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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

18

Job Duties:

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Following the Supervisors instructions, the worker will perform the following tasks: 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. Tobacco Planting: 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: Workers will harvest tobacco by hand by pulling three (3) or four (4) leaves at a time from a plant and placing the leaves in the trailer. Once the leaves are taken to the barn, workers will place the harvested tobacco into boxes to prepare for the heating process. After the tobacco leaves have cured, the worker will remove the tobacco and bale it by filling a metal container to the desired weight and compacting the leaves together into bales. Tobacco Packinghouse Operator: Once tobacco reaches to the packinghouse, 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, Corn & Cotton Field Weeding & Hauling Ag Equipment Operation: Workers will walk through the fields, raking, shoveling and by hand pulling weeds that may be interfering on the crop growing process, once crops are ready to harvest employee will drive agricultural equipment through the fields to harvest. Onions Field Maintenance & Harvesting: 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 stand inside the plastic or wood boxes and receive full buckets of sweet potatoes from other workers who have harvested the potatoes. The worker will then unload the sweet potatoes into the boxes. Workers are required to lift and carry at least 50 pounds.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

1

Special Requirements:

The employer may conduct a Drug/Alcohol test or conduct a criminal background post-employment at the employer's expense. The employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the workers refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools.

Number of Hours Per Week:

36

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

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

Employer Information

Company Name:

Scott Brothers, Inc. (NC #1)

Location:

Lucama, NC 27851

Worksite

Address:

7368 Wheat Swamp Rd, Lucama, NC 27851

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-26114-831700

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

All Job Duties H2A workers will be guaranteed a minimum of $11.09 for H-2A workers.

Date Posted:

4/28/2026

Piece Rate Offer

$0.50

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