Nursery Worker
Bryan Wagoner Tree Farm LLC
About this opportunity
Workers will also spray approved chemicals to control pests, weeds and diseases, pinching, pruning, fertilizing, watering, rooting, weeding, loading, transporting, discarding, rotating, grading, storing, and loading and shipping field grown trees according to supervisor’s instructions. Harvesting includes digging up products, balling and securing delicate dirt and root systems in burlap secured with rope, pins or wire, to be stored until ready for shipment in farm staging area.
- Dates
- Oct 14, 2026 – Aug 10, 2027
- Duration
- ~10 months
- Experience
- 1 month(s)
- Category
- agriculture
Requirements
- Experience: 1 month(s)
- Prolonged walking, standing, bending, stooping, and reaching. Job is outdoors and continues in all types of weather.
- Workers may be requested to submit to random drug or alcohol tests at no cost to the worker. Failure to comply with the request or testing positive may result in immediate termination. All testing will occur post-hire and is not a part of the interview process. Negative result may be required post-hire and before commencing work.
- Must be able to lift and carry 100 lbs. repetitively throughout the workday.
- Must not hinder another workers productivity. Use of personal cell phone or other personal electronic device during working hours strictly prohibited except for work-related calls or emergencies and violation may result in immediate termination.
- Workers are expected to perform any of the listed duties and work on any crop as assigned by the employer and/or workers supervisor.
- Commercial tree nursery worker: Planting, cultivating and harvesting all types of trees growing in fields.
- Worker must be able to carry a loaded 50 lbs. backpack sprayer throughout the entire work day.
- EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT: Applicants are required to have a minimum one month verifiable experience working in field-grown tree nursery - grading, sizing, and pruning mostly trees with some limited shrubs according to well established nursery standards.
- Workers should be able to hand dig small, medium and large sized trees with dirt covered root ball and then securely wrap the root ball with burlap and secure it with large, job specific, employer-provided pinning nails so that the tree can be moved and transplanted successfully by the purchasing customer, providing the tree the very best chance of survival from "harvest shock".
- Worker should be able to successfully tie tops of trees using string and be able to utilize metal wire baskets on larger tree sizes. Grading and pruning trees is critical work. Pruning, if done incorrectly, can take years for the trees to grow out of the damage, causing the grower significant economic damage.
- Workers must have at least one month verifiable ball and burlap (B&B) experience and one month experience pruning trees based on verbal instruction from supervisor.
Work authorization
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- Work authorization
- H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker
- International candidates
- Yes
- Employer sponsorship
- Required
- Confirmation
- Confirmed by source
- Official source
- U.S. Department of Labor
Benefits & conditions
- Housing
- Employer-provided (including mobile or range) — Housing is group housing. If a female worker is hired, separate toilet, shower, and sleeping room will be provided. Family housing is not available and the provision of family housing is not a prevailing practice in the area of intended employment. La vivienda es para grupo. Si se contrata a una trabajadora, se proporcionarn bao, ducha y habitacin separadas. Vivienda para toda la familia no es disponible y la provisin de casa para toda una familia no es imperante para el rea de traba
- Transportation
- Employer will offer voluntary transportation at no cost to those workers living in housing provided by the employer and for commuting workers who report to a designated daily job reporting site. The mode of transportation may be a passenger automobile or van as follows: car (various sizes) sedan or station wagon, 2-7 passengers; SUV (various sizes/configurations), 2-11 passengers; pickup truck (various sizes/configurations), 2-5 passenger; van, up to 15 passengers.
How to apply
- Phone
- +13365850052
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- Case number
- JO-A-300-26212-138334
- Verification
- Last verified: September 20, 2026
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