Jose Luis Saldana
Beverly,MA
Summary
Dedicated Agricultural Worker willing to take on any task to help team. Offering 22 years of experience. Hard worker with exceptional record of punctuality and good attitude.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
General Orchard Labor
Wahluke Heights Orchards
01.2010 - 02.2024
- Harvests seasonal fruits such as cherries, apples, and apricots, according to method appropriate for type of fruit, by hand.
- Carries and positions work aids, such as ladders, and/or buckets.
- Selects fruit to be harvested, according to size, shape and color.
- Grasps, twists, and pulls fruit, to separate crop from plant and places fruit into bags, buckets, or trays, exercising care to avoid plant fruit damage.
- Empties filled containers into collection boxes or bins.
- May stand on ladders or elevated platforms, stoop over plants to reach fruit.
- May sort through fruit removing poor quality fruit, foreign matter like twigs and grasses.
- May remove ladders, bags, buckets, boxes, from work area to clean growing areas.
- May prune using loppers on ladders and platforms.
- May thin tree fruits using hands on ladders and platforms.
- Other jobs may include pulling weeds, planting, trellis work, tree training, painting trees, helping install poly tube in new plantings, and general clean up.
Skills
- Tractor Driver
- Sprayer
- Machinery Operator
- Truck loading and unloading with fork lift
- Crew Boss
Timeline
General Orchard Labor
Wahluke Heights Orchards
01.2010 - 02.2024