Job Information
NJ Employer Farmworkers in Oswego, New York
Anticipated period of employment: 08/15/2024 to 01/28/2025
All applicants must have 3 months experience hand harvesting a perishable crop. Applicants must be able to furnish affirmative job references from recent employers.
Operate 100hp tractors, tractor-drawn machinery and/or forklifts to weed, harvest and sort onions. Manually cultivate, and harvest onions. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, shears, and knives/machetes. Pre-harvest work will include pulling & moving onions in containers to clear paths for harvest machines. Will move bins as required. Much work will require extensive bending, stooping and ground work. Duties include weeding and thinning crops. Will repair onion bins as directed. Will sort and pack onions as directed. Will palletize and wrap 50# bags of onions. Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment. All workers are required to drive. Driving duties will be limited to operation of farm equipment such as tractors and/or tractor drawn machinery. All required driving will be on farm equipment and on farm property and/or farm roads. All machinery or equipment operation will be done within the farm settings and are incidental to work at our business locations. Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress. Will monitor fields for plant infestations and use treatments appropriate for use in both a preventative or infestation situation. Clear and maintain irrigation ditches. Record information about crops, such as yields, or costs. 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- Friday from 9am to 4pm and referred to NY1502646 as the JO is in connection with this NJ number.
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