GREENHOUSE SPECIALIST

Engineering Services and Products Company; Dyersville (IA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Engineering Services and Products Company is seeking a hands-on Hydroponics Assistant to join our greenhouse team in Iowa. You will support a manager and horticulture specialists, caring for leafy greens and vining crops in controlled environments. This role emphasizes data collection, cleanliness, and teamwork.

Responsibilities include seed sowing, transplanting, harvesting, maintaining nutrient solutions, and assisting with IPM programs, system assembly, and routine quality checks.

Qualifications

• Experience with hydroponics systems (drip, ebb and flow, DWC, NFT).
• Passion for hydroponic plant production (vine and leaf crops).
• Excellent communication skills; self-motivated and team-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Assist with weekly seed sowing schedule.
• Transplant leafy greens and vining crops into larger grow-out systems.
• Harvest and package produce for customers.
• Assist in collecting data, measuring, recording, and analyzing.
• Maintain hydroponic nutrient solutions and water quality.
• Train and prune vining crops including tomatoes and cucumbers.
• Washing NFT channels and DCW rafts weekly.
• Maintain a very clean growing environment.
• Assist in pest management programs.
• Assemble hydroponic growing systems.
• Weed flower beds.

Skills

Hydroponics experience

Communication skills

Team player

Self-motivated

Education

Associate degree

Related experience 6–12 months

Job description

Summary

The successful candidate will work with the manager and greenhouse specialist team to care for a variety of leafy greens and vining crops in environmentally controlled hydroponic greenhouses.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Assisting with a weekly seed sowing schedule
• Transplanting leafy greens and vining crops into larger grow out systems
• Harvesting and packaging produce to send out to our customers
• Assisting in collecting data, measuring, recording, and analyzing
• Maintaining various hydroponic nutrient solutions and general water quality
• Training and pruning vining crops including tomatoes and cucumbers
• Washing NFT channels and deep-water culture rafts weekly
• Maintaining a very clean growing environment
• Scrubbing totes and buckets
• Assisting in monitoring our Integrated Pest Management Program
• Asist in assembling hydroponic growing systems
• Weeding flower beds
• Other duties as assigned or required

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Experience with hydroponics, including drip, ebb and flow, DWC, and NFT systems.
• Some knowledge and passion for hydroponic plant production (vine and leaf crops)
• Qualified applicants will also possess excellent communication skills, be self-motivated and be a team player

Education And/or Experience

• Associate's degree
• Or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or six months to one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education, experience and training
• Must have the communication skills appropriate for the job
• Ability to follow instructions

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet, hot, and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.