If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty, are physically fit and are a jack of all trades and find yourself looking for an outside job in one location, joining our team and working as a Nursery Assistant or General Labor may be a great fit for you.
Daily Tasks Could Include:
- Provide daily care to greenhouse and nursery plants to include, planting, transplanting, pruning, watering, fertilizing, controlling insects and disease, and controlling weeds.
- Repotting container plants, digging, burlapping and moving large trees.
- Learning to use a Skid Steer with various attachments to load and move items around the yard.
- Run power equipment such as weed whippers, power brooms, blowers, chainsaws.
- Unload large trucks of plant material and organize by variety checking for identification tags.
- Space plants in accordance to their growth needs.
- Customer service is required to assist customers with general shopping needs.
- Maintain cleanliness of yard as well as vehicles, tools and equipment
- Carrying and moving plants from one selling space to another.
- Must be a good communicator with ability to work with a team and alone at times.
- Assist with mechanical aspects of irrigation and other equipment.
- Be willing to go the extra distance for a customer or your team.
This position is full time with hours ranging depending on the season but typically 7:30am-4:30pm. A drivers license is required. Weekend availability is a must.
