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Colorado Fresh Farms Greenhouse Worker in Monte Vista, Colorado
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Position:
Requirements: 2 Months of work experience required, able to lift up to 60lbs, exposure to extreme temps, extensive pushing or pulling, extensive sitting or walking frequent stooping or bending over, repetitive movements.
Job Description: General farm labor primarily consists of greenhouse plant care. Work activities include nursery planting/production, tomato pruning, sorting, picking and packaging, weeding, watering, general plant care, and loading and unloading products off racks and trucks. Manually seed, plant, transplant, cultivate, harvest, and sort produce. Workers will perform all work associated with growing and harvesting greenhouse-grown vegetables. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Maintain greenhouse irrigation equipment. Harvest vegetables by hand. Harvest, clean, grade, label, box, and build pallets for vegetables grown in the greenhouse. Work will also require ditch cleaning, general farm cleanup activities, mowing, warehouse work, and other work associated with a small vegetable farm and greenhouse operation. Work requires standing, sitting, kneeling, and lifting 60 lbs. Work hours may vary according to daily schedule. Workers must have a minimum of two months prior experience working in a greenhouse nursery, handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities. The employer will provide no training.
Anticipated Hours of Work Per Week: 40
Schedule: Monday to Friday 7am to 4pm
Anticipated Period of Employment: 3-5-26 to 11-8-26
Application Deadline: 7/7/26
Job Location: Monte Vista, Colorado / Rio Grande County
Pay:$16.28
Effective 1/1/25: Overtime must be paid after 48 hours/week, or 56 hours/week for up to 22 "peak weeks" for highly seasonal employers -