Farm and agricultural worker

Nursery Workers in Umatilla, FL

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: Wild Goose Farms, LLC (Nursery)
Onde: Umatilla, FL
Vagas: 21
Salario: $15 per hour
Visto: H-2A
Inicio: 2027-01-13
Fim: 2027-11-12
Publicada em: 2026-11-02

O que voce vai fazer

Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time. Primary job duties are nursery labor, general farm labor and harvesting. Secondary job duties include occasional operation and maintenance of agricultural equipment and shuttle driving. Nursery Labor: Workers will be responsible for planting, weeding, pruning, staking, spraying, and other activities related to growing, and loading potted trees, and shrubs. The workers will also be responsible for maintaining the grounds, and the existing irrigation system. General Farm Labor and Facilities Maintenance: Workers will weed; mow grass, prune trees or hedges, clear land, remove brush, maintain fencing, repair irrigation, and plant young trees and bushes. Workers may help deliver meals to workers in the field, and may be asked to clean facilities including bathrooms, kitchens, and common areas. Blueberry Harvest: If harvesting, workers will pick gallon buckets of ripe fruit on assigned rows while taking care not to damage or bruise blueberries. Full buckets are delivered to nearby wagon for inspection and weight. Workers are expected to harvest a minimum number of pounds of blueberries per hour, equal to Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) divided by the piece rate and will be subject to disciplinary action for failing to do so. After completion of training and the designated acclimation period, workers are also expected to maintain quality standards by picking all ripe fruit from bush and avoiding the dropping of fruit on the ground. Blueberry Packing: Packinghouse workers typically do a variety of jobs related the packaging and shipping of blueberries. Duties may include receiving, dumping inspecting, boxing, stacking, and shipping of fruit. Other jobs include making boxes, stickering boxes, cleaning equipment and facilities, and monitoring food safety. All workers in the packinghouse must wear long sleeved shirts, long pants, and closed toe shoes. Citrus General Farming: Worker will remove fruit from the tree and place it into pick sack. When the pick sack is full, take full sack to fruit tub located in the grove and drop fruit from pick sack into tub. In order to perform this kind of work, worker must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the picking process rapidly, working quickly and skillfully with their hands, and carrying a large number of sacks of fruit from the area in which the fruit is being harvested to the location of the tub. In some cases, a ladder will be needed to reach the top of the tree. Field Walker: Workers will assist management in field walking. Showing other workers their assigned rows for harvest. Helping load fruit containers on the transport equipment and transporting the equipment and fruit from the field to the packinghouse located on the farm.

Como se candidatar

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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 $2,595 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