Come and join our fast paced greenhouse team at Weston Nurseries! Truly growing day by day, we are searching for the right candidates to join our team. If you enjoy the great outdoors, being creative, and getting your hands dirty, this may be the opportunity for you!
Title: Greenhouse Team Supervisor
Employment: Full Time
Location: Metrowest, MA
Duties:
Responsibility for appearance to include merchandizing, suggestions for new plants and constant attention to plant health care.
Assist customers with seasonal annuals, houseplants, herbs and vegetables.
Maintain a beautiful, safe and easy-to-shop sales area. This includes proper plant organization, accurate price tagging, as well as ensuring plant health through watering, feeding and deadheading. When necessary, merchandising of plant material to increase sales.
Unload plant deliveries help get plants accurately priced and merchandised for the sales floor. This is (at times) a very physical and important part of the job.
Present educational workshops and seminars for customers on container gardening and other topics.
Education:
Basic horticultural knowledge with focus on annuals, vegetables, herbs and houseplants.
Acquired through formal training, on the job experience, or at home gardening.
Experience:
Experienced work in retail is necessary. General gardening knowledge is preferred.
Skills:
Be able to receive, display, sell and properly care for, houseplants, annuals, herbs and vegetable plants. Must treat all customers and staff with respect.
Should be willing to work as part of a team and desire to assist all customers to ensure the highest level of customer care and service.
This job requires stamina and strength.
Must be a reliable worker with a passion for plants and the outdoors. This job requires work in all weather conditions.
Must have a high level of personality skills to work well with customers and the Weston Nurseries team.
Ability to work weekends and holidays.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Weston Nurseries does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, national origin, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by state and local law.
