farmworkers/equipment operator

Workers will cut away dead and excess branches from fruit trees using handsaws, pruning hooks, and shears. May apply healing compound to pruning wounds. May cut down and fertilize trees. Workers will use tractors to remove limbs and brush from pruning sites. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Worker will operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and specialty apple harvesting machinery. Workers must have a minimum of 2 months of verifiable work experience driving 75 hp. tractors or larger and operating tractor drawn orchard harvesting equipment/machinery. Worker will occasionally plant trees, prune trees and harvest apples as well as perform other regular orchard duties.