Job Title: Garden Center Nursery Lead
Location: Stilwell, KS Grass Pad
Status: Full Time, Hourly, Daytime, Evening, and Weekend Availability
Reporting Relationship: Store Manager
Work Schedule: Hours vary by season.

The Grass Pad is hiring a Garden Center Nursery Lead to work in our Stilwell, KS Grass Pad location.

Every Grass Pad location has a full nursery with flowers, perennials, shrubs, and trees. When people visit a Grass Pad nursery, they are greeted by Nursery Sales who answers their questions, helps them find the right plants, and gives them all the advice they need to be successful. We pride ourselves in the customer service that we offer all our customers, from commercial clients to people starting lawn care for the first time. Grass Pad focuses on providing solutions for our customers and working together as a team to provide the customer with the best service possible. The Nursery Lead would have the additional responsibility of directing and training other staff members in receiving, merchandising, plant care, pricing, sales, and general nursery appearance. No formal training in lawn or landscape needed – we will train you on the job.

This position has great growth potential in the company for the right person.

This job might be for you if:
You love helping people. We want our customers to be successful, and that success starts with you.
You have a friendly personality and enjoy talking to people. In the nursery you will be the first person to greet the customer.
You like working outside in a team-oriented environment that promotes responsible care of the environment.
You have excellent communication skills, and you can explain complicated subjects through simple language.
You have leadership experience in customer service or sales.
You enjoy working with a sense of urgency, have good situational awareness and attention to detail.

Bonus: You have interest in working in a garden center, in landscape or enjoy outdoor activities.

As a Nursery Lead, your typical day might include:

• Greeting customers and guiding them through nursery to help find the best plant for their needs.
• Help customers by problem solving their plant and nursery issues and patiently answering their questions.
• Writing tickets for customers to take to the cashier for check out.

• Planning and preparing quotes, shipping orders or transfer orders.
• Assisting with design and merchandising of the nursery, including setting up seasonal and promotional displays, writing signage and rotating plants in the flower and nursery section.
• Unloading nursery trucks and organizing new products into the nursery area.
• Cleaning and straightening the nursery prior to the end of each shift, in preparation for the next day.
• Completing the customer experience by loading and carrying out plants for customers.
• Assisting in a wide variety of tasks associated with the seasonal demands, both indoors and out, of a vibrant local garden center.
• Directing and training others in these duties.

Nursery Lead Responsibilities: The Nursery Lead will report directly to the store manager or nursery supervisor and will be expected to be exemplary in the duties listed above, show strong initiative and a sense of urgency, as well as exhibit consistent adherence to company policies. The Nursery Lead will share in the workload of the garden center operation, while coaching and directing others with positivity, encouragement, attention to detail, and equality.

Benefits: The Grass Pad is successful because of the employees we hire. We offer generous medical insurance, matching 401k after one-year, paid time off, flexible scheduling, employee discount and a family-first attitude.

Company History: The Grass Pad is a family-owned company that started during the 1960s in Omaha, selling grass seed and fertilizer. Since then, we’ve built a business on honesty, integrity and putting the customer’s success first and foremost. We now have 6 locations – one in Omaha and five in the Kansas City area.

At the Grass Pad it is not uncommon to find people that have worked here for decades. We love passion and dedication in our employees, and when we see those traits, we fight to keep people around and help them grow. We offer career and responsibility growth, management training and extensive on the job training.

Grass Pad maintains merit-based employment and is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.

Seasonality: Our busy season spikes in the spring and the fall. Normal business hours vary with the season, with our longest opening hours during the spring and fall seasons. For most of the year, our store is open 7 days a week. Weekend and overtime work will be required on a 6-day schedule during the busy seasons. Summer and winter schedules are often 4-day weeks and closed for 2 weeks during Christmas and New Year.

Education and/or Experience: Associate degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or two-years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.