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What this job is
A nurseryperson cultivates and propagates plants in a nursery setting, managing plant stock from seed or cutting through to sale-ready condition. They perform horticultural tasks including watering, fertilising, pest and disease management, potting, and transplanting across outdoor beds, glasshouses, and shade houses. The role requires knowledge of plant biology, Australian growing conditions, and nursery production systems to supply healthy plants to retail outlets, landscapers, and home gardeners.
What this role asks for
- Adaptability and Flexibilitycore
- Attention to Detailcore
- Basic Arithmetic and Numerical Accuracycore
- Crop production principlescore
- Customer Needs Assessmentcore
- Execute disease and pest control activitiescore
- Grow plantscore
- Horticulture principlescore
- Inventory Trackingcore
- Pest control in plantscore
- Plant disease controlcore
- Plant speciescore
- Policy and Procedure Adherencecore
- Prepare planting areacore
- Problem Solvingcore
- Risk Identificationcore
- Stock Counting and Stocktakecore
- Team Collaborationcore
- Time Management and Prioritisationcore
- Verbal Communicationcore
- Workload Self-Managementcore
- Advise customers on types of flowers
- Advise on plant fertilizer
- Agronomical production principles
- Agronomy
- Continuous Learning and Upskilling
- Ecology
- Environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- Goods Receipt Processing
- Incident Reporting
- Organic farming
- Quality Assurance and Checking
- Record Management
- Regulatory and Legislative Awareness
- Supplier Communication
- Written Communication