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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

2

Job Duties:

Crops/Commodities: nursery stock - native mission wildflowers, grasses, wetland species, vines, trees, shrubs, soybeans. Workers will perform work including but not limited to planting, digging, cultivating, mulching, transplanting, mowing, watering in nurseries and seasonal holding houses. Fertilize, prune, spray, space, water, tag and perform other plant maintenance. Count and inventory plants. Propagate plants from cuttings. Load plants onto wagons and trucks. Remove plastic from seasonal holding houses in spring and cover seasonal holding houses with plastic in fall. Assist with building seasonal holding houses. Plant and dig field grown plants, burlap roots, perform general maintenance of field grown plants. Fm, lift, and carry various size pots with soil and plants weighing as much as 60 pounds. Plants must be handled carefully to ensure that minimal leaves, limbs, and roots are not broken. In addition, workers may be required to perform variable tasks such as the following: irrigation, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, weeding and other tasks related to a nursery operation. Work may also include mechanized fieldwork using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation power equipment may include tractors, planters, sprayers, cultivators, transmission trucks, lifts, forklifts, loaders, and other equipment.

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 commodity production and harvest activities. Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs. Employer-paid post-hire drug testing is required upon reasonable suspicion of use and after a worker has an accident at work. Saturday work is required. Any worker who declines to take or fails a mandatory drug test will be terminated.

Number of Hours Per Week:

50

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

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

Employer Information

Company Name:

Terra Farms, Inc.

Location:

Harrisonville, MO 64701

Worksite

Address:

24820 S Miller Road, Harrionville, MO 64701

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24036-693757

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

2/29/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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