Nursery Workers

H2ajobs; Oberlin (OH); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Weekly transport to stores

Job summary

D & K Harvesting is seeking nursery workers to perform planting, cultivation, and harvesting of nursery plants in outdoor conditions. This role requires standing, walking, and lifting up to 100 pounds, with frequent outdoor work in all weather. You will follow strict food safety SOPs and work quickly and professionally with a team.

Experience: minimum 2 months in greenhouse or nursery production. Saturday work is required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 months agricultural experience in greenhouse or nursery production.
• Saturday work is required.
• Able to lift and carry up to 100 pounds.
• Drug/alcohol testing and criminal background checks may apply.

Responsibilities

• Plant, cultivate, and harvest nursery plants.
• Install and maintain irrigation systems.
• Move plants around the greenhouse and prepare orders for shipping.
• Load/unload products and operate on docks.
• Follow quality control and safety procedures.

Skills

Lifting 100 lbs

Teamwork

Outdoor work

Food safety

Job description

D & K Harvesting attests and confirms that no workers will be charged any fee to obtain a job with the company.

This job requires a minimum of 2 months of agricultural experience working in a greenhouse or nursery handling manual tasks associated with production of flowers, nursery stock and vegetables. Saturday work is required. Must be able to lift and carry 100 pounds. Employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post-employment and at employer’s expense. Employer may conduct criminal background checks post-employment and at the employer's expense.

The nursery work position includes duties associated with the planting, cultivation, and harvesting of various nursery plants. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 100 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers and of the consumers who will purchase the various nursery products.

Crops Contained in Request: Nursery workers.

Workers will perform shoveling, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks associated with the production of flowers, nursery stock and vegetables. Workers will install and maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Clear debris from fields and clean/maintain farm buildings, structures, equipment, and work areas. May assist with maintaining and or repairing greenhouse structures.

Workers will plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery seedlings and plants, including perennials, bedding plants, plugs, liners, vegetable plants and hanging baskets in condition for shipping and sale to customers. Workers will move plants around the greenhouse and organize products on the docks for loading, pull and assemble orders in accordance with instruction. Attach hangers to baskets and hang throughout seasonal holding housing using ladders. Workers will use carts to load/unload trucks and products from conveyor belts. Prepare plants for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Dig plants. Drum lacing and quarter lacing. Wrap burlap or other covering around plants. Crimp wire baskets.

All employees must follow all quality control and safety measures while using personal protective equipment. The duties and responsibilities of workers may be revised verbally and/or in writing, as needed by the location manager and/or field supervisor

A few of the workers’ job description will include duties associated with transporting workers and monitoring of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting. Workers will monitor the harvesting, ensuring that all nursery flowers, stocks and vegetables are picked and the plant does not contain any fruit. Workers will pick up fellow workers, take them to the worksite and drive them back to their housing unit at the end of the workday. This work requires adherence to important food safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: Employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so that workers may prepare their own meals. No charge will be made for the provided beds, appliances, cooking utensils and similar items furnished to workers to whom housing is provided hereunder unless unlawfully removed or damaged beyond normal wear and tear. Employer will provide (on a voluntary basis) weekly transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries. If for any reason the kitchen facilities become unavailable due to fire or calamity, the employer will provide 3 meals per day for which a deduction shall be made until the kitchen facilities become operable.

Transport: After a worker has completed fifty percent of the work contract period, the employer will reimburse the worker for the cost of transportation and subsistence from the place the worker came from to the place of work, if such costs are borne by the worker.

Experience wanted: 2 months

This job requires a minimum of 2 months of agricultural experience working in a greenhouse or nursery handling manual tasks associated with production of flowers, nursery stock and vegetables. Saturday work is required. Must be able to lift and carry 100 pounds. Employer may conduct drug/alcohol testing post-employment and at employers expense. Employer may conduct criminal background checks post-employment and at the employer's expense.