Dan and Jerry's Greenhouse is hiring: Production Supervisor in Monticello

Grow With Us! Dan & Jerry's Greenhouses in now hiring a Production Supervisor.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Reporting to the Production Manager, this position leads and oversees the daily functions of production to ensure the production lines efficiently and accurately plant vegetables, perennials, and annuals, and ensure the proper placement of plants after production.

At Dan and Jerry’s, our Mission is: “Growing to Serve You”. We do this through teamwork, development, partnership, consistency, and inspiration.

We aspire to be a renowned grower, bringing seasonal beauty to every community we serve.

SAFETY:

Safety is a top priority at Dan and Jerry’s Greenhouses, you will take an active leadership role in promoting a safe working culture. We want all employees, customers, and guests to Arrive Safe, Be Safe and Leave Safe.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (comprehensive, but not limited to):

Line Management:

• Leading the production line, this role will actively lead the daily functions of production by ensuring the production lines run at optimum efficiency.
• Establish what is being planted by the local range production lines in the daily/weekly production line schedule, based on past production output.
• Provides quality control of planting, soil, tags, water and setting on the production lines-ensuring the line is adhering to company standards.
• Work with line leaders to improve daily performance and provide employee feedback to Production Manager.
• Maintain and train employees on transplanters and seeders to ensure proper and safe usage.

Inventory Management:

• Ensure appropriate inventory levels of all live goods, hard goods and soil to production in a timely manner.
• Work with other ranges and suppliers to transfer live goods and hard goods as needed.

Planning and Reporting:

• Coordinate with the Growing and Operations team to optimize range space and location for crops.
• Order seeds, plants, tags for upcoming seasons for all ranges.
• In collaboration with the Production Manager, write new transplanter programs to increase efficiency.
• Record line leader’s records in Excel and import into Plant Partner software to ensure accurate plant data and inventory.
• Collaborate with Sales team to assess production output versus actual sales for upcoming year.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• 3+ years leadership experience in a production or greenhouse environment.
• Computer skills include proficiency in excel.
• Some Spanish speaking preferred.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum education high school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience creating and maintaining spreadsheets.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES & PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Fluent typing and data entry skills.
• Good listening and communication skills.
• Comfortable with math and calculations.
• Proficient with Microsoft office products, including Outlook, and Excel.
• Possesses a high level of written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to make positive impact decisions, prioritize and meet or exceed deadlines.
• Demonstrated ownership for decisions and actions; facilitates accountability.
• Strong personal presence with excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills.
• Does what it takes to get the job done.

The qualifications listed above are guidelines. Other combinations of education and experience may provide necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform this job.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to perform occasional to continuous repetitive motion while walking, standing, sitting, distinguishing colors, lifting, and carrying objects up to 50 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / TRAVEL:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Typically, those in this or comparable roles will spend most of their time working side-by-side employees in a production and greenhouse environment with few physical hazards. The environments can at times be dusty, warm, and humid.