Greenhouse Laborer

Bonnie Plants, LLC; Chino Valley (AZ); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Bonnie Plants, LLC is seeking team members for a full-time temporary seasonal position in a greenhouse environment. responsibilities include cultivating, transplanting, and maintaining seedlings and plants throughout the growth cycle.

You will assemble and prepare growing media, perform routine sanitation, and assist with packing and shipping preparations. Must be able to stand for long periods and work longer hours during peak seasons.

Qualifications

• 2 months of greenhouse/nursery work experience
• Able to stand for long periods
• Ability to follow directions with minimal supervision
• Comfort working in indoor and outdoor environments
• Willingness to work longer hours during peak seasons

Responsibilities

• Cultivate and transplant seedlings and cuttings in a seeding/transplanting line
• Assemble trays, hanging pots and caged pots
• Prepare soil and growth media; plant, water, weed plants
• Operate basic greenhouse tools and equipment with supervision
• Inspect plant quality and monitor moisture, insects, or diseases
• Move plant materials on carts and loaders; manage packing and shipping prep
• Maintain clean, sanitized work areas and grounds within greenhouse and warehouse

Skills

Greenhouse work

Seedling handling

Safety awareness

Job description

This is a full-time temporary seasonal position and employment is based on the seasonal needs of the greenhouse operation and production. This position is responsible for various tasks associated with the overall growth cycle of plants in the greenhouse.

ESSENTIAL 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.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum Education and Experience: 2 months of greenhouse/nursery work experience

Licenses and/or Certificates

• None

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 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.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

Working Conditions: Both indoor and outside work environments. Occasionally exposed to extreme cold and hot temperatures, wet or humid conditions and outdoor weather conditions. Must be able to walk, sit, stand on concrete or other surfaces, including uneven surfaces for long periods of time.

This position may require working longer hours during peak seasons.

Risk/Safety Conditions

Moving mechanical parts and machinery, electrical shock, vibration, airborne particles, loud noise levels, high temperatures, hazardous materials.

Essential Physical Activities

Walking, sitting, hearing, seeing up close, seeing far away, talking, prolonged standing, finger movement, repetitive motions, depth perception, regularly lift 50 pounds, occasionally lift up to 100 pounds, climbing, crawling, stooping, crouching and wearing gloves and dust masks.

Required

Applicants must be 18 years of age or older to be eligible for employment.

2 months of greenhouse/nursery work experience

Equal Opportunity Employer

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