Vegetable Harvester; Bus Driver

Job description

H-2A and corresponding domestic workers must be available to perform each of the following job activities in connection with the harvesting and farming operations:

Bus Driver:

•Employee picks up workers from different housing sites/pick up points and takes them to an assigned work site and at the end of the work day takes them back to the housing site/pick up point.
•Perform routine vehicle maintenance, such as regulating tire pressure and adding gasoline, oil, and water.
•Report any vehicle malfunctions or needed repairs.
•Once a week will take workers to purchase essentials in town.

The employees will perform bus driving duties for less than 50% of total work hours over the contract period, and accordingly for less than 50% of full workdays.

The worker must be able to read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, understand highway traffic signs and signals in English, respond to official inquiries, and make entries on reports and records.

Vegetable Harvest:

Conveyor Belt Machine for Cabbage/ Automated Coring, Picking and cleaning of Cabbage, thinning, cleaning, general labor

Field worker to harvest Cabbage without core in preparation for value added processing. Cutting is done by walking in uneven furrows behind a Belt Machine. Under the direction of the field supervisors, employees determine size and quality of cabbage to be harvested. Using a harvesting knife and bending at the waist, the employee cuts the head from the roots and trims the outer leaves from the cabbage head, places it on a table where a second employee removes the core with an automated core extraction machine. Holds it with both hands and places the core part of the cabbage towards the core extraction machine and by pushing the cabbage against the machine, the core will be removed, this is done repeatedly until the core is completely removed. Employee inspects the cabbage for defects. Employee places cabbage head on belt. The process is repeated. The cabbage, with no core, is then carried down the belt to be dropped in bins where employees inspect for quality, remove loose leaves and sorts bins to capacity. Bins are constructed and ordered directly over pallets on the trailers. The bins may weight up to 50 lbs. The pallets may weight up to 95 lbs empty, but are carried between two persons. Prepare freshly harvested crop for shipment.

Special Requirements

Requirements: Cannot be color blind due to the need to distinguish colors of the product. Must be able to use shears, clippers and other agricultural tools (i.e., hand saw (can be powered by gas)); no smoking, illegal drugs, alcohol, or weapons of any sort in the housing or work fields. Worker safety on the job and in employer-provided housing is our top priority. Workers may not possess, consume, or be under the influence of alcohol, cannabis, illegal drugs, or other controlled substances at the worksite or in the employer-provided housing. Fighting, including but not limited to, verbal, physical, or through social media or texts, and any threats or act of violence, and/or disruptive behavior against another individual or against property will not be tolerated, particularly acts of violence committed while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.