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Shipping Laborer Job Description

Department: Shipping                      

Job Title: Laborer

Organizational Relationship: Reports to the supermarket crew leader on the dock

Major Goals and Responsibilities:

• Handle plant material with care
• Be able to count
• Perform job tasks for other departments when needed
• Required to work minimum of 40 hours per week with regular attendance (Saturday are required)
• Follow company policies      
• Be able to identify plants
• Able to do steady lifting

Prerequisites: None, there is training upon hiring

Primary People Contacts:

• Fellow Shipping Employees
• Pullers
• Supermarket Crew Leader
• Shipping Manager

Specific Responsibilities:

• Build racks
• Shop the supermarket (Pull plants and put on CC racks)
• Tag plants
• Shrink wrap CC racks
• Load trucks with CC racks and/or BB material 

Toughest Parts of the Job:

• Working in bad weather conditions
• Continuous production
• Being flexible enough to work in different areas on the dock

Performance Feedback: The Supermarket crew leader will communicate with this person daily and use the scoreboard to judge their performance

Send Resume to:

Home Nursery, Inc.
Attn: Tayler Heinemeier
PO Box 128
Albers, IL 62215

OR

Taylerh@homenursery.com