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Consultant, please conduct a seated interview.Place of Employment: Underwood, Washington. Period of Intended Employment: 01/20/2025-11/20/2025. Worker must possess 3 months of tree fruit experience

Job Duties: This job requires harvesting, thinning, irrigation, training, and pruning by the worker. Crops: Apple, pears, cherries, plums, peaches, blueberry, raspberry, marion berry, loganberry, mulberry, walnut, and chestnut. These crops listed may or may not be planted and employer is not limited to only the scroops listed. APPLES/CHERRIES/ PLUMS/ PEACHES/PEARS Harvest: Worker will hand harvest apples, cherries, plums, peaches and pears. Worker will attach harness, bucket or bag and pick low hanging fruit while standing on the ground and higher branches while standing on a ladder. Worker will pick according to grade, color and size by grasping fruit with the hands and removing from the tree in a motion so as not to harm adjacent buds on the tree branches. Worker will carry harness, bucket or bag of up to 60 lbs. and will place fruit into bins, which hold approximately 22 bushels of fruit. Care must be exercised at all times to prevent bruising of fruit or breaking of branches. Some workers may be required to examine harvested fruit in bins and sort out any fruit not meeting the grade, color and size specifications. Workers must possess the ability to pick up, and handle, a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing 40 pounds. THINNING: Thinning is a manual process used to control the size and quality of grown fruit. Must possess ability to pick up, handle a 10 ft. or 12 ft. orchard ladder weighing 40 pounds. This process requires the employee to remove, in some cases not limited to the smallest fruit blossom, bud and/or identifiable fruit from within a cluster of other fruits. Workers 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 the ground or a ladder. TRACTOR DRIVER: A tractor operator must be able to operate a manual transmission style clutch and gear operation. The operator must perform daily inspections during start up and shutdown of the machine such as checking oil levels, cleaning air filters, and checking tire\ pressures. The operations the employee may be asked to do may be running implements such as a mower, rototiller, bin trailer, bin forks or forklift. The operator will be trained on all tasks and safety regulations set by manufacturers guidelines. Company training is a requirement for this position. 40-hour work week may include nights and weekends, as directed by Supervisor or Farm Manager. IRRIGATOR: The main responsibility of the irrigator is to move water throughout the farm to properly irrigate the orchard. The irrigator will use, in a safe manner, a 4-wheeler to travel from block to block to open and close valves and check lines for plugs, remove debris that disrupts sprinklers, and make any necessary repairs. Irrigators may at times need to make PVC repairs that are underground and need to be dug up with a shovel. Other repairs may be above ground and may require the use of a ladder. All tools and necessary repair materials will be provided to the irrigator. Company training is a requirement for this position. 40-hour work week may include nights and weekends, as directed by Supervisor or Farm Manager.\ TRAINING: *Propping, training and limb positioning apple, plum, pear, cherry, mulberry, walnut and chestnut trees. *Hand thinning of apple, plum and cherry trees to ensure proper crop load. *Shoot thinning, sucker removal, cluster thinning, shoot positioning, hedging, leaf removal. *Trellising of caneberries according to variety requirements: raspberry, marionberry, loganberry. PRUNING Pruning numerous varieties of plum, apple, cherry, pear, chestnut and mulberry trees according to established company procedures based on the difference in the treatment of different varieties, as well as the pruning and trellising of blueberry, raspberry and marionberry. 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. Workers may be required to selectively prune only trees of a certain size and color as instructed by the farm manager. Workers are 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. Other Job Specifications Include: Worker will care for young non-producing fruit trees and caneberries including weeding, hoeing, trunk painting, hand fertilizing and growth selection by hand and clipping. Hand thinning of apple, cherry, plum and pear trees to ensure proper fruit load on tree. Pruning of apple, cherry, peach, plum and pear trees. Training and limb positioning of apple, cherry, peach, plum and pear trees. Feed and water liv