Job Description
Company - Via Verde Hydroponics
Specific Skills:
- Transplant seedlings or rooted cuttings
- Spray or dust plants with insecticides and fungicides
- Sort and pack fruits and vegetables
- Report signs of insect or disease damage
- Pot and re-pot plants
- Plant bulbs and seeds
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Mix and prepare soils
- Harvest crops
- Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants
- Apply fertilizers
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Examine produce for quality and prepare for market
- Clean work area
- Specific Skills – Field Crops
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Additional Skills
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
Weight Handling
Type of Product
Type of Crops
- Strawberries
- Greenhouse tomatoes
- Greenhouse vegetables
- Landscape and Horticulture Technicians and Specialists Specific Skills
- Cleaning crop
- Clipping
- De-leafing
- Mixing fertilizer
- Suckering
- Tying
- Vertical farming system
- Weeding
- Grading
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Lowering
Work Site Environment
- At heights; Wet/damp; Hot;
- Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment; Work under pressure; Repetitive tasks; Handling heavy loads; Physically demanding; Attention to detail; Hand-eye co-ordination; Ability to distinguish between colours; Combination of sitting, standing, walking; Standing for extended periods; Walking; Bending, crouching, kneeling; Large workload;
