Farm Worker

Job description

Workers will be harvesting mature coffee cherries in orchards owned and maintained by Greenwell Farms, Inc. The harvest in process includes being able to stand for multiple hours, picking coffee cherries, and carrying in a waist basket. Pickers will need to empty their waist baskets into burlap bags; tie, lift, carry these bags to put them onto delivery trucks. Other tasks include the pruning of coffee trees, removing the weeds around the crop, planting and transplanting of coffee trees, the spraying of pesticides and other farm maintenance tasks such as cutting grass with a weed eater or machete, cutting trees with a chainsaw or handsaw, removing the overgrowth of grass, weeds, or other invasive plants in the coffee farms.

Periodically during the contract period, workers may be used as laborers in the pulp mill (where coffee cherry is pulped and dried into parchment). Their work there will include, unloading full coffee bags of coffee cherry, moving full coffee bags of coffee cherry around the mill, dumping coffee cherry into vats for processing, loading and unloading coffee driers, and general clean up around the mill.

Any worker who is able to obtain a valid US driver's license may be asked to transport other H-2A workers.

Special Requirements

None.