Job Description

Starke Ayres is the leading African specialist and global supplier of premium vegetable, flower, and lawn seed varieties for both commercial and home garden planting. We are excited to announce an opening for a hands-on Maintenance Supervisor at our Cape Town, Rosebank Garden Centre. This role is crucial for ensuring the upkeep and maintenance of our nursery, creating an inviting and well-maintained environment for our customers. The ideal candidate will be proactive, detail-oriented, and skilled in various maintenance tasks, ensuring that all sales areas are clean, tidy, and operationally efficient. If you are passionate about maintaining high standards and enjoy working in a dynamic nursery setting, we would love to hear from you.RESPONSIBILITIES:
Customer Service:

• Provide excellent, professional customer service at all times, ensuring a positive shopping experience.
• Ensure that sales staff provide excellent, professional customer service at all times.

Maintenance and Operations:

• Oversee the maintenance of all sales areas of the nursery, ensuring they are clean and tidy at all times.
• Maintenance of property buildings and all associated nursery sales areas and verge.
• Inventory control and operational management and service of small machinery and small equipment and tools.
• Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.
• Ensure that all company procedures are executed correctly by sales staff.

Supervision and Coordination:

• Delegate tasks to the Assistant Nursery Supervisor or Sales Assistants as per management instructions.
• Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.
• Identify difficult and complicated sales scenarios and intervene swiftly.
• Coordinate with buyers and suppliers for seasonal training every Friday (60 minutes) for all branch staff on chemicals, fertilizers, tools, plants, and related items on sale.
• Managing the contractors on site.
• Organisation of monthly staff attendance register in conjunction with line managers.
• Procurement of quotations for CAPEX and implementation thereof.
• Management of CAPEX to specifications within budget

Marketing and Promotions:

• Execute advertising campaigns and sales promotions, and prepare displays.
• Assist in the presentation of marketing concepts, and oversee the repackaging of promotional material.
• Coordinate in-store promotions and activities, including non-profit events.

Compliance:

• Issue C3 for City Council as required.
• Ensure compliance of National SOP for OHS.

REQUIREMENTS:Education:

• National Senior Certificate (NQF level 4) (essential)

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in maintenance or operational roles
• Experience in a nursery or garden centre environment (advantageous)

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong knowledge of maintenance procedures and best practices
• Proficiency in using maintenance tools and equipment
• Strong problem-solving abilities with a solution-oriented mindset
• Basic understanding of horticulture and plant care
• Computer literate
• Friendly and approachable demeanour
• Excellent team leadership and people management skills
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

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