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Weekly hours of work will be - 30-40.

Relevant work experience of 3-6 months will be an advantage for role.

**Duties Include**:
1. Propagation
- Preparing seeds, bulbs and containers before planting. Ensure seedlings, seeds and bulbs are healthy. Selecting seeds, soil mixing, bulbs and planting them in field or Nursery containers.

2. Make sure all bulbs have done a correct treatment before propagation. Correct treatment includes: awaken dormant, temperature, water, sunlight, fertilizers.

3. Irrigation: Ensure all crops have suitable water and nutrient, watering plants manually and automatically by irrigation system when plants need water.

4. Report: Keeping report and monitoring losses, yield and plants growth.

5. Pest and disease control: Pest and disease control with appropriate use of herbicides and insecticides.

6. Packaging and order dispatching of crops/plants/flowers to customer’s specification.

7. Adhere to all company health and safety practice and procedures

8. Schedule harvesting of flowers in a right time from inside and outside of the greenhouse.

9. Packing of flowers into various packaging in a timely, accurate manner

10. Maintain soil and water levels including the production records

11. Maintenance: Ensure that all maintenance tasks set are complete in anefficient and timely manner.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $29.00 - $31.00 per hour

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Bay of Plenty: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)