Employment Information
- Post ID: 141657978
- Posted Date: Sep 10, 2025
- Close Date: Oct 21, 2025 (open for 40 days)
- Company: Wheatland Trees Ltd.
- Category: Farm, Agriculture & Forestry
- Business Location:Strathmore, Alberta, Canada
- Total Views: 979
- Listing Age: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 6 hours ago
- Job URL: https://tribaljobs.ca/jobs/141657978/alberta/strathmore/nursery-labourer/
Job Details
- Experience: Not required
- Opening Positions: 15
- Remuneration: $17.98 per hour / 60 to 140 hours per 2 weeks
- Commencement Date: : 2026-03-02
- Education: High school graduation certificate
- How to apply: email to [email protected], by mail
Job Description
Tasks
- Budding trees
- Clean the crops
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields and other work areas
- Consider water saturation, light and temperature when planning for germination
- Cut horticultural crops
- Divide fresh harvested produce into marketable lots and non-marketable lots
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
- Hand harvesting vegetables
- Harvest seedlings
- Level earth to fine grade specifications
- 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
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Operate and maintain farm machinery and equipment
- Fertilize and spray crops
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
- Apply the technique of hoeing between the row
- Soil fertility programs
- Clear fields of wood and stones
- Grade vegetables and fruits into different grades according to the size, shape, colour and volume to fetch high price in market.
Experience and specialization
Type of product
- Coniferous trees
- Deciduous trees
- Native plants
- Perennials
- Bedding plants
- Berry bushes
- Christmas trees
- Fruit trees
- Mushrooms
- Ornamental trees, shrubs and hedges
- Seasonal plants
- Vegetables
Equipment and machinery experience
- Chain saw
- Christmas tree cutting machine or equipment
- Forklift
- Garden tractors
- Irrigation pumps and equipment
- Mechanical cultivator
- Mechanical seeder
- Mechanical sprayer
- Light trucks
- Tractor
- Tillage equipment
- Sprayer or duster
- Seed drill
- Planting equipment
- Farm truck
- Fertilizer applicator
- Feeding and watering system
Specialization or experience
- Green economy sector
Area of specialization
- Permaculture
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Public transportation is not available
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
- Work under pressure
- Walking
- Tight deadlines
Weight handling
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Gloves
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Reliability
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- On-site housing options
- Parking available