North Park Nursery is looking to hire plant nursery associates and plant technicians to join the team. Associates will work in the company’s retail nursery and plant technicians will be in the field caring for our residential and commercial accounts. If you’re hardworking, dedicated and enjoying working around plants, we are looking for you!
Core Duties include:
Plant care: Propagating plants, transplanting, weeding, pruning, fertilizing, and watering plants
Plant health: Inspecting plants for disease or pests, and monitoring plant health
Customer service: Advising customers on plant selection and care, and assisting with purchases
Inventory: Maintaining inventory, ordering materials, and handling shipments
Maintenance: Cleaning work areas, grounds, and landscaping, and maintaining irrigation and climate control systems
Record keeping: Recording information about plants, such as size, watering, and products used
Teamwork: Working with others to accomplish nursery goals, and building trust and cooperation among team members
Communication: Communicating with people outside the organization, such as customers, the public, or government
Key Competencies:
Commitment to Quality – ability to commit to personal high-quality workmanship and
behavior in all facets of irrigation as well as team interpersonal relationships.
Commitment Task – ability to persist and accomplish work in spite of obstacles,
setbacks, and distractions, without direct supervision.
Results focus – ability to understand desired end results and organize, adapt, and
manage resources to achieve it
Attention to Detail – ability to attend to details at the level necessary for successful completion of the work to established standards. Ability to adjust level of attention required in order to maximize productivity. Ability to initiate and keep appropriate, usable, and detailed, accurate records.
Communication – ability to comprehend and act on detailed verbal or written instructions. Also the ability to query instructions given, to improve directions to a complete and quality task. Use of cell phone required and some basic computer skills expected.
Equipment Operation – ability to operate or learn to operate small equipment (blowers, hand tools, etc) and various motors and power tools.
Safety – ability to correctly anticipate safety hazards and take steps to avoid unsafe
conditions.
Record Keeping – ability to initiate, organize, store, and retrieve files and important
documentation.
Training – ability and desire to learn and improve upon nursery and business related
competencies to refine or gain new and additional skills and add to professionalism.
Physical Strength, Stamina, Dexterity, Sensory Acuity, Tolerance of Environmental Conditions:
Ability to safely lift 35 pounds regularly and safely lift 50-70 pounds periodically
during shipping season. Dexterity sufficient to operate power tools and machinery safely.
Ability to lift, bend and kneel to perform many hand operations required accomplishing normal nursery tasks.
Visual acuity sufficient to gauge plant health, insects, disease, as well as read labels, written instruction, and documentation.
Ability to tolerate working outside during cold conditions in winter as well inside the greenhouse during summer when conditions may be hotter and more humid than normal outside summer conditions.
We look forward to speaking to you
