Farmworker/laborer
Employer
Escalera Orchards, LLC 22798 Rd. U SW
Mattawa, WA 98849
United States
Job description
Specific Job Requirements: THINNING: Thinning is a manual process used to control the size a quality of grown fruit. The Worker must possess the ability to pick up, handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing 40 pounds. Furthermore, the Worker must be able to use scissor like clippers. This process requires the Worker to remove, in some cases not limited to the smallest fruit blossom, bud and/or identifiable fruit from within a cluster of other fruits. The Worker will be expected to be able identify and remove fruit that is misshapen, damaged and/or with other quality problems as directed by supervisors. Thinning may be performed from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or a ladder.
TRAINING: Training is a process in which the fruit tree is manipulated to increase yield and/or quality.The Worker must possess ability to pick up, handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing 40 pounds.Training may be performed from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or ladder. Some example training tasks are but not limited to Tying, taping or clipping apple, pear, or cherry limbs to wires.Tying up or down apple, pear, or cherry limbs. Training and limb positioning of apple, pear and cherry trees. Shoot thinning, sucker removal, cluster thinning, shoot positioning, hedging, or leaf removal.Propping and supporting cherry, apple and pear trees.
*See Job Duties 1.2
Special Requirements
See Addendum C