nursery worker
Your tasks
- Budding trees.
- Clean the crops.
- Cut horticultural crops.
- Greenhouse cleaning.
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions.
- Harvest seedlings.
- Maintain and manage growth of vines, vine canopy and grapes.
- Mixing fertilizer.
- Operate climate controls.
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts.
- Shear Christmas trees.
- Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality.
- Weeding.
- Spray or dust plants with insecticides and fungicides.
- Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants.
- Mix and prepare soils.
- Plant bulbs and seeds.
- Pot and re-pot plants.
- Transplant seedlings or rooted cuttings.
- Apply fertilizers.
- Report signs of insect or disease damage.
- Assist in grafting activities.
- Dig up wrapping rootballs of trees and shrubs.
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens.
- Clean work area.
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas.
Requirements
Education No degree, certificate or diploma.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Physically demanding.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Large workload.
- Attention to detail.
Weight handling Up to 45 kg (100 lbs).
No experience (will train).
Other
Work site environment Outdoors.
Type of product
- Coniferous trees.
- Deciduous trees.
- Native plants.
- Bedding plants.
- Christmas trees.
- Cut flowers.
- Fruit trees.
- Ornamental trees, shrubs and hedges.
- Seasonal plants.
Type of crops Artisanal crops.
Employment terms options
- Early morning.
- Morning.
Employment terms options
- Day.
- Overtime required.