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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

19

Job Duties:

Crops/Commodities: Shade, ornamental, container nursery stock. This job requires a minimum of three months of verifiable experience working in a wholesale nursery working in both manual and machine tasks associated with nursery production and harvest activities. This job is for nursery workers. Workers must possess ability to recognize species and varieties of nursery stock, ability to read and understand signs and labels, and to understand written and oral work orders. Workers will assist the nursery farm manager/owner in ensuring that the work performed and the harvesting procedures are accomplished in accordance with the established procedures and guidelines. They must be able to communicate with the farm manager/owner concerning scheduling tasks. Workers may be required to keep an inventory of all nursery stock, provide reports to farm manager/owner concerning, supplies, losses and damages. Employees perform a wide variety of tasks related to the growing, harvesting and delivery of quality trees and shrubs. Workers will maintain tool inventories, maintain nursery property and perform other duties assigned by employer. Workers may be required to perform any of the following jobs, all of which are outside: Planting: Workers may be required to work as operators of wheel tractors pulling planters and planting wagons. Workers may be required to work on the ground planting trees that are fed through a tractor pulled planter, using shovels. Workers will be required to dig trees. Flowering Trees & Shrubs: Workers will be working with flowering trees and shrubs. Workers will cultivate, harvest, grade, store and ship container and field grown horticultural plants. Harvesting field-grown crops includes digging up products and placing on pallets. Grading is done by size. Products are measured, tied in bundles and placed in storage for shipment. Shrubs and some trees are harvested for resale when they reach approximately 1-3 inches in height, although most products reach approximately 3 feet tall before they are ready for market. Potting: Workers may be required to pot small shrubs, perennials and trees into containers. This includes fertilizing and pruning of potted material as needed before resale. 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, pruners and hand snips. The owner/farm manager will set a standard or pattern for each job and will demonstrate and communicate this to workers. Workers will be assigned rows of trees and must prune each tree according to the predetermined standard. Workers must remove all resulting material from the 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. Balled and burlap (B&B) tree production: Workers may be required to work as operators of skid steers with tree spade attachments or haul out tines. Workers may be required to work on the ground packaging the finished root ball on a tree by stapling burlap with hog ring pliers, tying basket loops with twine, crimping baskets with pig tail crimpers or tying branches with twine. Bare Root Tree Production: 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 branches with twine or hauling trees through the field and loading them onto trucks by hand. Loading and Unloading: Workers may be required to work on flat bed trailers tying B&B trees to the trailer with twine. Workers may be required to work loading or unloading bare root trees by hand into refrigerated trailers. Cultivation: Workers may be required to work as operators of wheel tractors pulling cultivators, mowers or hilling disks.

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 verifiable experience working in a wholesale nursery working in both manual and machine tasks associated with nursery production and harvest activities. Saturday worked required. Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs. Employer-paid post-hire drug testing is required upon reasonable suspicion of use. Prefer bilingual (English/Spanish).

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:30 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Company Name:

Davis Tree Farm & Nursery, Inc.

Location:

Valley City, OH 44280

Worksite

Address:

6126 Neff Rd., Valley City, OH 44280

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24351-545338

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

12/26/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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