What are the responsibilities and job description for the Greenhouse Production position at Free State Growers?
Job Description
Job Description
Welcome to Free State Growers, Inc.
Be a part of something that makes people happy!
We are a premier grower of indoor and outdoor plants providing all your annual, perennial, floral, and holiday plant needs. We are one of the largest tropical and foliage growers in the Midwest. Located on the west side of Kansas City, we are geographically centered to deliver to independent garden centers, grocery stores, and big box stores. throughout the Midwest.
Position : Greenhouse Production
Plant, cultivate, and maintain crops and plants, to pick, ship and sell to our customers. General maintenance of facilities, grounds, and equipment is also required.
Responsibilities :
- Attend to all aspects of plant growing including; seeding, pruning, transplanting, spacing, and watering.
- Perform field maintenance activities including pulling weeds, thinning crops, and spraying plants with herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides.
- Set, pull, sort and store plants according to variety, growing needs and shipments.
- Perform irrigation activities, including setting up and moving irrigation pipes and equipment and watering plants both by hand and automated irrigation systems.
- Unload carts, bins trucks, and / or wagons at retailers and sort products for quality issues and repackage for sales.
- Uncover and / or recover greenhouses, with or without the use of power tools.
- Be able to operate equipment with or without direction, in a manner that protects the operator, visitors, other employees, plants, crops, trees, facilities and equipment.
Requirements :
Physical demands :
Work Environment :
Compensation starts at $13 per hour.
Job Types : Full-time, Part-time
Pay : From $13.00 per hour
4 hour shift
8 hour shift
Day shift
Monday to Friday
Morning shift
Salary : $13
