10 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 05/23/2024 - 11/23/2024.

Crops/Commodities: Tobacco, pumpkins, gourds, squash, hay, straw, rye, oats, barley, wheat, corn, soybeans, and mums. This job requires a minimum of three months of verifiable prior experience working on a 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. Workers must have no fear of working from heights of 20 plus feet above the ground. This job requires work in fields and barn curing structures performing manual and machine tasks associated with tobacco. This includes planting, cultivating, and setting up plants after storms. Workers will receive worker protection training as worker, handler, and early entry worker. Chop and top tobacco plants. Cut and lay plants on ground, pick up plants (2-3 each), hand plants to spearer, spear plants onto lath, load onto riggings. Pass lath progressively upward in shed and hang lath onto poles, standing at considerable height. Clean and set up burners in each shed and hook up propane to be functional. After curing, remove burners and equipment, take down tobacco, and strip bundle leaves for market, taking care to prevent damage to plants at all stages to ensure wrapper-quality product.

This job requires the harvest of pumpkins, gourds and squash, which entails cutting the vines, carrying and win rowing, sorting, inspecting and packing by size, variety and maturity according to orders.

Requirements:

• 3 months experience in duties listed
• Drug Screen
• Lifting requirement 50 lbs.
• Exposure to extreme temperatures
• Extensive Pushing or Pulling
• Extensive 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