Horticulture Specialist - Sulphur, United States - The Chickasaw Nation

Description

We are currently looking for a Full Time Horticulture Specialist to join our Greenhouse team located at the Chickasaw Cultural Center.

• Provides first class customer service - courteous and helpful to all internal and external customer types
• Greets and engages with a smile
• Determines and meets needs
• Seeks positive experience and outcomes
• Answers questions in a courteous and professional manner
• Partners with internal and external services as needed to ensure appropriate referral is made
• Completes all training and development requirements and participates in continuing education opportunities
• Works in a collaborative and supportive manner to support the productivity and safety of the work area, team members and customers of all types
• Shares responsibilities for maintaining adequate supplies and equipment
• Maintains general upkeep of work area and maintains a safe environment
• Observes and addresses potential environmental hazards and risks
• Maintains and promotes professionalism
• Punctual and consistent in meeting start time, work schedule, attendance and other assigned work time metrics
• Adheres to Chickasaw Nation dress code standards
• May provide break coverage for others as assigned
• May augment staff in other areas as needed based on staffing and needs ratio in regularly assigned unit
• Maintain knowledge of and follow all laws, rules, regulations, policies and SOPs for assigned area, e.g. MICS, TICS, hospital standards, health codes, food sanitation, accounting principles, etc.
• All other duties as assigned
• Properly maintain, repair and store landscaping tools and equipment per approved procedures
• Work in greenhouse performing such tasks as watering, potting, seeding, pruning, fertilizing, bleaching of pots, greenhouse upkeep, cleaning and weeding
• Clean, organize and maintain tool sheds
• Haul or spread topsoil
• Ensure proper watering of all baskets, pots, shrub beds, trees and lawn areas lacking automated irrigation systems
• Assist in the routine maintenance and operation of irrigation systems
• Mix and apply fertilizer, herbicides or insecticides onto flower beds, shrub beds, tree rings or lawn, by hand or use of automatic spreaders
• Shovel snow/ice from walks, driveways, parking lots and spread salt in needed areas
• Assist in horticulture led agro tours, learning workshops and virtual education projects
• Operates mowers, string trimmers, aerators, sprinklers, chain saws and other landscaping power and hand tools
• Removes debris, cleans flowerbeds and prunes bushes as needed at assigned facility
• Loads and unloads dirt, gravel, trash and other debris including collection and disposal of waste at assigned facility
• Provides proper remediation techniques to properties impacted by equipment, traffic and construction processes
• Plants seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, shrubs and decorative stones and applies mulch for protection using gardening tools
• Mows the lawn and cleans surrounding landscapes
• Maintains equipment/machinery, systems and building by completing preventive maintenance schedules

• Follow instructions, written or oral
• Adhere to all scheduling and attendance requirements
• Ability to work independently
• Honesty, truthfulness, reliability, accountability
• Read, understand and apply regulations and policies
• Establishes professional working relationships
• Communicates verbally with team, departments, guests and management

• Operate light and heavy equipment
• Adjusting and maintenance of exercise equipment
• Knowledge, skill and ability to operate hand implements

• No prior experience required.

• High School, GED or Equivalent

• Pass general background check
• Standard Driver's License

• Customer service
• Outside, all weather conditions
• Vibration
• Temperature fluctuations
• Heavy construction equipment
• Minor injuries, e.g. muscle aches, scratches, cuts or burns
• Moving mechanical parts
• Pass pre-employment drug test
• Gloves
• Hearing protection
• Frequently bend, kneel, stoop, push, reach
• Sometimes climb ladders
• Sometimes work in confined spaces (e.g. crawl space, tank)
• May be required to crawl
• Hand-eye coord, reach and grasp
• Operate hand tools
• Manual dexterity
• Operate mechanic tools
• Operate power tools
• Listening and hearing ability
• Frequently lift and or carry up to 50 lbs
• Moderately strenuous work
• Day shift