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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

316

Job Duties:

The farm work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, harvesting of various fruits and vegetables. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 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 crops grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm. The farm work position includes duties associated with the harvest and maintenance of blueberry bushes. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 50 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 crops grown, harvested, packed, and shipped from the farm. Blueberries Workers will remove weeds from around the plants and from the row middles. Workers will bend and stoop to pick berries according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers will be expected to pick fully ripe berries, discard any cat-faced, deformed, decayed or undersized berries according to supervisor’s instructions. Also, workers must carefully remove any undesirable berries from plant that would later cause fungi to attack the plant. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately twelve 50 lbs. and empty into field bin or load onto trailer. When full, carried to end of rows at designated truck-loading place. Then the buckets of berries will be inspected for quality and loaded for transportation to roadside market. Depending on market demand, workers may also be required to pick strawberries in cups, clamshells and/or flats. Berries harvested specifically for sale at a roadside stand as fresh market specialty basket container must be field graded. For berries harvested for sale at roadside stands, extra care must be used to ensure that each berry is undamaged and perfect. All berries must be handled carefully to prevent bruises or fingernail cuts. Pickers will take extreme care not to damage the delicate berries. Quality and workmanship is of the utmost importance. Pre-harvest activities for berries may include weeding and transplanting. Workers may be required to perform other tasks maintenance activities in the berry operation such as pruning, trimming, laying plastic, irrigation, staking, operating machinery, sorting, storing, grading, stacking, and unstacking When harvest is completed, the workers will assist in removing the berry plants from the plastic to prepare for planting the next crop.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

2

Special Requirements:

Employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post-employment and at the employer's expense. 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:

Arlene Resource Management LLC

Location:

Manton, MI 49663

Worksite

Address:

1300 Blueberry Creek Drive, Bladenboro, NC 28320

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-26055-659940

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

The wage for H2A workers only is $11.09 per hour

Date Posted:

3/11/2026

Piece Rate Offer

$0.44

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