Date Posted: March 25, 2021

Deadline: January 29, 2021

Organization: Costa Farms

Location: Edgefield

City: Trenton

Website: View Website

Job Type: Full Time

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Requirements:
  • Critical Knowledge Experience in horticulture or related field.
  • Computer Skills

Skills

  1. Ability to manage multiple tasks
  2. Ability to work independently
  3. Ability to accurately gather and record data
  4. Ability/Tolerance to work outdoors in a greenhouse environment or in the field in South Carolina year-round.
  5. Computer friendly and quick to learn and adapt to software.
  6. Team player and willing to work together to achieve common goals.
  7. Ability to learn to operate environmental control systems and an understanding of greenhouse environmental management.
  8. Familiarity with proper moisture management techniques.
  9. Familiarity with proper nutrient management and testing procedures.
  10. Ability to acquire a pesticide applicators license/permit within ninety days of hire.
  11. Read, Write and Speak English.
  12. Lift fifty pounds.
  13. Walk, Bend, and Kneel unassisted

Qualifications

Behaviors

Preferred

Loyal: Shows firm and constant support to a cause

Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them

Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

Team Player: Works well as a member of a group

Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest

Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

Job Description:

Tasks/PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. Maintain appropriate irrigation frequencies for all trial plant material.
  2. Measure and record insect populations weekly.
  3. Plant, space, prune and maintain trial crops as necessary.
  4. Apply pesticides to all crops of responsibility.
  5. Apply all plant growth regulators to all crops of responsibility.
  6. Enter experimental data into computer system as necessary
  7. Participate in R&D Department meetings as required. 
Schedule:
Application Process:
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Employer Address:

73 State Hwy S-19-29
Trenton, SC 29847
United States

Our organization does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, or disability.