Farmworker/laborer

Job description

Job requires worker to complete tasks in apple harvest and orchard maintenance. Employer will provide instructions and training on specific job duties.

Farm Laborer: Worker will be required to complete the following activities as directed by supervisor: planting trees; apple tree care and maintenance such as train, 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 install and maintenance; hand harvest apples to quality standards; moving 12-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; barn painting; applying fertilizer manually; deer fence repair; general landscaping maintenance on farm premises.

Pay will be hourly.

Special Requirements

Experience Requirement: 2 verifiable months fruit hand harvest experience required. Applicants must furnish job references from recent employers within the last 3 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.