Job Details
Job Details
Job Location
TH Farm - LaGrange, TX
Salary Range
$14.00 - $16.00 Hourly
Description
We are looking for a Farm Laborer to work with our farm and nursery operations. The starting rate is $14 an hour, with higher compensation considered based on experience. This position is full-time 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday (7am-4pm during summer months). We offer health, dental, and vision insurance after 60 days of working full-time (minimum 30 hours a week). The company offers 401k and employee discounts. After a year of continuous full-time employment, we offer 40 hours of paid vacation taken at employees' regular rate of pay.
About our Culture...
At Thompson + Hanson, we have many different divisions including landscape architecture, retail shops, and nurseries. Thompson + Hanson is home to designers and architects, curators, and gardenerscreatives at heart grateful for the privilege of shaping and inspiring beautiful spaces across Houston and Austin since 1981. We delight in the work that we do, and we attribute our continued growth to the vibrant, motivated, and caring individuals that make up our Thompson + Hanson family.
At Tiny Boxwoods Productions, our sister company, we are a restaurant group that combines the beautiful spaces designed by Thompson + Hanson with fantastic food to create a memorable experience for all our guests. Under our Tiny Boxwoods Productions umbrella, we have our Tiny's Milk & Cookies locations which are our inviting walk-up bakeries and coffee shops.
T+H Farms is 225 acres of regeneratively farmed land outside of La Grange, Texas. Here, every part has its purpose. Our eggs, beef, honey and vegetables feed our guests at Tiny Boxwoods and are available at Farmer's Markets when in season.
Being a part of the Thompson + Hanson team means more than just having a job. We believe in nurturing employees, providing room to grow, and offering opportunities for leadership.
Job Purpose: Thompson + Hanson Farm Laborers perform manual labor associated with plant nursery/farm work such as planting, watering, growing, weeding, transferring plants to containers, and maintaining new crops of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and plants; feeding, caring for, and maintaining chickens and collecting eggs, and general maintenance and caretaking of farm.
Duties and Responsibilities: The primary job duties and responsibilities of being a Farm Laborer include but are not limited to the following:
- Planting and harvesting of crops.
- Watering, growing, weeding, and transferring of plants and crops.
- Feeding, caring for, and maintaining livestock and chickens, including collecting eggs.
- Handling of products produced on the farm like plants, fruits, vegetables, eggs, honey, dairy products, meats, and grains.
- Restocking seeds, fertilizers, and other supplies regularly used by the farm.
- Assists with upkeep, repairs, maintenance, and replacement of equipment and machinery.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Thompson + Hanson offers competitive wages, benefits and 401k for full-time employees, generous employee discounts, and beautiful spaces to work.QualificationsQualifications: Thompson + Hanson require the minimum qualifications to successfully perform the position of Farm Laborer.
- Good work ethic
- Capacity to multitask
- Ability to work as part of a team
Working Conditions: The incumbent will be working outdoors in extreme heat or cold. Exposure to high places. Potential hazards include but are not limited to cuts, slipping, tripping, falls and burns.
Physical Requirements: The incumbent is required to stand/walk for long periods of time. Incumbent is regularly required to talk, hear, kneel, push, pull, with occasional ascending or descending ladders, stairs and ramps. This position is very active and requires the ability to lift up to 50 lbs. and be able to constantly move around indoors and outdoors. Must be able to bend, stoop and squat. Incumbent must be able to push and pull carts and equipment weighting up to 250 lbs. on a regular and continuing basis.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.