Job Description
Duties include:
- All aspects of growing and dispatching a quality rose product.
- Machine Potting (6L, 10L and 15L product)
- Hand potting
- Pruning
- Grading
- Weeding
- Spacing pots
- Picking
- Packing bare root orders.
- Budding (roses)
- Patching (roses)
- Woodcutting (propagation material)
- Irrigation
- Cold store work.
- Despatch both potted and bare root roses.
- Garden work, plant centre work with customers / advise customer service (phones) shows (chelsea and hampton court).
- Order picking both pots and bare rook roses.
- Plant quality, plant recogiition pest and disease recognition on roses.
- Field work (weeding, briaring etc.) garden work (rose display gardens).
- Breeding department (polination and seed sowing)
Personal Qualities :
- Applicant must have an interest in plants
- A positive and enthusiastic attitude required
- A desire to work in production horticulture
Skills Required :
- Applicant must have transport method to get to remote location of work
- Good timekeeper
- Customer Service skills - polite, well presented, sociable and friendly
Future Prospects : Potential of full-time position for a successful apprentice.
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