Farmworker And Laborer

Job description

This application encompasses general nursery work.

This is a Skill Level II position and requires a minimum of three (3) months of general farm labor experience.

The lifting requirement for this position is 60 pounds.
General Nursery Work will include the following responsibilities:
Using hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes tampers, pruning shears and knives. Workers will also use 8-foot and 10-foot ladders to prune trees. Duties may include planting, grafting, transplanting, trimming, staking, digging and harvesting nursery stock in the field and in container yard. Workers may be required to move balled and burlapped trees using tractors and farm equipment and load and unload trucks and trailers. Workers may use equipment to spray chemicals and fertilizers. Workers will spend prolonged periods of time standing, walking, carrying and stooping. Workers will be trained to assess quality and “salability” of trees and assign size tags and put trunk protectors on trees. Workers will assist with drip irrigation and watering trees.

Workers will take part in all aspects of cultivating, harvesting and shipping “balled-and-burlapped” nursery stock. Duties include:
-kneeling to pin burlap on root ball
-kneeling to tie twine to secure root ball
-crimping wire baskets on root ball with lightweight hand held crimping tool
-tie tree tops with twine to prepare for shipping
-tipping trees into mechanical loader for transport (must be able to lift 60 lbs.)
-loading trees onto trucks for shipping
-installing and/or removing plastic tree trunk protectors with tape dispenser
-installing and/or removing wire or fiberglass tree stakes
-weed removal with a hoe or shovel

Workers may also operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production and field preparation such as tractors, irrigation equipment and other commonly used equipment in agriculture and drive vehicles to transport farm workers.

Special Requirements

The employer agrees that it will offer, advertise in its recruitment, and pay at least the published DOL H-2A wage rate, the prevailing hourly wage rate, the prevailing piece rate, the agreed-upon collective bargaining rate, or the Federal or State minimum wage rate, in effect at the time work is performed, whichever is highest.