ASSISTANT GROWER
As an Assistant Grower, you’ll work closely with the Section Grower to manage and maintain a healthy, high-quality crop. You’ll play a key role in daily greenhouse operations — helping to plan, organize, and oversee tasks in your assigned growing area to ensure productive, profitable results.
Job Duties include:
Plant Growing & Production:
Work closely with Section Growers and the Growing Operations & Nursery Supervisor to support all cultural and plant care activities in your assigned growing area. This is a hands-on role that also involves training Millcreek staff in best practices including:
- Watering, pruning, spacing, weeding, fertilizing, and spraying
- Moving plant material and covering greenhouses
- Propagation tasks such as cutting, sticking, dividing, seeding, and transplanting
- General crop production and maintenance duties
Inventory Management:
Assist Section Growers with managing plant inventory using SBI software. Responsibilities include:
- Updating inventory quantities, comments, crop status, and ready dates
- Monitoring crop development and assigning accurate plant heights/grades
- Inputting plant data into SBI and collaborating with shipping and growing teams to ensure accuracy
Plant Maintenance & Protection:
Support pest and disease management in the greenhouse and nursery by:
- Scouting crops and identifying pest or disease issues
- Assisting in the development of control strategies
- Applying chemical treatments safely and responsibly
- Participating in pesticide safety training and ensuring compliance with safety protocols
Qualifications:
- Education: High school diploma or equivalent
- Experience: Minimum 1 year experience in a Growing position with similar duties.
- Technology: Proficient in using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Google Keep, relevant translating apps, and SBI Growing Software (or similar growing software program)
- Spanish language skills preferred
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Entry Level Seasonal Nursery Worker – which includes the following responsibilities:
- Growing Support: Carry out the cultural and growing requirements of specific growing department at the direction of the Section Grower. Tasks may include cutting, sticking, dividing, seeding, transplanting, watering, pruning, carrying, moving/spacing plants, weeding, labeling, dumping plants, covering/uncovering plants, and other growing and maintenance tasks for plants in the greenhouses and nursery, selected poly-hut/shade-hut areas and other assigned areas. Ensures work processes are followed and are current and accurate. Handles day-to-day work challenges and allocates time effectively, properly prioritizing job demands. Performs job duties in a thorough and dependable manner.
- Order Pulling: Supports order handling process throughout the shipping season by selecting plants from greenhouses, nursery areas, selected poly-hut/shade-hut areas and other assigned areas, to stock the Supermarket. Tasks include working on pulling crew, reading a Master Pull report to determine which plants to pull from designated locations, selecting, carrying, and loading plants appropriately onto nursery racks, dropping racks off to the Supermarket, and passing on Master Pull reports to the Shipping Department. Prioritizes workload to maximize productivity.
- Operational Assistance: Ensures the cleanliness and organization of the growing area, including daily cleaning within areas worked, maintenance and storage of tools and equipment, stocking necessary supplies, returning plants to proper locations and maintaining a neat and orderly appearance of the area.
Our company, customer base, and our convenient location:
Millcreek is a wholesale grower committed to supplying high-quality container-grown perennials, herbs, ornamental grasses, annuals, succulents, and shrubs. We have a wonderful team of people who work hard every day to supply a top notch product to our customers, who include independent retail garden centers, farm markets, landscapers, municipalities, and public horticulture entities. We are located in Ostrander, Ohio, just 10 minutes north of Dublin and 30 minutes north of the O.S.U. campus. We are within a brief commute from many of the Columbus suburbs including Powell, Marysville, and Delaware.
What we produce and how we do it:
Each year, we produce more than one million finished plants in facilities that include over 95 greenhouses covering 192,000 square feet. In addition, our Propagation Department produces over 700,000 starter plants per year. We are equipped with a 3,200 square foot automated Production Facility with two transplanting lines to maximize efficiency in our plant production. We began using our newly built Shipping Facility in the Spring 2020.
