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Confidential Employer Nursery Worker in Northampton, Pennsylvania
This is a Tempory Position. Dates of employment are 02/26/2024 to 11/30/2024.
To apply: click on "I want to apply" and fax your resume/application to S Nawarynski at 610 434 4122. Be sure to reference the job order number on your resume/application. All resumes/applications are reviewed and only those that match the job specifications are forwarded to the employer for consideration. If you do not have a resume, please visit the PA CareerLink & ask to complete an application. We encourage you to enroll on the www.pacareerlink.pa.gov.
Must have 3 months experience working as a skilled nursery worker.
Nursery Work: Workers will be required to start all crops from seed. Seedlings will be grown in 10 x 20 trays filled with sand or dirt and kept in a controlled environment. When seedlings reach approximately 2 inches tall, and per supervisors; instruction, workers will transplant seedlings from tray into peat pots. When seedlings reach appropriate size, approximately 6 to 8 inches tall, workers will be required to transfer from peat pots to carious selling container and transport to prepared fields for transplanting. When produce is ready for marketing workers will load onto trucks to be shipped to purchaser's locations.
General duties: Duties performed in the field will be sporadic all through the contract due to various crops and crop conditions. Duties will/could include preparing soil, planting, pruning, cutting, deadheading, pinching, trimming to shape, spacing plants, fertilizing with granular or liquid fertilizer, cleaning work areas, transporting plant materials in the nursery/greenhouse areas, loading and unloading plants and all other duties associated with ornamental plant production. Between harvesting, workers may be required to perform duties to prepare crops for marketing. Workers will also unload pallets from trucks or wagons into fields for transplanting. Worker may unload and restock for storage.
Farm Equipment Operation: Workers may be required to operate trucks, tractors and other farm equipment during daily operations, as an incidental activity. Workers may be required to till fields to prepare for planting. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving the tractor. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.
Loading and unloading: workers may be required to work on flatbed trailer tying B&B trees to the trailer with twine. Workers may be required to work loading or unloading bare root trees by hand into refrigerated trailers.
Cultivation: Workers may be required to work as operators of wheel tractors pulling cultivators, mower or hilling disks.
Watering: Workers may be required to water trees by hand using pumps and hoses.
A qualified worker may be requested to be a working team leader.