Greenhouse Worker

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**:
**Education**:

- No degree, certificate or diploma

**Experience**:
**Work site environment**:

- Outdoors
- At heights
- Wet/damp
- Odours
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
- Non-smoking

**Work setting**:

- Rural area
- Staff accommodation provided

**Tasks**:

- Cleaning crop
- Clipping
- Deleafing
- Fruit trees training
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Lowering
- Mixing fertilizer
- Shoot positioning
- Suckering
- Tying
- Vegetable culling
- Weeding
- Spray or dust plants with insecticides and fungicides
- Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants
- Mix and prepare soils
- Transplant seedlings or rooted cuttings
- Report signs of insect or disease damage
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Clean work area

**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:
**Type of product**:

- Hydroponic horticultural products
- Vegetables

**Type of crops**:

- Greenhouse tomatoes

**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Mechanical sprayer

**Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check

**Transportation/travel information**:

- Travel expenses paid by employer

**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
- Overtime required

**Weight handling**:

- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)

**Own tools/equipment**:

- Steel-toed safety boots
- Gloves

**Personal suitability**:

- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Reliability
- Team player

**Experience**:

- 5 years or more

**Screening questions**:

- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?

**Health benefits**:

- Health care plan

**Long term benefits**:

- Group insurance benefits

**Other benefits**:

- Free parking available
- On-site housing options
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
- Team building opportunities
- Transportation provided by employer
- Parking available
- Variable or compressed work week

**HOW TO APPLY**:
**By fax**:
(604) 940-1118

**By mail**:

- Room 3752 Arthur Drive
- Delta
- British Columbia
- V4K 3N2