Job Information
New York State Job Bank Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trim in Richmond, Vermont
4 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 05/1/2025 - 11/20/2025.
Workers will perform any combination of the following tasks daily: Maple Wind Farm is an open range operation which has a temporary need for workers during the slaughtering and processing season. The occupation is not year-round because the employer's need is temporary. The workers will assist in feeding, cleaning, and raising the poultry for slaughter. Workers will perform all facets of poultry raising and cleaning, slaughtering, and dressing of fowl in preparation for market. Workers will clean to USDA specifications any and all rooms, equipment to include blood pans, rendering barrels, ice barrels, floors, toilet and walls. Work requires long periods of standing and bending and kneeling. Workers must be able to lift and carry boxes and barrels weighing up to 80 pounds. Workers will catch and move fowl to area for processing, hang live poultry in shackles, and perform bleed out operations. Additionally, workers will perform knife cuts, remove, separate & prepare viscera, use packaging machines, apply labels, and record weights, as well as feed the poultry, construct pens and clean barns and the feeding and drinking equipment. Workers will maintain the grounds on the farm to comply with good agricultural practices (including grass and brush control). Workers may perform other farm-related duties as the need arises. Workers may operate trucks or other multi-purpose vehicles to transport workers from housing (whether on or off farm) to the farm properties; haul tools, supplies, or crops; transport workers from place to place around the farm properties during the workday (including on public roads to reach farmer's fields); and/or transport workers to the grocery store, bank, or laundry facilities on an as-needed basis. Those that are requested to drive will be required to possess a valid drivers license; no worker will be rejected for not having a driver's license.Requirements:
- 1 months experience in duties listed
- Lifting requirement 80 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive pushing or pulling
- Extensive sitting or walking
- Frequent stooping or bending over
- Repetitive movements
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov