Production Greenhouses
Alex
R. Masson, Inc.
Tom Oberzan, Human Resources Manager
P.O. Box 170
Linwood, KS 66052
Phone: 913-301-3281 x 229
Fax: 913-301-3288
www.armasson.com
personnel@armasson.com
Production Intern:
Position Responsibilities:
To the larger extent, responsibilities will center around: soil preparation,
irrigation, fertilization, propagation, potting, plant care, pest control &
order processing. To a smaller extent, responsibilities will include: crop
scheduling & planning, business & people management, sales,
environmental and maintenance controls.
Position Qualifications:
A strong interest in greenhouse plant production. Prefer 6 month
internship in fall, winter, or spring, but will consider 3 month and
summer. Prefer one letter of reference from an academic
instructor/advisor, and one employment or personal reference.
Range of Pay: $7.00/hr
Housing assistance: will assist in locating.
02/27/01
Ball
Horticulture Company
Mike Williams, Director of Human Resources
622 Town Road
West Chicago, IL 60185-2698
Tel: 630-231-3600
Fax: 630-231-3592
mwilliam@ballhort.com
Internship Opportunities:
-Supplier Relations Internship
-Market Research Internship
-Trial Garden Internship
-Flower Breeding Internship
-Landscape Maintenance Internship
-Perennial Product Management
For more job descriptions and locations, please see packet of info. in 1028 Throckmorton.
02/12/01
Bohn's
Farm and Greenhouses, Inc.
1656 Pleasant Ridge Road
Maryville, IL 62062-6422
Attn: Bill Ruppert
(314) 963-0253
Booman
Floral
2302 Bautista Avenue
Vista, CA 92084-1641
Ph: 760-630-4170
Fax: 760-630-4173
e-mail: info@boomanfloral.com
Carlton
Plants LLC
Contact: Steve Carlson
14301 SE Wallace Rd.
PO Box 399
Dayton, Oregon 97114-0399
Ph: (503) 868-7971
Fx: (503)868-7503
Work Experience Program:
Carlton Plants is sponsoring spring, summer, and fall work programs for students majoring in horticulture or related fields who have a college junior class standing or have a AA program degree.
For more information, Please visit the Horticulture Student Records office (1028 Throckmorton).
01/02
DuBrow's Nurseries, Inc. is a 44 year old horticultural enterprise headquartered in Livingston, NJ. We have five satellite offices throughout NJ and eastern PA. DuBrow's is composed of five divisions; Certified Landscape Architects Design/build, Grounds Maintenance, Nursery/Growing, Turf Maintenance/Pest Management and retail Garden Center. We specialize in upscale commercial and residential work. We are always looking to share what we have learned over the years and have frequently done seminars and participated in Career Days at a few colleges and universities. We have since set up a residential summer Internship program and are always looking for to help those graduating get a great job.
Geo. J. Ball, Inc.
622 Towne Road
West Chicago, IL 60185
Tel: (708) 231-3600
Dealing with vegetables, flowers, growers, and plant propagation. Devoted to the breeding
and production of varieties.
date entered: 12/20/00
Bluebird
Nursery
Richard Gilbert
P.O. Box 460
Clarkson, Nebraska 68629
Tel: 800-356-9164
E-mail: Richard_Gilbert@hotmail.com
BURGESS & ASSOCIATES
Attn: Tamara Daubert
Home Office (316) 943-8648
Email: tamaradaubert@hotmail.com
Clearwater
Nursery
110 Honeysuckle St.
Bellevue, ID 83313
Tel: 208-788-5774
Toll free: 1-877-800-2799
Fax: 208-788-5729
Foremost
Co, Inc.
8457 Northwest 66th Street
Miami, FL 33166
1-800-421-8986
fax: 305-591-4093
ForemostCO, Inc. is a leading grower and distributor of ornamental starter plants to the North American Floriculture industry. In its 16 years of operation, it has grown to be the largest importer of live plants to the United States, accounting for more than 20% of all plants brought into the United States.
Positions available in Sales:
We are currently searching for aggressive, knowledgeable people with a strong service-driven approach to help us grow in any one of the many exciting positions we are offering across the country.
E-mail your resume to:
04/05
Green Thumb Greenhouse, Inc.
