Anticipated period of employment: 09/23//2024 to 05/03/2025

All applicants must have 3 months experience hand harvesting a perishable crop. Applicants must be able to furnish affirmative job references from recent employers.

Litter Management - Maintain or remove litter (animal waste) from aisles in our organic barns on a daily basis during the fall/winter season. Maintain litter aisle shavings and keep calcium chip buckets filled as needed. This specific cleaning is done to a greater extent and different from the daily, routine cleaning that other employees perform due to the time of year. Pullet Rearing - Split up baby chicks to different tiers within barn. Vaccinate pullets at thirteen weeks of age. Load pullets into carts to be transported to laying hen houses at the end of the rearing period. Workers will perform dry and wet cleaning and maintenance duties to prepare laying houses for pullets at the end of the rearing period and to clean empty pullet houses after pullets are moved out. Remove mortality and spent hens as needed. The dry-cleaning duties include using backpack blowers to blow down henhouses, sweep floors, clean lights and other miscellaneous cleaning and light repair duties. Wet cleaning includes pressure washing and spraying wet disinfectant to thoroughly clean henhouses. This job includes holding a pressure washing nozzle outstretched from your body for a number of hours in a very humid environment. See ETA 790/790A for a complete job description.

Only workers meeting all qualifications on the job order should be referred by the Job Service Office. Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Once the applicant has a copy of the job contract they may call and/or email the employer to schedule an interview Monday- Friday from 9am to 5pm and referred to NY1505045 as the JO is in connection with this NJ number.

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