Greenhouse Labourer

Durée de l'emploi: Temporaire
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 48 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:

- **Education**:

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

- Floriculture production
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
- Harvest crops
- Dusty
- ** Work setting**:

- Rural area
- ** Tasks**:

- Clean the crops
- Consider water saturation, light and temperature when planning for germination
- Cut horticultural crops
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
- Harvest seedlings
- Level earth to fine grade specifications
- Mixing fertilizer
- Operate climate controls
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Seed cutting
- 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
- Plant bulbs and seeds
- Pot and re-pot plants
- Transplant seedlings or rooted cuttings
- Report signs of insect or disease damage
- Clean work area
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
- ** Type of product**:

- Ferns
- Perennials
- Bedding plants
- Hydroponic horticultural products
- Ornamental trees, shrubs and hedges
- Seasonal plants
- Tropical plants
- Vegetables
- ** Type of crops**:

- Bell peppers
- Greenhouse tomatoes
- Herbs
- Onions
- Tomatoes
- ** Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Chain saw
- Forklift
- Irrigation pumps and equipment
- Mechanical cultivator
- Mechanical sprayer
- ** 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
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Tight deadlines
- ** Weight handling**:

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

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

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

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- ** Experience**:

- 3 years to less than 5 years
- ** Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- ** Other benefits**:

- Other benefits
- Parking available
- ** Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- **Support for youths**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
- ** Support for Indigenous people**:

- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
- **Support for mature workers**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers
- **Supports for visible minorities**:

- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities