Job Information
Sernak Farms Farmworker; Diversified in Weatherly, Pennsylvania
7 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 3/04/2024 - 12/15/2024.
Crops: Cabbage, Peppers, tomatoes, Sweet corn, Cucumbers, Pickles, Red Beets, Green & Yello Beans, Eggplant, Zucchini, Squash (Winter & Summer), other vine crops, Pumpkins, Hay, Straw, Field Corn & Trees.
Worker must possess the physical strength and endurance ability to continue or last to repeat the harvest process though out the workday, working quickly and skillfully to perform activities assigned during that activity.
Vegetables: Workers will plant, cultivate and harvest vegetables. Workers will perform duties in the greenhouse as a pre-planting activity. Workers will be required to remove weeds by hand or with a hoe. Workers will bend and stoop to pick vegetables according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity and place into field containers. Workers may carry full container weighing approximately fifty (50) lbs. and empty into field bin or load onto trailer. May be required to pull and discard culls as directed by supervisor. Pickers will take care not to bruise or scar produce. Pre-harvest activities may include staking, tying, transplanting and pruning. Workers will stand on feet for long periods of time. Workers are required to work in fields when plants are wet with dew or rain. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from forty (40) to over one hundred (100) degrees
Packing Operation
Grading Working carefully remove any leaves and defective vegetables as defined by grading supervisor as vegetables move across grading tables. Vegetables must be handled carefully to avoid bruises or fingernail cuts.
Fillers Workers box the graded product in appropriate containers by attending automatic filler or by hand as necessary according to packaging instructions disclosed by the supervisor.
Special Packaging Workers may be required to custom fill trays and marketing gift packs according to supervisor's instructions.
Requirements:
- 3 months experience in duties listed
- Post-hire random drug testing at no cost to the employee
- Lifting requirement 75 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive pushing or pulling, 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
