Garden Center Specialist

Workstream; Cypress (CA); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Ace Hardware is seeking a Garden Center Specialist to serve as the horticultural expert, maintaining live plants and merchandising while delivering exceptional customer service. You will educate customers on plant, flower, lawn, and garden care and help Ace Hardware be the community’s trusted gardening resource.

Responsibilities include plant health maintenance, quality merchandising, and creating seasonal displays, along with coaching associates on plant care and customer service.

Qualifications

• Extensive horticultural knowledge required.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills.
• Ability to work outdoors and lift up to 50 pounds.
• 3+ years in horticulture, nursery, greenhouse, landscape, or retail garden preferred.
• Texas Garden Center Specialist certification or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain health and appearance of flowers, shrubs, trees, vegetables, herbs, and houseplants.
• Inspect incoming plant shipments and ensure quality merchandising.
• Identify plant diseases, insects, nutrient deficiencies, and environmental stress.
• Assist customers with plant selection and gardening advice.
• Recommend fertilizers, soils, mulch, pest control, irrigation supplies, and tools.
• Create seasonal displays and maintain pricing and signage.
• Train associates on basic plant care and customer service.
• Maintain a clean, safe Garden Center.

Skills

Horticultural knowledge

Customer service

Outdoor work

Retail garden experience

Certification preferred

Job description

Position Summary

The Garden Center Specialist serves as the horticultural expert for the Garden Center, maintaining the health, appearance, and merchandising of all live goods while providing exceptional customer service. This role educates customers on plant, flower, lawn, and garden care and helps make Ace Hardware the community’s trusted gardening resource.

Essential Responsibilities

• Maintain the health of all flowers, shrubs, trees, vegetables, herbs, and houseplants through watering, fertilizing, pruning, and pest management.
• Inspect incoming plant shipments and ensure quality merchandising.
• Identify plant diseases, insects, nutrient deficiencies, and environmental stress.
• Assist customers with plant selection and gardening advice.
• Recommend complementary products including fertilizers, soils, mulch, pest control, irrigation supplies, and tools.
• Create attractive seasonal displays and maintain pricing and signage.
• Train associates on basic plant care and customer service.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and organized Garden Center.
• Assist with inventory, loading, and other Garden Center operations.

Qualifications

• Extensive horticultural knowledge.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills.
• Ability to work outdoors and lift up to 50 pounds.
• 3+ years of horticulture, nursery, greenhouse, landscape, or retail garden experience preferred.
• Texas Garden Center Specialist certification or equivalent preferred.

Knowledge & Skills

• Plant identification
• Lawn care
• Soils and fertilizers
• Integrated Pest Management
• Merchandising
• Retail sales
• Customer education

Performance Expectations

• Healthy, attractive plant inventory.
• Exceptional customer satisfaction.
• Reduced plant shrink.
• Increased Garden Center sales through expert recommendations.
• Well-trained Garden Center associates.

Ace Hardware Promise

The Garden Center Specialist exemplifies Ace Hardware’s commitment to being 'The Helpful Place' by combining expert plant care with knowledgeable, personalized customer service.

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.