Farm / Crop Field Worker

You will spend most of the day outdoors on the fields, planting, weeding, thinning and harvesting depending on the season. A lot of the work is by hand, bending and reaching to pick olives, tomatoes, grapes or stone fruit and dropping them into crates without bruising them. You will also haul crates, load trailers, run drip irrigation lines and keep the rows clear. Shifts usually start around 6 in the morning to beat the heat, with a longer break in the early afternoon during summer. Some days you will work alongside a small tractor or a mechanical harvester and help load the bins. Pace picks up sharply at harvest, when the crop has to come in before it spoils.

Comfortable with long hours outdoors in heat, rain and cold

Able to bend, lift and carry crates up to 20 kg through the day

Willing to start early, often before sunrise in summer

Basic English is enough, no diploma or prior farm work required

Careful hands so fruit and vegetables arrive without damage

Reliable about showing up on time, every day of the harvest

Accommodation arranged near the farm, shared rooms

Daily transport from the housing to the fields

Help with relocation and the paperwork to start work

A hot meal provided on full working days

Start as a field hand and learn the work season by season. Workers who show up steady and pick up the rhythm move into team lead or machine operator roles, with pay rising from 1040 to 1210 net per month. The employer fills those spots from inside first, so the path is real.

The work is at a agriculture company near Évora, out on open fields under the Alentejo sun, where summers run hot and dry. Conditions are physical and dusty, with proper boots, hats and water provided on site. You work in small crews, so you are never out in the rows on your own.