Anticipated period of employment: 03/12/2024 to 11/20/2024

All applicants must have 3 months experience hand harvesting a perishable crop. Applicants must be able to furnish affirmative job references from recent employers. Perform manual labor to plant, transplant, cultivate, and harvest green onions, and vegetables including leafy greens and herbs. Perform prolonged walking, bending, reaching, twisting and lifting, carrying and loading of up to 40 lbs. Work may be outside in extremely hot, cold and/or wet weather for extensive periods of time.

Duties may include tilling soil, weeding, thinning, counting and checking crops. Prepare outdoor growing areas by setting up irrigation drip tape; laying, repairing and cleaning plastic; removing debris and weeds by hand and using gardening tools; and spacing plants at designated intervals. Locate, select, prepare, tag and load product onto wagons, racks and trucks for shipping. Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, shears, knives, cutters, weeders, hand leeks, thinning hooks and weeding hooks. Workers may be given an employee number in order to keep up with piece rates. May work within an assembly line to pack product. May repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities. Clear and maintain irrigation ditches. Operate farm tractors and equipment. Harvest green onions by hand. Undercut green onions. Pull bunches. Gather onions into bunches of five to seven. Tie bunches together with rubber bands. Once harvested, place the bunches of green onions into various sized cartons in the field weighing up to 40 lbs. Lift plants from the seedbed and trim the roots and tops. Pack in shallow boxes for removal to the field where they will be planted. Work in groups to harvest crops with truck that is moving through the field along with workers while being careful not to damage harvested product. Stack weighed boxes onto pallets. *See ETA 790/790A for a complete job description. *

Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Workers should be fully appraised by their local One-Stop of all terms, conditions, and nature of employment prior to referral. Once the applicant has a copy of the job order interested workers can contact the employer, Tom Russo by email. Please provide your full name, a callback number, the name of the job you are applying for, your mailing address or e-mail address, and how you heard about the job. In-person interviews may be available at the request of the applicant but are not required. The employer will review screening applications, resumes or other electronic self-referrals, conduct follow up telephone interviews and will consider the worker for the job based on the worker's qualifications. Standard office hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

*See AOSOS before making a referral. *