Nursery Person

Sharma Produce Limited is a New Zealand-based company and successfully running its operations for the past 11 years. This is an opportunity for an energetic Nurseryperson to showcase your leadership skills to support and enable our company to deliver the best product in the New Zealand market. The job location will be in Pokeno, Waikato.

**Position Description**:

- Nurturing plants by watering, weeding, pruning, mulching, and controlling pests.
- Plant vegetable gardens using hand tools and farm machines
- Assisting with loading and assembling of orders as required.
- Perform duties related to grading and packing of plants
- Invoicing orders
- Responsible for grafting and sowing of plants
- Prepare cultivate and fertilize land
- Grade plants / crops to specification
- Monitoring temperature, humidity and soils and controlling of watering systems.
- Bagging of plants in various sized containers (some heavy), placed in growing areas to mature prior to selling.
- Take part in the development and refurbishment of nursery areas.
Ensure compliance of health & safety regulations of the company

**Job Requirement**:

- To be successful you must have at least a qualification related to Horticulture or relevant work experience of at least 3 years in a similar workplace.
- Have passion for outdoor work.
- Punctual, reliable, and honest
- Able to work shift rotations, weekends included.
- Work well in a Team.
- Alert and safety conscious.
- Able to cope with the physical demands of the job.