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This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information, please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2347981
Consultant, please conduct seated interview. Days of need 5/15/2025-9/1/2025. Place of employment: Yakima, Washington. Worker must possess 3 months experience.
Job Duties: Crops/Commodities: nursery stock, including trees, shrubs, and flowers. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, forklifts, skid loaders. Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Repair fences. Tree Training: hoeing, tree painting, weed mat application. Tie/position trees and limbs, together and to trellises, using string, tape, wire, or other fasteners and supports. Pruning: Use manual and mechanized pruning tools and equipment. Identify and remove stubs or broken branches, downward-growing branches, branches rubbing against each other, shaded interior branches, dead wood and shoots-suckers. Prepare fields/soil for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines, and other growth from planting area using tractor, mattocks, brush hooks, and/or axes. Plant, cultivate, and maintain nursery stock and/or bedding plants in condition for shipping and sale to customers. Pot seedlings or liners\' by hand or mechanical planter. Propagate plants from cuttings. Perform general plant maintenance. Prune, trim, space, transplant and cull plants to ensure availability of marketable products. Irrigate and apply fertilizer. Pack, label, tag, pull, and store plants by variety. Count, grade, and inventory plants. Prepare plants for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Dig plants. Drum lacing and quarter lacing. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twine and/or staples. Crimp wire baskets. Must understand nursery quality control standards and have working knowledge of production procedures. Must harvest crops according to specific standards. Must select and harvest crops pursuant to customer needs. Products must be handled carefully to prevent damage. Workers will be expected to perform all duties diligently and with respect for the company\'s code of conduct. Work activities will be directed by a member of management determined by the owner. Work is done in the field for long periods of time. Workers will assist in handling product weighing up to 80 pounds and lifting to a height of 5 feet. Workers must work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time. Work requires repetitive movements and extensive walking. Work required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be required during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity, and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honeybees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker\'s ability to perform the job. Workers should be able to do the work required with or without reasonable accommodations. Must wear assigned personal protective equipment when required. Must report for work daily wearing work clothing and boots or other durable foot wear. Shorts, bathing suits or other casual clothing not permitted. Workers wearing clothing inappropriate for work will not be permitted to start work. Employer-paid post-hire drug testing is r quired after a worker has an accident at work. Persons seeking employment in this position must be available for the entire period requested by the employer. This job requires a minimum of three months of verifiable prior agricultural fieldwork experience handling both manual and machine tasks, including heavy lifting, associated with commodity production. Applicants must be able to furnish verifiable job reference(s) or comparable third party documentation from recent employer(s) establishing acceptable prior experience. Employer-paid post-hire drug testing is required after a worker has an accident at work. Saturday work required. Must be able to lift/carry 80 pounds.