Greenhouse Laborer

Come grow with us•Pearl, MS

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves cultivating and transplanting various plants, preparing soil, planting, spraying, weeding, and watering. Responsibilities include inspecting plants for quality, moisture, insects, and diseases, as well as assembling trays and pots. The position requires working in a fast-paced assembly line environment, applying tags, and maintaining greenhouse cleanliness and sanitation. Additional duties may include repairing and sanitizing greenhouse floors, folding boxes for packaging, loading plant trays, and performing maintenance tasks such as operating environmental controls. The role also supports general greenhouse and nursery upkeep and assists with other duties as needed by management.

Requirements

Minimum 2 months of greenhouse/nursery work experience.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
Ability to take and follow directions and work with little to no supervision.
Ability to meet the expected efficiencies identified while being safe and accurate.
Ability to stand on concrete or other surfaces for long periods of time.
Ability to wear gloves and other safety devices as required.
Ability to safely operate and use greenhouse tools, machinery and equipment.

Responsibilities

Cultivate and transplant vegetable, flower and herb seedlings and cuttings within a seeding/transplanting line.
Assemble trays, hanging pots and caged pots.
Prepare soil and growth media.
Plant, spray, weed, and water plants, using necessary machinery, hand tools, and hoses.
Cut and/or transplant cuttings, seeds and/or seedlings/plugs.
Examine plant leaves and note coloring to detect appropriate moisture, presence of insects or disease.
Inspect plants to assess quality overall and prior to loading, taking cuttings or transplanting.
Push and pull carts from various parts of the greenhouse areas.
Work in a standing, fast-paced assembly line.
Apply tags to trays using a mechanical stapler.
Work on seedling line.
Repair and sanitize ground cloth or floor media as needed to maintain greenhouse floors.
Manually lay down and pick up trays from greenhouse and surrounding station areas.
Fold and staple corrugated forms to make boxes used for packing horticultural products.
Clean work areas, sanitize and maintain grounds, greenhouses, warehouse, and landscaping.
Perform nursery sanitation duties including cleaning floors, tables, walls, roofs, surfaces, hoses, machinery and picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and sweeping floors.
Load plant trays onto shipping racks/carts.
Identify and pull weeds, remove dead pots and cull plants not fit for sale.
May maintain, construct and repair nursery buildings, adjacent buildings and infrastructure.
May perform maintenance tasks such as: operate vents, fans and heaters to maintain proper growth environment in greenhouses, reporting any and all issues immediately.
Other duties associated with greenhouse/nursery upkeep and maintenance.
Assist with and/or perform additional duties as required by operating needs of the company as directed by management.