What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sectional Care Level I position at Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery LLC?
The sectional department is responsible for the care of plants/maintenance of a specific area of a production yard.
Essential Function:
- Pulls weeds, removes suckers and consolidates stock in their designated area.
- Ensures that the irrigation system is properly set up in area and that there is not over or under watering.
- Communicates with the inventory staff when consolidating or moving plants. Also, informs inventory staff if there is poor plant health.
- Communicates with yard manager on daily and weekly tasks.
- General care for the nursery grounds, keeping the nursery clean, organized, and safe for employees, customers, and vendors.
- General care for nursery stock (plants), ensures plants are watered, handled with care, and are placed in the appropriate location.
Additional Tasks:
- May assist in other nursery departments as needed.
- Duties are subject to change at any time per management’s discretion.
Job Specifications:
Constantly works in outdoor weather conditions on uneven ground surfaces and rainy weather. Extensive walking. Stoop, bending at the waist, twisting, turning, and squatting is required.
Lifting Requirements: Up to 50lbs. 80 percent of the time. Up to 100lbs 10 percent of the time. (Team lifting technique when required.)
Hand movement: Gross grasping for moving plant material.
