Animal Trainers and Farmworkers

H2ajobs; Puerto Rico; On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transportation to stores

Job summary

H2Ajobs in the United States is seeking workers for pre-harvest, harvest, and post-harvest agricultural tasks including planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops, plus tending horses. The job is outdoors, physical, and may involve variable hours with long days in the fields.

Responsibilities include seed germination, irrigation maintenance, and animal care. Housing and meals are provided, with transportation to groceries; some shifts may extend to weekends depending on crop maturity.

Qualifications

• Physically demanding outdoor work.
• Able to stand, walk, lift up to 75 lbs.
• Willing to work up to 12 hours per day including Saturdays.

Responsibilities

• Seed germination, transplanting, monitoring, planting, cultivating, and harvesting vegetables.
• Maintain irrigation and drainage, perform weeding and fertilizing.
• Tend horses: feeding, watering, grazing, riding, and training as needed; assist with transport.

Job description

Pre-Harvest, Harvest and Post Harvest agricultural specialty products: plantains; avocados; limes and lemons; squash; cacao; vanilla; lemongrass; and sweet potatoes. The work includes tasks, such as seed germination, transplanting, monitoring, packing, maintaining irrigation and drainage system, weeding, cultivation, fertilizing, planting, cultivating, and harvesting vegetables and farinaceous. Additionally, this operation is also dedicated to tending horses; tasks include feeding, watering; grazing; and exercising animals to keep them in healthy conditions; break, ride, and train horses. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. May assist in transporting horses to track facility from time to time. Most of the workdays are spent outdoors on one's feet, with constant movement as they move from one field to another. Workers must be able to stand, walk uphill and downhill, sit, squat, kneel, crouch, bend (from the waist), push, pull, reach, lift, and carry items weighing in the range of 5 to 75 pounds. Driving and operating passenger vehicles and farm equipment may be required. The worker may be requested but not required to work up to 12 hours per day and/or Federal Holidays, as well as Saturdays, depending upon the conditions in the fields, weather, and maturity of the crop. The manager or supervisor will notify workers at the end of the workday if there is any change in the start and time anticipated hours of work for the following day. Regular attendance by all workers during scheduled hours of the workday and/or work period is expected. Unsatisfactory attendance: including reporting late, excessive requests to leave before the end of the workday, not abiding by housing, or transport regulations, etc., may be cause for disciplinary action. Providing services to other farmers outside the scope of the H2A Visa will result in immediate contract termination. Workers must call their manager or supervisor at least one day before the start of the workday if they do not expect to be in on time. Further information on the Employer's Attendance Policy is in the Employee Handbook.

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Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals:

• -Employer will furnish free and convenient kitchen facilities with utensils, furniture, and appliances, so workers can prepare their own meals.
• -Employer will provide free transportation, once a week, to ensure workers' access to convenience stores or supermarkets where they can purchase groceries.
• -In the event the kitchen facilities become unavailable, due to outstanding events, employer will charge workers for the provision of meals; the daily charge per worker will be $16.78.

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Transport: See Addendum C.

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Experience wanted: 0 months

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