Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop.

H2ajobs; Waialua (HI); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-provided housing

Free meals and kitchen facilities

Transportation and subsistence support

Job summary

H2ajobs is seeking farm labor workers in Hawaii to perform pollination, detasseling, field maintenance, data collection, harvest, and seed processing across diversified crops. Duties include planting, cultivation, irrigation setup, and operating farm equipment in fields and packing areas.

Experience required is two months. Housing, meals, and transportation support are provided as part of the compensation package. Applicants may be asked to drive tractors and forklifts as part of their duties.

Qualifications

• Experience wanted: 2 months

Responsibilities

• Pollination, detasseling, field maintenance, data collection, harvest, seed processing, and other general farm labor tasks as required.
• Planting (machine and manual), cultivation, and harvesting of diversified crops (corn, soy, watermelon, pumpkins, honeydew, kabocha, onions, and other vegetables and fruits).
• Weeding or thinning with hoe or gardening tools; set out poles and strings for trellises or fences.
• Set irrigation lines, check for leaks, flush debris, and repair lines to irrigate seedlings; operate irrigation trailers and farm machinery.
• Harvest crops by picking, pulling, cleaning, cutting, sorting, bagging, and boxing; may drive tractors and forklifts and work in packing house on site.

Job description

Workers will perform pollination, detasseling, field maintenance, data collection, harvest, seed processing, and other general farm labor tasks as required. Other duties include: Planting (machine and manually by digging furrow and covering after seed drop), cultivating, and harvesting diversified crops, such as: corn, soy, watermelon, pumpkins, honeydew, kabocha, onions, and other vegetable and fruit crops as required. Workers will weed or thin plants using hoe or gardening tools. Set out poles and strings, wire or twine to build trellises or fences. Position, tie leaves, prune limbs, runners, buds from vines on plants such as cucumber (all cucurbits crops), beans or all vine crops. Set irrigation line, check for leaks, flush out debris and repair lines to irrigate seedlings. May use irrigation trailer, fertilizer injector, sprayers, trailers, farm machines, and operate tractors/farm trucks with implements such as plow/harrow, disk, bed shaper, roll tiller, fertilizer hopper, seed driller/planter, manure/sand spreader and soil spreader, in fields, to till soil, plant, cultivate, and tender for crops. Harvest crops by picking, pulling, cleaning, cutting, sorting, bagging, and boxing. Workers may be asked to drive farm equipment such as tractor and forklifts and work in packing house with is located on the farm.

Los trabajadores realizarán tareas de polinización, eliminación de panojas (*detasseling*), mantenimiento del campo, recolección de datos, cosecha, procesamiento de semillas y otras labores agrícolas generales según sea necesario. Otras funciones incluyen: siembra (tanto mecánica como manual, cavando surcos y cubriendo la semilla tras depositarla), cultivo y cosecha de diversos cultivos, tales como maíz, soja, sandía, calabazas, melón verde (*honeydew*), calabaza *kabocha*, cebollas y otras hortalizas y frutas según se requiera. Los trabajadores eliminarán malas hierbas o realizarán el aclareo de plantas utilizando azadones o herramientas de jardinería. Instalarán postes y cuerdas, alambres o cordeles para construir espalderas o cercas. Colocarán, atarán hojas y podarán ramas, guías y brotes de plantas trepadoras o rastreras, como pepinos (y todas las cucurbitáceas), frijoles y otras plantas de enredadera. Instalarán líneas de riego, verificarán si hay fugas, purgarán residuos y repararán las líneas para regar las plántulas. Podrán utilizar remolques de riego, inyectores de fertilizante, pulverizadores, remolques y maquinaria agrícola, así como operar tractores o camiones agrícolas con implementos tales como arados, gradas, discos, formadores de camas de cultivo, cultivadoras rotativas, tolvas de fertilizante, sembradoras, esparcidores de estiércol, arena o tierra, para labrar el suelo, sembrar, cultivar y cuidar los cultivos. Realizarán la cosecha mediante actividades de recolección, arranque, limpieza, corte, clasificación, embolsado y empaquetado en cajas. Es posible que se solicite a los trabajadores conducir maquinaria agrícola, como tractores y montacargas, y trabajar en la planta de empaque ubicada en la misma explotación agrícola.

• Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
• Meals: Employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so workers may prepare their own meals. Workers will buy their own groceries. Once a week, the employer will provide (on a voluntary basis) transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries. These board arrangements apply only to workers living in employer-provided housing.
• Empleador proporcionará instalaciones de cocina y facilidades de uso de cocina gratis y conveniente para que los trabajadores puedan preparar sus propias comidas. Los trabajadores van a comprar sus propios alimentos. Una vez por semana, el empleador proporcionará (con carácter voluntario) el transporte para asegurar el acceso a los trabajadores a las tiendas donde pueden comprar comestibles. Estos arreglos sólo se aplican a los trabajadores que viven en la vivienda proporcionada por el empleador.
• Transport: For workers recruited outside the area of intended employment, transportation and subsistence expenses will be reimbursed by the employer in accordance with 20 CFR § 655.122(h).

Experience wanted: 2 months

See Addendum C/Ver Addendum C