Plant Health Tehnician
Are you a plant scientist? Is your heart warmed by knowing you’ve helped a little plant live its best life? Is a great day one where you identified a problem, researched a treatment and implemented the solution? Successful applicant will say YES and can I bring my microscope? The position will assist the Production Manager in keeping our native plants healthy and beautiful by fending off weed, insect and pathogen pests.
Native West Nursery is a leading native plant nursery in California and growing quickly through our reputation for technical knowledge, quality, and customer satisfaction. We are adding talent to our team looking for a Production Assistant.
Successful applicant will be passionate about working with plants. They will be comfortable working with chemical tools but have strong inclination towards finding non-chemical solutions and utilizing IPM (Integrated Pest Management) at the nursery. They will have a strong understanding of plant, insect and disease life-cycles and factors that influence successful pest management. They will be comfortable working on a computer, organized, timely and work well on a team.
Position requirements
Higher education degree in Horticulture or related field or related nursery experience.
Valid and clean CA Driver’s License
Comfortable working with chemical pesticides.
Work in full sun, inclement weather
Some physical labor moving and maintaining plants
Ability to lift 50lbs
Organized, driven, self-starter
Work well with an established team
Available to work Saturday
Nice to have
Bilingual English/ Spanish
Bachelor’s degree in horticulture or related field
Nursery production experience
Hours
Full time around 40 hours per week.
Pay
$20- $25 per hour to start, depending on experience
Paid sick, vacation and holidays
Company contributed medical, dental and vision insurance
Discretionary annual profit sharing
Think you have what it will take to succeed in this role? We’d love to hear from you. Please e-mail, fax or mail your resume and letter of interest to:
Native West Nursery
Attn: Ryan West
1755 Saturn Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92154
e-mail: careers@nativewest.com, Fax: 619.423.2284