General Nursery Worker And Field Crop Worker

Job description

Perform various tasks relating to commercial tropical plant greenhouse production, which includes planting, plant care and maintenance including, but not limited to:

60%
Planting, pruning, irrigating, fertilizing, and preparing plants for orders and shipments by manual cleaning (dead leaf and debris removal), labeling and bagging.

30%
Loading and unloading trucks, unsleeving, sorting, moving, and placing product in designated areas.

10%
Nursery and area maintenance, sweeping, dumping trash, cutting and loading wood, minor greenhouse repairs.

The general nursery workers use hand tools such as shovels, pruning shears, and scissors.

This is physically demanding farm work, including work outdoors in the elements and requires repetitive kneeling, standing, balancing, bending, walking, pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 50 pounds.

The general nursery workers report to the supervisor.

Work in commercial plant nursery/field crop operation that grows Sedum, perennials, and ornamental grasses,
performing manual and machine tasks associated with production, maintenance, and harvest activities,
including, but not limited to:

25%
- Loading soil into containers
- Applying soil to fields/areas already in production if required under protocol set by management
- Sowing seeds or other plant parts into filled containers using various sowing/planting equipment
- Planting Sedum, perennials, and ornamental grasses
- Allocating and applying cuttings to fields per instructions from management

30%
- Plant care, pruning, watering
- Thinning and weeding

35%
- Harvesting crops/orders according to square footage on the picking list and direction from shipping
supervisor
- Extracting and packing seedlings or other plant materials into shipping bags, boxes, carts, or pallets

10%
- Washing empty containers in sanitizing solutions
- Sanitizing greenhouses and support equipment
- Cleaning equipment and tools
The workers will use hand tools such as shovels, pruning shears, and rakes.
This is physically demanding farm work, including work outdoors in the elements and requires repetitive
kneeling, standing, balancing, bending, walking, pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
The workers report to the assigned manager.

Special Requirements

Given the serious risk of injury and loss of life in farming operations, all We Care Labor Services employees are subject to post-hire random drug screening at We Cares expense.

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Dado el grave riesgo de lesiones y prdida de vidas en las operaciones agrcolas, todos los empleados de We Care Labor Services estn sujetos a un examen de deteccin de drogas posterior a la contratacin a la expensa de We Care.