Part-Time Greenhouse Assistant

Part-Time Greenhouse Assistant

Hourly Rate: $18.51

This position is an on-campus, part-time, up-to 19-hour appointment based in Champaign, Illinois.

Applications accepted through: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025

The Part-Time Greenhouse Assistant helps complete all tasks related to the College greenhouse. The Assistant performs physical and skilled work in the care and maintenance of greenhouse operations, landscape beds, and sustainable garden plot.

Applicants must submit:

• An online employment application
  
• Cover letter
  
• Resume or CV
  

Essential Job Functions:

• Watering, fertilizing, pest scouting, pest control, weeding, potting, propagation, and cleaning.
  
• Identify plants as well as problems such as diseases, weeds, and insect pests.
  
• Successfully complete cropping cycle.
  
• Scheduling of plant material for class and annual plant sales.
  
• Work will be in the greenhouse, landscape beds and sustainable garden plot.
  
• Other duties as signed.
  

Minimum Requirements:

• High School diploma or GED equivalent.
  
• Ability to obtain an Illinois Pesticide Applicator License.
  
• Written and verbal English skills and mathematical abilities sufficient to perform the functions of the position.
  
• Ability to lift 50 pounds on a regular basis and unassisted.
  
• Ability to work in environmental conditions of cold, hot, wet, and humid.
  
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and customer service skills.
  
• Detail oriented and wiling to learn and apply new ideas.
  
• Professionalism, tact, and diplomacy in all dealings with faculty, staff, students, and customers.
  
• In an effort to comply with SURS return-to-work restrictions for employers (40 ILCS 5/15-139.5), candidates for employment at Parkland College must either not be a SURS annuitant or must be willing to suspend his/her SURS annuity upon employment. This applies to all SURS annuitants except those receiving their annuity under either the Self-Managed Plan (SMP) or by lump sum payment.
  
  

Apply for this position using the Apply Now button at the top or bottom of this posting. Applications not submitted through https://www.parkland.edu/careers will not be considered.

Please monitor your email, including spam or junk mail folders, for future correspondence from Parkland College Human Resources.
For further information on the application process, please contact Parkland College Human Resources at 217-351-2220.

Applicants with disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (2008) to complete the application and/or interview process.

Requests may be submitted by contacting Human Resources at 217-351-2220 or by emailing hr@parkland.edu.

Equal Opportunity Employer