General Laborer, Seasonal

## Description

***Growing To Serve You***

**We exist to bring beauty and joy to our communities through our high-quality plants.**

***THIS IS A SEASONAL POSITION TETNATIVELY WORKING UNTIL LATE MAY.***

**POSITION SUMMARY:**

Plant, cultivate, and maintain crops and plants, to pick, ship and sell to our customers. General maintenance of facilities, grounds, and equipment is also required.

**SAFETY:**

Safety is a top priority at Dan and Jerry’s Greenhouses. You will take an active role in promoting a safe working culture by attending monthly safety meetings. We want all employees, customers, and guests to Arrive Safe, Be Safe and Leave Safe.

**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**(comprehensive, but not limited to)

*Greenhouse Production:*

• Responsible for all aspects of plant growing including seeding, pruning, transplanting, spacing, watering, hanging baskets.
• Set, pull, sort and store plants according to variety, growing needs and shipments.
• Perform irrigation activities, including setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment and watering plants both by hand and automated irrigation systems.
• Move containerized plants using rolling carts.
• Unload carts/bins/trucks/wagons at designated market and sort product for quality issues and repackage for sales.

*Field Production:*

• Perform field maintenance activities including pulling weeds, thinning crops, and spraying plants with herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides.
• Remove trash, rocks, and debris from the planting/ harvest area.
• At harvest, will be instructed to select vegetables based on specifications set by the supervisor.
• Operate tractors, sprayers, cultivators, planters, mowers, plows, disks, and other farm equipment.

*Facility Grounds and Equipment Maintenance:*

• Construction, uncover and/or recover greenhouses, with or without the use of power tools.
• Maintain facilities grounds including weeding, mowing and snow removal as necessary.
• Assist with the maintenance and repair of equipment.
• Be able to operate equipment with or without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors, other employees, plants, crops, trees, facilities and equipment.

## Qualifications
**EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:**

• Prior experience working on a nursery handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities.
• Minimum of 3 months prior experience.
• We use e-Verify to verify all new employee's work eligibility. You must be able to pass the e-Verify screening.

**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES & PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:**

• Demonstrated ownership for decisions and actions.
• Demonstrates a strong work ethic, flexible with work hours, and willing to be available when necessary.
• Does what it takes to get the job done.

• The qualifications listed above are guidelines. Other combinations of education and experience may provide necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform this job.
• **PHYSICAL DEMANDS:**

• Work is to be done in the field and/or greenhouse for long periods of time.
• Workers may assist in loading trucks with nursery products up to 50 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. If there are heavier items, they will require a team lift.
• Workers should be able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time.
• Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking.
• Allergies may affect worker’s ability to perform the job.
• Workers will be required to bend and stoop to pick crops, cut the vines using a knife and carry crops to bins, carts, wagons and trucks.
• Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day. Extreme temperatures may range from -10 to 90 degrees. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop operations.
• Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations.

• **WORK ENVIRONMENT / TRAVEL:**
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Typically, those in this or comparable roles will spend most of their time working side-by-side with employees in a production and greenhouse environment with few physical hazards.
• Local travel may be required.
• Environments can at times be dusty, warm, and humid.