The Nursery & Order Fulfillment Assistant helps keep our nursery, retail space, and fulfillment operations running smoothly. This is a hands-on role with a strong focus on plant care, picking plants for orders, packing shipments, and helping customers.
You’ll spend your days caring for plants, pulling and preparing orders, helping retail customers choose plants, assisting with local pickups, and keeping the nursery organized and running efficiently.
We’re looking for someone who is reliable, hardworking, organized, positive, and eager to learn. You should enjoy working with plants, helping people, staying active, and working outdoors. Nursery or retail experience is a plus, but not required.
Part-time, hourly position reporting to the Nursery Team Lead.
Hours: Monday–Thursday & Saturday, 9:00 AM–2:00 PM
Schedule may adjust seasonally.
ResponsibilitiesPlant Care & Nursery
- Water, prune, weed, transplant, and maintain plants throughout the nursery.
- Monitor plant health and assist with pest management.
- Help propagate, pot, consolidate, and organize plants.
- Keep greenhouses, workstations, and retail areas clean and organized.
- Assist with receiving and organizing nursery supplies and inventory.
Order Fulfillment
- Pick and pull plants accurately for customer orders.
- Prepare plants for shipment, including pruning, watering, cleaning, potting, labeling, and packing.
- Pack and ship plants and garden products efficiently.
- Help with local order pickups and ensure customers receive the correct orders.
- Identify a wide variety of edible, tropical, fruiting, and medicinal plants.
Retail & Customer Service
- Welcome and assist customers in our retail nursery.
- Help customers choose plants based on their space, growing conditions, and goals.
- Answer basic plant care questions and provide a friendly customer experience.
- Keep retail plants healthy, watered, organized, and ready for sale.
Team & Physical Requirements
- Work efficiently and collaboratively with the team.
- Follow instructions and maintain accuracy and quality.
- Communicate clearly and contribute to a positive work environment.
- Take initiative and help solve problems as they arise.
- Be comfortable standing, walking, bending, squatting, reaching, pushing, and lifting.
- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs.
- Comfortable working indoors and outdoors in Florida heat, rain, humidity, and cold.
We’re Looking For Someone Who Is
- Reliable and dependable
- Hardworking and self-motivated
- Organized and detail-oriented
- Friendly and comfortable helping customers
- Passionate about plants and eager to learn
- A positive team player
- A creative problem solver
- Comfortable working outdoors and staying active
No nursery experience? No problem! We’re happy to train the right person. We’re looking for someone with a strong work ethic, great attitude, and willingness to learn.
Requirements for all Team Members:
- Contribute to building positive team spirit
- Support everyone’s efforts to succeed
- Constantly look for ways to improve and promote quality
- Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness in all responsibilities
- Follow instructions accurately and efficiently
- Respond appropriately to management directions
- Take responsibility for own actions and keep commitments
- Maintain a healthy enjoyable work environment
- Must have excellent communication skills
- Ability to Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner
- Ability to gather and analyze information skillfully and can develop alternative solutions
- Must work well in group problem solving situations exhibiting objectivity and openness to others' views as well as giving and welcoming feedback
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and team members
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $16.00 - $18.00 per hour
Experience:
- Order fulfillment: 1 year (Preferred)
- Shipping & receiving: 1 year (Preferred)
- Picking & packing: 1 year (Preferred)
- Plant Nursery: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
