Greenhouse Laborer

Essential Responsibilities

• Cultivate and transplant vegetable, flower and herb seedlings and cuttings within a seeding/transplanting line.
• Assemble trays, hanging pots and caged pots.
• Prepare soil and growth media.
• Plant, spray, weed, and water plants, using necessary machinery, hand tools, and hoses.
• Cut and/or transplant cuttings, seeds and/or seedlings/plugs.
• Examine plant leaves and note coloring to detect appropriate moisture, presence of insects or disease.
• Inspect plants to assess quality overall and prior to loading, taking cuttings or transplanting.
• Push and pull carts from various parts of the greenhouse areas.
• Work in a standing, fast-paced assembly line.
• Apply tags to trays using a mechanical stapler.
• Work on seedling line.
• Repair and sanitize ground cloth or floor media as needed to maintain greenhouse floors.
• Manually lay down and pick up trays from greenhouse and surrounding station areas.
• Fold and staple corrugated forms to make boxes used for packing horticultural products.
• Clean work areas, sanitize and maintain grounds, greenhouses, warehouse, and landscaping.
• Perform nursery sanitation duties including cleaning floors, tables, walls, roofs, surfaces, hoses, machinery and picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and sweeping floors.
• Load plant trays onto shipping racks/carts.
• Identify and pull weeds, remove dead pots and cull plants not fit for sale.
• Maintain, construct and repair nursery buildings, adjacent buildings and infrastructure.
• Perform maintenance tasks such as: operate vents, fans and heaters to maintain proper growth environment in greenhouses, reporting any and all issues immediately.
• Other duties associated with greenhouse/nursery upkeep and maintenance.
• Absorb and perform additional duties as required by operating needs of the company as directed by management.

Skills/Qualifications

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to take and follow directions and work with little to no supervision.
• Ability to meet the expected efficiencies identified while being safe and accurate.
• Ability to stand on concrete or other surfaces for long periods of time.
• Ability to wear gloves and other safety devices as required.
• Ability to safely operate and use greenhouse tools, machinery and equipment.

Working Environment

• Both indoor and outside work environments.
• Occasionally exposed to extreme cold and hot temperatures, wet or humid conditions and outdoor weather conditions.
• Must be able to walk, sit, stand on concrete or other surfaces, including uneven surfaces for long periods of time.
• This position may require working longer hours during peak seasons.
• Risk/Safety Conditions: Moving mechanical parts and machinery, electrical shock, vibration, airborne particles, loud noise levels, high temperatures, hazardous materials.

Essential Physical Activities

• Walking, sitting, hearing, seeing up close, seeing far away, talking,
• Prolonged standing,
• Finger movement,
• Repetitive motions,
• Depth perception,
• Regularly lift 50 pounds,
• Occasionally lift up to 100 pounds,
• Climbing, crawling, stooping, crouching and wearing gloves and dust masks.