Pecan Orchard Worker
Vanlandingham Farms
About this opportunity
operating dump carts, shakers, sweepers, harvesters, hedgers, and pecan carts loading, unloading, packing, and unpacking harvested pecans (conveyor belts, loading machines, separators, cleaners, dryers, sorting machine, trucks etc). Daily duties may vary depending on crop, weather, and field conditions. The employer reserves the right to increase workers' pay or provide bonuses based on tenure, performance, or other factors that are solely based on the discretion of the employer.
- Dates
- Nov 15, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027
- Duration
- ~3 months
- Experience
- 2 month(s)
- Category
- agriculture
Requirements
- Experience: 2 month(s)
- Job requires having or being able to obtain a drivers license within 30 days of hire. Basic English literacy skills are required. Job will require periods when workers may be exposed to varying weather conditions and extensive sitting, walking, stooping, bending, or repetitive movements. Random drug testing and criminal background checks may occur post-hire at the employers expense. These checks may be performed to ensure safe housing and work environments for all workers. Positive drug test results or refusal to comply with testing may result in termination of employment. If the employer discovers a criminal conviction record or status as a registered sex offender that the employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers, the employer may terminate the worker (foreign and/or domestic) with notification to OFLC and DHS in accordance with 20 CFR 655.122(n).
- Position involves the harvesting, drying, packing, and storage of mature pecans as well as orchard management. Job will require workers using hand tools, push propelled pickers, sheets, and other orchard equipment to harvest pecans
- hedging, clearing the debris from, thinning and pruning pecan trees
- performing orchard maintenance which includes pest control and grounds upkeep
- cleaning and performing maintenance on harvest, drying, and storage equipment
- stacking harvested product in assigned areas
- grading and sanitizing pecans
- monitoring orchards daily for pests
- keeping harvesting records for harvest area identification in the event of contamination
- planting tree seedlings
- transplanting
- weeding
- covering harvesting pecans
Work authorization
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- Work authorization
- H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker
- International candidates
- Yes
- Employer sponsorship
- Required
- Confirmation
- Confirmed by source
- Official source
- U.S. Department of Labor
Benefits & conditions
- Housing
- Employer-provided (including mobile or range) — NONE
- Transportation
- Employer will provide workers that reside in employer provided or secured housing with transportation from the housing to the worksite daily at no cost to the worker. Workers who are reasonably able to return to their residence within the same day will not be provided with housing, subsistence and transportation. Continued in Addendum C.
How to apply
- blvanland@hotmail.com
- Phone
- +16628202407
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Official source
U.S. DOL SeasonalJobs
- Case number
- JO-A-300-26244-208815
- Verification
- Last verified: September 20, 2026
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