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Hancock Evergreens Nursery Worker in Yellow Jacket, Colorado
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Position: Nursery Worker
Requirements: Able to lift up to 50lbs, exposure to extreme temps, extensive pushing or pulling, extensive sitting or walking frequent stooping or bending over, repetitive movements. Will to take a post hire drug test (at no cost to the worker).
Job Description:
Duties will include operation of farm equipment including, but not limited to, tractors with various implements, sprayers, combines, and trucks to prepare and maintain land and irrigate, fertilize, cultivate, plant, harvest, sort, grade, pack, load, and transport horticultural plants; also perform repair and maintenance on farm equipment when required. Use hand tools, such as but not limited to shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Transplant, weed, thin and prune plants; apply pesticides; detect the presence of insects or disease; inform farmers or farm managers of crop/plant progress. Record information about plants and plant growth. Transplant or pot and label plants; work in nursery facilities. Regulate greenhouse conditions and participate in irrigation activities such as maintaining, repairing, and operating irrigation equipment, set up and/or maintain a ridge of earth around
fields to maintain an adequate water supply, drain excess water from fields; create openings for drainage overfill; walk each field to check for standing water. Perform sanitation duties that will include removing trash or debris from work areas, farm buildings, and fields; assist in upkeep of sanitation standards required by OSHA such as change potable water quality when necessary; keep hand-washing facilities neat and orderly, clean toilet area of any personal contaminates, and proper disposal of trash or garbage from the facilities. Mow grass
around fields and around farm shop locations; dig ditches or channels for drainage or seedlings. Construct trellises, repair farm buildings, or other structures as well as using hand tools to perform maintenance or repairs to fencing (barrier, railing, or other upright structure) around fields and around farm. There are few typical days and workers may be required to change duties and engage in various general functions.
Anticipated Hours of Work Per Week: 35 hours per week
Schedule: Monday to Friday 7am to 1pm & 5 hours on Saturday.
Anticipated Period of Employment: 3/28/26 to 10/30/26
Application Deadline: 7/14/26
Job Location: Yellow Jacket, CO / Montezuma 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 -