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Nursery Supervisor (Specimen Stock)

Hours: 42.5 hours per week (Saturday AM on a rota basis).

Salary: £27,500 - £30,000 depending on experience and relevant qualifications.

Benefits:

  • Staff discount card (after 3 months)
  • Health benefits (after 3 months)
  • Continuous training and development / professional qualifications (relevant to the role)

Overall role purpose

Responsible for the display of all plant stock including aftercare.  Responsible for the accurate labeling of plant stock, and the on-going checking of description information of labeling and consistency.  Responsible for the Health & Safety welfare of the Nursery Workers they are supervising.  Timely unloading of plant deliveries and ensuring correct return of Danish trollies/shelves onto delivery vehicles.

Scope

Maintain and supervise the complete care of plant stock on its journey through the site.

Key accountabilities:

  • Plant merchandising
    • Plants set-down in correct location
    • Plants correctly labelled
  • Liaison with other Provender employees as required, including;
    • Nursery team
    • Transport
    • Sales team (Quoted Sales and Ecommerce)
    • Cash and carry
    • Sundries
  • Watering of plant stock / irrigation on a day-to-day basis; inc. supervising other team members
    • Training new staff how to water stock correctly
    • Monitor stock and ensure no dry stock across specimen stock
    • Check drippers – weekly inspections during spring and summer months (March – September)
    • Check sprinklers – weekly inspections throughout the spring and summer months (March – September)
  • Unloading deliveries in and outside the Barn/Bio-security/Plant Health
    • Pest and disease – ensure all stock entering the site on trollies are pest or disease free. Escalate any stock/plants found with pest or disease, to Nursery Operations Manager and ensure delivery paperwork is duly noted with appropriate description of pest/disease
    • Broken and damaged stock – check plant deliveries and escalate any broken/damaged stock to Nursery Operations Manager and ensure delivery paperwork is duly noted with appropriate description of damage/breakages
    • Ensure stock being checked-off matches the delivery note exactly. Highlight discrepancies on corresponding paperwork and escalate to Nursery Operations Manager immediately
    • Ensure all stock that require tamper proof labels are attached when unloading deliveries - refer to front delivery sheet for information on stock names. Any stock that does not have labels attached should be escalated to Nursery Operations Manager immediately for action
    • Check all deliveries have plant passports correctly displayed – all plants should have a plant passport on the smallest number of units
    • Record all plant passport numbers on the Goods-in check sheet (UK and EU)
    • Ensure that each delivery/load coming from outside the UK has a Phytosanitary certificate. Non-compliance of this should be escalated to Nursery Operations Manager immediately
    • Ensure CMR or road consignment note is included with every international stock/plant delivery. Where no CMR or road consignment note is found escalate this to Nursery Operations Manager immediately for action
    • Ensure that all stock/plant deliveries contain a Supplier Delivery note to enable accurate check of actual stock delivered. Where no Supplier Delivery note is found escalate to Nursery Operations Manager for action
    • Plant Health Standards Awareness and maintenance; ensuring all team members understand and uphold the standards required on site
  • Standing down stock
    • Ensure plants are in the correct location according to their variety and plant type
    • Ensure all labels are facing forward when standing stock down
    • Stock rotation – ensure that older plant stock is moved to the front of the bed whenever standing down stock
    • Identify ‘slow moving plant lines/stock’ (e.g., have been sat on the bed for over 12 months or visually looks unappealing) and escalate to Nursery Operations Manager for action
    • Ensure plant description is correct on label and if incorrect remove label and request Nursery Admin to amend labels/print new descriptions and correct passport information
    • Ensure all labels contain the country of origin. Escalate to Nursery Admin and request them to reprint with country of origin on new label
  • Plant Husbandry
    • Pruning plants – ensure all plants are pruned according to seasons/any cosmetic damage
    • Weed control and weeding – ensure all beds are kept weed free. Instruct team members with PA1 and PA6 certification to spray for weeds. Ensure all herbaceous plants/shrubs are hand weeded. Weeding and weed control should be undertaken and inspected weekly
    • Ensure watering is maintained to the set standards (see above)
    • Ensure all shrubs are dead headed at the end of the Spring/end of flowering season dependent on shrub
    • Ensure dead wooding for all shrubs is carried on throughout the year and undertake quarterly inspections to ensure this is being maintained
    • Ensure all plants and shrubs are fed from March to April using Osmocote Fertilizer and again before Autum season starts, i.e., during August/September Feeding. Additional feeding for specific varieties of plants to be administered upon general inspection
    • Ensure each plant/shrub is spaced appropriately i.e., ensure hand-width space between each pot and relative bloom when in green
  • Plant Wastage Recording; inc. managing the handling of waste products on site into the appropriate disposal stream
    • Identify dead plants/stock and remove from beds
    • Ensure removed dead plants/stock are scanned and taken off Positive
    • Complete the reason sheets for wasting plants and give paperwork to Nursery Operations Manager
  • Staff Supervision
    • Supervising team performance
    • Scheduling and performing 1 to 1 catch up meetings,
    • Managing conflict resolution
    • On-the-job coaching
    • Mentoring
    • Grandfathering
    • Staff administration inc. staff return to work forms, holiday cover, absences etc.
    • Keeping up to date with all employee related legislation regarding supervising of staff
    • Input to staff performance reviews / new starter probation period reviews, recruitment interviews
  • Health & Safety compliance; maintaining company and legislative standards, reporting/escalating issues as appropriate.

Additional/flexible tasks

  • Assist in other areas of the business as and when required
  • Adhere to all H&S guidelines and legislation
  • Ensure that uniform is clean and presentable at all times

Key Performance Indicators

  • Site cleanliness – adhere to 5S audit guidelines (currently under review)

Person Specification

  • Commercial nursery experience
  • Forklift license
  • NDH or equivalent qualifications
  • Demonstrate good attention to detail and work well under pressure during the peak season – physically demanding role due to the nature and size of tree and shrub products
  • Ability to supervise a team of diverse individuals with differing levels of experience

How to apply

If you are interested, please contact Grace, Provender’s HR Administrator at careers@provendernurseries.co.uk please also send over a copy of your latest CV.

Closing date for applications: 30th June 2025