Job Opportunities with Monterey Bay Nursery, Inc.
            an Equal Opportunity Employer
 

Current Openings:

We have openings for growers and a propagator. Submit your resume to the email address listed below or call and ask for Luen Miller. Job specifications and some details are listed below.

1).  Assistant Production Manager

Acts as an assistant to a Production Manager of Monterey Bay Nursery, Inc. at their location on San Miguel Canyon Rd. in Watsonville. After training and when qualified this employee will most likely have substantial responsibility for certain aspects of production and production planning for specific areas or for specific crops. In other areas, he or she will work under the direction of other supervisors. Another important duty will be working on production planning.

Duties will involve all aspects of container production and production management, from moving, planting, pruning, staking, spraying or otherwise physically lifting and handling plants to computer data input, record keeping, and direction of employees. This employee may be in charge of supervising up to 30 workers at times when needed. Duties will parallel those of Production Manager and differ primarily in scale.

This position would most likely be filled by an entry level or close to entry level employee with a degree or a reasonable level of education in horticulture, or an individual with equivalent experience from a similar business.

Job duties include:

-assisting Production Manager and Greenhouse Production Manager
-overseeing production crews in planting and maintenance of plants
-employee management, including hiring, firing, and performance reviews
-facilitating propagation needs at the direction of the Propagator and Production Manager
-special projects
-supervision of greenhouse controls and environment
-occasional participation in monthly production meetings
-customer service
-sales support
-data input
-misc. office duties as needed

Required:

-enthusiasm
-genuine love for plants and growing
-honesty
-previous trade growing experience or equivalent education
-good attendance and punctuality habits
-rudimentary conversational or trade-oriented Spanish language skills
-willingness and ability to work with chemicals and pesticides and direct their use
-good record keeping skills
-ability to work unsupervised
-ability to work supervised
-polite, professional, business-like attitude
-good team member
-good basic math skills
-typing skills
-multitasking ability
-willingness to learn
-willingness to ask questions and improve abilities
-excellent references
-verifiable job and education history

Helpful but not required:

-10 key entry skills
-QAC for chemical applications.
-word processor or spreadsheet experience

2).  Propagation Manager

Acts as primary supervisor of all propagation for Monterey Bay Nursery, Inc. Employee will have full responsibility for most aspects of propagation production. Involves close coordination with general management and a Production Manager. This employee serves under the immediate and direct supervision of a Production Manager for Monterey Bay Nursery but works independently most of the time. This job is currently only a part time position and the balance of the daily or weekly duties would involve all aspects of the Assistant Production Manager job listed above.

Duties will involve all aspects of propagation production, from planning and preparation of plants for propagation through striking of cuttings, grafting, or sowing of seed, to the end delivery of finished material to final production areas. Employee will be in direct charge of ten or more trained employees to carry out these duties. Other incidental duties will involve experimental propagation treatments, hybridizing, or special propagation assignments.

One job site is separate from Monterey Bay Nursery, Inc. and is two miles distant. It shares the site with a subsidiary growing grounds of Monterey Bay Nursery, Inc. It includes a number of greenhouses in a broad range of conditions as well as outdoor container production areas and in-ground growing fields. 

We envision this position as being filled by an experienced nursery professional with experience in production propagation and the management of employees.

Job duties include:

-directing the collection and processing of propagation material, from seeds to cuttings. There is a negligible amount of grafting done.
-overseeing maintenance of plants, including watering, pruning, spraying, and moving
-employee management, including hiring, firing, and performance reviews
-supervision of greenhouse controls and environment
-inventory and ordering of propagation materials
-low level greenhouse maintenance
-participation in monthly production meetings
-data input
-sales support
-occasional customer and office support
-other misc. office duties as needed

Required:

-nursery experience
-supervisorial experience
-propagation experience
-knowledge of basic plant varieties
-enthusiasm
-honesty
-good attendance and punctuality habits
-ability to work unsupervised
-polite, professional attitude
-good team member
-basic math skills
-rudimentary conversational or trade-oriented Spanish language skills
-typing skills
-multitasking ability
-willingness to learn
-excellent references
-verifiable job history
-willingness and ability to work with chemicals and pesticides and direct their use
-good record keeping skills

Helpful but not required:

-advanced Spanish language skills
-10 key entry skills
-QAC for chemical applications.
-word processor or spreadsheet experience

Luen Miller
PO Box 1296
Watsonville, CA 95077
phone:    831-724-6361
fax:         831-724-8903

 
 

rev 3/2008