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5 temporary/full-time positions with Gardners Landscape Nursery, Inc.  from 03/01/2025 - 12/21/2025. To apply to this Job Order: click on "Start Application". Print your resume and write the Job Order Number on your resume and fax your resume to Graham Desmond at 610-280-1013.  All resumes are reviewed and only those that match the job specifications are forwarded to the employer for consideration.  CLOSING DATE:    7/26/2025.

This job requires a minimum of 3 months of agricultural experience working in a nursery handling manual tasks. Applicants must be able to furnish verbal or written statement establishing relevant prior work experience. Workers must be able to perform manual tasks with accuracy and efficiency. Must be able to lift/carry 60 lbs. Employer-paid post-hire drug testing required. Criminal background check required.

Additional Minimum Job Qualifications include: Exposure to extreme temperatures, extensive pushing and pulling, extensive sitting and walking, frequent stooping or bending over, and repetitive movements.

Nursery stock. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Prepare fields/soil for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using tractor, mattocks, brush hooks and/or axes. Plant, cultivate and maintain nursery stock and/or bedding plants in condition for shipping and sale to customers. Pot seedlings or 'liners' by hand or mechanical planter. Propagate plants from cuttings. Perform general plant maintenance. Prune, trim, space, transplant and cull plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Irrigate and apply fertilizer. Pack, label, tag, pull, and store plants by variety. Count, grade, and inventory plants. Prepare plants for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Dig plants. Drum lacing and quarter lacing. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twine and/or staples. Crimp wire baskets. Install plants. Products must be handled carefully to prevent damage.

Work is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers may assist in handling product weighing up to 60 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honey bees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's ability to perform the job. Workers should be able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations.

Employer-paid post-hire drug testing is required upon reasonable suspicion of use. Employer requires all newly hired employees to take and pass an employer-paid background check. All background checks are conducted uniformly after an initial job offer has been extended and accepted by the new hire. Applicants found to have felony convictions (including, but not limited to assault, child molestation, sex or drugrelated convictions) will be immediately terminated out of concern for general public safety, and paid for all hours worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination, if any. In the case of a foreign worker who is terminated for cause resulting from findings of the background check, the employer will arrange leastcost transportation to the worker's pl ce of recruitment, at the worker's expense.

Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. Employer may request, but not require, workers to work more than the stated daily hours and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays. Worker must report to work at designated time and place each day. Daily or weekly work schedule may vary due to weather, sunlight, temperature, crop conditions, and other factors. Employer will notify workers of any change to start time. Workers will have an unpaid lunch break. TERMINATION. Prior to any termination for cause, employer evaluates workers' performance of required tasks and compliance with Work Rules and other employer policies.

JOB LOCATION:

535 Uwchlan Ave Chester Springs, PA 19425  and multiple worksites within Chester county.

Employer provides incidental transport between job sites.

WAGE INFORMATION:

Rate: $17.96 per Hour 

Employer will offer 40 hours per week.

The employer will make all deductions from worker's paycheck required by law. The employer does not envision other workforce-wide payroll deductions.