Nursery/ Greenhouse Worker
Employer
6981 Rawsonville Rd.
Belleville, MI 48111
United States
Job description
Workers will fill pots and baskets with soil using hand or garden tools or by a machine. Water, plant, package, load and unload products from a truck or rack inside or outside of greenhouses near loading dock. Assemble and load on rack and truck fall décor mini straw bales. Pick up driplines and tarps to store in building. Clean-up trash and maintain a clean facility inside and outside greenhouses. Cut grass with hand tools or mower and pull for weeds around greenhouse facility.
Will use hand pruning tools to trim evergreen boughs or use machine (will train) to assemble evergreens into pots, hanging baskets, wreaths, kissing balls, memorial blankets, and evergreen roping. Tape Styrofoam to boards, topiary stands and kissing balls and assemble lights on evergreen pots. Load and unload evergreen boughs and products on rack and truck.
Driver's license preferred for local market deliveries. Forklift experience preferred but will train. Workers must be able to lift up to 50 lbs., will frequently bend, stoop, and stand for long periods. Workers will be exposed to extensive pushing, pulling, walking and repetitive movements. Must have 3 months verifiable work experience in a wholesale/commercial greenhouse or in nursery production.
Special Requirements
Hours listed in Section A.6 are the anticipated hours to be worked. These hours could increase or decrease based on weather conditions, crop delay, pests or disease, crop yield, available labor, and or productivity.