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Nursery Worker
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 2
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 35
- Wage: 16.5 USD / Hour
- OFLC Certification: ACCEPTED - PENDING RECRUITMENT
- Start date: 02/14/2026
- End date: 12/14/2026
- Process date: 12/18/2025 21:00:00
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Prior experience is not required, but basic knowledge of fertilizer and pesticide application is required. Basic course work and knowledge of cultivation and propagation techniques is required. Ability to use power tools, shovels, outside in hot temperatures. Applicants must pass a background check and pass a drug test and a physical examination. A work history showing reliability and ability to learn is required as this position frequently works with others and being reliable and punctual is essential. This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning. Safety is of primary importance and no drug or alcohol use while working will be tolerated. Workers will take cuttings from existing plants and bundle with like cuttings until targeted quantities are achieved. Workers will then stick cuttings into trays of soil or sand beds by hand. Workers will plant seeds and seedlings into containers and fill with potting soil and maintain those plants. PLANTING: Workers will fill empty growing containers with soil mix. Workers will then set these containers down by hand on growing block (depending on container size workers may carry as many as four containers in each hand). SPACING: Using a spacing rack, workers will position container plants in a grid pattern, carrying container plants from an adjacent location on the block or using a cart or trailer to transport. SHEARING: Workers will use either hand shears or machine shears to shear the top and/or sides of the plants. Shearing specifications will vary by plant variety and supervisor/foreman will instruct worker of each variety needs. PULLING/LOADING: Workers will harvest container plants by loading noted varieties on trailers. Workers are responsible for ensuring correct variety and size according to pull tags and also that plants pulled are uniform in regard to height, width, etc. Workers will load harvested plants onto racks for the purpose of distribution. Working in teams of 2 workers will care, water, load, and unload employer’s nursery stock. Duties will be sporadic all through the contract due to various crops and crop conditions. Duties will/could include pruning, cutting, deadheading, pinching, spacing plants, fertilizing with granular or liquid fertilizer, cleaning work areas, transporting plant materials loading and unloading plants by hand, watering by hand with pumps or hoses. Plants maybe (75 to 100Lbs). General Field Maintenance: Digging trenches, installing, repairing, and replacing ground cloth, staking, installing and repairing irrigation, weeding and other miscellaneous work. The fields will be cleaned up after the harvesting in order to prepare for the next harvesting season. The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat the work process rapidly, the employer will provide the tools necessary to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. The employer will charge the worker for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return the tools or due to such worker's willful damage or destruction of the tools. Employees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available, there is a possibility that available work hours will be in excess of 20% of the hours offered but they are not guaranteed, the worker is not required to work more than the stated daily hours in the contract and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season.