Nursery Worker

Number of Workers Requested:  5

Duties may include: Planting, cultivating, maintaining and harvest nursery stock including but not limited to shade trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals. Digging (Hand or Machine), mulching, transplanting, mowing, watering in nurseries and seasonal holding houses. Fertilize, prune, spray, space, water, tag and perform other plant maintenance. Count and inventory plants. Propagate plants from cuttings. Load/unload wagons and trucks. Picking up and delivering plant material (as described above), bulk material (mulch, limestone, soil, composite, sand, and other building material necessary for green houses and maintenance building. Fixing or installing access roads around Moon Clinton Road. Installation and Maintenance of irrigation systems. Remove plastic from seasonal holding houses in spring and cover seasonal holding houses with plastic in fall. Assist with putting up seasonal holding houses. Plant and dig field grown plants, burlap roots, perform general maintenance of field grown plants. Fill, lift and carry various size pots with soil and plants weighting as much as 60lbs. Plants must be handled carefully so minimal leaves, limbs and roots are broken during transplanting process. Boxing, weighing and loading of product on trucks. May also used mechanized filed work power equipment & other related Nursery Worker activities as per SOC/OES 45-2092 (onetonline.org). Possible weekend/holiday work.