Currently hiring in Quincy, Mattawa and Pasco

Summary:

Engages in pruning, thinning, harvesting and all aspects of growing tree crops by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Harvests seasonal fruits such as cherries, apples, pears, etc., according to method appropriate for type of fruit, by hand.
• Carries and positions work aids, such as ladders, and/or buckets.
• Selects fruit to be harvested, according to size, shape and color.
• Grasps, twists, and pulls fruit, to separate crop from plant and places fruit into bags, buckets, or trays, exercising care to avoid plant fruit damage.
• Empties filled containers into collection boxes or bins.
• May stand on ladders or elevated platforms, stoop over plants to reach fruit.
• May sort through fruit removing poor quality fruit, foreign matter like twigs and grasses.
• May remove ladders, bags, buckets, boxes, from work area to clean growing areas.
• May prune using loppers on ladders and platforms.
• May thin tree fruits using hands on ladders and platforms.
• Other jobs may include pulling weeds, planting, trellis work, tree training, painting trees, helping install poly tube in new plantings, and general clean up.
  

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  

Language Skills:

• Ability to comprehend simple verbal instructions.
• Ability to effectively communicate with supervisor and coworkers.

Mathematical Skills:

• Ability to count is preferred but not required.
  

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
  

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Not applicable
  

Other skills and abilities:

• Complete assignments on time as directed by foreman or crew boss
• Observes safety and security procedures; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.
• Is consistently at work and on time; Ensures employer is notified of absences; arrives at trainings/orientations on time.
  

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is:

• Regularly required to walk; talk or hear and taste or smell.
• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Frequently required to climb/balance on a ladder.
• Regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
  

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is:

• Regularly exposed to outside weather conditions, including heat and cold.
• Frequently exposed to high, precarious places, moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; cold.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet but may become loud for short periods of time depending on slow passing motorized equipment.