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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

14

Job Duties:

This application encompasses: Wholesale nursery work with landscape trees, shrubs, perennials, and evergreens. This job requires 3 months experience of general farm labor experience. The lifting requirement for this position is 50 pounds. Workers will get an unpaid 30 minute lunch break and one paid 20 minute break. Spring work begins with uncovering the container trees, shrubs, and perennials (hence referred to as plants). Removing the weight holding the plastic down, rebar, PVC, white plastic, and straw. Tipping the plants upright and cleaning up debris. The uncovering is followed by planting plants into containers. Next will be the maintenance- trimming, spacing, watering, fertilizing and controlling weeds. Lastly the season will conclude with winterizing the plants remaining on the farm. Fall harvest work begins with trimming the plants, then workers will move container plants to locations and plants will be made ready for winterization. The plants are laid over; covered with straw and sheets of white plastic. The edges of the plastic are secured with PVC pipe with rebar stakes driven into the ground with mallets. The sheets of plastic are further secured with string, tires or cinder blocks.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

Prohibited and Unacceptable Conduct Per 20 CFR 655.135 (j), The employer and its agents have not sought or received payment of any kind from any employee subject to 8 U.S.C. 1188 for any activity related to obtaining H-2A labor certification, including payment of the employer's attorneys' fees, application fees, or recruitment costs. For purposes of this paragraph, payment includes, but is not limited to, monetary payments, wage concessions (including deductions from wages, salary, or benefits), kickbacks, bribes, tributes, in kind payments, and free labor. This provision does not prohibit employers or their agents from receiving reimbursement for costs that are the responsibility and primarily for the benefit of the worker, such as government-required passport, or visa fees. Worker will be reimbursed should the worker receive a visa and arrive at the place of work.

Number of Hours Per Week:

53

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Glacier Nursery

Company Name:

GNW, Inc

Location:

Kalispell, MT 59901

Worksite

Address:

4343 MT HWY 35, Kalispell, MT 59901

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24358-568010

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

1/3/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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