Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For moreInformation, Please Seehttps://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/13261894DISCLAIMER: THIS JOB POSTING IS INTENDED ONLY FOR U.S. WORKERS LEGALLYAUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE UNITED STATES. WE DO NOT SPONSOR VISAS ORCONSIDER APPLICATIONS FROM CANDIDATES OUTSIDE THE U.S.**DESCARGO DE RESPONSABILIDAD: ESTA PUBLICACIN DE TRABAJO EST DESTINADASOLO PARA TRABAJADORES ESTADOUNIDENSES LEGALMENTE AUTORIZADOS PARATRABAJAR EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. NO PATROCINAMOS VISAS NI CONSIDERAMOSSOLICITUDES DE CANDIDATOS FUERA DE LOS EE. UU.**Greenhouse/Nursery: Workers may perform any combination of the followingduties concerned with preparing soil and growth media, cultivation, andotherwise participating in horticultural activities: haul, spread, dig,rake, and mix media to prepare the growing areas for production; coverand fill cold frames and greenhouses in preparation for planting; haul,plant, spray, weed, water, prune, trim, shape and space products;fertilize with granular or liquid fertilizer; tie, bunch, wrap, and packtrees and shrubs to fill orders and load onto trucks for marketing; in agreenhouse, or in an outdoor production area transplanting seedlings andliners into containers and place in growing area. Workers will notperform pesticide application. Bedding Plants: Workers will fill flatswith potting soil in preparation for planting. Filled flats will bestacked for transport to planting area. Worker will then plant plugs orseedlings into flats as instructed by supervisor. Planted flats will betagged with appropriate picture tags. Completed flats will be watered inby hand and placed in growing area for finishing. Potted Plants/HangingBaskets: Workers will fill pots/baskets with potting soil in preparationfor planting. One or more transplants will be planted in each containeras specified by supervisor. Completed containers will be watered andplaced in growing area for finishing. Workers may be required to installhangers and tags on pots or baskets. Workers may be required to placewatering tubes into containers to facilitate the irrigation process.Flowering Trees and Shrubs: Workers will be working with flowering treesand shrubs. Workers will plant, cultivate, harvest, propagate, grade,store and ship container and field grown horticultural products.Harvesting crops may include grading and tagging. Some harvesting mayrequire digging up products and placing on pallets. Grading is done bysize. Products are measured, tied in bundles and placed in storage forshipment. Workers will harvest seed and/or take cuttings from trees andshrubs, place in containers pre-filled with growing media and transplantcuttings and seedlings to prepared areas. Bare Root Products: Workerswill handle a variety of bare root products. Workers will propagate,plant, cultivate, harvest and prepare products for shipment. NurseryWork: Workers will be required to start all crops from seed. Seedlingswill be grown in 10 x 20 trays filled with sand or dirt and kept in acontrolled environment. When seedlings reach approximately 2 inchestall, and per supervisors; instruction, workers will transplantseedlings from tray into peat pots. When seedlings reach appropriatesize, approximately 6 to 8 inches tall, workers will be required totransfer from peat pots to carious selling containers and transport toprepared fields for transplanting. When produce is ready for marketingworkers will load onto trucks to be shipped to purchasers locations.General duties: Duties performed in the field will be sporadic allthrough the contract due to various crops and crop conditions. Dutieswill/could include preparing soil, planting, pruning, cutting,deadheading, pinching, trimming to shape, spacing plants, fertilizingwith granular or liquid fertilizer, cleaning work areas, transportingplant materials in the nursery/gr enhouse areas, loading and unloadingplants and all other duties associated with ornamental plant production.Between harvesting, workers may be required to perform duties to preparecrops for marketing. Workers will also unload pallets from trucks orwagons into fields for transplanting. Worker may unload and restock forstorage.