Garden Center Assistant Manasger

Frisella Nursery, Inc. is a thriving garden center dedicated to providing exceptional products and services for garden enthusiasts and landscaping professionals. We take pride in our vibrant plant selection, expert advice, and outstanding customer service. We’re looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Assistant Manager to help lead our team and grow our success.

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting the Garden Center Manager in planning, ordering, and displaying plant and hard good material
• Opening and closing the store
• Training new employees
• Maintaining quality of products through watering, trimming, fertilizing and other proper maintenance
• Providing excellent customer service through all aspects of the customers buying experience (assisting with finding product, cashiering, loading customer’s car etc.)
• Troubleshoot customer service issues when necessary
• Assisting with unloading merchandise from trucks by utilizing pallet jacks and forklifts (when necessary)
• Ensuring inventory is accurate and up-to-date

Personality Traits and Qualifications:

• Enjoy working with plants
• Possess a basic familiarity with plants and have a basic understanding of plant care, harvesting, soil, and water quality.
• Experience with POS systems, inventory control, purchasing and database management.
• Comfortable both leading a team of full-time and seasonal staff and working alongside staff as a team member.
• Accustomed to training and coaching staff including providing consistent feedback to team members and Garden Center Manager.
• Ability to coordinate staff activities during a shift.
• Initiative to help solve problems, and to keep the store and products looking great.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Possess positive communication skills.
• Can work independently and use sound judgement.
• Flexible and can adapt in fast paced and changing situations.
• Ability to work in extreme hot and cold temperatures, stand, squat, sit, bend, and reach for extended periods of time.
• Available and willing to work nights and weekends; with scheduled overtime hours from the end of March through May.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Opportunities for advancement
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift

Work Location: In person

Salary : $20 - $25