Anticipated period of employment: 02/22/2025 to 12/15/2025

3 months of verifiable experience required working in Nursery Production. Must be able to lift 85 pounds (38.55 kg) to a height of 5 feet.

This job involves working in a commercial wholesale nursery and includes both manual and machine tasks associated with nursery production. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Plants, digs, mulches, transplants, mows and waters in nurseries and seasonal holding houses. Maintains plants including fertilizing, pruning, watering and tagging. Counts and inventories plants. Propagates plants from cutting. Loads finished plants onto wagons and trucks. Builds and maintains seasonal holding houses including removal of plastic in Spring and covering with plastic in Fall. Maintains ground plants including planting, hand digging and covering root ball with minimal damage. Fills and carries various size pots with soil and plants weighing up to 85 pounds (38.55kg). Plants, cultivates and maintains ornamental shrubs and trees in condition for shipping and resale to customers. Pots seedlings, prunes, transplants, spaces, irrigates and culls plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Packs, labels, pulls and stores plants according to a variety. Performs any other duties involved in the maintenance of plant materials and nursery stock including, but not limited to, irrigation, ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, product installation and feeding. Maintains holding yards and shipping areas. Operates nursery equipment including, but not limited to, tractors, sprayers, cultivators, planters and skid-loaders with tree spade. Must be available to work for the entire period requested by the employer including Saturdays and Sundays during busy season. See ETA 790/790A for a complete job description

Only workers meeting all qualifications on the job order should be referred by the Job Service Office. Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Once the applicant has a copy of the job contract contact the employer Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm and referred to 20918426 as the CO is in connection with this NJ number.

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