Employment

Staff will work in the retail garden center, providing customer service and sales for the gardening products, services, and plants we offer.  Helping other departments will also be done when necessary.

Duties:

• Assisting customers
• Cash register sales
• Answering the phone
• Receiving, pricing and getting products ready for sale
• Creating and maintaining displays
• Maintaining a clean store appearance
• Keeping items restocked
• Indoor plant care
• Watering
• Other duties assigned by Managers

Skills & Abilities:

• Great customer service skills
• Positive attitude
• Good listening and problem-solving skills
• Follow directions
• Able to multi-task and work efficiently
• Able to maintain a clean and safe work space
• Able to lift 25 pounds throughout the day and occasionally 50 pounds or more
• Able to work standing or moving for most of your work day
• Able to work in a non-air-conditioned building and outside in all types of weather

Experience:

• An interest in plants and retail experience is preferred but not required

We grow most of the annuals, vegetables, and perennials we sell at Longfellow’s and we strive to produce quality plants for our customers.  Greenhouse staff will help plant, grow, and sell our greenhouse grown crops.  Helping other departments will also be done when necessary.

Duties:

• Transplanting seedlings and small plants
• Filling flats for planting
• Watering and fertilizing
• Plant maintenance
• Moving plants from one greenhouse to another
• Restocking benches
• Monitoring plant health and pest issues
• Customer service
• Other duties assigned by Managers

Skills & Abilities:

• Represent good customer service skills
• Positive attitude
• Attention to detail
• Be efficient while working independently and with others
• Maintain a clean and safe work space
• Able to lift 25 pounds throughout the day and occasionally 50 pounds
• Able to push and pull carts to move product
• Able to work standing, bending, reaching, or moving for most of your work day
• Able to work in the greenhouses and outside in all types of weather

Experience:

• An interest in plants or experience in horticulture is preferred

Nursery staff will help maintain and sell the trees, shrubs, and other items in the sales yard.  Employees over 18 years old may also be trained in skid steer operation.  Helping other departments will also be done when necessary.

Duties:

• Unloading product from trucks
• Restocking the sales yard
• Identifying and pricing new product
• Watering
• Pruning and other plant maintenance
• Pulling orders for customers and landscapers
• Customer service
• Create appealing displays
• Other duties assigned by Managers

Skills & Abilities:

• Represent good customer service skills
• Positive attitude
• Follow directions
• Willingness to learn
• Dependable
• Able to lift, carry, push and pull 50 pounds or more
• Able to work standing, bending, moving and lifting for most of your work day
• Able to work outside in all types of weather

Experience:

• An interest in plants or experience in horticulture is preferred

The estimator will work closely with the Landscape Designers to create a list of all the materials and item quantities that are needed to bring a plan to life.  They will create bids to compliment the landscape designs that will be presented to clients and to determine what is needed to maintain a property.

Duties:

• Visit and analyze job sites
• Measure and calculate bed sizes
• Identify problems and present solutions that may affect progress on the job site
• Calculate material and labor costs
• Communication with our Landscape Designers and Landscape Foreman
• Contact suppliers and subcontractors for pricing

Skills & Abilities:

• Attention to detail
• Well organized
• Able to work independently
• Able to multi-task and manage multiple projects at one time
• Knowledge of standard landscape practices, tools, and procedures
• Knowledge of available landscape materials including mulch, edging, and stone
• Plant identification and cultural knowledge

Education & Experience:

• 1+ year as a Landscape Designer
• Or 3+ years on a landscaping crew

The landscape designer is responsible for interpreting what the customers need and then creating a beautiful landscape to enhance their home or business.

Duties:

• Meet with customers, listen to their needs, and analyze the job site
• Create beautiful designs that help clients solve the problems in their yards
• Clearly and effectively present landscape designs to clients
• Communication with the Landscape Foreman and Subcontractors
• Scheduling jobs
• Excellent customer communication and timely correspondence
• Billing and record keeping

Skills & Abilities:

• Hand drawing or computer design with PROLandscape program
• Able to work independently
• Able to multi-task and manage multiple projects at one time
• Creativity and an understanding of basic design principles
• Extensive plant identification and cultural knowledge
• Knowledge of available landscape materials including mulches, edging, and stone
• Well organized
• Problem Solving

Education & Experience:

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Design
• Or 2+ years of landscape design experience