- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 3
- Job Duties:
- Job Duties:
• Workers will perform work including but not limited to planting, transplanting, watering in nurseries and seasonal holding houses (50%)
• Plants repots, waters, and maintains plants, trees, and shrubs in the nursery using hand and gardening tools. (25%)
• Ensures plants are healthy and properly cared for. Pull weeds, trim, prune, and fertilize as instructed. (20%).
• Must be able to push, pull, bend, crouch, lift, stretch, and climb to care for plants and arrange them within the nursery.
• Inspects plants to assess quality and health and to identify signs of disease or pests.
• Remove plastic from seasonal holding houses in spring and cover seasonal holding houses with plastic in fall
• Maintains clean work areas and grounds.
• Loading and unloading plants onto trailers or trucks and wagons by hand.
• Ensures the irrigation system works properly and performs basic maintenance and repairs.
• Other duties as assigned.
Equipment used to perform job duties includes but is not limited to, clippers, hoes, spades, pliers, wrenches,
screwdrivers, cutting knives, gloves, tractors, hand trucks, tillers, trailers, and forklifts. The employer provides all
equipment and tools used to perform vineyard duties. Separate equipment operators move heavier materials with
tractors or skid steers. Equipment operation training will also be provided.
Physical Requirements:
Workers may be required to handle products weighing up to 75 pounds and lift to a height of 5 feet. The job involves working on their feet in bent positions for long periods, repetitive movements, and extensive walking, stooping, and bending over. 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. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honeybees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's job.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse