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Bayview Farm and Garden is a popular destination garden center, gift shop and cafe on Whidbey Island, WA. The health and growth of Bayview Farm and Garden depends upon the excellent service our guests receive from our staff, the quality of our products and the overall beauty, comfort, and calm our guests encounter. We hire for seasonal and sometimes year-round positions.
Being a year-round team member has its rewards*:
Necessary Skills for All Positions:
If you are interested in joining our team, please read through and find our available positions and application for employment below. Thank you!
Being a year-round team member has its rewards*:
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Amazing employee discounts
- Paid vacation
- Retirement benefits
- You get to learn so much about indoor & outdoor plants, plant care & more!
Necessary Skills for All Positions:
- Eager to engage with the public in a friendly, welcoming, and professional manner.
- Willingness and prepared to work indoors and outdoors in all kinds of weather.
- Love to stay busy and contribute in a positive and productive manner.
- Some positions require the ability to lift and carry up to 50lbs. repeatedly throughout the day.
- Excellent attention to detail and efficiency.
- Great communication skills.
- Willingness to take direction from management and desire to cooperate with fellow staff.
- Work well as a team member or alone as workload requires.
- Adjust seasonally and help in all areas.
- A commitment to workplace safety; both physical safety and safety from discrimination and/or harassment. The willingness to work with people from all backgrounds, gender, race, and other affiliation.
If you are interested in joining our team, please read through and find our available positions and application for employment below. Thank you!
Current Available Positions:
Seasonal Cashier
Hourly PT to FT. Reports to Cashier Manager
May lead to year – round employment
Job Overview:
Bayview Garden is looking for friendly people! This is a great entry level opportunity to learn and grow.
These staff members are representatives of Bayview Garden and are in the epicenter of our business.
They are key to greeting customers and providing customer service in person and over the phone,
encountering all merchandise from plants to gifts, pricing merchandise, helping to clean and organize the
Garden Shop as directed by Cashier Manager. Above all else embody a friendly, service centric attitude
with fellow staff members and customers.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Qualifications:
Hourly PT to FT. Reports to Cashier Manager
May lead to year – round employment
Job Overview:
Bayview Garden is looking for friendly people! This is a great entry level opportunity to learn and grow.
These staff members are representatives of Bayview Garden and are in the epicenter of our business.
They are key to greeting customers and providing customer service in person and over the phone,
encountering all merchandise from plants to gifts, pricing merchandise, helping to clean and organize the
Garden Shop as directed by Cashier Manager. Above all else embody a friendly, service centric attitude
with fellow staff members and customers.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Assist customers with numerous questions and connect them with key personnel to answer sales, availability, care questions and to gain carry out assistance.
- Seek out opportunities to greet customers throughout the Garden Shop and situate your work to stay aware of customers in your surroundings.
- Complete daily tasks and project checklists as directed by the Cashier Manager.
- Collaborate with staff members in a positive manner to complete tasks as needed and directed by the Cash Station Manager.
Qualifications:
- A passion for learning, accuracy and efficiency.
- Positive customer service attitude in a fast paced, dynamic setting.
- Able to learn how to ring up customer purchases at the cash station, repeatedly most of the day.
- Support staff members and customers with positive communication and collaborative skills.
- Willingness to take direction from management while also practicing strong self-motivation.
- Reliable and must be available to work one or both weekend days and occasionally on holidays.
Seasonal Nursery Support Member
Hourly PT to FT. Reports to Nursery Manager.
Job Overview:
This is a great entry level opportunity to learn and grow. So, an open mind is a must! These staff members
often are the first and final impression for our guests. They greet customers, load and carry out items to
customer vehicles, retrieve shopping carts, unload received merchandise, price merchandise, consistently
care, clean and organize nursery and/or greenhouse stock as directed by Nursery Manager. Above all else
embody a friendly, service centric attitude with fellow staff members and customers.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Qualifications:
Hourly PT to FT. Reports to Nursery Manager.
Job Overview:
This is a great entry level opportunity to learn and grow. So, an open mind is a must! These staff members
often are the first and final impression for our guests. They greet customers, load and carry out items to
customer vehicles, retrieve shopping carts, unload received merchandise, price merchandise, consistently
care, clean and organize nursery and/or greenhouse stock as directed by Nursery Manager. Above all else
embody a friendly, service centric attitude with fellow staff members and customers.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Assist customers to find plants and product and attain assistance from our professionals with gardening questions from customers.
- Seek out opportunities to greet customers throughout the nursery yard, greenhouse, and garden shop.
- Stocking, watering, weeding, and maintaining plant displays with attention to detail as directed by Nursery Manager, with specific attention paid to the perennial plants.
- Assist with receiving as directed by Nursery Manager.
- Gathering merchandise and plant selections for customers.
- Loading customer purchases to vehicles including soils, plants and fragile items handled accordingly.
- Collaborate with staff members to complete tasks as needed and directed by management and ownership.
Qualifications:
- Nursery experience preferred, but not required. Knowledge about perennial plants is a big bonus
- A passion to learn is a must.
- Outstanding customer service attitude and skills in a fast paced, dynamic setting.
- Seek out opportunities to engage with customers.
- Must be physically able to lift 50 lbs. safely, using team lifting and tools as appropriate.
- Able to work indoors and outdoors in all weather, standing, bending, moving, lifting.
- Support staff members and customers with great communication and collaboration skills.
- Take direction from management while also practicing strong self-motivation.
- Reliable and willing to work weekends and holidays.
Filling out the above form is preferable, but if you are not able to do so you may download the file below and email it to jobs@bayviewgarden.com or bring it, along with your Resume and Cover Letter, by the Garden Shop. Thank you.
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