Growing To Serve You
We exist to bring beauty and joy to our communities through our high-quality plants.
THIS IS A SEASONAL POSITION FROM JANUARY - MAY.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Plant, cultivate, and maintain crops and plants, to pick, ship and sell to our customers. General maintenance of facilities, grounds, and equipment is also required.
SAFETY:
Safety is a top priority at Dan and Jerry’s Greenhouses. You will take an active role in promoting a safe working culture by attending monthly safety meetings. We want all employees, customers, and guests to Arrive Safe, Be Safe and Leave Safe.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (comprehensive, but not limited to):
Greenhouse Production:
- Responsible for all aspects of plant growing including seeding, pruning, transplanting, spacing, watering, hanging baskets.
- Set, pull, sort and store plants according to variety, growing needs and shipments.
- Perform irrigation activities, including setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment and watering plants both by hand and automated irrigation systems.
- Move containerized plants using rolling carts.
- Unload carts/bins/trucks/wagons at designated market and sort product for quality issues and repackage for sales.
Facility Grounds and Equipment Maintenance:
- Construction, uncover and/or recover greenhouses, with or without the use of power tools.
- Maintain facilities grounds including weeding, mowing and snow removal as necessary.
- Assist with the maintenance and repair of equipment.
- Be able to operate equipment with or without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors, other employees, plants, crops, trees, facilities and equipment.