Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop

H2ajobs; Juana Díaz (PR); On-site; USD 12,000 - 18,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Free transportation to stores

Job summary

H2ajobs in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico is seeking workers for seasonal agricultural duties including planting, harvesting, packing, and related farm tasks across fruits, vegetables, and cereals.

Applicants should be prepared for outdoor work, variable hours, and heavy lifting. Housing and meals are provided; weekly transportation is offered to stores, with meal charges if facilities are unavailable.

Qualifications

• Experience wanted: 0 months.

Responsibilities

• Planting, cultivating, maintaining, harvesting, washing, and packaging fruits and vegetables.
• Move, load, and unload baled hay; operate farm equipment as required.
• Work outdoors, stand/walk for long periods, and lift 5–75 pounds as needed.

Job description

Planting, cultivating, maintaining, harvesting, washing, and packaging fruits, farinaceous and vegetables products, such as: mango, peppers, squash, cucumber and tomatoes. Hay harvest and baling activities. These work activities anticipated to be performed at any time/various times throughout the entire period of employment. Move along rows of previously baled hay, bending, stooping & lifting 30 to 75 lbs. bales. Load & stack bales onto a truck or trailer, move tractor or truck in the field incidental to loading. Worker may unload & restack for storage. 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.

Transport: See Addendum C.

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Experience wanted: 0 months

See Addendum C.

Ver Adendum C.