Nursery Worker
Green Horizons Nursery & Landscape, LLC
📍 Warren, MI · Macomb County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26187-080583
- 📞 Phone: +1 (586) 571-3445
- ✉️ Email: greenhorizonsnursery@gmail.com
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Subject: Application for Nursery Worker (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26187-080583
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Skill Level 1 Planting, Cultivating, Crops and Commodities: perennials, shrubs, trees. Primary duties (performed during the majority of workdays): Mow, cut, and weed fields. Perform ditching, shoveling, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, and other manual nursery tasks.
Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws.
Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies. Use power equipment including but not limited to: mowers, planters, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, forklifts, skid loaders, cooling equipment and refrigeration units. Palletize and stack boxes and containers.
Must operate agricultural equipment safely, with or without direction. Apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other crop protectants. Mix and apply fertilizers, plant growth chemicals, conditioners, and other plant related treatments at the correct times depending on plant type, growth, climate and crop conditions.
Clear debris, maintain nursery buildings structures, equipment, and work areas. Assist with maintenance and repairs. Repair fences. Put temporary deer netting around nursery to protect trees and to deter deer from foraging and defecating in the production areas.
Work on production line. Grade, size, sort, and pack product. Bunch/bundle product pursuant to supervisor instructions. Fill bins, trays and other containers with product, level bins.
Perform quality control on inbound and outbound loads. Follow quality control standards and production procedures. Handle fragile products carefully to prevent damage.
Operate equipment safely, with or without direction. Clean and sanitize workstation.
Install and maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Prepare fields/soil for planting. Remove cull stock, debris, tree stumps, brush, ferns, vines and other growth from planting area using tractor, mattocks, brush hooks and/or axes.
Plant, cultivate and maintain nursery stock and/or bedding plants in condition for shipping and sale to customers. Pot seedlings or ‘liners' by hand or mechanical planter. Propagate plants from cuttings. Perform general plant maintenance. Prune, trim, space, transplant and cull plants to ensure availability of marketable products.
Irrigate and apply fertilizer. Pack, label, tag, pull, and store plants by variety. Count, grade, and inventory plants. Prepare plants for digging by tying or wrapping as necessary. Dig plants.
Drum lacing and quarter lacing. Wrap burlap or other covering around root balls and secure with twine and/or staples. Crimp wire baskets. Must understand nursery quality control standards and have working knowledge of production procedures.
Must harvest crops according to specific standards. Must select and harvest crops pursuant to customer needs.
Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional rain showers that is not severe enough to stop field operations.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 2 months |
This job requires a minimum of 2 months of prior agricultural experience working in a farm, nursery or field crop production. Applicants must be able to furnish verbal or written statement establishing relevant prior work experience. Workers must be able to perform all duties of entry level workers with accuracy and efficiency.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 7:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Pay details | Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act 338, employers must provide earned sick time, with the amount of paid leave varying by employer size |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Warren, Mi) |
| Housing | Housing provided only to non-local workers (i.e. permanent residence outside normal commuting distance). Only workers may occupy housing. Employer possesses and controls premises at all times. Workers must vacate housing promptly at end of contract period or upon termination, in accordance with state law. |
| Meals | Employer does not provide meals. Employer provides housing which includes free and convenient kitchen facilities with appropriate equipment, appliances, cooking accessories, and dishwashing facilities for meal preparation, restrooms, living and dining area. For workers residing in employer-provided housing, employer also provides free transportation minimum once per week to/from closest town or city for personal errands (e.g., groceries, banking services). Dining, kitchen/cooking facilities and other common areas are shared by all workers. In the event that kitchen facilities become unavailable during the contract period, employer will provide three daily meals in accordance with 20 CFR 655.122(g). In such circumstances, employer will deduct the cost of such meals up to the maximum allowable amount published in the Federal Register, or as otherwise approved by the U.S. Department of Labor. |
| Daily transportation | The employer will transport workers daily in 1 company vehicle (2026 Chevy 3500) to fit the 4 workers and 1 the driver, at no cost. The employer will pick up the workers from the provided secured housing to the place of employment at the beginning of each workday and back at the end of each workday. The vehicle to be used belongs to the company and Tomas Zuniga. This daily transportation at no cost to workers is only available to workers who do not reside in employer-provided housing. |
| Travel to the job | Employer will pay and reimburse foreign workers for all visa-related costs (excluding passport fees) in the first workweek. For non-local workers, employer arranges/provides inbound transportation via airplane and reimburses workers for daily subsistence and reasonable lodging costs if applicable. |
| Pay deductions | DEDUCTIONS. Employer shall make all deductions required by law (e.g., federal/state tax withholdings. All deductions which complies with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and applicable state law. Employer may deduct reasonable repair costs if the worker is found to be responsible for damage to housing beyond normal wear and tear. Employer may charge worker for reasonable cost of damages to property and/or replacement of tools and/or equipment if such damage is found to have been the result of worker's willful misconduct or gross negligence. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26187-080583 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse (45-2092.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | Law Offices of Stephen A Lagana |
| Posted | Jul 20, 2026 |