Plan, organize, direct, control, and coordinate activities of workers engaged in propagating, cultivating, and harvesting horticultural specialties, such as trees, shrubs, flowers, mushrooms, and other plants.
- Production Manager
- Nursery Manager
- Greenhouse Manager
- Grower
- Propagation Manager
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- Farm Manager
- Garden Center Manager
- Harvesting Manager
- Horticulturist
- Perennial House Manager
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- Apply pesticides and fertilizers to plants.
- Assign work schedules and duties to nursery or greenhouse staff, and supervise their work.
- Confer with horticultural personnel in order to plan facility renovations or additions.
- Construct structures and accessories such as greenhouses and benches.
- Coordinate clerical, recordkeeping, inventory, requisitioning, and marketing activities.
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- Apply pesticides and fertilizers to plants.
- Assign work schedules and duties to nursery or greenhouse staff, and supervise their work.
- Confer with horticultural personnel in order to plan facility renovations or additions.
- Construct structures and accessories such as greenhouses and benches.
- Coordinate clerical, recordkeeping, inventory, requisitioning, and marketing activities.
- Cut and prune trees, shrubs, flowers, and plants.
- Determine plant growing conditions, such as greenhouses, hydroponics, or natural settings, and set planting and care schedules.
- Determine types and quantities of horticultural plants to be grown, based on budgets, projected sales volumes, and/or executive directives.
- Explain and enforce safety regulations and policies.
- Graft plants.
- Hire employees, and train them in gardening techniques.
- Identify plants as well as problems such as diseases, weeds, and insect pests.
- Inspect facilities and equipment for signs of disrepair, and perform necessary maintenance work.
- Manage nurseries that grow horticultural plants for sale to trade or retail customers, for display or exhibition, or for research.
- Negotiate contracts such as those for land leases or tree purchases.
- Position and regulate plant irrigation systems, and program environmental and irrigation control computers.
- Prepare soil for planting, and plant or transplant seeds, bulbs, and cuttings.
- Provide information to customers on the care of trees, shrubs, flowers, plants, and lawns.
- Select and purchase seeds, plant nutrients, disease control chemicals, and garden and lawn care equipment.
- Tour work areas to observe work being done, to inspect crops, and to evaluate plant and soil conditions.
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- advise clients or customers
- analyze soil to determine type or quantity of fertilizer required
- assign work to staff or employees
- conduct or attend staff meetings
- coordinate staff or activities in clerical support setting
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- advise clients or customers
- analyze soil to determine type or quantity of fertilizer required
- assign work to staff or employees
- conduct or attend staff meetings
- coordinate staff or activities in clerical support setting
- develop budgets
- direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
- direct workers in planting, irrigating, cultivating, harvesting, or marketing
- estimate product demand
- evaluate information from employment interviews
- evaluate performance of employees or contract personnel
- hire, discharge, transfer, or promote workers
- inspect crops or fields
- inspect growing environment
- judge soil conditions
- negotiate business contracts
- observe plants, flowers, shrubs or trees to ascertain condition
- order or purchase supplies, materials, or equipment
- orient new employees
- oversee execution of organizational or program policies
- oversee sales programs
- plan development or production of hybrid plant varieties
- prepare rental or lease agreement
- provide customer service
- resolve agricultural production problems
- use inventory control procedures
- use marketing techniques
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