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Employment: 2/19/2024-11/15/2024. Location: Royal City , Washington.
Applicant \"MUST HAVE\" 3 months of experience. Job Duties: GRAPE
Harvest: Workers will hand and/or machine harvest wine grapes. Worker
will harvest numerous varieties of grapes according to established
company procedures accounting for difference in the treatment of
different varieties. When asked by the supervisor worker will operate
the grape harvesting machine. The fruit will be placed on either a
plastic tub or stainless-steel bin. Care must be exercised at all time
to prevent breaking of vineyards and to maximize the quality of the
fruit. Some workers may be required to examine harvested fruit in bins
and sort out any fruit not meeting the grade, color and size
specifications. THINNING: Thinning is a manual process used to control
the size and quality of grown fruit. The Worker must possess the ability
to pick up, handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing 40 pounds.
Furthermore, the Worker must be able to use scissor like clippers. This
process requires the Worker to remove, in some cases not limited to the
smallest fruit blossom, bud and/or identifiable fruit from within a
cluster of other fruits. The Worker will be expected to be able to
identify and remove fruit that is misshapen, damaged and/or with other
quality problems as directed by supervisors. Thinning may be performed
from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or a ladder. TRAINING:
* Training of grape vines to limb tying, trellis tying or clipping
limbs to wire * Training and limb positioning of grape vines * Hand
thinning of grape vineyards trees to ensure proper crop load * Shoot
thinning, sucker removal, cluster thinning, shoot positioning, hedging,
leaf removal of grapevines - for grape vines * Propping and tying of
grapevines * Moving wires in grapes for light exposure * Training may
be performed from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or a
ladder. PRUNING: Pruning numerous varieties of grape vines according to
established company procedures based on the difference in the treatment
of different varieties. Work will be performed on trees for long periods
of time using a variety of pruning equipment including hand shears, hand
loppers, power pruners, chainsaws, hand saws, and 10 ft. or 12 ft.
ladders. Pruning may be done from the ground or a ladder up to 12 feet
in height or from a motorized platform. Workers may be required to
selectively prune only trees of a certain size and color as instructed
by the crew boss. Workers expected to possess or acquire pruning skills
in order to identify and remove stubs or broken branches,
downward-growing branches, branches which rub against each other, shaded
interior branches, dead wood and shoots/suckers with hand pruning saws
and clippers, mechanized equipment in pruning activities. NURSERY Work:
Worker will perform any combination of the following duties concerned
with preparing soil and growth media, cultivating and otherwise
participating in horticultural activities under close supervision on
acreage, in nursery: Hauls and spreads topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss,
and other materials to condition land; digs, rakes and screens soil;
fills growing tanks with water; plants, sprays, weeds and waters plants,
shrubs and trees. CREW LEADER: Specific individuals who have experience
in running crews, may be asked to supervise a group of workers by
following instructions from upper management. This would involve
communicating and directing the crew in the proper work tasks needed for
a particular job (i.e. thinning, pruning, picking, etc.). Other Job
Specifications Include: 1.Worker will care for young non-producing fruit
trees and grape vines including weeding, hoeing, trunk painting, hand
fertilizing and growth selection and clipping. 2.Hand thinning of grape
vineyards to ensure proper fruit load on tree. 3.Pruning of grape
vineyards. 4.Training of grape vines, trellis, including clipping and
tying limbs and shoots to wire. 5.Training and limb positioning of grape
vineyards. 6.Provide general labor to assist in the establishment of new
orchard properties and vineyard by clearing property, planting trees,
building trellis, irrigation installation, repair and spreading of
composted material and any other labor considered necessary for the
efficient structure of new orchard properties. 7.Cares for trees and
vines during growing process- recognize tree disease such as of blighted
branches 8.Propping and tying of grape vineyards. 9.Pruning and thinning
may be done from the ground or ladder up to 12 feet in height, or from a
motorized platform. 10.Repair sprinklers on overhead cooling system and
under tree irrigation; change irrigation on schedule. 11.Load and unload
empty bins by hand and place in orchard. 12.Picking numerous varieties
of wine grapes according to established company procedures accounting
for difference in the treatment of different varieties. 13.Observation
of bruised, damaged or cull fruit by the supervisor will result in a bad
bin mark and after three bad bin marks, the employees will receive
disciplinary action up to and including termination. A bad bin mark
occurs when a bin is inspected and a significant number of culls,
bruised or damaged are found by the supervisors. 14.Farm clean up tasks
to include pic