Fruit and Vegetable Packer

You stand at a sorting table and take out fruit that is bruised, split or undersized, then pack the rest into crates, nets or trays to the weight the order calls for. Every crate is weighed, labelled with the variety and the date, and stacked on a pallet in a fixed pattern. The cold store runs at 2 to 4 degrees and you spend part of the shift in it when the finished pallets are moved. One shift runs 07:00-15:00, with a second shift added at the peak of the apple intake in November.

Primary school completed, no qualification needed

Standing work at a sorting table through the shift

Quick and consistent judgement of fruit quality

Willingness to work in a cold store at 2 to 4 degrees

Willingness to work Saturdays at the peak of the season

Basic English for the scale and the label printer

Net salary from 436 up to 480 EUR per month

Seasonal contract from October to the end of January

Paid overtime at the peak of the apple intake

Hot meal and tea during the shift

Company bus from Bitola and from the Pelagonia villages

Paid training on grading and on the labelling scale

Work clothing, a warm jacket, gloves and safety shoes provided

Packers who work a full season are offered the spring pepper intake first, and those who learn the grading standard move to quality checking on the intake ramp.

A packing hall kept at about 12 degrees with sorting tables at working height, and an adjoining cold store at 2 to 4 degrees. A warm jacket, gloves and safety shoes are supplied for the work in the cold store.