Nurseryman

Job description

Job Duties:
• Workers will perform work including but not limited to planting, transplanting, watering in nurseries and seasonal holding houses (50%)
• Plants repots, waters, and maintains plants, trees, and shrubs in the nursery using hand and gardening tools. (25%)
• Ensures plants are healthy and properly cared for. Pull weeds, trim, prune, and fertilize as instructed. (20%).
• Must be able to push, pull, bend, crouch, lift, stretch, and climb to care for plants and arrange them within the nursery.
• Inspects plants to assess quality and health and to identify signs of disease or pests.
• Remove plastic from seasonal holding houses in spring and cover seasonal holding houses with plastic in fall
• Maintains clean work areas and grounds.
• Loading and unloading plants onto trailers or trucks and wagons by hand.
• Ensures the irrigation system works properly and performs basic maintenance and repairs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Equipment used to perform job duties includes but is not limited to, clippers, hoes, spades, pliers, wrenches,
screwdrivers, cutting knives, gloves, tractors, hand trucks, tillers, trailers, and forklifts. The employer provides all
equipment and tools used to perform vineyard duties. Separate equipment operators move heavier materials with
tractors or skid steers. Equipment operation training will also be provided.

Physical Requirements:
Workers may be required to handle products weighing up to 75 pounds and lift to a height of 5 feet. The job involves working on their feet in bent positions for long periods, repetitive movements, and extensive walking, stooping, and bending over. Work is required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity, and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honeybees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's job.

Special Requirements

Work Rules
1. Per the DOL, the Employer will reimburse the Worker for inbound travel, sustenance, or other DOL-allowable expenses only upon the Worker completing 50% of the contract.
2. Workers must perform their assigned work carefully and work in accordance with the provisions of the work contract. Sloppy work will not be tolerated.
3. Workers must report at the assigned time and place each workday as directed by the Employer or Employers representatives.
4. Workers may not take unauthorized breaks from work. Should the Worker need a break, he/she will immediately contact the Employer or Employers representative.
5. Workers may not leave an assigned work area without the permission of the Employer or Employers representative.
6. Workers may not enter the Employer's premises without authorization.
7. Workers may not begin work before the scheduled starting time or continue working after the stopping time unless authorized by the Employer/Employers representative.