Job Information
NJ Employer Farmworkers in Brockport, New York
Anticipated period of employment: 08/21/2024 to 10/24/2024
All applicants must have 3 months experience hand harvesting a perishable crop. Applicants must be able to furnish affirmative job references from recent employers.
Crops: Apple, Winter Squash, Hay, Soybeans. Sanitation Requirements: For food and general personal safety purposes, all workers will be required and expected to follow common sanitary practices at all times. This is particularly critical when hand harvesting crops for human consumption. Employees are required to cleanse their hands by washing them thoroughly with soap and water after using the bathroom and before entering the fields for harvest activities or the packing facility for packing operations. Squash: Workers will harvest winter squash. Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape, and degree of maturity. Removing squash from the vine will be done by hand so the vegetable is not bruised or scarred. Squash must be gently placed in field container. Worker must be careful that vines, trash, and field debris are not put in field containers. Workers will carry full container weighing approximately sixty (60) lbs. and gently place contents into large produce bins. Produce bins should be filled level full unless directed otherwise by the driver or supervisor. Workers are required to work in fields when plants are wet with dew or rain. Temperatures in fields during work hours can range from 32 to over 100 degree. See ETA 790/790A for a complete job description.
Only workers meeting all qualifications on the job order should be referred by the Job Service Office. Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Once the applicant has a copy of the job contract they may call and/or email the employer to schedule an interview Monday- Thursday from 9am to 5m and referred to NY1502853 as the JO is in connection with this NJ number.
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