NY1485240

20

Less than High School

none

$17.20 hourly

Full Time Seasonal

First Shift (Day)

44

20 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 03/04/2024 - 09/13/2024. Crops/Commodities: nursery stock including, but not limited to, ornamental shrubs, perennials, roses. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, hammers, utility knives, and saws. Lift, carry, and load unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, fork lifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Install maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants when needed. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments as directed by supervisors. Clear debris from field and clean maintain farm buildings, structures, equipment, and work areas. Assist with farm building field road maintenance and repairs. Repair fences. Prepare fields soil container-growing area for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using tractor, mattocks, brush hooks and or axes. Plant, cultivate and maintain nursery stock and or bedding plants in condition for shipping and sale to customers. Pot seedlings or liners by hand or mechanical planter. Propagate plants from cuttings. Perform general plant maintenance. Prune, trim, space, transplant, weed, and cull plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Irrigate and apply fertilizer. Pack, label, tag, pull, and store plants by variety. Count, grade, and inventory plants. Must understand nursery quality control standards and have working knowledge of production procedures. Must harvest crops according to specific standards. Must select, harvest, assemble, and prepare plants pursuant to customer needs. Lift, carry, and load unload nursery stock and or supplies. Workers will assist in loading unloading trucks with product weighing up to and including 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet for long periods of time. Requirements: * 3 months experience in duties listed * Lifting requirement 60 lbs. * Exposure to extreme temperatures * Extensive pushing or pulling * Extensive sitting or walking * Frequent stooping or bending over * Repetitive movements The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov

Call Alexander Salvi at 6092208080