- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who grows horticultural-specialty products and crops, such as flowers, ornamental plants, and vegetables, under environmentally controlled conditions, applying knowledge of plant culture, environmental-control systems and structures, and market conditions. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines types and quantities of plantings to grow; allocates space in structure, such as greenhouse or shed; and schedules growing activities.
* Plants seeds and transplants seedlings in material, such as bark, gravel, heated water, sandy soil, and stable straw to propagate seeds and nursery stock.
* Removes substandard plants to maintain quality control, prunes plants to enhance development, and positions plants to artistically display products.
* Monitors timing and metering devices that control frequency, amount, and type of nutrient applications; regulate humidity, ventilation, and carbon dioxide conditions; and dispense herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides.
* Explains and demonstrates care-taking techniques to subordinates.
* May assign their duties.
* May hire workers.
* May maintain personnel and production records.
* May deal with vendors to purchase supplies and materials, and arrange with customers to sell products and crops.
* May be identified with crop as Bean-Sprout Grower; Mushroom Grower; Orchid Grower; or technique as Hydroponics Grower.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who propagates plants, such as orchids and rhododendrons, applying knowledge of environmental controls and plant culture. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with management personnel to ascertain type and number of species to propagate and to develop and revise nutrient formulas and environmental-control specifications.
* Selects materials according to kind of plant; mixes growth media; and prepares containers, such as jars, pots, and trays.
* Initiates new plant growth, using methods such as following. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Cuts leaves, stems, or rhizomes from parent plant and places cuttings in growth media.
* (2) Bends, covers, or buries branches of parent plant in soil, securing branches with pegs or rocks.
* (3) Wounds stems of parent plant, using sharp knife, inserts pebble into wound, and binds wound with moss, burlap, or raffia.
* (4) Plants meristem and seeds in growth media.
* (5) Breaks off or cuts apart and plants roots, crowns, and tubers from parent plant.
* Inspects growing area to ascertain temperature and humidity conditions, and regulates systems of heaters, fans, and sprayers to ensure conformance with specifications.
* Gives transplanting and cultivation instructions to coworkers, and monitors activities to assure adherence to established plant-culture procedures.
* May graft or divide developing plants to promote altered growth characteristics.
* May log activities, maintain propagation records, and compile periodic reports.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks involved with driving, operating, and maintaining farm machinery and equipment, planting, cultivating, and harvesting flower bulbs and flowers, and maintaining structures on nursery acreage or in greenhouse. Respnsibilities include:
* Hitches farm implements, such as plow and disk, to tractor, and drives tractor while operating implements to till soil and plant, fertilize, cultivate, dust, and spray crops, such as tulip, hyacinth, and begonia.
* Adjusts conveyor speeds and height of digging mechanism, using wrench, and drives and operates harvesting machine to dig up bulbs, applying knowledge of terrain contours and type of bulb being harvested.
* Participates in indoor activities, such as setting flowers in chilled-water troughs, packing flowers in cartons, stacking cartons on pallets, handtrucking containers of flowers and bulbs to designated areas in warehouse or greenhouse, and repairing boxes.
* Loads truck with containers of bulbs or flowers, and drives truck to deliver products.
* Repairs and paints farm structures, using ladder, brushes, and carpentry handtools.
* Washes, paints, lubricates, and participates in repair of farm machinery, using mechanic's handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives and operates machinery, such as crane loader, dump truck, and manure-turning machine, to move and treat straw and manure and dirt for use in mushroom beds. Respnsibilities include:
* Operates crane loader to scoop wet manure from wet pit and dry manure from dry stack and dumps dry and wet manure into dump truck bed.
* Drives dump truck to haul manure to shed-covered area and dumps manure into rows.
* Drives dump truck loaded with dirt to rows of manure and moves levers to dump dirt over manure.
* Operates manure-turning machine to turn and mix manure with dirt and specified additives.
* Drives scoop loader to push manure from place to place on mushroom farm and to load manure onto trucks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who buds field-grown rose plants with hybrid buds during rose-growing season. Respnsibilities include:
* Crouches over rows of rose plants to reach plant rootstock.
* Cuts T-shaped incision on rootstock and opens incision, using budding knife.
* Slices hybrid bud from scion wood and inserts bud into incision.
* Observes tying of buds to ensure quality of tie.
* Repeats procedure, rapidly, throughout work period to maintain production.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plants, cultivates, and harvests horticultural specialties, such as flowers and shrubs, and performs related duties in environmentally controlled structure, applying knowledge of environmental systems. Respnsibilities include:
* Ascertains growing schedules and deviations from established procedures from grower or manager.
