Nursery Worker

  • Armstrong
  • Purple Springs Nursery Inc

Work site environment :

  • Outdoors
  • Wet/damp
  • Hot
  • Cold/refrigerated

Work setting :

  • Equipment operation

Tasks :

  • Clipping
  • Hand harvesting vegetables
  • Suckering
  • Vegetable culling
  • Weeding
  • Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants
  • Pot and re-pot plants
  • Dig up wrapping rootballs of trees and shrubs

Equipment and machinery experience :

  • Chain saw
  • Forklift
  • Garden tractors
  • Mechanical cultivator
  • Mechanical seeder
  • Light trucks

Work conditions and physical capabilities :

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Large workload
  • Attention to detail
  • Hand-eye co-ordination