Farmworker
Employer
14511 Rinehart Road
Smithsburg, MD 21783
United States
Job description
Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest peaches and apples. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks and shears. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers, transplanting, weeding, thinning or pruning crops; applying pesticides; cleaning, packing, and loading harvested products. Will prune, plant, cultivate, irrigate, fertilize, harvest, and sort fruit crops while working outside in all types of weather. Must have at 3 months or 480 hours of verifiable experience, ability to lift and carry 75 lbs. and pick fruit with a 3% or less bruise rate.
Special Requirements
During busy planting/harvest season workers may be requested to start earlier and work more than the scheduled hours per week, including holidays. When weather is hot, starting and quitting times may be shifted to earlier or later in the day. This may vary depending on crop and weather conditions