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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Work in nursery facilities or at customer location planting, cultivating, harvesting, and transplanting trees, shrubs, or plants. | Plant, spray, weed, fertilize, and water plants, shrubs, and trees, using hand tools and gardening tools. | |||
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Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them. | ||||
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Feel plants' leaves and note their coloring to detect the presence of insects or disease. | ||||
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Operate tractors and other machinery and equipment to fertilize, cultivate, harvest, and spray fields and plants. | ||||
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Inspect plants and bud ties to assess quality. | ||||
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Dig, cut, and transplant seedlings, cuttings, trees, and shrubs. | ||||
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Move containerized shrubs, plants, and trees, using wheelbarrows or tractors. | ||||
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Clean work areas, and maintain grounds and landscaping. | ||||
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Haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels. | ||||
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Maintain and repair irrigation and climate control systems. | ||||
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Record information about plants and plant growth. | ||||
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Sell and deliver plants and flowers to customers. | ||||
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Fill growing tanks with water. | ||||
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Tie and bunch flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees; wrap their roots; and pack them into boxes to fill orders. | ||||
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Regulate greenhouse conditions, and indoor and outdoor irrigation systems. | ||||
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Dig, rake, and screen soil; and fill cold frames and hot beds in preparation for planting. | ||||
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Dip cut flowers into disinfectant, count them into bunches, and place them in boxes to prepare them for storage and shipping. | ||||
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Sow grass seed, or plant plugs of grass. | ||||
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Maintain inventory, ordering materials as required. | ||||
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Cut, roll, and stack sod. | ||||
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Provide information and advice to the public regarding the selection, purchase, and care of products. | ||||
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Fold and staple corrugated forms to make boxes used for packing horticultural products. | ||||
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Trap and destroy pests such as moles, gophers, and mice, using pesticides. | ||||
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Graft plants and trees into different rootstock to reduce disease by inserting and tying buds into incisions in rootstock. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Nursery Workers
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Transportation | Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Dynamic Strength | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Speed of Limb Movement | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Baller | |||
Budder | |||
Bulb Packer | |||
Bulb Planter | |||
Bulb Weeder | |||
Caretaker | |||
Cutter | |||
Field Hand | |||
Florist Helper | |||
Flower Cutter | |||
Flower Picker | |||
Flower Planter | |||
Flower Stripper | |||
Garden Center Employee | |||
Geranium Specialist | |||
Grafter | |||
Greenhouse Assistant | |||
Greenhouse Helper | |||
Greenhouse Laborer | |||
Greenhouse Manager | |||
Greenhouse Worker | |||
Greenhouse or Nursery Transplanter | |||
Ground Worker | |||
Groundman | |||
Grower | |||
Hand Cultivator | |||
Harvester | |||
Herb Digger | |||
Herb Specialist | |||
Horticultural Specialty Grower | |||
Horticultural Worker | |||
Horticulture Worker | |||
Laborer | |||
Landscape Foreman | |||
Nursery Harvester | |||
Nursery Laborer | |||
Nursery Plant Maintainer | |||
Nursery Worker | |||
Nurseryman Assistant | |||
Orchid Hand | |||
Orchid Transplanter | |||
Packer | |||
Picker | |||
Plant Production Worker | |||
Planting Material Carrier | |||
Planting Material Remover | |||
Planting Material Unloader | |||
Potter | |||
Propagation Worker | |||
Propagator Laborer | |||
Replanter | |||
Replanting Machine Crew | |||
Sprinkling Worker | |||
Transplant Worker | |||
Transplanter | |||
Tree Surgeon Helper | |||
Tree Wrapper | |||
Watering Worker | |||
Weeder | |||
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