- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 30
- Job Duties:
- Performs job duties related to bedding plants, shrubs, small trees, pine straw. Bedding plants: prepare soil/growth media, fill pots; propagate, pot/re-pot, and transplant; prepare cold frames, hot beds; work on potting line (transplant seedlings/move to growing area), prepare baskets/decorative plant arrangements. Plant care--water, weed, prune, mulch, fertilize. Field work (outside): cultivate, condition soil (haul/spread topsoil/additives, mulch, rake,), transfer plants, irrigate, spray, weed, etc. Shrubs and small trees: prune, transplant, tie up tree tops, wrap bare root trees with burlap. Harvest pine straw: rake, bale and transport to market. Market preparation: tie, bunch, wrap, price, tag; select/pack products to fill orders, move/stack stock to storage areas. Miscellaneous duties: dig ditches, clean/repair fence/fence rows. Worksite maintenance: clean/repair?pots, tools/equipment, nursery/greenhouse/work areas, mow grass, grounds? keeping, put on/remove plastic from cold frame houses. Load/unload trucks--50-80 lb. bags, pinestraw bales, equipment, products, etc.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse