Nursery Labourer

Durée de l'emploi: Saisonnier
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 60 to 140 hours bi-weekly
- Education:

- Expérience:

- **Education**:

- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
- ** Work site environment**:

- Floriculture production
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
- Harvest crops
- Dangerous
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Other miscellaneous crop farming
- ** Work setting**:

- Rural area
- Remote location
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
- Willing to relocate
- Staff accommodation available
- ** Tasks**:

- Budding trees
- Clean the crops
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields and other work areas
- Consider water saturation, light and temperature when planning for germination
- Cut horticultural crops
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Harvest seedlings
- Level earth to fine grade specifications
- Mixing fertilizer
- Operate climate controls
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Seed cutting
- Shear Christmas trees
- Tie and secure plants
- Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
- Weeding
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Spray or dust plants with insecticides and fungicides
- Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants
- Mix and prepare soils
- Plant bulbs and seeds
- 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
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Soil fertility programs
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- ** Type of product**:

- Coniferous trees
- Deciduous trees
- Native plants
- Perennials
- Bedding plants
- Berry bushes
- Christmas trees
- Fruit trees
- Mushrooms
- Ornamental trees, shrubs and hedges
- Seasonal plants
- Vegetables
- ** Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Chain saw
- Christmas tree cutting machine or equipment
- Forklift
- Garden tractors
- Irrigation pumps and equipment
- Mechanical cultivator
- Mechanical seeder
- Mechanical sprayer
- Light trucks
- Tractor
- Tillage equipment
- Sprayer or duster
- Seed drill
- Planting equipment
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer applicator
- Feeding and watering system
- ** Specialization or experience**:

- Green economy sector
- ** Area of specialization**:

- Permaculture
- ** Transportation/travel information**:

- Public transportation is not available
- ** 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
- Work under pressure
- Walking
- Tight deadlines
- ** Weight handling**:

- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)
- ** Own tools/equipment**:

- Steel-toed safety boots
- Gloves
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Reliability
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- ** Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- ** Government programs**:

- Recognized employer
- ** Experience**:

- Will train
- ** Green job**:

- Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
- ** Other benefits**:

- Free parking available
- On-site housing options
- Parking available
- ** Support for persons with disabilities**:

- Provides physical accessibility accommodations (for example: ramps, elevators, etc.)
- ** Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Does not require Canadian work experience
- ** Support for youths**:

- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
- ** Support for Veterans**:

- Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.)
- **Support for mature workers**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
- Offers phased retirement options that allow mature workers to gradually reduce their workload (for example: flexible or reduced work hours, part time employment, project-based or seasonal work, etc.)
- Offers phased re-entry options for mature workers who are returning to work after retiring (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities)
- **Supports for visible minorities**:

- Applies hiring p