Massachusetts Jobs

4 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 06/20/2024 - 09/15/2024.

Crops/Commodities: greenhouse bedding plants, sunflowers and produce. Workers will perform work including, but not limited to, planting, digging, mulching, transplanting, mowing, watering in fields and seasonal holding houses. Workers will fertilize, prune, space, water, tag and perform other plant maintenance; count and inventory plants; propagate plants from cuttings; harvest,pack plants,produce by hand; plant and dig field grown plants, perform general maintenance of field grown plants. Considerable stooping and kneeling is required. Workers will fill, occasionally lift and carry various size pots with soil and plants weighing as much as 51 pounds; load plants produce onto wagons and trucks. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. Workers will remove plastic from seasonal holding houses in spring and cover seasonal holding houses with plastic in fall; assist with building seasonal holding houses. Workers will also perform general cleaning maintenance of fields and work areas and servicing of equipment.

Work will also include mechanized field work using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, planters and cultivators. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.

Requirements:

• 1 months 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