4605 North 3500 St.
Independence, KS 67301
Ph: 620-331-4087
Fax: 620-331-4534
Email: greenthumb@terraworld.net
Excellent Internship Opportunity: Spring is the BEST TIME for a greenhouse internship!
Green Thumb Greenhouse, Inc. is located just outside of Independence, KS, in Southeastern Kansas. It is a very technology driven operation, with cutting edge ideas and equipment used to produce spring bedding plants. Green Thumb Greenhouses, Inc. was features in the December 24th, 2001 issue of The High Plains Journal; and is to be features in the O Report by Uniroyal this fall for experimenting and using the PGR Bonzi. The size is around 50,000 square feet.
Pay and Housing:
$300/week, plus $250 per month toward an apartment
$500 scholarship upon completion determined by work performance.
Time Frame:
January 17th until May 17th, 2005.
08/2004
Greenleaf Nursery Company
HC 72, Box 163
Park Hill, Oklahoma 74451-9500
(918) 457-5172
Company Contact: Diane Dunn
Internship program to qualified college students majoring in Horticulture or a related
field. The internship program offers an opportunity to learn the nursery business through
hands-on work experience and through spending time with Greenleaf supervisors and foremen.
The internship program can be individually designed to satisfy the internship requirements
of Horticulture degree programs. Work assignments may include: pest management, soils,
irrigation, fertility, propagation, division plant management tree management and
specialty items, shipping and tagging, hidden lake division, sales and public relations,
and the water recycling program.
date entered: 12/15/00
Possible Job Openings
Looking for recent graduates who may be interested in full-time employment. If interested, send resume to:
Jamie Casey
HR Director
28406 Hwy 82
Park Hill, OK 74451-2845
Fax: 918-457-5559
Harrell's
Fertilizer Inc.
Attn: Rick Helpingstine
Director of Horticulture
706-713-0548
rhelpingstine@harrells.com
Position: Territory Manager (Nursery Division)
General Description: Represent Harrell's Fertilizer inc. in a professional manner representing the entire nursery product line in the predetermined territory calling on wholesale nurseries making sales presentations and performing technical services.
Specific Duties:
-Making appointments and meeting with key growing personnel at wholesale
nurseries in your territory
-Create proper presentation materials suitable for the prospect.
-Work with Harrell's marketing personnel to generate input for "Cutting
Edge" our horticulture newsletter
-Develop schedule for Harrell's Academies at local level.
-Responsible for working with Harrell's accounting people to properly set up
accounts for customers
-Responsible for working with accounting department to keep your accounts
receivables current
-Selling only products from Harrell's Fertilizer Inc.
-Responsible for staying current on product labels, research and performance of
Harrell's products.
-Initiate trials of new products and evaluate performance at nurseries>
-Establish the most effective routes to cover entire territory efficiently
-Develop sales forecasts to assist in inventory management
-During first year in territory, detailed call reports required
-Manage controllable expenses in territory
-Attendance at local and regional trade shows and events
-Maintain contact with key horticulture faculty at the universities in your
territory
-Perform "in field" technical assistance with growers.
-Keep files of account activities current on each account
-Track and report on products and activities of competitors in your market
-Make input or marketing programs and pricing in your territory
04/04
Hermes Nursery, Inc.
12421 Santa Fe Trail Drive
Lenexa, Kansas 66215Contact: Cathy Evens
Phone: (913) 888-2400
Fax: (913) 888-2418
www.hermeslandscaping.com www.hermesnursery.com
Hermes nursery has over 600 acres of 70+ varieties of trees, shrubs, and evergreens serving an 8 state region. Hermes Landscaping offers a full range of services, including Design, Landscaping, Sprinkler Systems, Sodding, Seeding, Seasonal Color, Landscape Lighting, Fountains and Total Landscape Management (Grounds Maintenance).
04-06
Contact: Chris Yoder at 776-8585
03/02
Lanoha Nuseries, Inc.
19111 West Center Road
Omaha, NE 68130
Phone: 402-289-4103
Fax: 402-289-2080
Outstanding Employment Opportunities:
Landscape Designer: We are looking for a Landscape Designer that is highly motivated and career oriented. Experience in Landscape design or college degree is required. The position is salaried, starting wage depends on experience, plus bonus and benefits. Duties include: the design, selling, managing and supervision of the installation of the design. Terrific opportunity for the right individual at a World Class Nursery.
