What are the responsibilities and job description for the Soil/Gravel Bagging Unit: Front-End Loader/Heavy Machinery Operator position at Sky Nursery?
Challenge Yourself
Sky Nursery is always looking for enthusiastic team-players who thrive in a fast-paced and often physically demanding environment. If you love the challenge of picking up new skills quickly, managing several priorities at once, and, most importantly, providing excellent service to our customers through it all, you’ll fit right in here.
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Learn & Grow
Previous garden or customer service experience is appreciated but not required. We’re looking for friendliness, flexibility, and willingness to learn. You’ll learn something new here nearly every day — people who have worked here for decades still do! We value diligent employees who can complete tasks independently and also as a team.
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Connect To Nature
Whether you're working in hardgoods, indoor gardening or even as a cashier, talking all things plants, nature, and environment is just a regular part of the job. This is an opportunity to work directly with the materials that make incredibly rewarding, thriving gardens a reality. A greater appreciation for the natural world is guaranteed.
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If you've ever wanted to get your foot in the door of the gardening & landscape industry, or supplement your horticultural training with first-hand experience, then Sky may be just the place for you!
Soil/Gravel Bagging Unit: Front-End Loader/Heavy Machinery Operator
Ensure a great experience for customers by packing up Sky Nursery branded bags of soil, mulch and crushed rock. We’re looking for people who are independent, alert, accurate, and comfortable prepping, filling, and stacking bagged products using heavy machinery safely in all weather conditions. Full-time positions available.
Responsibilities:
- Provide excellent customer service
- Safely and efficiently operate a semi-automated bagging unit that produces bags of soils, mulches, and gravel
- Operate a rubber-tire-front-end loader to lift, transport, and load bulk materials to and from various areas of the bulk yard area
- Load bulk materials for customers as requested into open trucks, dump trucks, or onto trailers.
- Verify by visual inspection the written order (pick up slip/ receipt) for amount of bulk materials to be loaded for customers
- Report any mechanical issues associated with equipment to the Bulk Yard Manager.
- Ensure that customer loading area and other areas of the bulk yard are kept clean and free of debris
- Work with other Sky Nursery departments as needed
Qualifications:
- Able to successfully complete safe equipment operation training
- Able to work well with customers and co-workers in a positive, professional manner.
- Able to work both inside and outside, in the heat and cold, and around moving equipment.
- Able to bend/stoop, squat/crouch, push/pull, climb, kneel, twist and do repetitive tasks for long periods of time.
- Able to climb into and out of the rubber-tire front-end loader several times a day
- Able to lift up to 70 pounds on a repetitive basis, and occasionally lift up to 100 pounds
- Able to follow instructions; willing to learn
- Responsible and reliable. Accurate.
Hourly Wage Range: $19-25
Benefits include medical (including vision) and dental insurance for those working 30 hours or more after a 2-month period, and vacation pay and 401(k) matching retirement plan after 1 year of employment. And of course, all employees receive sick time, in-house continuing education, a generous Employee Assistance Program and discounts on plants and merchandise.
Salary : $19 - $25