Landscape Nursery Assistant

Job description:
Assist the Nursery Department in all aspects of the nursery operations.  This includes the unloading of trucks, general plant care (shifting, fertilizing, watering, and pruning), maintaining the nursery grounds (including the irrigation system) and assisting other departments within the company as needed.  A focus of this position would be to make sure all sold plant material is properly tagged and assembled for the installation crews as scheduled.  This involves tagging the plant material with the job name off of a load list, working with the sales staff on substitutions, pre assembling the plant material before the scheduled installation date and loading the crews with the proper plant material as needed.  Great communication between the salespersons and the construction manager with this position is critical.

Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent work experience in Horticulture or related field.
• Must possess a strong working knowledge of woody plant material and the proper cultural practices needed to maintain the plants.
• Good organizational skills and the ability to work independently or oversee a crew is a must.
• Bobcat skills a must with forklift experience a plus.  The ability to troubleshoot, repair and maintain automatic irrigation systems is a must.
• Should be a team player and be willing to work long and flexible hours.

COMPANY PROFILE

Hawks Landscape (an affiliate of the Hawks Nursery Company, Inc.), established in 1875, has been at its current location in Wauwatosa, WI (a suburb of Milwaukee) since 1923. At the high point of the season, Hawks employs more than 100 people.

Hawks provides a fine array of goods and services aimed at the discriminating buyer including:

• Landscape Design & Construction – Our Landscape Architects and Designers are able to design and direct the installation of landscapes of any complexity. Our construction crews install over four million dollars in landscaping each year.
• Landscape Maintenance – Our crews are experienced at handling all facets of landscape maintenance including fertilizations, bed care, turf management and technical tree and shrub care.
• Retail Landscape Design – This area of the company handles small to medium size landscape planning and installation sales as well as design and sales for our do-it-yourself clientele.

Hawks Landscape’s rapid growth has opened up many wonderful job opportunities in each of our departments. At Hawks, we care about the health of our employees and customers; therefore we do not allow smoking on any Hawks or customer property.