Shire Jobs

45 full time seasonal H2A jobs available 1/13/25-10/10/25.

Duties: This job requires a minimum of three months of verifiable agricultural employment experience preferably on a vegetable farm. Workers will be expected to perform manual jobs as well as equipment operation with accuracy and efficiency beginning with planting through harvest. Jobs offered are working in a hydroponic greenhouse facility planting, harvesting tomatoes and greenhouse cleanout activities.

Under supervision workers will perform manual labor to work in hydroponic greenhouse facility to prepare for new crop, perform regular crop maintenance, including lowering, twisting, clipping, harvesting and maintaining the plants. Workers will set up rockwool peatmoss, load and unload new plants onto and off of trucks and/or carts, hang and remove string and plant wire spacing. Maintain all grounds including gutters, irrigation lines, remove and replace old drippers, maintain botrytis and close bee hives. Set up and clean up CMM machines. The workers will ensure that the plant crop is carried out efficiently and with care in order to produce a quality grown vegetable. Proper use of gloves, hairnets, smocks, shoe covers, hand sanitizers, foot baths and clippers is required. All food safety activities will also fall under the responsibility of this job order both inside and outside the greenhouse.

Crops: tomatoes on the vine, cherry tomatoes on the vine and snacking tomatoes.

Requirements: * 3 months experience * Employer will train * Exposure to extreme temps., repetitive movements, extensive pushing / pulling, and extensive walking. * Lifting requirement of 30 lbs.

The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov. For qualified applicants requiring a Spanish translation of this job order, please email DOCE@labor.ny.gov or call 1-877-466-9757. Please include the applicant name and job order number in your request.