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Nursery Farm Worker
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 8
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 48
- Wage: 12.14 USD / Hour
- Start date: 04/04/2026
- End date: 10/15/2026
- Process date: 02/24/2026 18:09:11
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
This job requires 2 months of prior experience working in a tree and plant production nursery. Primary responsibilities of the job includes hands on work associated with the planting, cultivation, transplanting, harvesting, and maintenance of container nursery stock. This work can require standing, walking, stooping, bending, and lifting up to 60 pounds for long periods of time outdoors in all weather conditions. It also includes making important decisions based on the condition of nursery stock according to prescribed standards. This work requires adherence to important safety and quality standard operating procedures and the ability to work quickly and consistently alongside fellow workers with a positive, professional, team-based attitude and a consideration for the safety and health of fellow workers. Duties include manual labor to plant, transplant, cultivate, prune, fertilize, irrigate, harvest, pot, space and move containerized perennial plants, shrubs and trees in pots up to 30 gallon. Workers must be able to perform all duties of entry level workers as well as perform additional mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Manual tasks related to the growing of nursery stock will include some combination of the following: potting plants by hand or potting machine, loading product onto trailers, cleaning fields, unloading trees and plants into the field; sticking cuttings for propagation; moving, spacing and consolidation plants and trees in the field. Unloading starter plants and liners from trucks or trailers. Tying, pruning, trimming and shearing trees and shrubs. Covering coldframe hoophouses with plastic or shadecloth. Spraying herbicides and insecticides and applying fertilizer and treatments at the ideal time depending on plant variety, growth and environmental conditions. Workers may use hand tools such as rakes, shovels, hoes and wheelbarrows and may be trained to drive tractors to and from the field pulling nursery stock on tracking trailers. Tasks related to harvest of nursery stock will include the following: preparing trees and shrubs for loading by tagging, labeling, tying, wrapping as necessary; consolidating plants onto rolling racks, wrapping carts; stacking trees on trailers; loading, moving and unloading nursery stock and supplies. Plants must be handled carefully to ensure leaves, limbs, and roots are not broken during planting, handling, wrapping, and/or transplanting processes to ensure availability of marketable products.