Seasonal Nursery Worker

H2ajobs; Canby (OR); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-provided housing

Job summary

H2ajobs in Oregon seeks nursery farm workers to perform duties from digging and grading to tying and storing trees for shipping. You will follow safety rules and assist with field tasks and light transport as needed. A valid driver’s license is not required, but may help.

Qualifications include at least 3 months of consecutive nursery experience and the ability to provide three work references. Employer-provided housing is available; meals are prepared by workers in housing facilities, and all

Qualifications

• 3 months of consecutive nursery experience with verifiable references.

Responsibilities

• Digging and loading trees into trailers.
• Grading and sorting trees by quality and size.
• Tying bundles of trees for storage and shipping.
• Storing bundles in coolers or sawdust as required.
• Pulling stakes when digging is not possible due to wet conditions.
• Hand tying trees to stakes when digging is unsuitable.

Skills

Nursery experience

Job description

This is an application for nursery crops. Job duties include:

• Digging – Workers follow behind digger shaking mud off the trees and loading them into a trailer being pulled by a tractor.
• Grading/Sorting – Checking the quality and the size of the trees and sorting them.
• Tying – Tying Bundles of trees to be stored/prepared for shipping.
• Storing – Storing bundles of trees in coolers or sawdust.
• Pulling Stakes – When is too wet for digging, workers pull stakes out of the ground.
• Hand Ties – Another activity that is done out in the fields when it’s too wet for digging, hand tying the trees to the stakes.

Workers may operate trucks/company vehicles to transport farm equipment, crops, and workers. Employees that want to be drivers must possess a valid driver's license. The driver’s license is not a pre-hire job requirement. They may drive workers from living quarters to the work sites and vice versa. They may also transport workers to the grocery store and to perform errands. Drive times may fluctuate depending on the nature of the crops, business needs, and weather conditions.

See Addendum C: A.8a - Additional Job Duties.

Housing:

• Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals:

• The employer will furnish cooking facilities with working appliances, hot water, a place to prepare food and clean up afterward at no cost to employees occupying employer-provided housing. Employees will purchase their own food and prepare their own meals.

Employees will purchase their own food and prepare their own meals. In the event that it becomes necessary for the employer to provide 3 meals a day to the workers, the employer will deduct $16.78 per day, or the current allowable charge as designated by the DOL from each worker’s pay.

All breaks and lunches will be subject to local, state, and federal regulations.

Transport: See Addendum C: F.2 - Inbound / Outbound Transportation.

Experience wanted:

3 months

B.2) Worker must possess 3 months of consecutive and verifiable nursery experience with the ability to provide 3 work references.

See Addendum C: B.6 - Additional Job Requirements and Qualifications.