GREENHOUSE SPECIALIST

ENGINEERING SERVICES & PRODUCTS C • Dyersville, IA

10d • Onsite

About The Position

The successful candidate will work with the manager and greenhouse specialist team to care for a variety of leafy greens and vining crops in environmentally controlled hydroponic greenhouses.

Requirements

• Experience with hydroponics, including drip, ebb and flow, DWC, and NFT systems.
• Some knowledge and passion for hydroponic plant production (vine and leaf crops)
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-motivated
• Team player
• Ability to follow instructions
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with a weekly seed sowing schedule
• Transplanting leafy greens and vining crops into larger grow out systems
• Harvesting and packaging produce to send out to our customers
• Assisting in collecting data, measuring, recording, and analyzing
• Maintaining various hydroponic nutrient solutions and general water quality
• Training and pruning vining crops including tomatoes and cucumbers
• Washing NFT channels and deep-water culture rafts weekly
• Maintaining a very clean growing environment
• Scrubbing totes and buckets
• Assisting in monitoring our Integrated Pest Management Program
• Asist in assembling hydroponic growing systems
• Weeding flower beds
• Other duties as assigned or required

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree