Greenhouse Staff
Swan River Gardens
Greenhouse Swan River Gardens & Nursery Inc. is a family owned retail garden center that is committed to growing high quality and exclusive annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs for the Flathead Valley. We are looking for motivated team players who thrive in a busy environment and can be calm and professional under pressure. Previous retail experience is preferred and plant knowledge is helpful but customer service is of primary importance. Positions are seasonal and include weekends.
Our Greenhouse Staff is the face of the business and a vital component to our success. This position requires you to multi-task and use good communication skills to work together as a team to achieve our goals. Other desired traits are a positive attitude, willingness to try and learn, creativity, flexibility, dependability, accuracy, and honesty. Our goal is to provide our customers with high quality plants and the best possible shopping experience; we rely on our employees to help achieve this goal. If you share our passion for customer service, and quality plants join our team!
Greenhouse Staff entry level job duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Keeping greenhouse, work area, and products clean and organized
- Production and maintenance of plants (watering, trimming, planting)
- Hand loading purchases in to customer's cars
- Customer service Pricing plants and merchandise
- Moving and organizing plants and merchandise
- Restocking and rotating plants and merchandise
Greenhouse Staff general job duties include the entry level duties plus the following:
- Assisting customers with garden and container designs
- Selling plants and products to help the customers be successful
- Displaying plants and merchandise by following display parameters
- Identifying common green house pests and diseases
- Answer and direct phone calls
- Assisting in the Retail Shop Cashiering
- Assisting with specialized duties (seeding, wholesale, custom planting, invoicing, inventory, and receiving)
Physical Qualifications the job requires that you are able to:
- Stand for an extended period of time
- Lift and carry 30 to 40 lbs. multiple times throughout the day
- Bend to work with items at ground level.