Nursery/irrigation Worker
Employer
617 Eastside Highway
Hamilton, MT 59840
United States
Job description
Worker will be required to perform a variety of duties related to the production of nursery stock.
General Nursery Work will include the following responsibilities: maintain, drive, attach and operate farm implements/tractors/equipment to till soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize and harvest nursery crops; make minor mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm/nursery machinery; remove undesirable and excess growth from crop; paint farm/nursery structures; replace/repair fencing; perform general clean up of farm/nursery areas; drive, load/unload trucks on site; mix concrete and fill molds; dig nursery stock by hand & machine; load bark & trees onto trucks using machines; plant/prune trees & shrubs by hand.
Irrigation duties will include the following:
Hand lines: connect pipes; check alignment of pipe and adjust for proper water distribution; attach lines to water supply; turn on pump; turn valves to start flow of water; disassemble lines and carry pipes across fields at specified intervals; move pipes through freshly irrigated crops and/or plowed fields where mud may be deep at times; lift and carry pipe sections weighing approximately 40 pounds on a sustained basis.
Other Irrigation Duties: remove pipes from storage and lay out/place in predetermined patterns in fields; lubricate, adjust, repair and replace parts such as sprinkler heads and drive chains using hand tools; observe revolving sprinklers and adjust to ensure proper operation and uniform distribution of water; disassemble, service and store pipes after irrigation season.
To meet minimum acceptable performance standards when irrigating, the worker must, after a 10 day conditioning period, move an average of at least 48 40-foot sections of 3-inch pipe or 44 40-foot sections of 4-inch pipe per hour under normal working conditions.
Special Requirements
Applicants must have 20 days experience as a nursery worker. To meet minimum acceptable performance standards when irrigating, the worker must, after a 10-day conditioning period, move an average of at least 48 40-foot sections of 3-inch pipe or 44 40-foot sections of 4-inch pipe per hour under normal working conditions.