Winter Service Technician

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I. Background Golden Wolf Landscape & Design, LLC (established in 2020) is a landscape and snow and ice management contractor based in Chester, New Jersey. We serve condominium associations, commercial properties, and residential customers across Morris, Somerset, and Sussex Counties. We have a temporary, seasonal need for 4 workers to be employed as Winter Service Technicians (47-4051.00 Highway Maintenance Workers) from 12/24/2026 through 3/31/2027. We are a returning H-2B program user. This application is a separate request, for a separate occupation and period of need, from our landscaping applications. II. Regulatory Standards Under 20 CFR 655.6(b) and 8 CFR 214.2(h)(6)(ii)(B)(2), a seasonal need is one that is traditionally tied to a season of the year by an event or pattern and is of a recurring nature. Employment is not seasonal if the period during which the labor is not needed is unpredictable or subject to change, or is a vacation period for the employers permanent employees. The request must also represent bona fide job opportunities for the number of workers requested. III. Temporary Need A. Period of Need Our need is tied to the winter season in northern New Jersey. Snowfall, ice formation, and sustained freezing temperatures create a predictable, recurring demand each winter for snow plowing, walkway clearing, and deicing. This period is not a vacation period for our permanent employees. Our need begins in late December. Although temperatures begin to fall in early December, much of the early-month snowfall melts without service. Sustained freezing temperatures and accumulating snowfall typically set in during the final week of the month (see Figures 1 and 2), and our customer agreements, all of which are winter-season agreements, are structured around this pattern (Tab D). The Winter Service Technician position exists only because of winter weather. Outside the winter months there is no snow or ice to remove, and we have no work for these employees. We therefore have no need to retain Winter Service Technicians beyond the requested period. Figures 1 & 2: Temperatures enter the freezing range in December and while there is substantial snowfall in December, our true need for labor takes hold in the tail end of the month. Temperatures are high enough for most of December to melt much of the snowfall without the need for Winter Service Technicians. By late December, that need skyrockets as snowfall increases and temperatures consistently decrease. https://weatherspark.com/y/23646/Average-Weather-in-Chester-New-Jersey-United-States-Year-Round Our need ends on March 31. As temperatures rise towards the end of March, snow events become less frequent, and the remaining work shifts to final events, post-season cleanup, and the cleaning and preparation of salt-exposed trucks, plows, and spreaders for storage. That work concludes by the end of March. Our payroll confirms this pattern. As shown in Tab A, we have employed Winter Service Technicians only in the December through March window in every year of record, and never in April through November. Hours are consistently highest in January and February and decline in March. This record, together with predictable winter weather, shows that our need is seasonal and recurring. B. Bona Fide Job Opportunity We request 4 Winter Service Technicians. This number is based on (1) our full-time equivalent (FTE) labor requirement over the last four winters, (2) documented growth in winter service volume, and (3) the labor we have had to obtain from subcontractors and salaried management because our seasonal hiring has not kept pace with our growth. Winter work is labor intensive and cannot be deferred. A single storm often requires several rounds of plowing, walkway clearing, and salting over one or more days, followed by refreeze treatments. Our agreements require service within fixed windows after snowfall ends. (continued on attachment)

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Última actualización: 7 de octubre de 2026