ASSISTANT GROWER
We’re seeking an Assistant Grower, who works with and under the guidance of a Section Grower, and is responsible for ensuring the production, protection, and maintenance of high-quality and profitable plants for the company. We’re searching for driven and enthusiastic team members to join us!
Job Duties include:
Plant Growing & Production:
- Collaborate with Section Grower and the Growing Operations & Nursery Supervisor to manage and execute growing needs for specific growing area. Effectively prioritize and organize tasks to enhance productivity.
- Perform key plant cultural care activities including watering, fertilizing, spraying, weeding, pruning, moving plants and covering/uncovering greenhouses.
- Train and supervise Millcreek staff on essential plant care practices
Inventory Management:
- Collaborate with Section Growers to manage inventory and track plant readiness.
- Assist with SBI software tasks such as updating comments, inventory quantities, and crop status.
- Accurately assign plant heights and grades based on ongoing monitoring and feedback from staff.
Plant Maintenance & Protection:
- Assist with plant protection and pest management, including scouting for pests, developing control strategies, and applying chemical treatments safely.
- Ensure compliance with pesticide safety regulations, including record keeping, storage, handling, application, and disposal, and use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as required.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe chemical storage area while adhering to all Federal, State, and Local safety regulations.
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).
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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.
