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Job description

Assistant Growers (AG) are responsible for planting, growing, maintaining, and nurturing high quality plants. General duties also include greenhouse maintenance and upkeep.

Responsibilities and Duties

1. Grow greenhouse crops to meet company quality standards. Follow established grow plans and help create best practices for crop sciences. Plan daily irrigation decisions based on workload, crop, and environmental requirements.

2. Integrated Pest Management. AG will scout crops and perform chemical applications to crops that include fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, and disinfectants. AG will maintain IPM records in accordance with state and federal laws.

3. Crop Production. Plant crops in designated areas according to greenhouse processes. Pinch and space plants as directed by manager.

4. Pull customer orders accurately and quickly with quality product and according to individual customer quality standards.

5. Monitor quality of incoming and outgoing product. Complete product quality status walks.

6. Operations maintenance of irrigation lines, build and breakdown carts/canopy, installing weed barrier, installing poly roofs on hoop houses, and other tasks as needed.

7. Assist other team members,Team Leaders, and Managers when requested, working at other company sites as needed, and supporting any ad hoc operational projects as requested.

Qualifications

· Dependable and reliable work record including reporting to work on time consistently and following directions accurately without reminding.

· Experience working in greenhouse or growing environment, preferred.

· Knowledge of plants, growing, and crops is helpful.

· Demonstrate ability to work well in a team environment helping out others, creating a cohesive work unit, and contributing to a positive work atmosphere.

· Basic level of English language proficiency needed to understand directions, follow instructions, understand reports and procedures, and to escalate pertinent information to supervisor.

· Proven ability to follow directions consistently and retain information provided.

· Have ability to flex and work in multiple company locations.

Physical Requirements: Able to repetitively bend, stretch, reach, lift, stand, and walk with unrestricted motion. Able to remain on feet for majority of the day. Can lift 50 pounds or more and push and pull carts weighing up to 500 pounds.

Supervisory Responsibility: None

Position Type/Position Location/Expected Hours of Work:

Nonexempt, hourly

Greenhouse location or distribution center

Fulltime

Must be flexible to work across various worksites

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $15.00 - $18.50 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Lake Villa, IL 60046: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: One location

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Position Title: Head Grower

Job Overview

Head Growers (HG) are responsible for managing the crop science and on time production of greenhouse crops. Product must be ready on schedule and meet Clesen Wholesale quality standards. The HG will participate in seasonal speculation planning, maintain crop production plans, and manage space utilization. The HG will comply with the department budget by optimizing young plant propagation and automation. The HG is also responsible for Growing staff oversight, management, and development.

Responsibilities and Duties

1. Crop Science. Follow established grow plans and help create best practices for crop sciences. Identify crop specific best practices. Oversee spacing, pinching and moving plants, as necessary. The HG will scout crops, schedule chemical applications, and maintain IPM records in accordance with state and federal laws. Ensure environmental controls and automated systems are functioning as desired.

2. Produce quality crops on ready date. The HG will complete product status walks to manage availability and monitor crop quality and resolve or escalate any concerns. Identify issues and develop effective solutions to crop problems. Capture cultural notes and implemented improvements.

3. Young Plant Propagation. Optimize production input costs by identifying crops to propagate in house and selecting cost-effective input sizes.

4. Crop planning. Participate in the seasonal speculation planning process. Create, implement, and maintain crop production plans.

5. Growing automation. Program all environmental controls and ensure compliance with environmental best practices. Identify and implement automation to increase efficiencies in growing and production.

6. Effective management. Hire growing staff to support the labor needs of the department. Identify weekly workloads for facilities and schedule employees with accurate staffing forecasts to maintain crop quality. Monitor and enforce policies on start/end times, payroll procedures, and other workforce rules.

Qualifications

• 5 years working with ornamental plants and greenhouse crop production.

• 3 years’ experience working in manufacturing, preferred.

• Proven ability to understand goals, strategies and direction and translate these into action for staff in individual assignments and directives.

• Experience in selecting and onboarding staff. Can identify and recruit strong talent. Has experience setting up a strong onboarding process to provide consistent experience across positions and locations.

• Adept at using ERP system to drive work and priorities. Uses metrics in work to establish and monitor goals.

• Leader of people who can get the most of others and can partner with colleagues and managers across the company. Demonstrated ability to create a team environment helping out others, creating a cohesive work unit, and contributing to a positive work atmosphere. Strong track record of effectively directing and delegating work to others. Understands how to motivate and inspire direct reports. Aptitude in delivering feedback, writing reviews, creating corrective counseling documentation and having direct performance management discussion.

• English language proficiency required to participate in management meetings, understand corporate goals, understand employment/safety/legal guidelines.

• Strong competency in using various software and technology tools via ERP and other company systems. Can communicate effectively in writing via email and by creating procedures and policies for others to follow.

• Strong verbal communication skills to communicate with clients, management, sales, and other staff. Spanish language proficiency strongly encouraged.

• Ability to flex and work in multiple company locations. Can work overtime as required.

Physical Requirements: Able to repetitively bend, stretch, reach, lift, stand, and walk with unrestricted motion. Able to remain on feet for majority of the day. Can lift 50 pounds or more and push and pull carts weighing up to 500 pounds.

Supervisory Responsibility: Directs and supervises the daily work of the growing staff.

Position Type/Position Location/Expected Hours of Work:

Exempt, salaried

Greenhouse location or distribution center

Fulltime regular, Overtime expected during busy seasons

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Evanston, IL 60202: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: One location

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