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Arkansas Employer Nursery Worker (45-2092.00) in Little Rock, Arkansas
This job was posted by https://www.arjoblink.arkansas.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.arjoblink.arkansas.gov/jobs/4381818
Seasonal/Temporary work from 2/3/2025 - 11/30/2025
Workers will perform a variety of horticultural tasks such as planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops. In addition, workers may also assist with production by transporting products to greenhouses or pulling products for delivery to markets.
Additional job duties include but not limited to:\ Providing daily care to greenhouse and nursery plants, including planting, transplanting, pruning, watering, fertilizing, controlling insects and disease, ventilating, and controlling weeds; manage plant nutrient levels.\ Maintain each greenhouse room at the appropriate temperature, humidity, and light level.\ Inspect plant material for disease and insect problems, light levels, temperature and humidity, nutrient requirements, and mechanical damage.\ Record data and maintain records; notify the supervisor or project leader of irregularities.\ Spray, dust, shade, and fumigate crops.\ Prepare proper soil mixes as designated by the supervisor or project leader.\ Move materials such as soil, stone, soil mixes, concrete, fertilizers, growth chambers, etc.\ Unloading plants off transport racks onto the ground or tables.\ Perform routine maintenance and modifications to various greenhouse and nursery equipment; maintain irrigation systems.\ May set up, adjust, and maintain electrical devices such as irrigation control units, greenhouse control units, mist control units and horticultural coolers.\ Maintain the work area in a clean and orderly condition.\ Transporting products on racks from the greenhouse to the shipping area.\ Ensure the product on racks is adequately hydrated before shipment.\ Loading and unloading trucks in the shipping area.\ Dispose of products in the greenhouse that are not fit for sale.\ Ensure proper operation of the soil mixer.\ Insert plastic containers into the filler machine and maintain proper operation of the filler machine.\ Ensure quality of line operations.\ Place various forms of plants into assigned containers.\ Insert corresponding tags into each container.\ Transport carts of planted containers from the production line to transportation carts arranged neatly.\ General loading and unloading of plants and plant material.\ General greenhouse maintenance like minor repairs, greenhouse construction and landscape maintenance.\ Cleaning/Maintaining greenhouse and greenhouse equipment.
Physical Requirements\ Work in performed in various locations, including outdoors, in the plant nursery, farm environment, and Home Depot stores.\ Some climate control may be present. However, considerable time is likely spent exposed to weather elements, including heat, cold and inclement weather.\ Frequent exposure to noise, dust, and objectionable odors may be present.\ Skin and clothing may be easily wet and soiled.
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