Shire Jobs

15 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 04/01/2024 - 11/12/2024.

Perform manual labor to plant, transplant, cultivate, and harvest flowers, and cultivate, harvest, and pack corn. 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 trans planter and feeding transplants carefully through fingers of the trans planter 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. Harvest corn by hand, making sure stalk is pulled clean of all ears of correct size and maturity. Pack corn into bags or boxes in the field or packing facility.

Requirements:

Lifting requirement 50 lbs. Exposure to extreme temperatures Extensive sitting or walking Frequent stooping or bending over Repetitive movements

The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov