General Labor, Seasonal
About The Position
This seasonal position runs from January through May. The role involves planting, cultivating, and maintaining crops and plants; picking, shipping, and selling products to customers; and maintaining facilities, grounds, and equipment. Employees are expected to actively promote a safe working culture and attend monthly safety meetings. Work includes greenhouse and field production, as well as facility and equipment maintenance. Employees may seed, prune, transplant, space, water, sort, store, and move plants; perform irrigation; prepare and sort products for shipment or sale; maintain fields; harvest vegetables; operate farm equipment; and help construct or cover greenhouses. Local travel may be required. Most work takes place in production and greenhouse environments, often side-by-side with other employees.
Requirements
- At least 3 months of prior experience working on a nursery, handling manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities.
- Demonstrated ownership of decisions and actions.
- Strong work ethic, flexibility with work hours, and willingness to be available when necessary.
- Ability to perform the required physical work, with or without reasonable accommodations.
- Ability to load nursery products weighing up to 50 pounds to a height of 5 feet; heavier items require a team lift.
- Ability to work on feet in bent positions for long periods, perform repetitive movements, walk extensively, and bend and stoop to pick crops.
- Ability to cut vines using a knife and carry crops to bins, carts, wagons, and trucks.
- Ability to work in wet weather, occasional showers, and extreme temperatures ranging from -10 to over 100°F.
Responsibilities
- Perform plant-growing tasks, including seeding, pruning, transplanting, spacing, watering, and maintaining hanging baskets.
- Set, pull, sort, and store plants according to variety, growing needs, and shipments.
- Set up and move irrigation pipes and equipment, and water plants by hand or through automated systems.
- Move containerized plants using rolling carts.
- Unload carts, bins, trucks, and wagons at designated markets; sort products for quality issues and repackage them for sale.
- Maintain fields by pulling weeds, thinning crops, and spraying plants with herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides.
- Remove trash, rocks, and debris from planting and harvest areas.
- Select vegetables at harvest according to supervisor specifications.
- Operate tractors, sprayers, cultivators, planters, mowers, plows, disks, and other farm equipment.
- Construct, uncover, and/or recover greenhouses, with or without power tools.
- Maintain facility grounds, including weeding, mowing, and snow removal as necessary.
- Assist with equipment maintenance and repair, operating equipment safely to protect people, plants, crops, facilities, and equipment.
- Attend monthly safety meetings and promote a safe working culture.
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