Assistant Horticulturist

Job Title

This position provides day to day active leadership to horticultural staff and provides professional care of interior plants. Will take care of over 600 plants at the Salt Lake International Airport and other outlying buildings.

Job Description

Essential Duties

• Meets regularly with the City's Airport Aviation Services Manager to design, place and care for live plants.
• Performs daily walks through the facility to make sure that the plants are placed in the right location with the proper appearance.
• Assess water content in each plant weekly (or more often if needed) and water as needed
• Dusts plants and cleans containers
• Prunes, grooms, rotates and fertilizes plants as needed
• Procures proper materials (plants, containers, soil, organic fertilizer, etc.)
• Records plant information, identifies plant materials, and processes records for plant inventories. Assigns plant numbers and tags new specimen plants, and plants propagated from, that need to be tracked.
• Responsible for the personal proper use and maintenance of tools, equipment, and materials; refers problems and ordering needs to the Site Manager; oversees proper use and maintenance of tools and equipment by assistant
• Tags plants under care in the nursery and follows up with recording the plant location information. Maintains any needed plant labels and maintains any needed tags on site. Keeps record of dead or missing plants.
• Rotates out sick plants and provides care in the plant room and once they are healthy they are returned to the floor.
• Responsible for the continual development of assigned staff and building positive employee relations by coaching, counseling, mentoring, motivating, resolving conflict, praising, documentation of performance, etc.; participates in annual performance reviews of assigned staff
• Leads any plant tours as needed, assists with any educational or other special events
• Demonstrates a continual positive effort to maintain effective working relationships with staff and management.
• Help to design and arrange plants in areas that are new construction.

Knowledge And Skills

Education And Experience

Working Conditions

Work Environment

Requirements

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to perform the following repetitive movements : stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk or hear. Ability to stand, walk, and sit for long periods of time. The employee may occasionally lift and / or move a minimum of 40 pounds of office and facilities equipment (cleaning products, tools, and ladders) and trash and the ability to safely use equipment provided. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Under The Americans with Disabilities Act reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Work Authorization Authorized to work in the U.S.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer Flagship is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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