Nature’s Way Farms is passionate about plants. We grow our plants with care and attention to detail because quality matters. If you’re passionate about plants and working for a team with a big heart, send us a note, and we’ll let you know what career opportunities we have available.
Career Opportunities: careers@natureswaymiami.com
Learn about ouR career opportunities here:
Position: Payroll / Data Entry Clerk
Date Posted: September 16, 2021
Location: Miami, FL
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Short Term Disability, Paid time Off and 401(K) with an Employer Match
Overview:
The succesful candidate will be a positive, dedicated full-time individual and must have strong data entry skills along with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple porjects effectively and efficiently. The ability to keep payroll confidential is extremely important.
Job Duties:
- Prepare / Review Weekly time keeping reports
- Enter Data for Piecework for time keeping reports
- Ensures proper payroll deductions are processed
- Reviews piecework sheets for completion and accuracy
Qualification Requirements:
- High School Diploma, 1 year of previous payroll or data entry experience required
- Excellent organization skills
- Strong ability to work quickly and accurately
- Work with Microsoft and other “Home-Grown” software supporting payroll staff
- Type 50 WPM
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Position: Outdoor Crew Leader
Date Posted: September 7, 2021
Location: Miami, FL
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Short Term Disability, Paid time Off and 401(K) with an Employer Match
Overview:
The position consists of being able to lead, plan, organize, direct, control and coordinate activities of workers. In addition, this role must be able to incorporate themselves into assignments and become part of the crew.
Job Duties:
- Lead, motivate and manage crew effectively.
- Supervise the work of crew members to ensure proper safety, quality, and productivity.
- Inspect all work for quality in an effort to eliminate re-work.
- Work closely with management overseeing piecework.
- Assist in preparing space required for planned production.
- Responsible for touring work areas to observe all planned work is being done.
- Plan and assign duties to staff daily.
- Provide related training for new and existing employees.
- Ensures equipment is in good order.
- Completes paperwork and forms accurately.
- Follows and reenforces safety guidelines.
- Ensures that work area is consistently organized, neat and tidy.
- Comply with all Company policies and regulations.
Qualification Requirements:
- Minimum of 2 years of nursery experience as a foreman or supervisor preferred
- Bilingual preferred
- Experience with agriculture equipment helpful
- Agricultural knowledge helpful
- Ability to work outdoors, sometimes in inclement weather
- Adaptability and multi‐tasking; experience working in a fast-moving environment.
- Fosters positive working relationships
- Ability to communicate effectively with all employees
- Ability to prioritize
- Ability to work both independently with little supervision, as well as part of a team
- Ability to delegate
- Ability to read, write and count
- Schedule oriented
- Focus on quality as well as efficiency
- Ability to operate nursery equipment including but not limited to, tractors, kabotas, gators and forklifts.
- Good manual dexterity
- Team building experience
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Position: Grower
Date Posted: September 7, 2021
Location: Miami, FL
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Short Term Disability, Paid time Off and 401(K) with an Employer Match
Overview:
The Grower position consists of being able to plan, organize, direct, control and coordinate activities of workers engaged in growing horticultural specialties, such as shrubs and tropical ornamentals. Applies technical procedures, timing and metering devices that control frequency, amount, and type of nutrient applications; regulate humidity, ventilation, temperature, and amount of light; and dispense fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and fungicides. Monitors development and the removal of substandard plants to maintain quality standards.
Job Duties:
- Discuss plant growing activities with Head Grower to plan for growing activities that are consistent with planned production schedules.
- Prepare space required for planned production.
- Manage growing areas of plant materials.
- Responsible for touring work areas to observe all planned work is being done.
- Determine plant and care schedules based on Company needs
- Plan and assign duties to staff daily.
- Monitor growing conditions and discusses changes in humidity, moisture and temperature and cultivation procedures with head growers to ensure conformance with quality control standards.
- On a regular basis inspect crop to ascertain plant and soil conditions such as leaf texture, bloom size and the existence of pests or disease; removing substandard or diseased plants to maintain quality standards.
- Regulate plant irrigation and plant needs.
- Assist in the development of growing procedures for new species in product line and new cultivation techniques.
- Maintain records of growing techniques and production to be used for review to identify trends and to forecast future space needs.
- May assist in training new employees in growing techniques and activities.
- Maintain a current knowledge of growing techniques and technologies.
- Assist the Head Grower and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualification Requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years of Agriculture experience
- Experience with agriculture equipment
- Agricultural knowledge of plant growth and management
- Ability to work outdoors
- Adaptability and multi‐tasking; experience working in a fast-moving environment.
- Fosters positive working relationships
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Position: Mechanic
Date Posted: September 2, 2021
Location: Miami, FL
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Short Term Disability, Paid time Off and 401(K) with an Employer Match
Overview:
This position is responsible for the maintenance and repairing of al nursery machinery.
Job Duties:
- Perform routine preventative maintenance and repairs on diesel vehicles and farm equipment
- Perform light repairs and minor electrical repairs
- Conduct regular inspections
- Replace faulty parts
- Test equipment
- Examine parts for defects such as breakage and excess wear
- Rebuild plant machinery, fabricating parts as needed
- Install machinery
- Fabricate parts for repairs as needed
Qualification Requirements:
- Two years of General Mechanic (Required)
- Experience with Agriculture Equipment
- Mechanical Experience
- Tractor Trailer (Semi) Experience
- Diesel Knowledge is a plus
- Basic Math Knowledge
- Golf Cart Experience
- Basic knowledge of DC Voltage
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Position: Sales Analyst
Date Posted: June 11, 2021
Location: Miami, FL
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: 401(K), 401(K) matching, Dental Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Paid Time Off
Overview:
Evaluating sales and market trends based on collection and interpretation of available data to provide meaningful data driven reporting and insights to our National Sales team that will base their decision making and planning on reports.
Job Duties:
- Conducting high-level analysis of product groups to identify sales trends
- Facilitate and communicate findings among several departments to improve production forecasting
- Order writing for customers to determine which products are needed in which stores, ensuring high efficiency in trucking and distribution
- Assist in problem identification and resolution by properly analyzing issues and formulating data driven solutions
Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis on any of the following: Statistics, Business Administration, Finance, Data Analysis, Data Mining or similar fields
- Fluent in written and verbal English is a must, Spanish is a plus
- One year minimum experience as a data/sales analysist is a plus
- Experience in handling multiple project deadlines
- Strong analytical, problem solving skills
- Must effectively multitask and prioritize work with multiple projects in a changing environment
- Proficient in Microsoft, Power Point, Outlook, and Word with a high level proficiency in Excel
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Position: Plant Purchaser
Date Posted: May 20, 2021
Location: Miami, FL
Job Type: Full Time
Benefits: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Short Term Disability, Paid Time Off and 401(K) with an Employer Match
Overview:
The Plant Purchaser will be visiting local nurseries and selecting high quality plants to then purchase. The ideal candidate will be able to identify tropical shrubs and/or indoor plants and will know the local area well and be able to work outside under all weather conditions.
Job Duties:
- Visit local nurseries to look at the different types, quality and availability of plants
- Obtain pricing and negotiate based on company needs
- Follow guidelines and schedules
Qualification Requirements:
- Previous Agriculture Experience
- Be able to identify numerous plants
- Knowledge in plant health (pests/ fungus)
- Ability to work in a fast growing environment under little or no supervision
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent driving record
- Bilingual preferred
Nature’s Way Farms, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is drug/alcohol/smoke free environment.
Applicants must be legal to work in the United States.
