What are the responsibilities and job description for the General Laborer-H2A ONLY/Seasonal position at Dan and Jerry's Greenhouse?
H2A Job Posting
Posting Title: 2026 Season H2A General Labor
Título de la publicación: Labor general H2A de la temporada 2026
Posting expires: 9/30/2025
La publicación vence: 9/30/2025
Applications are being accepted for the 2026 season until September 30, 2025.
To be considered for future year, you must re-apply on an annual basis.
Se aceptan solicitudes para la temporada 2026 hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2025.
Para ser considerado para el año futuro, debe volver a presentar la solicitud anualmente.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Plant, cultivate, and maintain crops and plants, to pick, ship and sell to our customers. General maintenance of facilities, grounds, and equipment is also required.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Greenhouse Production:
- Responsible for all aspects of plant growing including seeding, pruning, transplanting, spacing, watering, hanging baskets.
- Set, pull, sort and store plants according to variety, growing needs and shipments.
- Perform irrigation activities, including setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment and watering plants both by hand and automated irrigation systems.
- Move containerized plants using rolling carts.
- Unload carts/bins/trucks/wagons at designated market and sort product for quality issues and repackage for sales.
Field Production:
- Perform field maintenance activities including pulling weeds, thinning crops, and spraying plants with herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides.
- Remove trash, rocks, and debris from the planting/ harvest area.
- Select and pick vegetables/plants based on specifications set by the supervisor.
- Operate tractors, sprayers, cultivators, planters, mowers, plows, disks, and other farm equipment.
Facility Grounds and Equipment Maintenance:
- Construction, uncover and/or recover greenhouses, with or without the use of power tools.
- Maintain facilities grounds including weeding, mowing and snow removal as necessary.
- Assist with the maintenance and repair of equipment.
- Be able to operate equipment with or without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors, other employees, plants, crops, trees, facilities and equipment.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
- Prior experience working on a nursery handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities.
- Minimum of 3 months prior experience
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Work is to be done in the field and/or greenhouse for long periods of time.
- Workers may assist in loading trucks with nursery products up to 50 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. If there are heavier items, they will require a team lift.
- 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 may affect worker’s ability to perform the job.
- Workers will be required to bend and stoop to pick crops, cut the vines using a knife and carry crops to bins, carts, wagons and trucks.
- Workers are exposed to wet weather early in the morning through the heat of the day. Extreme temperatures may range from -10 to 100 F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop operations.
- Workers should be physically able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations.
Salary : $17 - $21