Animal Trainers And Farmworkers

Job description

Pre-Harvest, Harvest and Post Harvest agricultural specialty products: plantains; avocados; limes and lemons; squash; cacao; vanilla; lemongrass; and sweet potatoes. The work includes tasks, such as seed germination, transplanting, monitoring, packing, maintaining irrigation and drainage system, weeding, cultivation, fertilizing, planting, cultivating, and harvesting vegetables and farinaceous. Additionally, this operation is also dedicated to tending horses; tasks include feeding, watering; grazing; and exercising animals to keep them in healthy conditions; break, ride, and train horses. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. May assist in transporting horses to track facility from time to time. Most of the workdays are spent on one's feet, with constant movement as they move from one site to another. Workers must be able to stand, walk uphill and downhill, sit, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, lift, and carry items weighing in the range of 5 to 75 pounds. Driving and operating passenger vehicles and farm equipment may be required. Workers are required to work eight (8) hours per day. The worker may be requested, but not required to work up to 12 hours per day and/or Federal Holidays, depending upon the conditions in the fields, weather, and maturity of the crop. Overtime will be paid, if applicable, under state or federal law. The manager or supervisor will notify workers at the end of the workday if there is any change in the start and time anticipated hours of work for the following day. Regular attendance by all workers during scheduled hours of the workday and /or work period is expected. Unsatisfactory attendance: including reporting late, excessive requests to leave before the end of the workday, doing work outside the scope of the H2A Visa, not abiding by housing, or transport regulations, etc., may be cause for disciplinary action. Workers must call their manager or supervisor at least one day before the start of the workday if they do not expect to be in on time. Further information on the Employer's Attendance Policy is in the Employee Handbook.
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Special Requirements

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