12 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 3/18/2024 - 11/25/2024.

Crops/Commodities: peaches, nectarines, pears, apples, and cherries. This job requires a minimum of 3 months of prior experience working in tree fruit orchards handling primarily manual tasks associated with fruit production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform all work activities with accuracy and efficiency.

General: Workers will perform any of the following duties: Orchard clean-up, building and repairing tree trellises, removal of strings and wire from trellises and other hand tasks. Care of young non-producing fruit trees, including weeding, tree trunk painting, hand fertilizing and hand clipping. Training of apple, pear, peach and nectarine trees to trellises including limb positioning, clipping and tying limbs and shoots to wire. Must be able to train trees to trellis without constant management supervision. Propping and tying of apple, pear, peach, and nectarine trees and limbs. May operate and help maintain tractors.

Planting:
Workers will prepare fields for planting by clearing cull stock, brush, debris and rocks; dig holes, plant seedlings or 'liners' by hand (including riding on the planting machine, reaching and grabbing a tree and dropping it in the hole and inserting liners in a mechanical planter); shovel and rake dirt around newly-planted trees.

Requirements:

• 3 months experience in duties listed
• Drug Screen
• Lifting requirement 60 lbs.
• Exposure to extreme temperatures
• Extensive pushing or pulling, 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