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Great Summer Internship Opportunity:
Rutgers Turfgrass Research Farm Summer Help Needed

Location: Rutgers Horticultural Research Farm #2, 102 Ryder’s Lane New Brunswick NJ 08901. Near the Rutgers Display Gardens. This facility is where the field research for the Plant Biology – Pathology’s faculty is performed. The research includes golf turf management, turf breading, disease/weed/insect controls, athletic field management, and several other applications.

Job Title & Duration: Seasonal Agricultural work type 4, it is an hourly position lasting 6-9 months starting mid-April thru the end of November.

Work day: 8:30 AM- 5:00 PM 8 hour days throughout the summer months, but also looking for students that can work for 3-4 hr. Excellent opportunity for Rutgers students - We are very flexible around students class schedules year-round.

Work Involves: Mower operation, irrigation setup, landscape tasks, helping in the farm shop, and field planting preparations. Applicants should not have severe allergies, and be ok with working under extreme ranges of weather conditions.

Work Experience and Age Requirement: Must be 18 or older. Preference will be given to applicants with landscaping or golf course experience, but not required. We are willing to train applicants that have even minimal landscaping experience and good attitude. The applicant must be willing to work in a detail oriented operation that is more interested in quality over quantity. They will need to have their own transportation to this off campus facility - many employees bike from campus to the farm.

Pay Range is commensurate with experience: $10.00 and up

Contact via phone text or email:

Joe Clark

Research Farm Supervisor
Rutgers Dept. Plant Biology / Pathology
Horticultral Research Farm II
20 Indyk- Engle Way
New Brunswick NJ 08901
Office # 732-932-9276
Cell # 732-289-8598
Email: [email protected]

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