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NJ Employer Nursery workers in Valatie, New York
Anticipated period of employment: 03/10/2025 to 11/21/2025
This job requires a minimum of six months of prior experience working in a nursery, preferably with extensive ball and burlap (B&B) field harvesting. Workers must be able to perform all duties of entry level workers as well as perform additional mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs. Valid driving license and clean driving record required to drive light company vehicles. Employer-paid post-hire drug testing is required, as well as random and upon reasonable suspicion of use.
Crops/Commodities: Nursery stock, including trees and shrubs, perennials. This job requires a minimum of 3 months of prior experience working in a nursery, preferably with extensive ball and burlap (B&B) field harvesting. Workers must be able to perform all duties of entry level workers as well as perform additional mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Plants, cultivates and harvests bare root, balled and burlapped trees and shrubs, containerized trees, shrubs, perennials, and performs related duties. Jobs may include any combination of planting, cultivating, hoeing, propagating, transplanting, fertilizing, pruning, spacing, preparing soil, weeding, spraying and watering, tagging, mowing, loading/unloading trucks. Uncover and/or recover winter storage houses. Loads/unloads trucks and wagons. Performs any other duties involved in the maintenance of plant materials and nursery stock. Workers will require minimal supervision. Take inventory and grade plants, prepare trees and shrubs for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary; dig; wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and securing with twine and/or staples; crimping wire baskets; lift, carry and load nursery stock; and unload, move or load supplies, including wire baskets. Prepare fields for planting by clearing cull stock, brush and debris; plant seedlings or liners' by hand (including riding and inserting liners in a mechanical planter); hand dig, load, unload or transplant bare-root nursery stock; straighten, tie, prune and shear trees and shrubs; cut, pull or remove and mow weeds or grass; move irrigation equipment; apply agricultural chemicals: herbicides and insecticides and apply fertilizer See ETA 790/790A for a complete job description
Only workers meeting all qualifications on the job order should be referred by the Job Service Office. Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Once the applicant has a copy of the job contract Interview required. Employer's agent conducts interviews by phone at time of inquiry or within a reasonable time thereafter. Interviews conducted at no cost to applicants, whether via phone or in-person. Contact Employer 's agent Monday through Friday during the hours of 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET If unavailable, contact employer directly during the hours of 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET. Employer Agent: MAS Labor H2A, LLC and referred to NY1520913 as the CO is in connection with this NJ number.
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