Job Information
NJ Employer Farmworker in Allentown, New Jersey
Anticipated period of employment: 04/01/2024 to 11/12/2024.
No experience required.
Use hand tools such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, shears, knives, cutters, and weeders. Prepare outdoor growing areas by setting up irrigation drip tape; laying, repairing and cleaning plastic; removing debris, weeds, sticks, and rocks by hand and using gardening tools; and measuring planting areas, inserting stakes and string for spacing plants at designated intervals. Workers will be expected to punch and make holes to prepare the black plastic for planting plugs. Workers must be careful not to damage the tender young plugs. Dig, cut and transplant seedlings, cuttings, trees and shrubs. Transplant by either riding on the back of a transplanter and feeding transplants carefully through fingers of the transplanter that places the plant into the ground and covers the root of the plant with soil, or by walking and carrying trays through assigned rows in the field while bending and stooping to carefully place the transplants into pre-dug holes and covering roots with soil. Workers must keep up with wagon/truck that is going down the rows during the planting and harvesting process. Harvest flowers by cutting stems with pruning shears or a sharp knife. Tie and bunch flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees. Workers must use extreme care while handling plants so no harm is caused to the plants and may only hold them by the container. Greenhouse work may include loading soil in trays, planting seeds and cuttings into pots in trays, watering seedlings, moving trays from one greenhouse to another, transplanting seedlings in trays, and loading trays for transport. Consolidate plants. Mix potting soil and fill trays. Space, label and tag plants. Locate, select, prepare, tag and load product onto wagons, racks and trucks for shipping. Grade, sort, and place product in shipping containers. Move containerized shrubs, plants and trees by hand or using tractors. Load and unload products, tools and materials. Participate in irrigation activities. Fill growing tanks with water. After harvesting is completed workers will be required to remove vines and used plastic and prepare plastic for the next planting cycle. Work outside in inclement weather, including cold, hot, and/or wet weather for extensive periods of time. See ETA 790/790A for a complete job description.
Only workers meeting all qualifications on the job order should be referred by the Job Service Office. Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Once the applicant has a copy of the job contract Employer conducts interviews by phone. Interviews conducted at no cost to applicants, Monday through Friday during the hours of 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET. If unavailable, contact employer 's agent during the hours of 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET. Employer Agent: AgWorks H2, LLC (a MAS Labor company)
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