Lawn & Garden Loading Associate

Ace Hardware - Immediate Hiring for Lawn & Garden Associate

Are you passionate about plants and gardens? Do you enjoy helping customers with their lawn and garden needs?

Ace Hardware is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Lawn & Garden Associate to join our team. As an Ace Hardware associate, you will have the opportunity to work outdoors, assisting customers with their lawn and garden questions, loading purchases into vehicles, filling propane tanks and providing exceptional customer service. Join us and become part of a loving and enthusiastic team dedicated to helping our community thrive.

Position Summary

• Answer questions and solve problems related to customers' lawn and garden issues
• Load soil, plants, mulch, and more into customer vehicles
• Refill propane tanks for customers
• Assist customers in-store and over the phone
• Perform daily outdoor plant care tasks

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Gain knowledge of available lawn equipment brands
• Work with the team to maintain a clean and organized store
• Unload trucks and stock merchandise
• Participate in front-facing and merchandising activities
• Unload delivery trucks, bringing pallets of bag goods to department driving a forklift or electric pallet jack

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• High School diploma or equivalent preferred
• Plant and lawn experience is a plus
• Previous customer service experience is beneficial
• Weekend availability and open availability are a must
• Must be willing to be trained on and using a forklift/electric pallet jack, if at least 18 yrs old.
• Must be able to climb a step stool or ladder up to 6ft tall.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

• Standing/walking outside for extended periods
• Climbing ladders multiple times during a shift
• Lifting and moving objects up to 75lbs

Location: 17462 | Berwick Ace Hardware

If you are a dynamic individual with a love for all things green, apply now to be a part of our fun and dynamic team at Ace Hardware!

We are your local hardware store and we are a part of your community. Ace Hardware has over 5,000 stores around the world with the majority of those stores independently owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. These hard working men and women are part of the fabric of your community. They are small business owners who are local and loyal...just like it ought to be. While others have become large and impersonal, at Ace, we've remained small and very personal. That's why we say a visit to Ace, is like a visit to your neighbor.

Pay: $14.00 / hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Referral program

Job Type: parttime

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Weekend availability

Education: No education required

Work location: On-site