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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

6

Job Duties:

Jobs offered are working in a greenhouse, nursery, and/or landscaping operation handling both manual and mechanized tasks. Crops/commodities: nursery stock (trees, shrubs, flowers). Plant, cultivate, and harvest horticultural commodities including trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials. Workers will perform activities including but not limited to planting, digging, mulching, transplanting, mowing, and watering in nurseries and seasonal holding houses. Prune, trim, space, transplant and cull plants to ensure availability of marketable product. Count, tag, and inventory plants. Propagate or graft plants from cuttings. Load finished product onto wagons and trucks. Work may include incidental installation of plants or trees at customer locations within the metropolitan statistical area (MSA). Assist with building, covering, and uncovering seasonal holding houses. Fill, lift, and carry various sized pots with soil and plants weighing as much as 60 pounds. Plants must be handled carefully so that minimal leaves, limbs, and roots are broken during transplanting process. Workers may be required to perform variable tasks such as irrigation, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, weeding, and other general farming tasks. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, forklifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Mix and apply fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate, and crop conditions. Must understand nursery quality control standards and have working knowledge of production procedures. Workers must be able to work on teams as well as unsupervised. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Assist with routine maintenance and repairs to farm buildings/equipment/machinery. Clean/sanitize work areas and equipment. Workers with appropriate license may be asked to drive company vehicles such as light farm pickup trucks. Work is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movement and extensive walking. Work is required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures ranging from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Must wear assigned personal protective equipment with required. Must report for work wearing work clothes and boots or other durable footwear.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

This job requires a minimum of three months of prior experience working in a nursery handling both manual and machine tasks associated with nursery production. Workers must be able to perform all duties of entry level workers as well as perform additional mechanized tasks with accuracy and efficiency. Applicants must be able to furnish verbal or written statement establishing relevant prior work experience. Saturday work required, when necessary. Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

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

Employer Information

Company Name:

Innovative Nursery and Supply, LTD

Location:

Chardon, OH 44024

Worksite

Address:

11148 Chardon Road, Chardon, OH 44024

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25351-489731

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

H-2A wage rate will be $16.88/hr. Raises and/or bonuses may be offered to any seasonal worker in the occupation, at the company's discretion, based on tenure, skill, and/or other non-discriminatory individualized factors.

Date Posted:

12/31/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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