* Sows seed and plants cuttings.
* Looks at and feels leaf texture, bloom development, and soil condition to determine nutrient and moisture requirements and to detect and identify germ and pest infestations.
* Sets fertilizer timing and metering devices that control frequency and amount of nutrients to be introduced into irrigation system.
* Applies herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides to destroy undesirable growth and pests, using spray wand connected to solution tank.
* Reads and interprets sensing indicators and regulates humidity, ventilation, and carbon dioxide systems to control environmental conditions.
* Grafts scions to seedling stock.
* Pollinates, prunes, transplants, and pinches plants, and culls flowers, branches, fruit, and plants to ensure development of marketable products.
* Harvests, packs, and stores crop, using techniques appropriate for individual horticultural specialty.
* May maintain and repair hydroponic and environmental control systems.
* May mix planting soil, following prescribed procedures.
* May record information, such as chemicals used, grafting performed, and environmental conditions, to maintain required records.
* May maintain and repair structures, using materials, such as corrugated fiberglass panels, lath, glass panes, and putty, and tools, such as hammer, saw, and putty knife.
* May be designated according to work location as Greenhouse Worker; according to techniques employed as Hydroponics Worker; or according to horticultural specialty as Orchid Worker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who harvests flowers, such as daffodils and tulips, working as member of crew. Respnsibilities include:
* Pinches or cuts flower stem to remove flower from plant.
* Bundles specified number of stems, using rubberband, and carries bundles to collection box.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties concerned with preparing soil and growth media, cultivating, and otherwise participating in horticultural activities under close supervision on acreage, in nursery, or in environmentally controlled structure, such as greenhouse and shed. Respnsibilities include:
* Hauls and spreads topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition land.
* Digs, rakes, and screens soil, and fills cold frames and hot beds to prepare them for planting.
* Fills growing tanks with water.
* Plants, sprays, weeds, and waters plants, shrubs, and trees.
* Sows grass seed and plants plugs of sod and cuts, rolls, and stacks sod.
* Prepares scion and ties buds to assist worker budding roses.
* Traps and poisons pests, such as moles, gophers, and mice.
* Plants shrubs and plants in containers.
* Ties, bunches, wraps, and packs flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees to fill orders.
* Moves containerized shrubs and trees, using wheelbarrow.
* Digs up shrubs and trees, and wraps their roots with burlap.
* May dip rose cuttings into vat to disinfect cuttings prior to storage.
* May fold and staple corrugated forms to make boxes used for packing horticultural products.
* May be designated according to employing establishment as Grass-Farm Laborer; Greenhouse Laborer; Nursery Laborer; Rose-Farm Laborer; or according to horticultural specialty as Bean-Sprout Laborer; Mushroom Laborer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who transplants orchids in greenhouse, according to specific instructions. Respnsibilities include:
* Slides meristem from jars of nutrient solution, or lifts plants from trays or pots.
* Trims and cleans plant roots, using knife, tweezers, water, and fungicide.
* Spreads pebbles and inert growth-media in planting containers, positions plant on media, adds and presses media around roots, and sprinkles surface with water and fertilizer solution.
* Records species code and planting date on plastic marker, and inserts marker in container.
* Places planted orchids on designated greenhouse shelves.
* Washes jars and lids in sanitizing solution, and carries them to laboratory.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in preparing graves, maintaining cemetery grounds, and performing related work in cemetery. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with manager to develop plans and schedules for routine maintenance of grounds and graves and to ascertain number, nature, and time schedule for priority activities, such as grave digging and lining, grave-marker placement, and disinterments.
* Determines crew and equipment requirements for each maintenance and priority activity and assigns specific tasks to subordinates.
* Periodically observes ongoing work to ascertain if work is being performed according to instructions and will be completed on schedule.
* Reassigns tasks of subordinates and confers with manager to adjust activity schedules.
* Demonstrates and explains tasks, such as pruning shrubs and finishing cement, and use of equipment, such as backhoe, power lawnmower, and casket lowering device, to train new workers and improve performance of other workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May supervise workers engaged in opening and closing mausoleum vaults.
* May supervise and oversee graveside services to ensure services are performed according to instructions.
* May perform minor repairs on equipment, using handtools and power tools and applying mechanical knowledge.
* May supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in installation of water and sewer lines, building and sealing of roads within cemetery, excavation of ground for preset vaults, and movement of equipment by trailer.
Industry:Professional careers
