Employment Information
- Post ID: 378169579
- Posted Date: Aug 15, 2025
- Close Date: Oct 2, 2025 (open for 47 days)
- Company: Blue Grass Sod Farms Ltd.
- Category: Farm, Agriculture & Forestry
- Business Location:Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
- Total Views: 580
- Listing Age: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 3 weeks ago
- Job URL: https://tribaljobs.ca/jobs/378169579/alberta/red-deer/greenhouse-labourer/
Job Details
- Experience: 3 years - 5 years
- Opening Positions: 1
- Remuneration: $17.98 per hour / 48 hours per week
- Commencement Date: : 2026-01-02Enddate: 2028-01-31
- Education: High school graduation certificate
- How to apply: email to [email protected], by mail
Job Description
Tasks
- Clean the crops
- Consider water saturation, light and temperature when planning for germination
- Cut horticultural crops
- Greenhouse cleaning
- Guide growing shoots into optimal development positions
- Harvest seedlings
- Level earth to fine grade specifications
- Mixing fertilizer
- Operate climate controls
- Remove manually all suckers and water sprouts
- Seed cutting
- 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
- Plant bulbs and seeds
- Pot and re-pot plants
- Transplant seedlings or rooted cuttings
- Apply fertilizers
- Report signs of insect or disease damage
- Clean work area
- Plant, cultivate and irrigate crops
- Clear and collect brush and debris from fields, pens and other work areas
- 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
- Ferns
- Perennials
- Bedding plants
- Hydroponic horticultural products
- Ornamental trees, shrubs and hedges
- Seasonal plants
- Tropical plants
- Vegetables
Type of crops
- Bell peppers
- Greenhouse tomatoes
- Herbs
- Onions
- Tomatoes
Equipment and machinery experience
- Chain saw
- Forklift
- Irrigation pumps and equipment
- Mechanical cultivator
- Mechanical sprayer
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
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Tight deadlines
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Reliability
- Team player
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
Other benefits
- Other benefits
- Parking available