PHC Technician

Job Summary

The PHC Laborer is responsible for assuring the health and aesthetic quality of all ornamental shrubs, trees, and turf through proper horticultural applications

Core Values

• Culture of Safety Safety is always job #1

• A Growing Tradition Plants, Personally, Financially and Professionally

• Employee Owned Personal Pride in Success with an Owners Mentality

• Exceptional Customer Experience Delighting our Clients with our Products and Services

• Good Neighbors Community Pride Sharing our Success

• Respectability Treating Others as we want to be treated

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Duties/Responsibilities

• Plant and maintain plants. ex) Remove weeds, fertilize, water plants, shrubs, and trees

• Requires use of hand tools and gardening tools

• Harvest plants, and transplant or pot them with proper labels

• Monitor and record the plants' leaf coloring to detect the presence of insects or disease

• Operate tractors, other machinery, and fertilizing equipment

• Cultivate, harvest, and spray fields and plants

• Inspect plants to assess quality

• Dig, cut, and transplant seedlings, cuttings, trees, and shrubs

• Move containerized shrubs, plants, and trees, using wheelbarrows or tractors

• Clean work areas and maintain grounds and landscaping

• Haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels

• Maintain and repair irrigation and climate control system

• Responsible and safe application of both granular and liquid fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides in adherence to all local and state regulations

• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Required Skills/Abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication, listening, and interpersonal skills

• Excellent organizational abilities

• The ability to prioritize projects, handle a multitude of activities simultaneously, problem solve, and pay thorough attention to detail is essential

• Excellent customer service skills

• Friendly and outgoing personality

• Detailed oriented

• Understanding of quality principles, continuous learning, customer focus and service, teamwork and partnering skills, be professional, courteous, and always act with respect and integrity

• Appropriate level of understanding of the landscape business, products, markets, personnel, outside influencers, etc

• Ability to gain an understanding, embrace, and use the Companys internal databases, platforms, and associated technologies

• Demonstrated capacity to embrace change. Ability to manage work under pressure

• Great customer service and interpersonal skills

Education and Experience

• A high school education/GED and 1 years of retail sales experience or the equivalent combination of education, experience and/or training

• Minimum 1 year experience with chemical or spray applications or 4 or more years experience in the green industry

• Strong attention to detail

• Pesticide applicators license or in process

• Valid drivers license

• Adhere to Companys safety policy and ensure that the public and co-workers will be safe while performing job duties

Physical Requirements

• Constantly required to talk, hear, see, sit, stand, and walk

• Must be able to see at close vision, distant vision, peripherally, have depth perception and can adjust focus

• Frequent use of hands to manipulate, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls

• Frequently required to reach, bend, twist, stoop, crouch, climb and balance

• Must be able to lift 50 pounds and carry 50 feet

• Occasionally works with mechanical objects and outside in all weather conditions

• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals

• Occasionally exposed to loud noise levels