Description
Summary:
Loen Nursery seeks a dedicated Nursery Grower to manage and train crews, oversee all aspects of growing stock, and ensure efficient nursery operations.
Highlights:
1. Manage and train section crews for a family-owned nursery business
2. Oversee all aspects of growing stock, from planting to inventory
3. Participate in pest and weed control, ensuring correct application
Loen Nursery seeks individual for Nursery Grower. We are a family-owned nursery business with retail, contractor supply and growing operations. Our office is in Sherwood, Oregon.
Job Responsibilities
• Manages, organizes pre-inventory prep and assists as needed.
• Manages and trains section crews
• Nursery Farming, working with the weather to do task at best opportune times.
• Pest and weed control
• Participates in pesticide, herbicide application, assures done complete and correct.
• Effective use of equipment and crew organization
• Manages all aspects of growing stock to include planting, fertilizing, weeding, tagging, staking, inventory, spacing, shifting up.
• Manages crew to include training, quality workmanship, inspection
• Time Management works to meet deadlines of production schedule, willing to work extra as needed.
• Pulls and prepares all plants for orders for shipment and in-house transfers
• Plant Activation
• Monitors irrigation needs, drip and overhead
Qualifications
• 3 year minimum experience in nursery growing
• 2 or 4 degree or comparable work experience
• Experience in operating tractor equipment
• English/Spanish is a PLUS
• Knowledge in plant identification
Applicant must be dependable, responsible, organized, meets deadlines, has a sense of urgency, willing to work extra as needed.
Benefits
• Paid Vacation, Holidays
• Health Insurance
• Plant Discount
• Nice People to work with