This is a full-time, seasonal position. The hours are Wednesday thru Friday, 7am-5pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, from end of March through end of October. This position offers a salary range of $15-$17/hour (dependent upon experience).
Qualifications:
- High School or equivalent (required)
- A working knowledge of native plants, their preferred site conditions and basic gardening skills (required)
- Ability to lift 50 lbs and work in various weather conditions (required)
- Driver’s license (preferred)
- Horticulture experience or education (desirable)
- CBLP (desirable)
We are currently seeking candidates who share our ideals and company values to fill our nursery assistant position. Ideal applicants are professional, team players who possess a general, working knowledge of native plants and gardening. Candidates must be punctual, dependable and possess a positive attitude.
General Nursery Duties Include (but are not limited to):
- Providing a high standard of customer service at all times
- Accepts and unloads deliveries
- Moves and organizes plants
- Takes thorough and accurate plant inventories, and updates them on website and social media
- Helps with merchandising, promotion of nursery stock, pots, garden accents, and other items for sale
- Organizes the nursery area
- Weeds pots, fixes signage, arranges plants
- Helps customers visiting the nursery with plant selections and moving purchases to their car
- Keeps track of inventory
- Helps customers select and pay for plants
- Assists the Nursery Manager in organizing client plant hold section
- Helps promote the nursery and off site sales through social networking, daily Instagram and Facebook posts, hanging postcards on local bulletin boards
- Pulls/moves plants for online orders/contactless pick-ups
- Helps with writing and posting blogs, and other social networking and business promotion strategies
- Waters nursery plants, client hold section plants, and containers/gardens on property as needed
- Helps cover our retail store, Cultivate, as needed
Benefits include:
- Paid Holidays (Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day)
- Paid Birthday
- Employee discount in our retail store
- Wholesale pricing on nursery plants
