Job Information
NJ Employer Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania
Anticipated period of employment: 03/05/2025 to 12/012025
no experience required.
Pruning and removing excess plant tissue using hedge shears, pruning shears, or mechanical hand pruners. Pruning may involve removing excess growth, diseased growth, or modifying growth. Modifying growth can also include tying plant growth to various types of trellising systems. Removal of noxious plant material from the ground using a hoe, rake, or shears, or removal by chemical means using a backpack sprayer or farm utility vehicle. Operation of tractor with low-volume sprayer. Training will be provided. Spraying will be voluntary assignments after regular hours. Picking strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, grapes, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, and elderberries. Each fruit is removed by hand at the proper stage of ripeness, no more than three at a time. In the case of grapes, one cluster is removed at a time. Fruit is deposited in a tray which holds 3 pounds of fruit. The tray (a "flat") of fruit, which is secured in a wire picking stand, is carried down the row foot by foot. Approximately once per hour all fruit picked is transported to the cooling facility by farm utility vehicle where it is sorted and graded. Picking flats are disinfected and re-lined with disinfected picking tills. Feeding of sheep and goats hay and grain after frost. Barns and stables cleaned of manure periodically. Setting trellis posts, assisting in laying irrigation tubing and row cover, planting out new rows with a variety of plant material, and maintenance of farm appearance including traditional flower gardening, hand-weeding, hanging basket maintenance. Also haymaking assistance consisting of stacking bales on the wagon and then in the barn. Job may also include unloading farm supplies from trucks, loading farm market trucks, and assisting at farm markets. Workers may operate high lift; training will be provided before high lift operation Hours include one 30-minute break daily during work hours. See ETA 790 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 phone 10am to 5pm Monday through Friday by phone of by sending inquiry letter to the employer's business address, and referred to 21033783 as the JO is in connection with this NJ JO number.
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