Lauren’s Garden Service

We are a small, local, eco-friendly garden company looking for a native plant nursery assistant/sales and administrative assistant to work closely with administrative manager doing a variety of tasks. This position handles helping the administrative manager with client communication, requests for work, scheduling for jobs and crew, help with hiring crew, help updating and developing content for the website, social networking and blogging, updating portfolio pics on the website, caring for our small native plant nursery by checking inventory, organizing and watering and helping with special events like classes, fall and spring plant sales and much more! We are passionate about sustainability and ecofriendliness. Any interest or knowledge about these subjects is not required but would be a bonus!

Job Description

General Duties:

  • Watering nursery plant, client hold section plants and containers and gardens on property
    Accepts and unloads deliveries
  • Moves and organizes plants
  • Takes thorough and accurate plant inventories and updates them on website and social media
  • Help with merchandising, promotion of nursery stock, pots, containers gardens and other items for sale
  • Organize the nursery area
  • Weed pots, fix signage, arrange plants
  • Help customers visiting the nursery in plant selection and moving purchases to their car
  • Keeping track of sales through paperwork and inventory
  • Putting signs out for Saturday sales at nursery
  • Working the Sat spring and fall sales at the nursery
  • Setting up sprinkler systems and testing them for weekend watering
  • Assist the admin in organizing client plant hold section
  • Help promote the nursery and off site sales through social networking, daily instagram and facebook posts, hanging post cards on local bulletin boards
  • Help with writing and posting blogs and other social networking and business promotion strategies

Pay:
$12-$15/hr depending on experience
Health care benefits after 3 months for months in season
Paid holidays 2nd season

Hours:
This job will be 40 hours a week
Monday through Thursday with 6 Saturdays in Spring and 6 in Fall

 

Please email your resume and 3 professional references to laurensgardens@gmail.com