Sectional Care Level I

Job Description

Job Description

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.