Farmworker/laborer
Employer
12268 5 Mile Rd NE
Lowell, MI 49331
United States
Job description
Worker will be required to complete the following activities as directed by supervisor: planting trees; apple tree care and maintenance such as blossom removal, thinning, train, attaching, tying, prune, trim, stake, root sprout removal, and trunk painting; general orchard and field maintenance such as picking up garbage, roots and rocks, removing old string and wire from trellis and orchard blocks, trimming brush and tree limbs, assist with cutting and removing trees with a chainsaw, piling brush, weeding, hoeing, and painting posts; trellis system repair and maintenance; hand harvest apples to quality standards; sorting; small tractor driving within the field; utilizing motorized platforms, moving12-foot orchard ladder weighing up to 60 pounds; moving harvest bins into rows manually; clean and sanitize harvest tools, equipment and containers; general repairs of wooden bins and pallets; barn painting; applying pheromones, fertilizer manually; deer fence maintenance and repair, foil and netting laying; irrigation maintenance and repair; rodent guards installation; general landscaping maintenance on farm premises.
Pay will be hourly.
Special Requirements
Experience Requirement: 2 verifiable months tree fruit experience required. Applicants must furnish job references from employers of the last 5 years establishing acceptable prior experience.
Season Commitment: Job offered requires worker be available for and worker agrees to work every day that work is available for entire employment period.
Worker must be able to perform job description duties in safe manner consistent with established safety procedures.
Drug testing may be required if worker is involved in workplace injury resulting in damage to property or injury to others. Worker agrees to testing as a condition of employment. Testing done at employers expense and not utilized as a pre-employment tool.
Worker must possess requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat harvest process throughout workday. Worker must work at sustained pace and make good faith efforts to work efficiently as reasonable under working conditions.