NHS Human Services, Inc.

Anticipated period of employment: 03/11/2025 to 11/27/2025

This job requires a minimum of 3 months working in a Nursery environment handling both manual and mechanized tasks. Applicants must be able to furnish verbal or written statement establishing relevant prior work experience.

Crops/Commodities: Nursery. Perform manual and mechanized tasks associated with the outdoor production of horticultural products. Plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery stock, trees, shrubs, bedding plants, plugs, liners, and other horticultural varieties. Prepare fields/soil for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using hand tools or mechanized equipment (rakes, shovels, hoes, tractors, rototiller, mattocks, brush hooks and/or axes). Plant/pot seedlings or liners' by hand or mechanical planter. Propagate plants from cuttings. Prepare trees for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Hand dig trees and other plants with shovel or tree spade. Operation of a skid steer, tractors and small utility vehicles will be required. Perform general plant maintenance. Irrigate and apply fertilizer or other chemicals. Train, prune, trim, shear, space, transplant and cull trees and/or plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Shear trees with proper taper and bud cut angle for quality. Tie/position trees and plants by tying or wrapping as necessary. Count, inventory, and grade trees. Select trees for harvesting according to grade. Dig by manual and mechanical methods. Loading and unloading of trucks per orders. Tie and secure per guidelines. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twice and/or staples. Pack, label, tag, pull, sort, and store plants by variety. Clean/maintain work area Install/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Install and remove levee gates. Apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions See ETA 790/790A for a complete job description

Only workers meeting all qualifications on the job order should be referred by the Job Service Office. Interested candidates must contact their local employment office to receive a copy of the job order (ETA 790/790A) and applicable attachments. Once the applicant has a copy of the job contract Interview required. Employer's agent conducts interviews by phone at time of inquiry or within a reasonable time thereafter. Interviews conducted at no cost to applicants, whether via phone or in-person. Contact Employer 's agent Monday through Friday during the hours of 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET If unavailable, contact employer directly during the hours of 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET. Employer Agent: AgWorks H2, LLC and referred to NY1521718 as the CO is in connection with this NJ number.

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