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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

60

Job Duties:

Crops: Wholesale ornamental grasses, sedges, grass like plants, herbaceous and perennials. Workers will perform duties associated with nursery production, plant care, shipping preparation, potting, and general maintenance. They will perform trimming, splitting, potting, and relocating plants to and from onsite greenhouses and fields. They will support crop care through weeding, planting in beds and fields, maintaining beds, trimming and pruning inventory, and relocating plants as needed. Workers will clean, organize, water, weed, box, and tag plants for shipment, move plants to and from shipping areas, and assist with loading trucks. They will count, report, and update plant inventory quantities and safely operate nursery and agricultural equipment, assisting with maintenance activities as needed. Workers will plant and maintain stock beds, show beds, and production fields, and assist with upkeep of greenhouses, lawns, gardens, fields, equipment, and buildings. Workers may also provide tissue culture support, including working in media preparation, capping jars, preparing tools for sterilization, and wrapping instruments. They will document, label, and record daily micro-harvesting activities, clean and sterilize tissue culture jars, tubes, tools, and equipment, harvest micro-cuttings in a clean room using microscope, scalpels, and forceps, inspect jars and tubes for microbial contamination, and transport tissue culture materials between work areas. This is an outdoor position involving physical work. The Grower/Loading/Potting Assistant is responsible for the proper cultural care involved in their designated area, daily contribution, and quality standards involved in the loading area and potting area. Workers will water plants as necessary based on crop needs, prune plants to maintain freshness and crop standards, keep crops, greenhouses, and surrounding areas free of weeds, organize or sort crops as necessary to maintain quality, and remove old, diseased, or dead plants to maintain crop quality and a clean environment. They will keep areas clean and organized, pay attention to crop issues and communicate problems in a timely manner, assist in applying plant growth regulators, pesticides, and herbicides, assist in managing fertility of crops, and assist in pulling orders for customers following outlined SOPs and Retail and Landscape quality guidelines. Workers will strive to achieve the highest quality possible, follow all safety requirements, and communicate any safety issues or concerns to supervisors or the Nursery Manager. In shipping and loading, workers will assist as needed with pulling picture tags, stage and ready the loading dock for shipments, assist Growers in pulling material for trucks, clean and prep plants for orders while adhering to Retail and Landscape quality guidelines, load plants to correct shipping carts ensuring safe travel, and assist with tagging plants with picture tags, identification tags, and price tags as required. Workers may also assist with other loading dock duties, including boxing for ground shipments, building pallets, loading trucks, and other miscellaneous duties. They will maintain quality at every step of the loading dock process, follow proper SOPs, continually look for ways to improve loading processes, keep the area clean and organized following 5S procedures, communicate issues to supervisors or the Nursery Manager, assist in maintaining equipment, follow all safety requirements, and work as a team on and off the loading dock. Continued on Addendum C

Job Classification:

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

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

2

Special Requirements:

Two (2) months experience as a farmworker. On-the-job training is available for certain tasks. Must be able to furnish affirmative job references from recent employers operating comparable operations establishing acceptable previous experience. Must be physically able to meet and perform all job specifications stated in job order. Must be able to work efficiently both independently and within a team. Available and willing to work extra hours during spring or in times of need. Must have manual dexterity. Must be able to work in the hot humid weather for extended periods of time. Workers are subject to random drug testing at no cost to the employee. All drug testing will occur after the worker begins his or her employment and is not a part of the interview process. Failing or refusing a drug test will result in immediate termination.

Number of Hours Per Week:

35

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Legacy Labor

Company Name:

Legacy Labor, Inc.

Location:

Cadillac, MI 49601

Worksite

Address:

Hoffman Nursery Inc. 5520 Bahama Rd, Rougemont, NC 27572

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-25308-372113

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

12/10/2025

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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