Design Assistant: Candidates will assist the Designers with site work, drafting, cost estimates and project coordination. FT and PT. Great wages and benefits.
Garden Center Sales: We have great opportunities for well-organized individuals in our Garden Center. Candidates must have strong sales and customer service experience, the ability to motivate others and have horticultural knowledge and experience. Good communication is required, great wages and benefits.
Lawn Service Foreman: We have an opening for an experienced foreman to join our Grounds Maintenance Team. The applicant must have knowledgeable experience of all turf care, motivated and detailed-oriented. Great wages and benefits with year round work.
Toro Sprinkler Service Technician: We are looking for an experience service technician for Toro Sprinklers. Full time with benefits. Great wages with year round work.
02/04
Monrovia
13455 S. E. Lafayette Highway
Dayton, OR 97114-8416
Attn: Cathy Russ
Phone: (503) 868-7911 Ext. 264
Fax: (503) 868-7352
e-mail: Cruss@monrovia.com
Internship Program
Monrovia, America's premier producer of "Distinctively Better" container grown plants, has been in business for over seventy years. The Nursery currently has three locations with approximately 1,400 acres in production. The nurseries are located in Azusa, California, Visalia, California and Dayton, Oregon.
The internship can be described as a "work experience program" where knowledge is gained by working with our experienced personnel. The program is a hands-on-experience! Work assignments, while varied in nature, will be performed in areas of the greatest need at the time. The work will included all aspects of production such as propagation, shipping, research, canning, assembling of orders, staking and typing, pruning and spacing, time is also scheduled for classroom and field trip instruction.
Spring program: March 26, 2002-May 17, 2002 (8 weeks)
Summer program: June 10, 2002-August 10, 2002 (9 weeks)
Salary: $8.50 (housing and transportation is the responsibility of the trainee)
Deadlines: Spring Work Experience Program - January 31, 2002; Summer Work Experience Program - March, 15, 2002.
Updated 01/02
Moon Nurseries
Internship Opportunities
P.O. Box 672
Chesapeake City, MD 21915
410-755-6253 Fax
410-755-6600 Phone
-Sales Representatives
-Propagation Manager
-Container Production Assistant
-Assistant Field Supervisor
-Site Management Foreman
-Landscape Maintenance Foreman
-Wholesale Sales Associate
Internship Opportunities:
Pay: $7-11/hr, Housing placement assistance available for full time internships
Chesapeake City, Maryland:
Where: Moon Nurseries of Maryland
Yardley, Pennsylvania
Where: Moon Landscaping, Moon Site Management, Moon Wholesale
08/02
Nurserymen's Exchange, Half Moon Bay, is one of the nation's largest potted plant producers in North America. We have over 60 years of continued success and growth. Production is varied from state of the art controlled environmental greenhouses to unheated hoop-houses and open field production. The crops produced are varied: potted miniature roses, orchids, hybrid lilies, ivy, bonsai, and miniature Christmas trees to name a few. We also design and market our own pottery and garden accessories. Our products are sold under the Bloom-Rite" trademark throughout the United States.
Nurserymen's Exchange is located in Half Moon Bay. The town of Half Moon Bay is located 30 minutes south of San Francisco on the Pacific Coast. It has a truly unique rural feel land adjoins a diversified metropolitan area. The greater Coastside is a small, but cosmopolitan community of 20,000 people. It is best know for its annual Pumpkin festival in October. Nurserymen's Exchange is very supportive of the coast side community and its non-profit agencies, including the "Boys and Girls Club of the Coastside", Cabrillo Unified School District, and the Senior Coastsiders.
We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled college students. Ideal candidates will have the following: strong computer skills, strong work ethic, and horticulture or business degree. We currently have the following positions open: Growers, Assistant Growers, Inventory Coordinators and Production Supervisors.
Please fax a short cover letter and resume to 650/712-4262
06/01
Pan American Seen Company
Apollo Beach, Florida
Contact: Terry Howe at 941-721-9176
Position: Grower Technician
Job Duties:
-Maintain plants, watering and applying
pesticides/fungicide as necessary
-Clean, label, assemble and fill containers used in seeding and transplanting.
