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Maple Lane Nursery Nursery Workers in Valatie, New York
8 Fulltime H-2A Seasonal Jobs available 3/11/2024 - 11/21/2024
Crops/Commodities: Nursery stock, including trees and shrubs, perennials. This job requires a minimum of six months of prior experience working in a nursery, preferably with extensive ball and burlap (BB) field harvesting. Workers must be able to perform all duties of entry level workers as well as perform additional mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Plants, cultivates and harvests bare root, balled and burlapped trees and shrubs, containerized trees, shrubs, perennials, and performs related duties.
Jobs may include any combination of planting, cultivating, hoeing, propagating, transplanting, fertilizing, pruning, spacing, preparing soil, weeding, spraying and watering, tagging, mowing, loading/unloading trucks. Uncover and/or recover winter storage houses. Loads/unloads trucks and wagons. Performs any other duties involved in the maintenance of plant materials and nursery stock. Workers will require minimal supervision.
Take inventory and grade plants, prepare trees and shrubs for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary, dig, wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and securing with twine and/or staples, crimping wire baskets, lift, carry and load nursery stock, and unload, move or load supplies, including wire baskets. Prepare fields for planting by clearing cull stock, brush and debris; plant seedlings or liners by hand (including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter), hand dig, load, unload or transplant bare-root nursery stock; straighten, tie, prune and shear trees and shrubs, cut, pull or remove and mow weeds or grass, move irrigation equipment, apply agricultural chemicals, herbicides and insecticides and apply fertilizer.
Work is to be done for long periods of time. Workers are expected to perform duties including boxing, weighing and loading of product. Workers will assist in loading trucks with packaged product weighing up to and including 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet for long periods of time. 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. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations.
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Requirements:
- Must have up to six months of verifiable experience in aforementioned.
- Must be able to lift 60 lbs.
- Driver's License required for those operating company vehicles.
- Exposure to extreme temps, repetitive movements
- Extensive pushing/pulling, sitting/walking
- Frequent stooping/bending over
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov. For qualified applicants requiring a Spanish translation of this job order, please email DIPA@labor.ny.gov or call 1-877-466-9757. Please include the applicant name and job order number in your request.