FARMWORKER, AQUACULTURE (Job Number 394750) 3 Openings

Work Site: No Specific Work Location.

Work will be performed in St. Croix County, Polk County & Walworth County. The employer will provide, without charge or deposit charge, all tools, supplies, and equipment required to perform the duties assigned. Worker will be paid weekly.

On Bus Route?No

Pay: $13.29 Per Hour

The wage offer is $13.29 per hour. The wage offer is adjusted for H-2A workers. The wage offer for H-2A workers includes a downward adjustment of $-1.29 per hour. H-2A workers will be paid $12.00 per hour.

Duration/Usual Hours Per Week: Full-Time, 48 Hours Per Week Minimum

This is a full time temporary job from March 8th 2026- November 19th, 2026. Standard work week is Monday through Friday. In addition, Saturday 8 hrs. work required

Shift/Work Days:

First Shift. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours but are not required to work more than stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays.

Monday through Saturday. Hourly work schedule: 7:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. These hours could increase or decrease based on weather conditions, crop delay, pests or disease, crop yield, available labor, and or productivity.

Number of Openings: 3

Minimum Requirements of Employer:

Education: No Minimum Education Level Requested

Professional Licenses / Certifications: No Licenses or Certifications Requested

Vehicle: No Vehicle Requested

Drivers License: Type: No Drivers License Requested

Endorsements: No Endorsement Requested

Age: No Age Requested

Experience / Qualifications:

Extensive bending over, pushing and pulling, walking, and repetitive movements. Need driver's license . Be able to lift at least 60 lbs. Criminal background check and drug screen at employer's expense.

Duties and Responsibilities of the Job:

Workers will be required to seine fishponds as needed, load and unload fish from pond bank into specialized fish hauling trucks; unload trucks into fish shed, grade fish into sizes, maintain fish shed by checking health of fish, ensuring vats are properly aerated, removing dead fish and cleaning vats when emptied. Workers will weigh and count fish as needed, especially when loading customer trucks. Workers will monitor ponds for oxygen and water quality parameters when needed. Mechanical assistance in maintaining aeration equipment in ponds both permanent and portable during busy summer months. During that period, workers will need to ensure tractors and other equipment are fueled and greased properly. Worker should be able to start and drive tractors for use in aeration as well as seining ponds. Pond wells will also need to be monitored and turned off and on as needed. During spawning season, primarily April-July, workers will assist in preparing ponds for spawning as well as checking ponds for fish eggs and transferring eggs to fish shed. Workers may assist in feeding fish either by buckets or specialized trucks that blow out feed. Workers may need to drive heavy equipment such as excavators and boom trucks. General property maintenance will be expected such as bush hogging around levees and open fields, trimming trees with a chainsaw, weed eating and some building maintenance such as painting ang general repairs. Mechanical assistance will also be needed to maintain tractors and other heavy equipment as well as farm vehicles. Workers will be expected to keep equipment and vehicles clean. Workers should be able to work independently after the job has been mastered. Tractor experience is essential. A drivers license is highly desirable. This is a physically demanding job and workers must be able to life 55-pound baskets of fish, pull seine through mud and climb up and down pond banks under various temperatures and weather conditions. Worker should be comfortable working in water. There will be some overnight stays in a motel as we have ponds that are in northern Wisconsin. Workers may need to help with packing of worms which include counting and weighing. We are a drug free workplace. Employer may reward exceptional work with additional monetary or non monetary benefits. Workers who have a drivers license may drive farm vehicles to transport themselves or other workers around the farm or to the grocery store. Workers will be in ponds most days and need to comfortable working in water and be able to withstand extreme temperatures. At the sole discretion of the employer excellent work or length of service may be rewarded with additional hourly pay or bonus. If a worker possesses a valid drivers license and physical, he/she may drive the vehicle to transport themselves and other workers to the grocery or to and from the worksite.

The employer will provide housing at no cost to those workers who are not reasonably able to return to their residence within the same day.

The employer will provide workers' compensation insurance coverage in compliance with State law covering injury and disease arising out of and in the course of the worker's employment. The employer will provide, without charge or deposit charge, all tools, supplies, and equipment required to perform the duties assigned.

Free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities are provided for workers to prepare their meals. Workers will provide their own groceries. Workers will be transported to the closest local grocery store at least once per week utilizing the same transportation as is used for moving workers to and from work site. During the season when work is being performed at locations to far to travel to and from the local housing and the motel is being utilized,(motel) the employer will purchase three meals per day (breakfast may be provided at the motel) from local restaurants. Employees will be charged $16.28 on days that the employer provides meals for them.

Transportation to the worksite will be provided. The vehicle used would be the same vehicle used to provide transportation to the closest local grocery store. Daily transportation schedules to be determined by crop conditions, and weather and are discussed verbally with the workers at end of day the day before the workday begins. Daily transportation at no cost to workers is available to workers who reside in employer-provided housing. Centralized pickup is at the housing provided by employer. The employer does not provide transportation to workers for personal errands.

For applicants from outside of the normal commuting area: employer must pay/reimburse reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer to the place of employment, reimbursement must be made no later than 50% through the contract period. If the worker completes the work contract period, or if the employee is terminated without cause, the employer must provide or pay for the worker's transportation and daily subsistence from the place of employment to the place from which the worker departed to work for the employer. Daily subsistence while traveling: Minimum $16.28 per day/Maximum $68.00 per day (with documentation of actual expenses).

The employer guarantees to offer the worker employment for a total number of work hours equal to at least three-fourths of the workdays of the total period beginning with the first workday after the arrival of the worker at the place of employment or the advertised contractual first date of need, whichever is later, and ending on the expiration date specified in the work contract or in its extensions, if any.

The employer will keep accurate and adequate records with respect to each worker's earnings and must furnish to the worker on or before each payday in one or more written wage statements.

At the time of hire, the employer must provide a worker hired to this position, copy of the work contract between the employer and the worker in a language understood by the worker as necessary or reasonable.

The wage offer is $13.29 per hour. The wage offer is adjusted for H-2A workers. The wage offer for H-2A workers includes a downward adjustment of $-1.29 per hour. H-2A workers will be paid $12.00 per hour.

The employer will deduct for federal and state income taxes along with social security and Medicare taxes as required by law. Meals will be deducted on days that the meals are provided by the employer.

All applicants must intend to work the duration of the contract March 8, 2026-November 19th 2026.

In view of the statutorily established basic function of the Employment Service (ES) as a no-fee labor exchange, that is, as a forum for bringing together employers and job seekers, neither the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) nor the State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are guarantors of the accuracy or truthfulness of information contained on job orders submitted by employers. Nor does any job order accepted or recruited upon by the ES constitute a contractual job offer to which the ETA or a SWA is in any way a party.

However, if a SWA discovers that an employer's clearance order contains a material misrepresentation, the SWA may initiate the Discontinuation of Services as set forth in part 658, subpart F of this chapter.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Benefits: The employer does not provide benefits for this job.

How To Apply:

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Additional Application Information

Please include Job Order #3947050 in the subject line of the email with your resume