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Temporary Need: 02/15/25 - 11/30/25. Fifteen (15) full-time, seasonal, temporary Farm Workers/Crop Laborers (Fruit) needed. This job requires a minimum of three months of prior experience working on a fruit farm handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs. Post-hire employer-paid post-hire drug testing is required at random, upon reasonable suspicion of use and after a worker has an accident at work. Location: Work will be performed in Genola, Lake Shore, Santaquin, UT. Will work 40 hrs/week, Monday - Saturday from 8:00am - 3:30pm. Wage is $17.84/hr. Crops/Commodities: Cherries, raspberries, apples, peaches, pears, nectarines, plums. Harvest -- Apples, Peaches, Pears, Nectarines . Quality is essential. Workers must be physically able to pick tree fruit, most of which is done from ladders, with lower branches being picked from 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 bucket, weighing up to 45 lbs., is emptied into bulk bins. When necessary, workers are required to handle and pick from ladders up to 14 ft. in length and weighing 20 to 40 pounds. Worker places ladder firmly against or within tree in a secure position so as not to break limbs or knock off fruit and to prevent slipping or falling. All fruit must be handled with care to avoid bruising. Each tree will be picked according to instructions given each day by the orchard foreman. Workers must be able to differentiate between colors accurately in order to perform color-specific picking. Must be able to sort out fruit with defects. Company supervisors will explain and demonstrate if necessary picking requirements to all workers at the start of the season and as needed thereafter to ensure quality standards. Care must be taken when picking so as not to damage or bruise fruit. Workers must be able to pick and dump fruit without stem pulls, punctures, bruising or other damage which diminishes quality. Field supervision monitors workers to ensure fruit is not bruised in picking. Observation of bruised, damaged or cull fruit by the supervisor, or as indicated on the pick quality report will result in a written disciplinary notice. A written disciplinary notice may occur when a bin is inspected and a significant number of culls, bruised or damaged fruit are found by the supervisor. Workers who fail to perform their duties in a timely and proficient manner will be provided up to three warnings, and will be coached/instructed regarding how to work faster and more efficiently. Upon issuance of the third warning the employee may be terminated. Packing Apples, Peaches, Pears, Nectarines, Plums: Work on production line. Grade, size, sort, and pack product. Bunch/bundle product pursuant to supervisor instructions. Fill bins/trays and other containers with product, level bins, and prepare product for shipment to market or storage. Perform quality control on inbound/outbound loads. Follow quality control standards and production procedures. Handle product carefully to prevent damage. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Palletize and stack boxes/containers. Use power equipment including, but not limited, to: fork lifts, conveyor belts, and cooling equipment/refrigeration units. Operate equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with regular maintenance on equipment. Clean/sanitize work station and equipment. Harvest (No Packing) Sweet Cherries and Tart Cherries: Workers must be able to handle ladders which are 14 ft. in length and weigh 40 lbs. while managing a picking basket/bucket that weighs approximately 20 lbs. Pickers are required to pick the fruit by leaving the stems attached with their fingers an d by placing the harve ted fruit at the bottom of the basket/bucket. Great care must be taken to ensure that the fruit is harvested and placed into the basket/bucket so as to not bruise or damage the fruit. Picking will be performed by color, or color and size as well as by defects which would render the fruit unmarketable. Such defects include but are not limited to bird pecks, limb rub, splits and sunburn. The harvest supervisor will show all harvesters the correct way to pick cherries to reach the quality objectives of the company. Thinning: Thinning is a manual process used to control the size and fruit quality of grown fruit. Ability to pick up, use and safely handle a 12 foot orchard ladder weighing approximately 40 lbs. is necessary for performance of thinning tasks. This process requires the employee to remove, in some cases but not limited to, the smallest fruit blossom, bud and/or identifiable fruit from within a cluster of other fruits. Workers will be expected to be able to identify and remove fruit that is misshapen, damaged and/or with other quality problems as directed by supervisors. Pruning: Pruning numerous varieties of apple, peach, pear, nectarine and cherry trees according to established company procedures based on the difference in the treatment of different varieties. Work will be performed on trees for long periods of time using a variety of pruning equipment including hand pruners, pneumatics (consisting of an 8-foot pole while dragging an airline), hand loppers, hand saws and 12-foot ladders. Occasionally workers may be required to use chain saws and other mechanized equipment in pruning activities. Workers may be required to selectively prune only trees of a certain size as instructed by the supervisor. Workers will gather pruned branches from area and stack for disposal. Workers are expected to possess or acquire pruning skills in order to be able to identify and remove stubs or broken branches, downward-growing branches, branches which rub against each other, shaded interior branches, dead wood and shoots/suckers and selectively remove diseased limbs and branches due to fire blight and/or bacterial canker. Careful pruning requires knowledge of what to prune, how much to prune and fruit trees' growth habits. The primary reason for pruning fruit trees is to improve fruit quality and thus increase crop marketability and value. Primary duties will be harvesting and thinning of fruit and pruning fruit trees; however other duties may be offered including installing trellis systems, planting trees, picking roots, rocks and other debris, mulching, pruning, cutting shoots and suckers, raking cuttings and debris, inserting/removing tree spreaders, pulling or cutting thorny plants, weeds and vines from around trees (some weeds may be noxious), hand placement of rodent baits around trees, operation and maintenance of tractors, harvesters, sprayers, chainsaws, weed eaters and other equipment, cleaning and clearing fence rows and farm buildings, irrigation, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation and other tasks related to general farming. Apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Mix and apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions. Employer expects workers to work with or without supervision at such tasks. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction. Workers must be able to perform all duties of entry level workers as well as perform additional mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Raspberries: Work will include spreading and removing black plastic winter covers on plants, placing and monitoring vinegar bug traps, spraying and mowing, trellising berry plants and monitoring new growth for tipping (pruning), picking berries according to employer's quality standards, transporting harvest