Team Member Job at Britton Nursery
*Please note this is a Seasonal Job opening with positions starting
April 1st*
Britton Nursery is a family-run, wholesale perennial nursery that operates seasonally growing the highest quality perennials to supply garden centers and landscapers throughout the state with beautiful flowers. Employment is seasonal, fast pace, and physically demanding but rewarding. Employees at Britton Nursery enjoy a family atmosphere and a positive work environment. Britton Nursery seeks to find individuals who enjoy working on a team, value the culture and environment of their workplace, and appreciate hard work, and the opportunity to work outdoors all day.
Britton Nursery is a family-run, wholesale perennial nursery that operates seasonally growing the highest quality perennials to supply garden centers and landscapers throughout the state with beautiful flowers. Employment is seasonal, fast pace, and physically demanding but rewarding. Employees at Britton Nursery enjoy a family atmosphere and a positive work environment. Britton Nursery seeks to find individuals who enjoy working on a team, value the culture and environment of their workplace, and appreciate hard work, and the opportunity to work outdoors all day.
All employees work Monday-Friday 7:00AM - 3:30PM with some fluctuation/shortening of days or cancelations due to weather.
The tasks of team members at Britton Nursery can include:
The tasks of team members at Britton Nursery can include:
- Planting production line work where team members up-pot plants from liners into 1-gallon pots in a fast-paced, teamwork-focused, outdoor setting. Crew members work by hand the “old-fashioned way” to fill pots with soil, remove plants from liners, plant them into the soil, tag them, transport them to the appropriate greenhouse, and water them in. This by-hand process produces the highest quality perennials and allows crew members to enjoy fine-tuning each cart of plants.
- Order fulfillment work where team members move through the greenhouses selecting plants to fulfill orders, loading the plants onto carts, and returning to the central loading area where the plants are then loaded onto the nursery delivery trailers by another team member. Orders are pulled with great attention to detail, ensuring quality and consistency are maintained while working with awareness of urgency so that orders can reach the customers in a timely manner.
Required Skills:
- Cheerful attitude and willingness to do what is asked of the team.
- Ability to work and communicate in a team setting.
- Attention to detail and ability to visually identify plant quality.
- Critical thinking and decision making.
- Ability to remember plant names and locations of product in the greenhouses
- High School diploma.
Preferred Physical Requirements:
- The physical demands of working at a plant nursery are relatively high.
- Team members must have the physical stamina to be on their feet performing tasks in the sun for 8 hours a day without losing efficiency or quality.
- They must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally may be asked to lift up to 50 pounds.
- Team members must be able to bend, twist, and lift plants off the ground or move plants from a cart onto the ground repeatedly.
Workplace Environment:
Team members work in a fast-paced, outdoor environment with constant physical activity, never sitting at a desk, regularly exposed to hot, cold, and wet conditions. On days of extreme or inclement weather, indoor tasks may be assigned, or the workday may be canceled. Britton Nursery team members may be asked to perform other nursery duties as assigned which are not listed on this document.
Hourly rate: $14.00-$16.00 depending on applicable experience. Advancement opportunities available.
For more information on our company, please visit our website: www.brittonflowers.com
About Britton Nursery
"The mission of Britton Nursery is to share the gift of God's creative beauty in the landscape of our community by handcrafting a healthy home for our perennials and the people who tend them."We’ve recognized that plants and people need many of the same environmental elements in order to thrive: clean air and water, plenty of sunshine, good soil, protection from threats, occasional weeding and pruning and room for growth and expansion. And so we have set out to cultivate not merely plants in greenhouses, but more importantly a space that generates increased life in people- a sacred space on the earth where hard work, fun and fellowship foster the necessary ingredients that can empower and inspire people to change the world.
About Britton Nursery:
"The mission of Britton Nursery is to share the gift of God's creative beauty in the landscape of our community by handcrafting a healthy home for our perennials and the people who tend them."We’ve recognized that plants and people need many of the same environmental elements in order to thrive: clean air and water, plenty of sunshine, good soil, protection from threats, occasional weeding and pruning and room for growth and expansion. And so we have set out to cultivate not merely plants in greenhouses, but more importantly a space that generates increased life in people- a sacred space on the earth where hard work, fun and fellowship foster the necessary ingredients that can empower and inspire people to change the world.
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