Farm Laborer
Employer: Blooming Nursery, Inc.
Location: Cornelius, OR
Workers needed: 30
Pay: $17.65/hour
Season: Jan 11, 2027 – Nov 5, 2027
Experience: 3 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
Nursery Stock: Workers will prepare and plant nursery stock from plugs, bare root stock and/or liners: Unpacks stock to prepare for planting. Fills pots with soil. Cleans/splits/divides/ prunes rootstocks and divisions to prepare them for planting. Plants material into pots on an assembly line or individual process. Tags newly planted material. Vegetables/Fruit: Plants, cultivates, harvests and packs vegetables and fruit. Works on planter, plants roots, seeds, and bulbs. Workers may spread or remove plastic or other ground covering and drip tape from fields. Weeds, thins, plants. Transplants plants, riding on transplanter or by hand. May set poles and wires for vine plants. Workers must also stake/tie plants. Workers will trellis and prune plants. Picks, cuts, lifts, or pulls crops to harvest them. Care must be taken to prevent damaging produce and plants. Workers will perform put-down: Transfer or relocate plants, placing them on carts and wagons and then in organized blocks on greenhouse benches or hangers, in polyhuts, or on weedmat on the ground. Ensure plants are in the correct location and are properly signed. Workers may be asked to perform inventory duties during these tasks, including counting, dumping of plants, and data entry. Workers will assist with procedures that encourage plant health and maintain appearance: Pull weeds from containers; prune plants; space plants to allow for proper growth; apply fertilizer; hand water, scout for disease and pests and assist with spray applications.when needed. Workers will pick ordered plants from the greenhouses, polyhuts, or heel-in beds and prepare and organize plants for shipping to wholesale customers: Select ordered plants from growing locations. Load plants on wagons, trucks and carts. Prepare potted plants for shipping: clean leaves, debris and spent blooms from plants, attach label. Place prepared plants on carts and wrap carts with plastic film. Roll plant carts to their proper shipping location for drivers to load. For all of the above listed reasons, all workers must be able to read so that orders can be pulled properly and efficiently. Workers will prepare larger plants for shipping: Select ordered plants from growing locations by hand or with equipment. Unload products at a designated location for drivers to load onto trucks. Workers will assist and direct the teams to keep all areas including facilities and production sites weed-free, debris- free, organized, properly tagged and signed: May remove plastic weather polyhut coverings in spring. May install plastic weather polyhut coverings in fall. May assist the facility coach with irrigation or other essential tasks directly related to growing when needed. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs: Work may also include mechanized field work using power equipment. By way of example and not limitation, power equipment may include tractors, planters, gators, sprayers, cultivators, spades, conveyor belts and other equipment. Workers will be expected to be able to operate agricultural equipment with or without direction.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employer-provided housing includes free and convenient kitchen facilities with appropriate equipment, appliances, cooking accessories, and dishwashing facilities for meal preparation. Workers residing in employer-provided housing will be provided free transportation once per week to/from closest town or city for personal errands (e.g., groceries, banking services). Dining, kitchen/cooking facilities and other common areas are shared by all workers. In the event that kitchen facilities become unavailable during the contract period, employer will provide three daily meals in accordance with 20 CFR 655.122(g). In such circumstances, employer will deduct the cost of such meals up to the maximum allowable amount published in the Federal Register, or as otherwise approved by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Transport: Employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier (e.g., van, bus, plane) transportation charges for the distances involved for both inbound and outbound transportation. Inbound transportation provided from the foreign worker's home city to the U.S. consulate and from the U.S. Consulate to the work site.
Experience wanted: 3 months
This job requires a minimum of three months of verifiable prior experience working in a vegetable/fruit farm or nursery handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Ability to read is required in order to process orders and read instructions. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third-party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience.
Employer will comply with OAR , OAR and OAR for heat illness prevention.
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