Greenhouse Growing Rotational Internship
Proven Winners® Carleton is a growing, highly successful, family-owned company, founding partner in the premium national plant brand “Proven Winners”. We are recognized nationally for our strong investment in research and development, breeding, rigorous testing, and trials to ensure high garden performance and a user experience that is Easy, Successful, and Inspiring. You have likely seen our beautiful plants, hanging baskets, shrubs and other products at your local garden center, Home Depot, Lowes or online at Amazon.com. We have been operating in the horticulture industry since 1977 with state-of-the-art facilities headquartered on 30-acres in Carleton, MI, with an additional 4+ acres of outdoor growing area and a large display garden, about 15-minutes south of Detroit Metro Airport. Our company has a genuine middle market family-feel, highly cohesive and collaborative with a casual setting focused a team-success.
Proven Winners® Carleton recognizes the importance of internships when starting a career. Our rotational growing internship will provide interns with the full scope of how greenhouse growing works at Proven Winners® Carleton. Interns will gain knowledge in crop care, production, pest management, plant testing and sampling, greenhouse facilities, and the new technology that we have. Paid positions are available in the fall, winter, and spring/summer with specific dates flexible enough to fit your schedule.
This internship will primarily focus on gaining high levels of knowledge in:
- Greenhouse Growing
- Season Dependent
- Stock and Mother Plants
- Young Plants
- Finished Crops
- Color Choice Shrubs
- Plant Health Identification
- Multiple Irrigation Techniques
- Greenhouse Equipment
- Pesticide Applications and Growth Regulator Applications