Nursery Workers/laborers

Job description

Job Duties

Nursery Stock: Workers will prepare and plant nursery stock from plugs,bareroot stock and/or liners: Unpacks stock to prepare for planting. Fills pots with soil. Cleans/splits/divides/ prunes rootstocks and divisions to prepare them for planting. Plants material into pots on an assembly line or individual process. Tags newly planted material.

Vegetables/Fruit: Plants, cultivates, harvests and packs vegetables and fruit. Works on planter, plants roots, seeds, and bulbs. Workers may spread or remove plastic or other groundcovering and drip tape from fields. Weeds, thins, plants. Transplants plants, riding on transplanter or by hand. May set poles and wires for vine plants. Workers must also stake/tie plants. Workers will trellis and prune plants. Picks, cuts, lifts, or pulls crops to harvest them. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants.

Workers will perform put-down: Transfer or relocate plants, placing them on carts and wagons and then in organized blocks on greenhouse benches or hangers, in polyhuts, or on weedmat on the ground. Ensure plants are in the correct location and are properly signed.

Workers will assist with procedures that encourage plant health and maintain appearance: Pull weeds from containers; prune plants; space plants to allow for proper growth; apply fertilizer; hand water when needed.

Workers will harvest sedum cuttings using a sickle bar cutter, mix cuttings and spread over plastic containers for green roofs. Workers will plant containerized and bare root plants into plastic containers for green roofs. Workers will weed and mow plastic containers. Workers will fill and place plastic containers of soil in the growing beds. Workers will load finished plastic containers for green roofs onto shipping containers. Workers will move product from conveyor belt onto trays

Workers will pick ordered plants from the greenhouses, polyhuts, or heel-in beds and prepare and organize plants for shipping to wholesale customers: Select ordered plants from growing locations. Load plants on wagons, trucks and carts. Prepare potted plants for shipping: clean leaves, debris and spent blooms from plants, attach label. Place prepared plants on carts and wrap carts with plastic film. Roll plant carts to their proper shipping location for drivers to load.

Workers will prepare larger plants for shipping: Select ordered plants from growing locations by hand or with equipment. Unload products at a designated location for drivers to load onto trucks.

Workers will assist the team to keep all areas including facilities and production sites weed-free, debris- free, organized, properly tagged and signed: May remove plastic weather polyhut coverings in spring. May install plastic weather polyhut coverings in fall. May assist the facility coach with irrigation or other essential tasks directly related to growing when needed. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs.

Work may also include mechanized field work using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, planters, gators, sprayers, cultivators, spades, conveyor belts and other equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction.

Workers with a clean driving record (no major moving violations such as but not limited to Driving While Intoxicated or Reckless Driving) and able to obtain an insurable driver's license may be required to drive company vehicles. Workers with appropriate licenses and a valid doctor's certificate may be asked to drive other workers.

Clean carts and wagons; organize and store materials such as pots, flats, baskets, soil, tools; unload carts from trucks; clean carts and trucks by sweeping or hosing off; operate hand tools such as pruners, rakes, spades; lay weed-mat; print labels

Special Requirements

*SEE ADDENDUM C
4e) Must be able to lift and/or load 60lbs.
4g) Work may take place when temperatures are below freezing and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
4h) May require extensive pulling and/or pushing of tools, wheel barrows, fruit containers, etc.
4i) May require worker to sit and/or walk for extensive periods of time transporting
4j) Workers will be required to stoop and/or bend over while performing nursery labor such as setting plants, maintenance, pulling shrub order etc. 4k) There will be repetitive movements while performing most of the farm labor duties, for example setting plants, maintenance, pulling shrub order