Nursery Workers

Job description

Specific Job Requirements:
This is a job description for field-grown and container-grown nursery production, harvest, culture, and care of ornamental trees, conifers, woody and herbaceous ornamental plants.

Harvest of Field Grown Nursery Stock
1. Harvest field-grown plants through manual labor and mechanical harvesting techniques, and transplant or pot or ball and burlap them.
2. Apply identification tags to field-grown plants.
3. Haul and spread potting soil and fertilizer or other materials using carts and shovels.
4. Move containerized shrubs, plants and trees.
5. Weeding, cleaning and pruning field-grown plants, shrubs and trees.
6. Hand tools, shears, and mechanical pruners may be utilized.
7. Maintenance of tools and equipment and other work that is directly related.
8. May be trained to operate digging equipment for the purpose of harvesting field grown plant material.

Special Requirements

B.2) 1 month nursery work experience required.
B.4e) Must be able to lift and/or load 60lbs.
B.4g) Work may take place when temperatures are below freezing and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. B.4h) May require extensive pulling and/or pushing of tools, wheelbarrows, plants, etc.
B.4i) May require worker to walk for extensive periods of time while sorting, picking, examining, weeding, transporting, pruning, etc. Does NOT require extensive sitting.
B.4j) Workers will be required to stoop and/or bend over while performing farm labor such as weeding, irrigating, pruning, picking, removing debris, etc.
4k) There will be repetitive movements while performing most of the farm labor duties, for example picking, sorting, pruning, shoveling, weeding, etc.