Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop
Employer: Legacy Labor, Inc.
Location: Portage, MI
Workers needed: 19
Pay: $13.73/hour
Season: Jan 4, 2027 – Sep 25, 2027
Experience: 2 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Crops: Annual Bedding Plants, vegetable plants, flowering hanging baskets, geraniums, flowering patio pots, herbs, combination hanging plants, combination patio pots, fern pots, hanging fern baskets, mums, annuals, perennials, vegetables, fruits, succulents, herbaceous annuals and perennials, seedlings, annual flats, and potted annuals.
Planting, sticking cuttings, watering plants, loading carts, pulling orders, cleaning, pulling weeds, maintenance and upkeep of facility outside and inside, mowing, trimming, cutting trees, cleaning/pruning flowers, snow removal, white washing the greenhouse, putting pots together, working on planting line, sowing seed, labeling, equipment maintenance and operating, general greenhouse labor, working on planting lines, setting and picking up product, hanging baskets, spacing pots and flats, splitting wood and sweeping floors. Transplanting seedlings and cuttings, filling containers and trays, labeling flats, pots and containers. Moving trays, containers, baskets, and hanging baskets. Pulling orders for flats, containers, and baskets. Clean designated work areas. Weeding greenhouse area and product. Assembling trays, containers, and baskets. Drip line replacement/ repair. Ground cover replacement/repair. Digging holes/excavation. Ag Equipment operator/maintenance.
Additional job duties: Working in onsite show beds, stock beds and fields. Assist with plant production to include trimming, splitting, potting, and moving plants into and out of on-site greenhouses and fields. Workers will assist with plant growing to include weeding, planting beds and fields, working in on-site landscaping of show beds, trimming, pruning plant inventory, and moving plants into and out of on-site greenhouses and fields. Assist with plant shipment to include cleaning, organizing, moving plants into and out of on-site greenhouses and fields, watering, weeding, boxing, and tagging plants for shipping and loading trucks.
Farm Equipment Operation: Workers may be required to operate farm equipment during daily operations, as an incidental activity. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, workers will be instructed in the safety and operation of the tractor before driving the tractor. Tractors should be driven in a manner to protect operator, other workers, products, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.
General Maintenance: Workers will perform various duties for upkeeping of the nursery property, lawns, gardens, greenhouses, fields, equipment, and buildings. These duties may include painting of nursery buildings, fence repair, mowing, weed eating, and other general building and ground maintenance.
This job order covers multiple worksites with staggered start dates. Workers will perform the job duties described in this order at the worksites listed in Section F.
On January 4, 2027, four (4) workers will begin employment at John Schuring Jr. Co. Greenhouses.
On January 18, 2027, two (2) workers will begin employment at R&D Greenhouse LLC.
On February 8, 2027, three (3) workers will begin employment at Ken’s Greenhouse.
On February 15, 2027, five (5) workers will begin employment at Westrate Greenhouses.
On March 1, 2027, five (5) workers will begin employment at Kloosterman Greenhouses.
The total number of workers requested is nineteen (19). All workers will be employed through September 25, 2027. Each worker’s period of employment will begin on the applicable start date listed above and end on September 25, 2027.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employers will furnish free cooking and kitchen facilities to those workers who are entitled to live in the employers' housing so that workers may prepare their own meals. Workers will buy their own groceries. Once a week the employers will offer to provide (on a voluntary basis by the workers) free transportation to assure workers access to the closest store where they can purchase groceries. In the event kitchen facilities are not available, or become unavailable during the season, workers staying in employer housing will be provided 3 meals per day at the current subsistence rate as posted in the federal register.
Workers staying in employer provided housing that does not have kitchen facilities to prepare their own meals will be provided 3 meals per day at the current subsistence rate posted in the federal register. If this rate changes after the start of the contract, workers will be notified of the updated rate.
Transport: (a) Incoming: At the filing of this job order that is not known based on appointment availability at the consulate. The Employer will not advance transportation and subsistence costs to workers for transportation to or from the place of employment. Employer will provide or reimburse workers as outlined in the regulations the most economical cost of transportation subsistence costs during travel. See contract for additional details.
Experience wanted: 2 months
2 months experience working in a commercial greenhouse. On-site-training for curtain task. Applicants must furnish affirmative job references from recent employers operating comparable operations establishing acceptable previous experience. Must be physically able to meet and perform all job specifications stated in job order. Must be able to work in the hot humid weather for extended periods of time. Workers are subject to random drug testing at no cost to the employee. All drug testing will occur after the worker begins his or her employment and is not a part of the interview process. Failing or refusing a drug test will result in immediate termination.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE POLICY: This employer will strive to provide a safe and healthful work environment, free of substance abuse, for the protection of our associates, employees and visitors. The use, possession or being under the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol during working time is prohibited.
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