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Overview
The Seasonal Nursery Laborer will assist in a variety of horticultural activities at the direction of a supervisor or team leader. This position will be based out of our Brodhead, WI nursery.
The mission: Carrying out all tasks involved with containerized native plant and seed propagation, production, growing and inventory control from start to finish.
What your day-to-day might look like?
• Order fulfillment
• Assist with propagation and transplanting activities in the greenhouse environment.
• Assist with cultivation activities of outdoor seed production fields.
• Perform care and maintenance of containerized plants and seed production fields.
• Conduct or assist with harvest of seed and plant materials.
• Perform seed processing.
• Assist with both chemical and manual weed control procedures in seed production fields, containerized plants, and off-site.
• Assist with inventory counts and records maintenance.
• Assist with relocation of stock, and seed and plant order preparation
• Perform general housekeeping tasks.
Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of your duties and responsibilities.
Qualifications
Required:
• High School degree or equivalent
• 1 or more years working in natural resources field operations OR agriculture OR farm
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals when mixing chemicals
• A Valid Driver’s License, may be required
• Ability to obtain a Fed Med Card, may be required.
Preferred:
• Forklift License may be required (would be trained here by our corporate trainer).
• Ability to utilize common greenhouse hand tools such as hedge trimmers
VEVRAA Federal Contractor
RES is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
