54 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 02/16/2024 - 11/02/2024.

Crops/Commodities: nursery stock, annuals, perennials. This job requires a minimum of 3 months of prior experience working in a wholesale nursery operation, handling both manual and machine tasks associated with nursery production. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Workers will perform work including but not limited to picking, weeding, watering, pruning, spraying, spacing, tagging and fertilizing. Workers may also perform the following duties: count and inventory plant material, load and unload finished plants onto wagons and trucks, remove plastic from seasonal holding houses in the spring and cover seasonal holding houses with plastic in the fall. Workers may also assist in building seasonal holding houses.

Workers may be required to fill, lift and carry various size pots with soil and plant material and must do so carefully so that minimal leaves, limbs and roots are damaged. Workers may also required to assist in the loading of trucks with product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of up to 5 feet for long periods of time. Other duties include pushing, pulling and or navigating loaded carts weighing between 100-300 pounds over a distance.

Work is to be done 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 movement and extensive walking. Colorblindness and allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures may range from 10 to 105 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. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift carry 60 pounds.

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