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Nursery Worker
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 16
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 40
- Wage: 16 USD / Hour
- Start date: 03/01/2026
- End date: 12/15/2026
- Process date: 01/08/2026 12:20:33
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Crops/Commodities: Nursery Stock: trees, shrubs, perennials. This job requires a minimum of two months of prior experience working in a nursery handling both manual and machine tasks associated with plant nursery production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Planting: Workers may be required to work as operators of wheel tractors pulling planters and planting wagons. Workers may be required to work on the ground planting trees that are fed through a tractor pulled planter, using shovels. Trees, Shrubs, Perennials: Workers will be working with trees, shrubs and perennials. Workers will plant, cultivate, stake, harvest, propagate, grade, store and ship field grown horticultural plants. Workers will take cuttings from trees, shrubs, and perennials, place in containers pre-filled with dirt and transplant seedlings to prepared areas. Harvesting field-grown crops includes digging up products and placing on pallets. At maturity, the plants will be dug, balled and burlapped and loaded onto trucks for shipping. Workers may be required to dig trees and evergreens with digging spades. Pruning: When pruning, it is vital to prune the unwanted branch while protecting the stem or trunk wood of the tree. While pruning trees, workers will receive proper tools for the particular job, i.e., saw, pruners and hand snips. The supervisor will set a standard or pattern for each job and will demonstrate and communicate this to workers. Workers will be assigned rows of trees and must prune each tree according to the predetermined standard. Workers must remove all resulting material from the trees rendered from performing pruning tasks. When pruning is complete on each tree, each worker is required to rake and scatter the resulting brush in the center of the tractor/equipment rows. Balled and burlap (B&B) tree production: Workers may be required to work as operators of skid steers with tree spade attachments or haul out tines. Workers may be required to work on the ground packaging the finished root ball on a tree by stapling burlap with hog ring pliers, tying basket loops with twine, crimping baskets with pig tail crimpers or tying branches with twine. Loading and Unloading: Workers may be required to work on flat bed trailers tying B&B trees to the trailer with twine. Cultivation: Workers may be required to work as operators of wheel tractors pulling cultivators, mowers or hilling disks. General Duties: Duties performed in the field may include preparing soil, planting, pruning, staking, cutting, deadheading, pinching, trimming to shape, spacing plants, weeding, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, potting, fertilizing with granular or liquid fertilizer, irrigation, cleaning work areas, loading and unloading plants and all other duties associated with field grown plant production. Workers may also install products grown by the nursery. Scout plants and apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions. Employer-paid post-hire random drug testing required. Work is to be done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in loading trucks with nursery stock and materials weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. 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 to ragweed, goldenrod, insect spray, related chemicals, etc. may affect workers' ability to perform the job. Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day, working in fields. Temperatures may range from 10 to 100 F.