Greenhouse Shipping and H2A Coordinator chez Walters Gardens Inc

Description

Headquartered in Zeeland, MI with over 70 years of industry leadership, Walters Gardens Inc. (WGI) is North America’s leading grower of perennials. We view our greenhouse operations as an essential building block for our ability to offer our customers a broad range of greenhouse liners and bare root perennials. It is our extensive knowledge and expertise in both greenhouse growing, field growing, and hybridizing that sets us apart.

With efficiency, quality, and integrity, WGI uses tissue culture (TC), unrooted cuttings (URC) and seed facilities around the world to produce and develop innovative perennials for the growing marketplace. A powerhouse partnership between WGI and the #1 plant brand in the world, Proven Winners (PW), has created the top destination for growers looking for outstanding genetics in top performing perennials.

The Shipping Coordinator for our Greenhouse facility will assist our organization by:

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervising 8-10 H2A members working on shipping lines, pulling orders, assembling orders or building shipping racks
• Create pull lists for order pullers / Rack Planning / Rack labels & Build sheets
• H2A Communication / Logged Weekly Hours / H2A Future Planning
• Management of ALL order changes
• Pull list assignment and management, including contract growers, short items, and progress check
• TC stage 3 order coverage for TC inventory Manager

Shared Responsibilities:

• Directing shipping activities
• Attend Weekly production-based meetings
• Inspect plants to ensure the product quality before shipping out to customers
• Ensures equipment and technology devices are functioning properly
• Material management / Order Racks & Materials
• Greenhouse Shipping Main Priority

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong communication skills
• Strong attention to detail 
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task
• Bilingual in English and Spanish