Job Description
Job Description
The Pulling Department brings plants to designated areas for customer orders or transferring to other Devil Mountain sites.
Essential Functions :
- Good knowledge of plant identification, quality, and health.
- Follow direction of Crew Leader regarding which zone or area to pick material from.
- General care for pulling plants and pulling plants that will be acceptable to customer.
- Proper use of the Latitude Scanner to ensure correct plants are pulled and that inventory is updated in the system.
- Assist with manual picks, yard order builds, and front counter orders and rebuild discrepancies into inventory.
- Operates tractors, RTVs or electric carts with trailers to move around the nursery.
- Ensure plants have been watered before leaving in the will call or delivery areas.
- Assist customers in the yard with locating plants material, lifting heavy plant containers, and loading plant material.
- Must be able to communicate with the office staff regarding orders and other pulling requests. Listen for request on the radio, stay alert to communicate with all departments on orders.
- Utilizes and maintains the PPE provided, care and clean company equipment used.
- 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. Must be able to remain in a stationary position (standing / sitting). Extensive walking. Stooping, kneeling, and crouching required. Bending at the waist, twisting, turning, and squatting is required.
Lifting requirements : Up to 50 lbs. 75% of the time. Up to 100 lbs. 25% of the time (team lift techniques when required).
Hand movement : Gross grasping for moving plant material. Use of hands / fingers.
M-Thru 7am-4 : 30pm Fri 7am-3 : 30pm Saturday's as needed