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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

2

Job Duties:

Nursery: Duties to include, but not limited to: Tasks to be in relations to greenhouse and nursery activities such as mowing and trimming equipment, chopping weeds around plantings, staking, trimming and prepare plants for planting, and moving plant items from field to loading area. Potting: Workers may be required to work as operators of potting machine. Workers may be required to work on their feet potting and bagging trees. Pruning: When pruning, it is vital to prune the unwanted branch while protecting the stem or trunk wood of the tree. While pruning trees, workers will receive proper tools for the particular job, i.e., saw, prunes and hand snips. These tools will be returned at the end of the task. The cost of tools destroyed maliciously or lost carelessly will be deducted from workers wages. The supervisor will set a standard or pattern for each orchard and will demonstrate and communicate this to the workers. Workers will be assigned rows of trees rendered from performing pruning tasks. When pruning is complete on each tree, each worker is required to rake and scatter the resulting brush in the center of the tractor/equipment rows. Bare root tree Productions: Workers may be required to work as operators of skid steers with bare root blade attachments. Workers may be required to work on the ground tying braches with twine or hauling trees through the field and loading them onto trucks by hand. Workers will be responsible for identifying, budding and grafting bare root trees and seedlings. Workers will also hoe, weed and grade bare root trees. Loading & Undloading: Workers may be required to load and unload truck/trailers in various weather conditions. Farm Equipment Operation: Workers will drive tractors, mowers and may use other greenhouse equipment including flat filler. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor and other equipment before driving tractor or using other greenhouse equipment. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination. General Duties: Duties performed in the field will be sporadic all through the contract due to the various duties, i.e., preparing soil, planting, pruning, cutting, deadheading, pinching, trimming to shape, spacing plants, potting, fertilizing with granular or liquid fertilizer, cleaning work areas, transporting plant materials in the nursery/greenhouse areas, loading and unloading plants and all other duties associated with ornamental plant production. Between harvesting, workers will be required to perform duties to prepare crops for marketing. Workers will also unload pallets from trucks or wagons into fields for transplanting. Worker may unload restock for storage.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

Physically able to bend, stoop, and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Physically able to meet and perform all job specifications. May be required to take random drug and / or alcohol tests, at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. All testing and background check will occur after employment has started and is not a part of the interview process. May be required to submit a criminal background check, at no cost to the worker. Felony convictions that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers or other individuals on the farm will result in immediate termination. Failure to comply with request for criminal background check may result in immediate termination of employment.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Triple C Nursery

Company Name:

Tommy Culwell

Location:

Smithville, TN 37166

Worksite

Address:

597 Davis Road, Smithville, TN 37166

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24304-443158

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

11/1/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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