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2 Feb 2023

Full-Time Nursery Purchasing/Scheduling Crop Specialist

Plant Delights Nursery at Juniper Level Botanic Gardens – Posted by PDNsauls Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Job Description

The Nursery Purchasing/Scheduling Crop Specialist handles plant ordering, receiving, inventory management. This is a detail-oriented position that requires good communication and task prioritization skills. The position requires a thorough understanding of a wide range of containerized plant culture.

 

We are Plant Delights Nursery/Juniper Level Botanic Garden, a perennial plant nursery established in Raleigh in 1986, offering unique, rare, well grown and properly named perennials to passionate gardeners around the world. We have one of the most extensive perennial trialing programs in the country. Our concern goes far beyond selling plants! Despite being best known as a nursery, we actually exist for our work as a private 28-acre botanical garden and plant research facility focusing on ex-situ plant conservation, plant exploration, breeding, and propagation. We are a family owned company with a mission to support research, education and the exploration of plants through the sales of unique perennial plants.

 

Our nursery and garden provide an opportunity to work indoors and outdoors year-round, so we have a casual dress code, a diverse staff, and a friendly working environment.

 

The ideal candidate will have the abilities to perform the following duties:

 

Plant Ordering and Receiving:

  • Source and order plants via Purchase orders as requested from proper vendors
  • Follow through with incoming plants/seed availability (ship dates, quantities and sizes, pricing) and confirmations
  • Coordinate with business manager when plants are received/approved and are ready for payment
  • Assure cost data is properly entered in database in a timely manner
  • Coordinate claims as needed (for damaged, diseased, or viral plants and incorrect quantities or plants) Supply photographs and coordinate with Nursery Manager to receive credit or replacements

 

Inventory Management:

  • Maintain accurate nursery inventory of saleable and future saleable crops
  • Closely monitor plant sales reports to ensure adequate quantities for sales

 

Inventory Management:

  • Schedule crop production times working with grower and production supervisor based on sales and sales projections
  • Ensure that plants are produced in the most economical method

 

Employee Classification: Permanent Full Time

Compensation: Begins at $16.00 – $19.00 per hour, depending upon experience

 

Benefits: We offer an extensive benefits plan that includes Health, Dental & Vision Insurance, Life Insurance & a company matching Simple IRA. We also have paid Public Holidays, PTO & Vacation days.

 

Standard Business Hours: Monday – Friday 8 am – 5 pm + eight open nursery and garden sales weekends each year

How to Apply

Send cover letter & resume with a detailed description of work history along with 3 professional references to jobs@plantdelights.com

Job Categories: Purchasing. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: Horticulture/Agriculture.

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