Agricultural Equipment Operators/farmworkers And Laborers

Job description

This application encompasses: general farm labor on a fruit ranch, including spraying, irrigation, care and harvest of fruit.

This job requires a minimum of three (3) months orchard experience with apples, pears, nectarines, apricots, peaches, cherries, and plums
The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.
All duties assigned under this order will be those duties of Agricultural Equipment Operator and Farm Worker and Laborer Crop, Nursery and Greenhouse, under the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics Standard Occupational Classification Codes 45-2091 and 45-2092.

General Farm Work will include the following duties:
Workers may also:
1. Clear debris and garbage from fields and orchards, structures, equipment, and work areas.
2. Remove old string and wire from trellis and orchard blocks, and other hand tasks.
3. Load and mix chemicals in addition to operating tractors pulling air blast sprayers (according to appropriate restrictive use laws, when/if applicable).
4. Maintain, drive, attach, and operate farm implements, tractors, equipment to cultivate, fertilize, and harvest crops
5. Make mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm machinery
6. Remove undesirable and excess growth from crops or farm grounds
7. Remove rocks from fields, edges fields, etc.
8. Maintain, repair, farm structures.
9. Replace, repair fencing.
10. Operate motor bike, all-terrain vehicle (ATVs), John Deere Gators, while performing job duties

Special Requirements

Additional Wage Information:
The employer agrees that it will offer, advertise in its recruitment, and pay at least the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR), the prevailing hourly wage rate, the prevailing piece rate, the agreed-upon collective bargaining rate, or the Federal or State minimum wage rate, in effect at the time work is performed, whichever is highest. If the worker is paid by the hour, the employer must pay this rate for every hour or portion thereof worked during a pay period. If the offered wage(s) disclosed in this clearance order is/are based on commission, bonuses, or other incentives, the employer guarantees the wage paid on a weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly basis will equal or exceed the AEWR, prevailing hourly wage or piece rate, the legal Federal or State minimum wage, or any agreed-upon collective bargaining rate, whichever is highest.