Manager Trainee

Management Trainee Positions

Essential functions include producing annual budgets and achieving budgeted goals, overseeing and following goals presented in budgets, working with sales and inventory managers to identify orders on product, ensuring all orders are processed in a timely manner, overseeing nursery marketing in conjunction with the sales and marketing department focusing on specific promotions to enhance sales, availability communication, customer appreciation, promotional materials and customer specific events, assisting with purchasing wholesale materials, establishing quantity needed to supplement inventory shortages, following budget to help determine these quantities, keeping track of inventory and distinguishing any discrepancies to the warehouse manager, continuing to develop and improve pesticide program and education, identifying newest chemicals and those that have been discontinued, overseeing maintaining of chemical usage log, overseeing maintaining MSDS, hiring employees and conducting training, assisting with payroll duties, assigning work schedules and duties to employees, hire employees, and supervise their work, preparing employees schedules or work assignments, entering time off hours and approving hours for payroll, maintaining safety awareness, safety sensitive position, ensuring all policies, procedure, and rules are being followed and those that violate are appropriately disciplined, implementing safety training, explaining and enforcing safety regulations and policies to employees, communicating organizational policies and procedures, accommodating employees with a job with light duty restrictions, providing information to customer on the care of all goods and products sold and advice customer on procedural issues in addition to excellent customer service, assisting General Manager meetings as needed.

Experience/skills include the 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 solutions 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), the work requires walking and standing entire shift, must be able to lift, pull, push and/or carry 50lbs, work environment is weather dependent, pre employment drug screening required, will need to operate equipment or drive on company business, excellent benefit package, EOE, E-Verify Participating Company.