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Consultant, please conduct seated interview. Period of intended Employment: 2/19/2024-11/15/2024. Location: Royal City , Washington. Applicant \"MUST HAVE\" 3 months of experience. Job Duties: GRAPE Harvest: Workers will hand and/or machine harvest wine grapes. Worker will harvest numerous varieties of grapes according to established company procedures accounting for difference in the treatment of different varieties. When asked by the supervisor worker will operate the grape harvesting machine. The fruit will be placed on either a plastic tub or stainless-steel bin. Care must be exercised at all time to prevent breaking of vineyards and to maximize the quality of the fruit. Some workers may be required to examine harvested fruit in bins and sort out any fruit not meeting the grade, color and size specifications. THINNING: Thinning is a manual process used to control the size and quality of grown fruit. The Worker must possess the ability to pick up, handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing 40 pounds. Furthermore, the Worker must be able to use scissor like clippers. This process requires the Worker to remove, in some cases not limited to the smallest fruit blossom, bud and/or identifiable fruit from within a cluster of other fruits. The Worker will be expected to be able to identify and remove fruit that is misshapen, damaged and/or with other quality problems as directed by supervisors. Thinning may be performed from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or a ladder. TRAINING: * Training of grape vines to limb tying, trellis tying or clipping limbs to wire * Training and limb positioning of grape vines * Hand thinning of grape vineyards trees to ensure proper crop load * Shoot thinning, sucker removal, cluster thinning, shoot positioning, hedging, leaf removal of grapevines - for grape vines * Propping and tying of grapevines * Moving wires in grapes for light exposure * Training may be performed from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or a ladder. PRUNING: Pruning numerous varieties of grape vines according to established company procedures based on the difference in the treatment of different varieties. Work will be performed on trees for long periods of time using a variety of pruning equipment including hand shears, hand loppers, power pruners, chainsaws, hand saws, and 10 ft. or 12 ft. ladders. Pruning may be done from the ground or a ladder up to 12 feet in height or from a motorized platform. Workers may be required to selectively prune only trees of a certain size and color as instructed by the crew boss. Workers expected to possess or acquire pruning skills in order to identify and remove stubs or broken branches, downward-growing branches, branches which rub against each other, shaded interior branches, dead wood and shoots/suckers with hand pruning saws and clippers, mechanized equipment in pruning activities. NURSERY Work: Worker will perform any combination of the following duties concerned with preparing soil and growth media, cultivating and otherwise participating in horticultural activities under close supervision on acreage, in nursery: Hauls and spreads topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition land; digs, rakes and screens soil; fills growing tanks with water; plants, sprays, weeds and waters plants, shrubs and trees. CREW LEADER: Specific individuals who have experience in running crews, may be asked to supervise a group of workers by following instructions from upper management. This would involve communicating and directing the crew in the proper work tasks needed for a particular job (i.e. thinning, pruning, picking, etc.). Other Job Specifications Include: 1.Worker will care for young non-producing fruit trees and grape vines including weeding, hoeing, trunk painting, hand fertilizing and growth selection and clipping. 2.Hand thinning of grape vineyards to ensure proper fruit load on tree. 3.Pruning of grape vineyards. 4.Training of grape vines, trellis, including clipping and tying limbs and shoots to wire. 5.Training and limb positioning of grape vineyards. 6.Provide general labor to assist in the establishment of new orchard properties and vineyard by clearing property, planting trees, building trellis, irrigation installation, repair and spreading of composted material and any other labor considered necessary for the efficient structure of new orchard properties. 7.Cares for trees and vines during growing process- recognize tree disease such as of blighted branches 8.Propping and tying of grape vineyards. 9.Pruning and thinning may be done from the ground or ladder up to 12 feet in height, or from a motorized platform. 10.Repair sprinklers on overhead cooling system and under tree irrigation; change irrigation on schedule. 11.Load and unload empty bins by hand and place in orchard. 12.Picking numerous varieties of wine grapes according to established company procedures accounting for difference in the treatment of different varieties. 13.Observation of bruised, damaged or cull fruit by the supervisor will result in a bad bin mark and after three bad bin marks, the employees will receive disciplinary action up to and including termination. A bad bin mark occurs when a bin is inspected and a significant number of culls, bruised or damaged are found by the supervisors. 14.Farm clean up tasks to include pic