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This is a Temporary Position. Dates of employment are (7/1/24 to 10/22/24). To apply: click on "I want to apply", follow referral instructions. Resumes and/or applications can also be faxed to H-2A Coordinator Tammy Pursel at *Fax Number 570-387-4293 or email to tapursel@pa.gov * Be sure to reference the job posting number 20088797 on your resume/application.
This job requires 3 months of verifiable agricultural experience.
Crops: Christmas trees, Tomatoes Christmas trees: Perform duties associated with harvesting of and evergreen boughs. Including cutting boughs with hand pruners, hand bundling and loading boughs, dragging cut Christmas trees, mechanically bailing cut Christmas trees and loading cut Christmas trees on wagons or truck trailers. Shearing Christmas trees using hand pruners. Tomatoes: Primary function of this job is riding on harvester removing debris such as rocks and sorting tomatoes as they pass on a conveyer belt (picking out bad or highly damaged tomatoes). When crew members are unable to ride the harvester due to field conditions, they will do weeding by hand or with a weed whacker, rock picking, bundle trickle irrigation tape, and other agricultural work as assigned
Basic job requirements:
Lifting Requirement 30 lbs, Exposure to extreme temperatures, Extensive pushing or pulling, Extensive sitting or walking, Frequent stooping or bending over, repetitive movements