Loader

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
**Position Summary**

A multi-faceted role that is responsible for greeting customers, ensuring quick and accurate loads, while maintaining a safe loading zone for coworkers and customers. This is an extremely important position as you are the last point of contact for our customers and must ensure our first class customer service is delivered.

This is a collaborative role, relying on personal observation, along with working with others to best serve our customers. Communication is vital to make sure product has been paid for, loaded correctly and in a timely manner.

**LIST OF RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Friendly customer service - including greeting customers, directing them to the best spot for loading and maintaining wait times
- Receive and review invoice or loading slip from customer
- Responsible for checking quantity and quality of plants on order and making sure they meet our standards
- Count all product when loading, ensuring all product is loaded
- Continuous update of available sod count
- Plant care: ensuring that the product in pickup area is watered and maintained to our standard
- Reprocessing orders
- Responsible for safe loading techniques, ensuring product is not damaged and weight distribution is done correctly
- Responsible for daily machine inspections and reporting any issues to supervisor
- Constant maintenance of pickup area - collecting garbage and keeping a tidy working space
- Pull sold product out of sales yard as assigned by supervisor
- Report any issues to supervisor in terms of customer service or safety concerns
- Responsible for machine work in other departments as assigned
- Quick response time on radio calls - making sure your radio is on and working at all times during shift
- Other duties as assigned (May include weeding tree beds, pick up area, and helping other departments as needed)

**SKILLS REQUIRED**:

- This person must understand the dynamics of a busy, spring season in the Nursery industry
- Ability to multitask and maintain a constant speed with accuracy
- Willingness to work rain or shine
- Promptness for shift arrival
- Flexibility to work longer than shift in our busiest season (May/June)
- Must be able to lift 50lbs consistently

Connon Nurseries is an equal opportunity employer. Should you require any modifications during the interview process please connect directly with our Human Resources Manager.

**Job Type**: Seasonal
Contract length: 4 months

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 2024-05-01