Job Details
Job Location: Charleston - North Charleston, SC
Salary Range: $22.00 - $25.00 Hourly
Description
Job Summary
The PHC Technician is responsible for assuring the health and aesthetic quality of all ornamental shrubs, trees, and turf through proper horticultural applications
Core Values
- Culture of Safety – Safety is always job #1
- A Growing Tradition Plants, Personally, Financially and Professionally
- Employee Owned – Personal Pride in Success with an Owners Mentality
- Exceptional Customer Experience – Delighting our Clients with our Products and Services
- Good Neighbors – Community Pride – Sharing our Success
- Respectability – Treating Others as we want to be treated
Supervisory Responsibilities
Duties/Responsibilities
- Plant and maintain plants. ex) Remove weeds, fertilize, water plants, shrubs, and trees
- Requires use of hand tools and gardening tools
- Harvest plants, and transplant or pot them with proper labels
- Monitor and record the plants' leaf coloring to detect the presence of insects or disease
- Operate tractors, other machinery, and fertilizing equipment
- Cultivate, harvest, and spray fields and plants
- Inspect plants to assess quality
- Dig, cut, and transplant seedlings, cuttings, trees, and shrubs
- Move containerized shrubs, plants, and trees, using wheelbarrows or tractors
- Clean work areas and maintain grounds and landscaping
- Haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels
- Maintain and repair irrigation and climate control system
- Responsible and safe application of both granular and liquid fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides in adherence to all local and state regulations
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Qualifications
Required Skills/Abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational abilities
- The ability to prioritize projects, handle a multitude of activities simultaneously, problem solve, and pay thorough attention to detail is essential
- Excellent customer service skills
- Friendly and outgoing personality
- Detailed oriented
- Understanding of quality principles, continuous learning, customer focus and service, teamwork and partnering skills, be professional, courteous, and always act with respect and integrity
- Appropriate level of understanding of the landscape business, products, markets, personnel, outside influencers, etc
- Ability to gain an understanding, embrace, and use the Company’s internal databases, platforms, and associated technologies
- Demonstrated capacity to embrace change. Ability to manage work under pressure
- Great customer service and interpersonal skills
Education and Experience
- A high school education/GED and 1+ years of retail sales experience or the equivalent combination of education, experience and/or training
- Minimum 1 year experience with chemical or spray applications or 4 or more years’ experience in the green industry
- Strong attention to detail
- Pesticide applicators license or in process
- Valid driver’s license
- Adhere to Company’s safety policy and ensure that the public and co-workers will be safe while performing job duties
Physical Requirements
- Constantly required to talk, hear, see, sit, stand, and walk
- Must be able to see at close vision, distant vision, peripherally, have depth perception and can adjust focus
- Frequent use of hands to manipulate, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls
- Frequently required to reach, bend, twist, stoop, crouch, climb and balance
- Must be able to lift 50 pounds and carry 50 feet
- Occasionally works with mechanical objects and outside in all weather conditions
- Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals
- Occasionally exposed to loud noise levels
Benefits Offered
- Paid Time Off
- Sick Time
- Holiday Pay
- Health & Welfare Stipend
- 401K
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Supplemental Insurance (long & short term disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, life insurance, accident)
- Employee Discount Program
- Service Awards