Job Description
Job Description
We are seeking individuals who are experienced with outdoor plants, greenhouse work, and retail sales. If you have a penchant for customer service and love working outside, this position could be for you! We value the cultivation of positive workplace relationships, so ideal candidates should be team minded, good-natured, motivated, and dependable.
The available positions are seasonal, with consistent hours available from February through December.
Responsibilities:
• Perform plant care tasks including but not limited to repotting, planting, fertilizing, weeding, pruning, cleaning, watering, covering during freezing temperatures and irrigating.
• Perform sales activities and retail tasks including but not limited to greeting customers, answering questions, restocking merchandise, answering phones, operating a POS system, and completing sales transactions.
• Provide routine maintenance of greenhouse buildings such as cleaning, organizing, and restocking.
• Assist in monitoring and maintaining greenhouse systems, such as humidity control, pest management, and irrigation systems under direction of supervisors.
• Assist with general landscape work to maintain grounds around the nursery property.
• Provide routine upkeep of retail areas under the direction of supervisors. Tasks may include sweeping, dusting, organizing merchandise and sales displays, and maintaining gravel walkways.
• Unload deliveries of small plants to large trees from semi-trucks by hand and/or with nursery equipment.
• Assist with daily care of on-site animals (poultry and livestock). Tasks may include but are not limited to cleaning pens/stables, feeding, watering, unloading hay, and assisting in medical procedures.
• Develop product knowledge by engaging with vendor tags, pamphlets, personal research, and relevant employee training literature to communicate information to customers.
• Responsible for independently performing nursery duties, with proper training.
Requirements:
• Willing to participate in a drug-free work environment.
• Hand-eye coordination and the ability to operate hand tools, horticulture equipment, and machinery.
• A basic understanding of outdoor plant cultivation (plus if your experience is based in Central Oregon).
• Familiarity with operation of POS systems and general payment processing.
• A basic understanding of sales principles and customer service practices.
• Ability to work as a part of a team, be flexible, multitask, and take initiative.
• Ability to walk and stand for extended periods of time.
• Must be capable of operating equipment safely.
• Must be capable of lifting 50+ pounds on a regular basis.
• Willingness to work in greenhouses and outdoors, in all seasonal temperatures and conditions from February through December.
• Must be available to work weekends and special events.
Compensation: $16.00 - $20.00/hour (dependent on experience)
Benefits:
• Consistent work hours, reliable scheduling
• Exciting staff outings and employee incentives
• Employee retail discounts
• Working with great people and beautiful plants!
• Potential opportunities for growth within the company
Company DescriptionSchilling’s Garden Market is a destination property that offers a truly memorable shopping experience, from the unique plants in our nursery
Company Description
Schilling’s Garden Market is a destination property that offers a truly memorable shopping experience, from the unique plants in our nursery