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My-T Acres, Inc. Agricultural Equipment Operators in Oakfield, New York
4 Fulltime H-2A Seasonal Job Available 03/01/2023 - 11/01/2023
Manually pick lift carry stones from fields to truck and loader and woods to clear fields. Cut, chop, and pull weeds or vines, pick up wood, sticks, and or stones from fields or hedgerows. Manually hand and machine plant cabbage plants. May walk behind machine planter and cover transplanted cabbage plugs. May ride mechanical transplanter and load cabbages in planting cups. Assist in the planting of potatoes including but not limited to riding on the potato planter. May help unload potato seed into the potato planter. Farmyard work including raking, picking up sticks and leaves from yards. May harvest beets, carrots, and potatoes. Hand weed and hoe weeds from cabbage, beets, beans, carrots, andand potatoes. Will ride on carrot and beet harvester to manually remove tops and or dirt. Will clean and maintain vegetable harvesting equipment. Assist in the repair and cleaning of potato harvesting equipment and potato barn equipment. Will ride potato harvester and pick stone clods and bad potatoes. Manually grade, cut defective potatoes including green potatoes. Workers may grade the potatoes as they are unloaded from trucks that come from the fields into the storage (located on farm) or into customers trucks. Potatoes are graded outside before they are washed and graded inside after they are washed. Workers may also grade potatoes inside the storage area as they come out of storage to be loaded onto customers trucks. Will hand cut and harvest cabbage or assist in cabbage harvest that is harvested mechanically. Load, unload, carry, hookup, and monitor irrigation pipe or systems. Raises and bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker, at the employers discretion, based on individual factors including but not limited to performance, experience, number of hours worked in the season, number of seasons worked with the company, adherence to work rules and ability to follow supervisor instructions.
Requirements: * 6 months verifiable experience in performing the tasks posted in the job order. * Applicants must be 18 years or older. * Must possess a valid CDL. * Criminal background check and Random drug testing may be required, post-hire at employers expense. * Lifting requirement of 50 lbs. * Exposure to extreme temperatures. * Repetitive movements, extensive pushing/pulling, extensive sitting/walking, and frequent stooping/bending.
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov. For qualified applicants requiring a Spanish translation of this job order, please email DIPA@labor.ny.gov or call 1-877-466-9757. Please include the applicant name and job order number in your request.