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EMPLOYMENT SECURITY DEPT TREE FRUIT WORKER X208, YAKIMA, TIETON, NACHES, WAPATO, ZILLAH, GRANDVIEW, PROSSER, MATTAWA, OTHELLO in Naches, Washington
[TREE FRUIT WORKER X208, YAKIMA, TIETON, NACHES, WAPATO, ZILLAH, GRANDVIEW, PROSSER, MATTAWA, OTHELLO, PASCO, MESA WA H-2A]{times="" new="" roman\";="" font-weight:="" bold\"=""}
[This is an H-2A job order for Apples, Pears, Cherries and wine grapes.]{times="" new="" roman\"\"=""}
[This H-2A job opportunity is limited to qualified, available workers that are ]{times="" new="" roman\";="" font-weight:="" bold\"=""}[currently]{times="" new="" roman\";="" font-weight:="" bold;="" text-decoration:="" underline\"=""}[ eligible to work in the United States, per federal regulation.]{times="" new="" roman\";="" font-weight:="" bold\"=""}
[Primary tasks will be thinning, planting, training and trellising trees, pruning, summer pruning and harvesting of apples, cherries and wine grapes.]{times="" new="" roman\"\"=""}
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[General - workers will perform any of the following duties: orchard clean-up, building and repairing tree trellises, spreading compost, removal of strings and wire from trellises and other hand tasks. Care of young non-producing fruit trees, including weeding, tree trunk painting, hand fertilizing and hand clipping. Training of apple, and cherry trees to trellises including limb positioning, clipping and tying limbs and shoots to wire. Must be able to train trees to trellis without constant management supervision. Propping and tying of apple and cherry trees and limbs. Workers will install, deploy and remove shade cloth; install, maintain and operate irrigation system. Ability to pick up, use and safely handle a 12 foot orchard ladder weighing approximately 40 lbs. is necessary for performance of general orchard duties.]{times="" new="" roman\"\"=""}
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[Qualified workers (workers who possess at least one season of previous experience performing the following duties) may be offered tasks including, but not limited to, the operation of general purpose vehicles to transport workers, equipment and product from one field location or facility to another, the operation of tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators, cherry dryers and /or forklifts. ]{times="" new="" roman\"\"=""}
[Workers will be instructed in safety and operation of vehicles/equipment before driving/operation. Under supervision of certified pesticide applicator, may mix and apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and/or fertilizer.]{times="" new="" roman\"\"=""}
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[Planting:]{times="" new="" roman\"\"=""}
[Workers will prepare fields for planting by clearing cull stock, ]{times="" new="" roman\"\"=""}