15 Fulltime H-2A Seasonal Jobs available 08/14/2024- 01/20/2025.

Pick apples by hand on an hourly basis for miscellaneous picking. All fruit to be handled with care to avoid bruising. Fruit injured by bruising not to exceed 3%. Use of tools such as stem clippers. All fruit to be handled with care to avoid puncture or other damage by stem clippers. Workers trained and instructed to selectively pick mature fruit according to size, color, and other USDA and market standards. Pick apples by hand for the process markets at $1.10 per 1 1/8 bu box. A minimum productivity standard applies of 136.94 1 1/8 bu boxes of fresh apples per day or 94.74 1 1/8 bu boxes of skim or clean-up picking per day or 75.32 1 1/8 bu boxes of fresh apples with stem clipping per day or 136.94 1 1/8 bu boxes of process apples per day. Workers must be able to pick tree fruit, much of which is done from ladders or a moving mechanical picking platform with lower branches being picked from the ground. Picked fruit is placed in a metal framed canvas covered picking bucket with canvas straps that slip over the head and rest on the shoulders. Filled buckets weighing up to 50 lbs are emptied into bulk bins with a capacity equal to 20 1 1/8 bushel boxes. Workers required to handle ladders up to 24 feet long and weighing about 2 lbs per foot. Must be able to consistently handle 75 lbs throughout the day. Adjustment to minimum during piece rate work will always adjust to the AEWR.

Other orchard work including pruning, grafting, wood removal, planting, transplanting, weeding, sickling, hand thinning, trellis construction, training of branches or trunk including tying, taping, bending and general maintenance of apple trees. Use hand tools such as pruners, chainsaws, pole saws, hydraulic or pneumatic pruners, pruning hooks, shears, sickles and shovels. Prepare field for planting including tilling soils, applying fertilizers, picking rocks and roots from tilled fields. Miscellaneous activities may include care of harvest tools and supplies. Many orchard jobs will also be performed from ladders or a moving mechanical platform in the upper half of the tree with lower parts of the tree tended from the ground. Workers may ride or drive platforms for harvest and/or orchard work.

Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, forklifts and self-propelled machinery to spray, chop, mow, plant, fertilize, harvest, load, unload or store product. Equipment operation is not a requirement of this job order and will be on an as needed, individual basis based on employees skill set and interest.

Upon hiring the employer will provide a code of conduct and discipline policy to the workers and they must read them and acknowledge agreement. While working, cell phone usage is limited to emergency use only. Workers referred as a result of this order must have a minimum of three months verifiable experience in performing the tasks described in this order. Due to the nature of the job duties the applicant needs to be at least 18 years of age or older. Due to health and safety concerns on our farm, workers must understand basic instruction in English or Spanish.

Requirements:

• Must have a minimum of three months verifiable experience in performing the tasks described.
• Employer may conduct/require random drug or alcohol tests at employers expense once hired.
• Must be able to consistently lift 75 lbs throughout the day.
• Extensive sitting/walking, extensive pushing/pulling, and frequent stooping/bending.
• Exposure to extreme temperatures.
• Repetitive movements.

The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov. For qualified applicants requiring a Spanish translation of this job order, please email DOCE@labor.ny.gov or call 1-877-466-9757. Please include the applicant name and job order number in your request.