Employment Information
- Post ID: 115850077
- Open Date: August 20, 2025
- Close Date: October 8, 2025 (open for 48 days)
- Organization: Shelmerdine Garden Centre
- Sector: Farm, Agriculture & Forestry
- Business Location:Headingley, Manitoba, Canada
- Total Views: 91
- Ad Active Duration: 10 calendar days (8 business days)
- Last Updated: 1 week ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/manitoba/headingley/115850077/nursery-labourer/
Job Details
- Experience: Not mandatory
- Job Vacancies: 4
- Compensation: $15.80 per hour / 40 to 60 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Budding trees
- Clean the crops
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields and other work areas
- Cut horticultural crops
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
- Mixing fertilizer
- Operate climate controls
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Seed cutting
- Shear Christmas trees
- Tie and secure plants
- Train trees to produce more fruit of higher quality
- Weeding
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Spray or dust plants with insecticides and fungicides
- Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants
- Mix and prepare soils
- Plant bulbs and seeds
- Pot and re-pot plants
- Transplant seedlings or rooted cuttings
- Apply fertilizers
- Report signs of insect or disease damage
- Assist in grafting activities
- Dig up wrapping rootballs of trees and shrubs
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Clean work area
Experience and specialization
Type of product
- Coniferous trees
- Deciduous trees
- Ferns
- Native plants
- Perennials
- Bedding plants
- Berry bushes
- Bonsai plants
- Christmas trees
- Cut flowers
- Fruit trees
- Ornamental trees, shrubs and hedges
- Seasonal plants
- Tropical plants
- Vegetables
Type of crops
- Greenhouse tomatoes
- Greenhouse vegetables
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
Weight handling
- Up to 9 kg (20 lbs)
- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Other benefits
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available