General Worker
Company: Starke Ayres
Salary: Not Specified
Location: Gauteng, South Africa
Closing Date: Not Specified
Description
Starke Ayres is seeking a reliable and hardworking General Worker to support day-to-day nursery and greenhouse operations. Responsibilities include seed counting and packaging, preparing and filling seedling trays and pots, sowing, transplanting, trellising, and assisting with pollination processes. The ideal candidate must have a Grade 12 certificate, with agricultural experience being an advantage. This is a permanent junior-level position offering hands-on involvement in plant production and breeding activities.
Responsibilities
- Seed counting and packaging
- Soaking, washing and drying seedling trays
- Preparing seedling mix for seedling tray filling
- Tray filling with seedling mix
- Sowing according to the sowing list
- Moving seedling trays from germ room to seedling house after 72 hrs of sowing and putting in order
- Preparing seedling mix for planting pots
- Filling of planting pots with seedling mix
- Moving in filled pots and arranging them in the greenhouses
- Connecting drippers to the pots
- Moving seedlings from seedling house to greenhouses and field
- Making planting holes in the field
- Transplanting
- Preparing ropes for trellising and connecting them to the cables and then to the plants
- Identifying flowers that are at the right stage on the female plants and undertaking emasculation following the crossing book provided by the breeder
- Making pollination according to the crossing book
Requirements
- National Senior Certificate (Grade 12) (Essential)
- Experience in the agricultural industry is advantageous
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