-Maintain a clean inventory of plug and row flats.
-Transplant in the greenhouse and/or field, pot up and space out plant material
for research or marketing purposes.
-Assist in organizing and planting of field and trail containers for evaluation
and assist supervisor in plant evaluation.
-Assist in the upkeep, organization and cleanliness of all facilities.
-Assist supervisor in other projects as assigned.
-Cross-train in other areas of production research as needed.
Requirements:
-Exceptional numerical and organizational
skills.
-Knowledge or understanding of plant production with some experience handling
plants would be helpful.
-Computer skills as well as experience in record keeping.
-Knowledge or understanding of pollination and seed harvest helpful.
-Current pesticide applicator's license required.
08/03
Sherman Nursery Company
Dale Siems, President
P.O. Box 579
1300 Grove Street
Charles City, IA 50616-0579
Phone: (800) 474-5980
Fax: (641) 228-7569
Sherman Nursery Company is looking for "tree-mendous" people! We're interested in filling leadership positions in the following areas: Field, Greenhouse and Container Production.
We specialize in the production of quality bareroot and container nursery stock, rooted cuttings and potted liners. If you want to join a firm with a positive work environment, stability, security and a fun place to work, contact me for an interview to discuss what we have to offer!
Silver
Vase
Bromeliads & Phalaenopsis Orchids
ASSISTANT GROWER
Silver Vase, an industry leader in the horticultural industry (located in Homestead Florida) seeks an individual with 3+ yrs of exp. in growing plants, preferably orchids. Candidates must have exp with environmental controls, Windows based software, have a sense of urgency, and be proactive in identifying issues. A B.S. of Science in Horticulture is required. Bilingual (Spanish) a plus. Must be willing to relocate.
Competitive salary commensurate with experience plus a very comp. benefit package. Email resume to hr@silvervase.com or fax resumes to 305-247-7637 attention Human Resources. EOE
11/03
Rocky
Mountain Native Plants Co.
3780 Silt Mesa Rd.
Rifle, Colorado 81650
Assistant Grower:
Oversees greenhouse crews and acts as liaison between the Grower and Greenhouse Crew. Co-ordinates with employees in other departments to ensure that the greenhouse remains stocked with media, processing techniques and protocols and ensures that they be properly executed. Fills out and ensures accuracy of production reports and inventory forms, and time usage logs. Ensures that greenhouses and coldframes be kept neat, organized, and sanitary. Performs periodic soil and water tests, and inspects departmental equipment. Ensures that plants be properly labeled. Monitors inspection of outgoing orders, being sure that they be done consistently and well.
Trains and encourages fellow employees, and helps them maintain high levels of efficiency and quality in their work. Provides to the Grower feedback regarding work-related successes and failures, and works with the Grower toward continual improvement in the headhouse, greenhouse, coldframes, and nursery. Shares knowledge and experience with other employees, that they may be empowered to act with understanding. Leads by being an example of conscientious, diligent, and optimistic employee.
This position would be an excellent opportunity for the recent college graduate and/or native plant enthusiast. This position affords room for growth and advancement at our growing company.
Experience or college degree in Horticulture or related field preferred; ability in Spanish also preferred. To apply, fax resume and cover letter to the attention of Dan Alberts at (970) 625-3276.
01/03
Wichita
State University
1845 Fairmont, Campus Box 23
Wichita, KS 67260-0023
Tel: 316-978-3444
Fax: 316-978-3062
Contact: Cyndy Hodge cyndy.hodge@wichita.edu
Whitaker
Flower Farms
Contact: Gary or Kay Whitaker
913/592-3229
Internship: Field Cut Flower Production
Over 75 species of field grown cut flowers are in production, including annuals and perennials. Many unusual species are being grown, as well as standards like larkspur and echinacea. Learn all aspects of the business from the ground up.
Owners are looking for a reliable person who won't let the down mid-summer.
Responsibilities will include assistance with planting out plugs and seedlings, mulching, harvesting flowers through the entire summer, and marketing at kiosks and farmers' markets.
Time-frame: Start as early as possible in mid-May and work until the fall semester is started.
Salary: Negotiable.
06/01