Nursery Labourer

Durée de l'emploi: Saisonnier
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 40 to 44 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:

- **Education**:

- No degree, certificate or diploma
- ** Work site environment**:

- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Hot
- ** Work setting**:

- Rural area
- ** Tasks**:

- Budding trees
- Clean the crops
- Cut horticultural crops
- Mixing fertilizer
- Weeding
- Spray or dust plants with insecticides and fungicides
- Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants
- Mix and prepare soils
- Pot and re-pot plants
- Transplant seedlings or rooted cuttings
- Report signs of insect or disease damage
- Assist in grafting activities
- Dig up wrapping rootballs of trees and shrubs
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Clean work area
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- ** Type of product**:

- Coniferous trees
- Deciduous trees
- Native plants
- Bedding plants
- Ornamental trees, shrubs and hedges
- ** Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Chain saw
- Forklift
- Garden tractors
- Irrigation pumps and equipment
- Mechanical cultivator
- Mechanical sprayer
- ** Specialization or experience**:

- Green economy sector
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- ** Weight handling**:

- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
- ** Own tools/equipment**:

- Steel-toed safety boots
- Gloves
- ** Experience**:

- Will train
- ** Green job**:

- Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes