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This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information, please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2147584 Consultant, please conduct seated interview. Period of intended Employment: 2/1/2024-11/15/2024.

Location: Pasco, Washington. Applicant \"MUST HAVE\" 3 months of experience.

FARMWORKERS AND LABORERS:

Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest fruits, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities. PLANTING TREES: Planting trees is a manual process in establishing an orchard to produce high quality fruit. Planting tasks are but not limited to: 1)Plant Trees. 2)Clearing property. 3)Installing Trellis. 4)Installing Irrigation System. 5)Spreading composted materials. 6)Planting may be performed from a mechanized platform and/or from the ground This job require 3 months of tree fruit experience. 4e) Must be able to lift and/or load 60lbs. 4g) Work may take place when temperatures are below freezing and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. 4h) May require extensive pulling and/or pushing of tools, wheelbarrows, fruit containers, etc. 4i) May require worker to sit and/or walk for extensive periods of time while sorting, picking, examining, weeding, transporting, pruning, etc. 4j) Workers will be required to stoop and/or bend over while performing farm labor such as weeding, irrigating, pruning, picking, removing debris, etc. 4k) There will be repetitive movements while performing most of the farm labor duties, for example picking, sorting, pruning, shoveling, weeding, etc. TRAINING TREES: Perform manual horticultural tasks. Training is a manual process in which the fruit tree is manipulated to increase yield and/or quality. Some examples of training tasks are but not limited to: 1)Tying, taping, or clipping apple limbs to wires. 2)Tying up or down apple limbs. 3)Training and limb positioning of apple trees. 4)Shoot thinning, sucker removal, cluster thinning, shoot positioning, hedging, or leaf removal. 5)Propping and supporting apple trees. 6)Possess the ability to pick up, handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing 40 pounds. 7)Training may be performed from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or ladder. PRUNING TREES: Perform manual horticultural tasks. Pruning numerous varieties of apple, pear, and cherry trees 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 and techniques. Some examples of pruning tasks are but not limited to: 1)Using hand shears, hand loppers, hand saws. 2)Possess the ability to pick up, handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing 40 pounds. 3)Pruning may be done from the ground or a ladder up to 12 feet in height or from a motorized platform. 4)The Worker may be required to selectively prune only trees of a certain size and color as instructed by the crew supervisor. 5)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. 6)Ability to use hand pruning saws, clippers, and mechanized equipment in pruning activities. THINNING FRUIT: Perform manual horticultural tasks. Thinning is a manual process used to control the size and quality of grown fruit. Some examples of thinning tasks are but not limited to: 1)Remove, in some cases not limited to the smallest fruit blossom, bud and/or identifiable fruit from within a cluster of other fr its. 2)Identify and remove fruit that is misshapen, damaged and/or with other quality problems as directed by supervisors. 3)Ensure proper fruit load on tree. 4)Use scissors like clippers. 5)Possess the ability to pick up, handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing 40 pounds. 6)Performed from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or a ladder. APPLE / PEAR HARVEST: Perform manual horticultural tasks. Harvest agricultural products.

Some examples of harvesting tasks are but not limited to: 1)Hand harvest apples/pears 2)Performed from a motorized platform and/or from the ground or a ladder.3)Attach harness, bucket, or bag. 4)Pick low hanging fruit while standing on the ground. 5)Pick higher branches while standing on a ladder or mechanized platform. 6)Pick according to grade, color, and size. 7)Grasp fruit with your hands and remove it from the tree in a motion so as not to harm adjacent buds on the tree branches. 8)Carry harness, bucket, or bag of up to 60 lbs. 9)Place fruit into wooden or plastic bins, 4\'x4\'x3\' which hold approximately 25 bushels of fruit. 10)Handle fruit carefully and do not bruise or damage fruit when it is placed in the bin. 11)Examine harvested fruit in bins and sort out any fruit not meeting the grade, color, and size specifications.

12)Care must always be exercised to prevent bruising fruit or breaking branches. 13)Able to pick up, handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing up to 40 pounds. 14)Harvest preparation includes spreading liners in bins, rolling bins into blocks by hand. 15