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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

5

Job Duties:

Crops/Commodities: Nursery stock. Job requires working in a nursery handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest of nursery stock, trees, shrubs, and perennials. Workers will be expected to perform manual jobs as well as equipment operation of a skid steer with accuracy and efficiency beginning with planting through harvest. Workers will perform work including but not limited to planting, cultivating, hoeing, digging, mulching, transplanting, mowing, watering in nurseries and seasonal holding houses. Fertilize, prune, spray, space, water, tag and perform other plant maintenance. Count and inventory plants. Propagate plants from cuttings. Load finished plants onto wagons and trucks, and unload trucks. Remove plastic from seasonal holding houses in spring and cover seasonal holding houses with plastic in fall. General cleaning, repairing, and maintaining of farm operations buildings, including sheds and pole barns. Fill, lift and carry various size pots with soil and plants weighing as much as 70 pounds. Plants must be handled carefully so that minimal leaves, limbs and roots are not broken during transplanting process. Prepare fields/soil for planting. Plant, cultivate and maintain nursery stock and/or bedding plants in condition for shipping and sale to customers. Pot seedlings or ‘liners' by hand or mechanical planter. Perform general plant maintenance. Prune, trim, space, transplant and cull plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Irrigate and apply fertilizer. Pack, label, tag, pull, and store plants by variety. Count, grade, and inventory plants. Prepare plants for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Dig plants. Drum lacing and quarter lacing. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twine and/or staples. Crimp wire baskets. One time install of nursery stock for customers (not including Sod). Products must be handled carefully to prevent damage. Workers must have an understanding of nursery quality control standards and a working knowledge of nursery production procedures. Workers must be able to harvest crops according to predetermined, customer specific standards. Must select and harvest crops which are suitable for various clients. Workers will perform heavy manual field work including but not limited to planting, cultivating, harvesting/cutting and baling trees. Remove brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using tractor, mattocks and brush hooks and axes. Plant seedlings using mattock or dibble. Shear tops and limb tips from trees, as specified by supervisor, to control growth, increase limb density and improve shape. Remove any brush or greenery left in fields. In general, prepare areas for planting seedlings in the spring. Work is to be done for long periods of time. Workers are expected to perform duties including boxing, weighing and loading of products. Workers will assist in loading trucks with packaged product weighing up to and including 70 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet for long periods of time. Workers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers' ability to perform the job. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day, working in fields. Temperatures may range from 10 to 100 F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodation. Saturday work required. Employer-paid post-hire drug testing is required upon reasonable suspicion of use and after a worker has an accident at work. Work may also include mechanized field work using power equipment.

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

No

Special Requirements:

Job requires working in a nursery handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest of nursery stock, trees, shrubs, and perennials. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 70 pounds. Employer-paid post-hire drug testing is required upon reasonable suspicion of use and after a worker has an accident at work.

Number of Hours Per Week:

60

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

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

Employer Information

Company Name:

Tidewater tree Transplanters Inc.

Location:

Virginia Beach, VA 23457

Worksite

Address:

5700 Fitztown Rd., Virginia Beach, VA 23457

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-24365-577674

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

1/11/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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