Farm and agricultural worker

Orchard Workers in Byron, GA

Esta e uma vaga para visto H-2A, o que significa que o empregador ja pediu autorizacao para contratar trabalhadores de fora dos Estados Unidos.

Empregador: Dickey Farms
Onde: Byron, GA
Vagas: 140
Salario: $12.57 per hour
Visto: H-2A
Inicio: 2027-01-11
Fim: 2027-10-29
Publicada em: 2026-10-29

O que voce vai fazer

Crops and Agricultural Duties: Crops include fruit and nuts, peaches, pecans, vegetables, trees, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, green beans, okra, squash, corn, pumpkins, zucchini, flowers, melons, aquaculture, and berries. Duties include tilling soil; digging holes to appropriate depths; planting and transplanting; weeding, thinning, pruning, cultivating, tending, and harvesting crops; and cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. Workers must have a general understanding of how pruning affects competition with fruiting wood and how thinning provides adequate nutrition to developing fruit. Improper pruning can negatively affect fruit load, fruit size, disease severity, and overall production. Workers must follow instructions regarding proper spacing when thinning and which peaches are to be left or removed. Only specified fruit is to be picked as instructed. Desirable fruit must not be left on trees, dropped, or left on the ground. Workers must use care when picking, grading, and packing to prevent damage or bruising and must take care not to break limbs or strip all peaches and leaves from trees. Workers must harvest fruit at the desired stage of ripeness. Workers will manually cultivate, harvest, grade, sort, and pack peaches and other agricultural products. Duties include discarding inferior or defective products and foreign matter; weighing or estimating product weight visually or by feel; placing products into containers according to grade; marking grades, identification numbers, and other required information on containers, tags, shipping, receiving, or sales records; measuring, weighing, and counting products and materials; and examining containers, materials, and products to ensure packing specifications are met. Workers will record product, packaging, order, grade, and identification information on specified forms and records; remove completed or defective products to conveyors or designated areas such as loading docks; seal containers using glue, string, nails, and hand tools; peel, slice, and load materials or products into package-processing equipment; assemble, line, and pad cartons, crates, and containers; clean containers, materials, supplies, and work areas using cleaning solutions and hand tools; stack boxes on pallets; and operate fillers. Workers will grade, sort, or classify agricultural products according to size, weight, color, or condition. Duties also include planting, cultivating, tending, and picking blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries; harvesting pecans; planting, cultivating, pruning, and maintaining pecan trees; and planting, harvesting, and performing ongoing maintenance of green beans, okra, squash, corn, pumpkins, zucchini, flowers, melons, berries, and other crops as directed. Orchard and Grounds Maintenance: Ongoing orchard maintenance includes planting, pruning, and thinning trees as instructed. Workers will use hand tools including shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, knives, pruners, and picking totes. Duties include maintaining farm buildings, structures, fences, irrigation tape or tubing, ditches, fields, orchards, and other work areas; cutting and dragging broken tree limbs from fields; and removing vines, suckers, shoots, and debris that may interfere with the function or growth of trees. Workers will apply pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and fungicides to crops and assist with Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) policies. Workers must wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Farm Equipment and Vehicles: Workers may operate farm vehicles, implements, and equipment, including chainsaws, weed eaters, blowers, tractors, forklifts, mowers, bulldozers, backhoes, and other hand-held equipment, to plow, harrow, fertilize soil, plant, cultivate, spray, and harvest crops.

Como se candidatar

Candidate-se diretamente com o empregador acima. O Workmerica nao e uma agencia, nao cobra taxas e nao participa desta selecao.

Ver a oferta de emprego original

Fonte: U.S. Department of Labor, Seasonal Jobs.

Quanto isso dá por mês

Com 40 horas por semana, o valor nesta oferta dá cerca de $2,175 por mês antes dos impostos. Esse é o mês de trabalho padrão de 173 horas; horas extras, descontos e custos de viagem não estão incluídos.

Como funciona a permissão de trabalho em the United States

Employer-sponsored temporary or permanent labor certification. The employer files with the Department of Labor first. Which programme applies depends on the work and whether it is seasonal.

Publicado por U.S. Department of Labor, foreign labor certification