Manager Trainee - C - St. George

Job Title

Manager Trainee at Star Nursery Garden and Rock Centers

• Produce annual budget and achieve budgeted goals
• Oversee budgeted goals and follow budget directions
• Work with sales and inventory managers to identify product orders
• Ensure all orders are processed in a timely and sound manner
• Oversee nursery marketing in conjunction with sales and marketing to enhance sales, promote availability, communicate with customers, provide customer appreciation, promote materials and organize specific customer events
• Assist with purchasing wholesale materials and establish quantity needed to supplement inventory shortages
• Keep track of inventory and identify any discrepancies to warehouse manager
• Continue to develop and improve pesticide program and education; identify newest chemicals and those that have been discontinued
• Maintain chemical usage log and MSDS
• Hire employees, conduct training, assist with payroll duties; assign work schedules and duties, prepare employees schedules or work assignments, enter time off hours and approve hours for payroll
• Maintain safety awareness; implement safety training; explain and enforce safety regulations and policies to employees; communicate organizational policies and procedures; accommodate employees with light duty restrictions; provide customer information on care of all goods and products sold and advice customer on procedural issues with excellent customer service
• Assist general manager meetings as needed

• Ability to effectively coordinate and complete numerous activities simultaneously
• Ability to identify problems and work in conjunction with others to implement effective solutions
• Independent judgment to develop creative solution to spontaneous problems that may arise
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Must be able to work effectively under pressure
• Forklift experience and certification required
• Full time position (10 hour days in most cases)
• Work requires walking and standing entire shift; must be able to lift, pull, push and/or carry 50lbs
• Work environment is weather dependent; summer heat and winter cold are consistent work temperatures
• Pre employment drug screening required; will need to operate equipment or drive on company business
• Excellent benefit package
• EOE; E-Verify participating company

Full‑time