Sekhon & Sons Nursery INC based in Pitt Meadows, BC is inviting applications from suitable candidates for the position of Farm Labourer. Sekhon & Sons Nursery INC is known as a strong organisation with around 500 members. Our organization is known to represent the landscape trades, garden centres, wholesale and retail nurseries, suppliers, as well as educators, students and horticulture affiliates. Our members are always accessible to all the extra benefits offered. Our Nursery association is known to be an organisation serving the BC’s nursery growers, landscape professionals, retail garden centres and the associated landscape horticulture trade. We are LMIA approved to hire a foreign worker to fill labour or skills shortages on a temporary basis.
The candidates who will get selected for the vacancy will be required to start the work as soon as possible. The vacancies refer to full time or permanent employment. The candidates have to work in Day, Weekend, Shift, Early Morning and Morning shifts.
Job Description:
Employer Name: Sekhon & Sons Nursery INC
Position: Farm Labourer
No of Vacancies: 12
Salary: $17.40 hourly for 40 hours per week
Employment Type: Full time
Location: Pitt Meadows, BC
Shifts: Day, Weekend, Shift, Early Morning, Morning
Work Site Environment: Outdoors, Wet/damp, Dusty, Hot
Transportation/Travel Information: Own transportation
Work Location Information: Staff accommodation available, Remote location, Willing to relocate
Requirements:
Languages: English
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience: 7 months to 1 year
Equipment and Machinery Experience: Tractor, Sprayer or duster, Planting Equipment, Loader, Farm truck
Type of Product: Coniferous trees, Deciduous trees, Ferns, Native Plants, Perennials
Physical Requirements:
- The candidate should be able to work in a fast-paced environment
- The candidate should be able to perform repetitive tasks
- The candidate should be able to handle heavy loads
- The candidate should be physically demanding
- The candidate should be able to pay attention to details
- The candidate should be able to handle heavy loads
- The candidate should be a combination of sitting, standing, walking, standing for extended periods, bending, crouching and kneeling
- The candidate should be able to work under tight deadlines
Other Requirements:
- The candidate should be able to work in a flexible environment
- The candidate should be a team player
- The candidate should be able to work in an organized way
Responsibilities:
- The candidate should be able to plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- The candidate should be able to operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- The candidate should be able to harvest crops
- The candidate should be able to fertilize and spray crops
- The candidate should be able to detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- The candidate should be able to examine products for quality and prepare for market
- The candidate should be able to write daily basic progress reports
- The candidate should have agricultural service contractors’ specific skills such as soil fertility programs
- The candidate should have agricultural service contractors’ specific skills such as permaculture
- The candidate should have landscape and horticulture technicians and specialists’ specific skills such as budding trees
- The candidate should have landscape and horticulture technicians and specialists’ specific skills such as deleting
- The candidate should have landscape and horticulture technicians and specialists’ specific skills such as Christmas tree shearing
- The candidate should have landscape and horticulture technicians and specialist’s specific skills such as mixing fertilizer
- The candidate should have landscape and horticulture technicians and specialist’s specific skills such as tying
- The candidate should have landscape and horticulture technicians and specialist’s specific skills such as weeding
- The candidate should have landscape and horticulture technicians and specialist’s specific skills such as shoot positioning
- The candidate should have landscape and horticulture technicians and specialists specific skills such as grading
- The candidate should have landscape and horticulture technicians and specialists specific skills such as greenhouse cleaning
- The candidate should have landscape and horticulture technicians and specialists specific skills such as lowering
Benefits:
- The employees get to promote high standards of horticulture
- The employees get to work under provision of skills service members
- The employees get to be a part of the promotion of relevance of horticulture in fostering
- The employees get financial and compensatory benefits
- The employees get various leave benefits
Company Overview:
The Sekhon & Sons Nursery INC has been working for around 60 years and today is a vibrant association, with chapters in the Lower Mainland, the Interior, and on the Island. The company is known to offer member companies leadership, information and services toward the development of more knowledgeable and responsible horticulture practices. The Sekhon & Sons Nursery INC is also included in business development and issues management for BC’s green industry
How to apply:
If the position is fit for you and the basic requirements are fulfilled then you can now apply directly to the employer by sending an email (along with resume) through below mentioned details.
By Email:
[email protected]
We thank all the applicants for showing their interest and trust in us, however, only the most eligible candidates will be selected and conducted for further procedure directly from employers, in between no charges/fees or original documents will be asked from any applicant. All the best!