NURSERY WORKER
Employer: Robert H Young
Location: Rock Island, TN
Workers needed: 17
Pay: $13.15/hour
Season: Oct 15, 2026 – Aug 15, 2027
Experience: 2 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Tasks to Perform:
Manually plant, cultivate, transplant, and harvest trees.
Duties Include;
Operate tractors and skid steers. Maintain fields, perform ball digging, tie tops, wrap tree trunks in protective felt, haul trees, and load trucks. Fertilize, prune, trim, and spray trees.
Equipment Used:
Backpack sprayers, hand pruners, tie tape guns, smaller tractors, and implements such as sprayers, bush hogs, disks, and tillers.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Housing will have free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities and transportation will be provided to the grocery store weekly.
Transport: Inbound: The employer will reimburse the worker, after 50% of the contract is completed, for daily subsistence and transportation costs incurred from their home to the place of employment, at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges. All visa costs will be reimbursed by the employer in the first workweek, as required by regulations.
Experience wanted: 2 months
2 months of agricultural experience required.
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