Kaw Valley Greenhouses Hiring for Retail Customer Service at Gardner, KS Full Time

Garden Center Employee Job Description

Basic Function: To accurately perform duties in sales and customer service, receiving and stocking freight, building and maintaining displays, plant care, follow all policies/procedures and operate the cash register.

This is a seasonal only position, available from March – late June.

Essential Responsibilities

• Ensure that each customer receives outstanding customer service.
• Make sure all products are put up in a timely fashion.
• Maintain plant health by correct care and placement.
• Build displays and follow plan-o-grams given.
• Ensure displays are swept and clean.
• Accurately and efficiently complete sales transactions and maintain proper accountability on register.

Required Skills/Knowledge

• Ability to communicate with customers, other peers and management.
• Ability to work with a cash register.
• Able to receive complaints and problems as they arise from customers.
• Basic plant knowledge or the willingness to learn about plants and gardening.
• The ability to stand on your feet for 5 to 10 hour days, on concrete parking lots.
• The ability to lift 20lbs repeatedly for at least 4 hours.
• The ability to lift up to 50lbs.
• The ability to stoop and bend repeatedly for several hours.
• The ability to work in the outdoors, which could include weather as cold as 25 degrees, as hot as 95 degrees, and long-term exposure to the sun.

Job Site Location: We will set up in the Parking Lot of the Price Chopper on 660 E Main. We are renting the lot, we are a separate business, you cannot contact Price Chopper for this position.

Position Pays $15/hr for weekdays, $17/hr for weekends.

Employees get a 40% Discount on Kaw Valley Grown Plants plus a 25% Discount on our other merchandise.