal boxes for tobacco to be loaded in, level tobacco in boxes with pitchforks, place rods in boxes to ensure tobacco doesn?t fall out, and place boxes of tobacco in a curing barn by pushing each box. Workers are required to work in fields when tobacco leaves are wet with dew or rain. Workers may be asked to transport boxes of tobacco from loading system to barn and from barn to unloading system with a tractor and dolly. Worker may stack compacted bales. Worker should be able to stand for prolonged periods of time to prime (pull) leaves, which are from two to ten inches from the ground. Workers may be exposed to noxious plants, insects, and insect control sprays. Temperatures in tobacco fields during work hours may range from 40 to over 100 degrees fahrenheit. Workers are required to obey the rules and regulation of ?Good Agricultural Practices? (GAP) after being trained. Workers must be able to perform the job as described above. Workers may be required to perform other duties as required by the employer. The pay rate for all tobacco work is paid hourly. Workers may be asked to spray after being trained and load the sprayer.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

2

Special Requirements:

The employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post-employment and at the employer's expense. The employer may conduct criminal background checks post-employment and at the employer's expense.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Dwight Stevens

Location:

Loris, SC 29569

Worksite

Address:

643 Daisy Road, Loris, SC 29569

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-26019-569443

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Wage offer for H2A workers only is $10.60 per hour

Date Posted:

1/26/2026

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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