Full Time: Yes
Number of Workers Requested: 18
Job Duties: Crops/Commodities: Nursery Stock (evergreens, shade trees, flowering trees). Primary duties (performed the majority of workdays): Workers may be required to perform any of the following jobs, all of which are outside: Nursery: All aspects of planting, pruning, B&B digging, loading and unloading, cultivation, mowing/vegetation control, watering, and farm equipment operation. Workers may be required to apply pesticides after proper training and handling has been completed. More specific nursery duties will include: Planting: Workers may be required to work as operators of wheel tractors pulling planters and planting wagons. Workers may be required to sit on a planter pulled by a tractor to feed trees into the ground. 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. 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. saws, pruners and hand snips. The supervisor 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. Harvesting christmas trees, including cutting, baling, and loading; trimming branches around field. 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. Some forms of vegetation controls are done by hand using specified tools that most effective for each specific plantation setting. Watering: Workers may be required to water trees by hand using pumps and hoses. Farm Equipment Operation: Workers will drive tractors, mowers and may use other agricultural equipment including flat filler. Workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor and other equipment before driving tractor or using other agricultural equipment. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination. General Duties: Duties may also include preparing soil, planting, pruning, cutting, deadheading, pinching, trimming to shape, spacing plants, potting, fertilizing with granular or liquid fertilizer, cleaning work areas, transporting plant materials in the nursery areas, loading and unloading plants and all other duties associated with ornamental plant production. Between harvesting, workers will be required to perform duties to prepare nursery stock for market. Workers will also unload pallets from trucks or wagons into fields for transplanting.
Job Classification: 45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Experience Required: Yes
Months of Experience Required: 3
Special Requirements: This job requires a minimum of three months of prior experience working in a field grown woody ornamental (balled and burlap) nursery and tree production operation. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 75 lbs.
Number of Hours Per Week: 48
Work Schedule (Start/End time): 7:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
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