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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

20

Job Duties:

General Nursery Work will include the following responsibilities: Using hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes tampers, pruning shears and knives. Workers will also use 8-foot and 10-foot ladders to prune trees. Duties may include planting, grafting, transplanting, trimming, staking, digging and harvesting nursery stock in the field and in container yard. Workers may be required to move balled and burlapped trees using tractors and farm equipment and load and unload trucks and trailers. Workers may use equipment to spray chemicals and fertilizers. Workers will spend prolonged periods of time standing, walking, carrying and stooping. Workers will be trained to assess quality and “salability” of trees and assign size tags and put trunk protectors on trees. Workers will assist with drip irrigation and watering trees. Workers will take part in all aspects of cultivating, harvesting and shipping “balled-and-burlapped” nursery stock. Duties include: -kneeling to pin burlap on root ball -kneeling to tie twine to secure root ball -crimping wire baskets on root ball with lightweight hand held crimping tool -tie tree tops with twine to prepare for shipping -tipping trees into mechanical loader for transport (must be able to lift 60 lbs.) -loading trees onto trucks for shipping -installing and/or removing plastic tree trunk protectors with tape dispenser -installing and/or removing wire or fiberglass tree stakes -weed removal with a hoe or shovel Workers may also operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production and field preparation such as tractors, irrigation equipment and other commonly used equipment in agriculture and drive vehicles to transport farm workers. All other duties assigned under this order will be those duties of Farm Worker and Laborer Crop, Nursery and Greenhouse, under the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics Standard Occupational Classification Code 45-2092 and may also include job duties of Code 45-2091 Ag Equipment Operators.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

The employer agrees that it will offer, advertise in its recruitment, and pay at least the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR), the prevailing hourly wage rate, the prevailing piece rate, the agreed-upon collective bargaining rate, or the Federal or State minimum wage rate, in effect at the time work is performed, whichever is highest. If the worker is paid by the hour, the employer must pay this rate for every hour or portion thereof worked during a pay period. If the offered wage(s) disclosed in this clearance order is/are based on commission, bonuses, or other incentives, the employer guarantees the wage paid on a weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly basis will equal or exceed the AEWR, prevailing hourly wage or piece rate, the legal Federal or State minimum wage, or any agreed-upon collective bargaining rate, whichever is highest.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Clayton Tree Farm

Location:

Wilder, ID 83676

Worksite

Address:

21622 Travis Road, Wilder, ID 83676

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24340-521155

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

12/13/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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