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Short Lane Vegetable Farm Agricultural Equipment Operators in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
2 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 05/02/2024 - 11/28/2024.
Workers will plant, weed, harvest, stake, and transplant, crops by hand but mostly using machines such as a tow behind mechanical transplanters, stake-drivers, and tractors. Install, repair, and retrieve header and irrigation lines. Repair fence, use weed eater to mow weeds around fence and high tunnels. Assemble cardboard shipping containers. Clean and sweep packing areas. Assemble high tunnels. Pull plastic onto and off high tunnels. Sweep high tunnel floors. Pound in tomato stakes and pull out tomato stakes. Manually push up plastic to ventilate high tunnels. Load and unload delivery trucks. Load and unload farm trucks. Clean mud off squash washer. Stack pallets and fold used bins. Repair wooden bins. Sweep floors in equipment sheds. Loading and unloading wagons. Packing tomatoes and cucumbers. Tying up tomatoes and cucumbers. Weeding tomatoes, strawberries. Lifting and wrapping plastic mulch. Suckering tomatoes and cucumbers. Workers must be able to communicate verbally in English and by line of sight. Crops are strawberries, cucumbers, tomatoes, broccoli, zucchini, cauliflower and sweet corn, asparagus.
Requirements:
- Lifting requirement 50 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive pushing or pulling
- Extensive sitting or walking
- Frequent stooping or bending over
- 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