Floral Designer

Full-time Benefit Eligible

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: To provide support in floral sales, plant care and design. To contribute toward ensuring a positive shopping environment for customers and a positive working environment for employees.

NATURE AND SCOPE: Emphasis is on customer service, creative floral design and proper care of plants and cut flowers. Primary learning challenge is ability to design a variety of floral arrangements properly. This position requires a good sense of sales ability in order to meet the customer’s needs. Must have a good sense of color balance, ongoing judgment/decision making, excellent social skills/verbal interaction, listening skills, light lifting, standing, and operation of clippers, stapler, knives and scissors. Position functions may vary according to business needs. The Floral Manager or person in charge provides assignments and work direction.

ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS

Design Floral arraignments for specific functions

• Communicate with customer on her or his needs
• Cut and arrange live or artificial flowers into designs
• Design and arrange bouquets, sprays, etc. to meet customer’s needs

Assist with customer orders

• Provide courteous, prompt and accurate customer service
• Determine type, style and price of arrangement desired
• Design arrangement according to order and Sendik’s Fine Foods procedures
• Package the order

Receive and price as necessary all plants and flowers supplied

• Check shipment for content and quality
• Verify delivery to invoices and sign for product
• Strip, cut, condition and price flowers properly
• Follow retails and prices for all product and put on display
• Ensure proper pricing in all store and department systems

Take care of floral items

• Remove hanging baskets from display rack with plant hook, water and replace to rack
• Check and water all green and blooming plants on sales floor
• Remove dead leaves
• Process all fresh flowers upon arrival
• Check water levels in all fresh flower items

Clean coolers

• Sweep, mop cooler when condensation builds
• Clean windows, condense flowers and remove empty buckets for cleaning

Follow all store and department policies and procedures

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Physical

• Lifting/carrying up to 95 lbs.
• Pushing/pulling up to 2000 lbs.
• Equipment operation (shopping cart, pallet jack, flat bed, pricing gun, calculator, cutting or trimming knives, scissors, stapler, under-water flower cutter, wire cutter, clippers, pruners, watering can, ladder, plant hook, rack. telephone)
• Standing, reaching, turning, stooping, bending, walking, squatting, climbing ladders, crawling

Mental

• Judgment/decision making
• Listening skills
• Social skills/verbal interaction
• Reading, writing, math
• Memorization

Environmental

• Exposure to wet surfaces
• Exposure to cold conditions (35 to 40 degrees)

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE NOTICE

The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors, and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The Employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations or the work environment change.

An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed above. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Expected hours: 20 – 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evenings as needed
• Monday to Friday
• Morning shift
• Weekends as needed

Application Question(s):

• Are you able to work at least one weekend day per week?

Experience:

• Floral design: 1 year (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Brookfield, WI 53045 (Preferred)

Work Location: In person