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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

100

Job Duties:

The job includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, transplanting, harvesting, and maintenance of nursery stock. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 60 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on the condition of nursery stock according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers. Duties include manual labor to plant, transplant, cultivate, irrigate, harvest, pot, space and move containerized and field grown annual and perennial plants, shrubs and trees by hand or using hand garden tools and equipment. Workers will prepare soil and growth media for planting. Tasks will include pruning and weeding, digging, cutting, and transplanting of seedlings, cuttings, trees, and shrubs. Workers will perform propagation of plants from cuttings. as well as air layering of wood plant material and grafting. Plants and bud ties should be monitored to ensure quality. Instruction in plant and trees grafting into different rootstock to reduce disease by inserting and tying buds into incisions in rootstock. Feel plants' leaves and note their coloring to detect the presence of insects or disease. Additional manual tasks related to the growing of nursery stock will include some combination of the following: preparing fields for planting by clearing cull stock, brush, and debris; planting seedlings or “liners” by hand, including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter; digging, loading, unloading, or transplanting bare-root nursery stock; straightening, tying, pruning, and shearing trees and shrubs; cutting, pulling, or removing and mowing of weeds and grass; moving irrigation equipment; spraying herbicides and insecticides and applying fertilizer, plant growth chemicals, conditioners and related treatments at the ideal time depending on plant variety, growth and environmental conditions. Workers may use hand tools such as rakes, shovels, hoes, mattocks brush hooks and/or axes. Tasks related to harvest of nursery stock will include will include the following: taking inventory and grading plants, preparing trees and shrubs for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary; digging; wrapping burlap or other covering around root balls and securing with twine and/or staples; crimping wire baskets; lifting, carrying, and loading nursery stock; and unloading, moving or loading supplies, including wire baskets. Plants must be handled carefully to ensure leaves, limbs, and roots are not broken during digging, handling Work will also include heavy mechanized field work using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation, power equipment may include: power shears, chain saws, high lift, fork lift, and tractors to to irrigate, fertilize, spray and move plants. Some workers will drive vehicles to haul crops, supplies, tools, or other workers. Drivers that will be using employer provided vehicles may be issued company cell phones to communicate with supervisors and for emergency situations.

Job Classification:

45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

2

Number of Hours Per Week:

48

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:30 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Perino's Home and Garden Center

Location:

Metairie, LA 70002

Worksite

Address:

3100 Veterans Memorial Blvd, Metairie, LA 70002

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25336-451118

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Wage offer for H-2A workers only $8.24 per hour.

Date Posted:

1/7/2026

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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