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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

46

Job Duties:

Crops: Vegetables, Sweet Potatoes, Tobacco Workers will perform planting, field maintenance, irrigation, harvesting, and post-harvest duties for vegetables, sweet potatoes, and tobacco. Vegetable duties may include planting field vegetables in rows, including peppers, onions, and cucumbers; maintaining crops by clearing rows of weeds and debris; assisting with field irrigation; and harvesting vegetables by hand. Sweet potato duties may include planting sweet potatoes, maintaining field rows free of weeds and debris, assisting with field irrigation, and harvesting sweet potatoes by hand. Workers will dig sweet potatoes from uneven field rows, place them into 5-gallon buckets, and dump collected potatoes into a field trailer parked in or near the row. Tobacco duties may include planting tobacco plants, maintaining fields free of weeds and debris, topping and suckering tobacco plants, harvesting tobacco, and preparing tobacco for curing and transport. Workers may assist with field irrigation. Workers may pack, string, and stake tobacco, remove tobacco from barns, and bale tobacco for transport. Manual tools such as long-handled hoes will be provided to Workers. Workers may also perform post-harvest cleanup and litter removal from fields, barns, and warehouses related to the planting, maintenance, harvesting, and handling of vegetables, sweet potatoes, and tobacco. Work may be performed outdoors in varying weather conditions, including when crops are wet from dew or rain. Workers may be exposed to heat, humidity, mud, uneven ground, dust, noxious plants, insects, bees, and agricultural chemicals, including insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop treatment products. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, bees, insects, or chemicals may affect a worker’s ability to perform the job duties. The employer is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and will offer U.S. workers no less than the same opportunities, wages, benefits, and working conditions offered or intended to be offered to H-2A workers. Non-U.S. workers may be displaced if one or more qualified, able, willing, and available U.S. workers become available during the employer’s recruitment period.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

1

Special Requirements:

Requires one month of verifiable prior work experience in the crop activities listed. Work requires prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather. Workers must be able to repetitively lift 50 lbs. to shoulder height throughout the workday and lift and carry 50 lbs. in the field. Use of personal cell phones or other personal electronic devices during working hours is strictly prohibited, except for work-related calls or emergencies. Violation of this policy may result in immediate termination. Workers must not hinder the productivity of other workers. Workers must be available to work the entire contract period. Workers may not be under the influence of intoxicants during working hours. Employer may conduct post-hire, employer-paid drug testing upon suspicion, post-accident, and/or randomly, in accordance with state law. Refusal or failure of a drug test may result in termination.

Number of Hours Per Week:

35

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

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

Employer Information

Company Name:

Frym F. Merino & Son Harvesting & Hauling Inc.

Location:

Newton Grove, NC 28366

Worksite

Address:

961 White Oak Rd, Four Oaks, NC 27524

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-26169-027542

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

$11.09 (H-2A Wage)

Date Posted:

7/14/2026

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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