Shire Jobs

8 Full-Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 03/04/2024 - 12/15/2024.

Crops/Commodities: evergreen and shade trees. This job requires a minimum of 3 months of verifiable prior experience working in tree nursery, preferably including experience with balled and burlap (B and B) tree production. Work will encompass any combination of outdoor manual tasks such as planting, cultivation, hoeing, transplanting, fertilizing, propagation, pruning, preparing soil, weeding, spraying and watering, mowing, loading unloading trucks. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. General Duties: Duties performed in the field will include preparing soil, planting, pruning, cutting, deadheading, pinching, trimming to shape, spacing plants, potting, fertilizing with granular or liquid fertilizer, cleaning work areas, transporting plant materials in the nursery greenhouse areas, loading and unloading plants and all other duties associated with ornamental plant production. Between harvesting, workers will be required to perform duties to prepare crops for marketing. Workers will also unload pallets from trucks or wagons onto fields for transplanting. Workers may unload and restock for storage. Workers may also be required to perform work such as performing hand cultivation tasks, weeding or hoeing, cleaning and repairing seed beds, racks, grounds, set up and move irrigation pipes and equipment, gardening and shrubbing.

Requirements:

• 3 months experience in duties listed
• Drug Screen
• Lifting requirement 75 lbs.
• Exposure to extreme temperatures
• Extensive pushing or pulling
• Extensive sitting or walking
• Frequent stooping or bending over
• Repetitive movements

The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov