Employment opportunities available

Position:          Nursery Maintenance Person

 

Vibrant Plants is a wholesale grower and distributor of nursery stock with multiple locations around the Puget Sound.  It’s primary location is in Woodinville, WA.  This position will tend and maintain wide variety of nursery equipment including tractors, planting machines, irrigation systems, delivery trucks and green houses. 

 

The preferred candidate will come with a diverse background and previous maintenance experience in a comparable industry and be knowledgeable of electrical, hydraulic and irrigation systems.   Other areas of responsibility may include general carpentry, plumbing and welding as well as roads, grounds and building maintenance.  Bilingual (Spanish/English) candidates are encouraged to apply.  Travel around the Puget sound is expected.  The ideal candidate will have there own tools and dependable transportation.

 

 

  Additional requirements include:

·        Ability to work in all climate conditions

·        Ability to reach, stand, and walk around industrial trucks and cars

·        Ability to lift 25 lbs frequently, 75 lbs occasionally.

 

Vibrant Plants is an EOE workplace and provides benefits that include sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, medical insurance.  Pay commensurate with experience.

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Position:          Customer Information / Inventory Control Specialist

 

 Summary:      Vibrant Plants is a wholesale grower and distributor of nursery stock.  This position will be part of a two-person team and each person will alternate responsibilities between customer service tasks and inventory control tasks through out the workday or as directed.

 

 Duties:           Customer Service:

  • Greet inbound customers upon arrival at nursery grounds.
  • Explain nursery practices to new (existing) customers.
  • Address simple location and availability questions raised by inbound customers.
  • Provide necessary paperwork, maps and plant availabilities to customer.
  • Direct inbound delivery vehicles to appropriate locations
  • Direct delivery paperwork to appropriate personnel.
  • Inspect that every departing customer has receipts as necessary.
  • Maintain and keep up plant display area as necessary, as directed.
  • Maintain and keep up work area and booth.
  • May assist other departments as necessary.

                      Inventory Control:

  • Count and inspect plants arriving from inbound deliveries.
  • Attach appropriate tagging to plants as required.
  • Perform cycle counts of plant inventory updating quantities as required.
  • Document plant status changes.
  • Organize and push together fields and display areas.
  • Monitor inventory levels.
  • Monitor and update/replace inventory tags as required.
  • Other duties as required.

 Qualifications:

  • Plant identification knowledge or previous nursery experience

(2+ year degree in Horticulture may substitute)

  • Computer experience (preferred)
  • Bilingual Spanish/English (preferred)
  • Ability to work in all climate conditions
  • Ability to reach, stand, and walk around industrial trucks and cars
  • Ability to lift 10 lbs frequently, 40 lbs occasionally.

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Position:     ORDER PULLER/DELIVERY DRIVER

 Summary:      Vibrant Plants is a wholesale grower and distributor of container grown nursery stock.  This position will work directly towards fulfilling customer orders by pulling plant materials from fields, loading company trucks and then driving a delivery truck to customer location within greater Puget Sound.

 Duties:          

  • Read and understand plant pick tickets and pick tags.
  • Locate and retrieve plant materials from fields.
  • Drive field tractor with trailer to transport plant materials to loading dock.
  • Organize plant materials for proper & efficient loading of trucks.
  • Attach appropriate retails tags and remove any wholesale price tags from plants.
  • Inspect plants for quality and likeness prior to shipping.
  • Load and pack trucks according to predetermined delivery schedule.
  • Transport plant materials to customer location via company truck.
  • Assist in unloading plant materials at customer’s location.
  • Communicate with customers in a courteous and professional manner.
  • Return shipping documents to sales office in that organized manner.
  • Maintain and keep up work areas.
  • Assist in unloading inbound delivery trucks when possible.
  • May assist other departments as necessary.
  • Other duties as required.

 Qualifications:

  • Plant identification knowledge or previous nursery experience.
  • Clean Driving Record.
  • Bilingual Spanish/English (must effectively communicate in English)
  • Ability to work in all climate conditions.
  • Ability to reach, stand, and walk around industrial trucks and cars.
  • Ability to lift 10 lbs frequently, 60 lbs occasionally.



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