Job Information
Clark Brothers Orchards LLC Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery in Ashfield, Massachusetts
4 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 04/01/2024 - 12/31/2024.
Tasks related to the planting, cultivation, harvesting and processing of fruit. Harvest apples using a ladder and picking bucket. Worker will be required to lift up to 50 lbs. while ascending and descending a ladder on a sustained basis. Preparing soil, picking rocks, pruning, weeding, thinning, irrigating, mowing, harvesting, grading and packing. May set up, operate and repair farm equipment, repair tents and farm buildings, and fences. Packing fruit grown by Clark Brothers Orchards LLC for wholesale distribution and winter pruning after harvest. May operate farm equipment that relates to the cited task, hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw and hoe. Work is performed out of doors sometimes under conditions of heat, cold and rain. One month apple experience in duties listed required.
Requirements:
- 1 month experience in duties listed
- 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