Shipping Teammate
Hortech Inc.
Nunica, MI 49448
Job Details:
Salary:
$11.00-$13.01 hourly
Job Type:
Full-Time
Number of Hires for This Role:
1
Required Skills:
- Mission Driven-Hard working, helpful, thoughtful, team oriented and compelled to do what is right for others, the environment and for the world.
- Becomes familiar with all of our plants and able to judge quality.
- Provides customer service by timely execution of his/her duties.
- Reading and mathematics is needed.
- 16 years of age, attending high school or college, or graduate of high school or GED.
- Must be strong and have a great deal of endurance.
- Able to lift 30-50 lbs. regularly.
Essential Functions:
- Participates in the sorting, gathering, loading, and quality of our plants onto our trucks and our customer’s trucks.
- Responsible for having all plants approved by Shipping Managers before loading them.
- Spends time about Hortech and occasionally off‑site travel is required.
- Assists in other departments such as cultural, production, maintenance, RoofStone, LiveRoof, LiveWall, and other departments as needed.
- Works collaboratively with other departments to deliver the best quality product and service to our customers.
Benefits:
- 401 (k) matching
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Discount
- Health Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Paid Time Off
- Referral Program
Benefit Conditions:
- Waiting period may apply
Schedule:
- Day shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday through Friday
- Overtime as needed
Supplemental Pay:
- Time & a half for overtime (40+)
- Bonus Pay
- Paid Holidays
Work Location:
- One location
Work Remotely:
- No
Application:
Please fill out the form in its entirety.
Shipping Teammate
Looking for outdoor work that makes our world a little greener? Come work with us at Hortech, where we make a difference by producing and selling plants that help people, our environment, and our future.
Required Skills
- Must become familiar with all of our plants and their respective disease and pest problems.
- Reading and mathematics is needed.
- 16 years of age, attending high school or college, or graduate of high school or GED.
- Learns and develops specific knowledge as it relates to our product line and our customer’s needs.
- Must be strong and have a great deal of endurance.
- Able to lift 30-50 lbs. regularly.
Preferred Skills
- Bi-lingual Spanish/English a plus.
- Prior nursery or farm maintenance experience a plus.
Highlights
- Variety of work.
- Work outdoors.
- Seasonal benefits as described by our policy handbook.
- Bonus potential – 4% of gross earnings less bonuses. Eligibility is subject to attendance and employment standards. See policy handbook for details.
- Paid Medical Leave: 40 hours prorated based on hire date.
Company Focus
We’re a wholesale perennial plant nursery. We also provide a pre-vegetated green roof module system and a living green wall product.
Compensation
- $10.09 – $12.25 per hour, plus time and ½ for overtime
- Starting wage dependent upon experience.
- Zero or no farm experience = $10.09/hour
- One to two years of farm experience = $10.41/hour
- Three plus years of farm experience = $10.89/hour
Application
Please fill out the form in its entirety.