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Seasonal Lab Technician
Four Star Greenhouse is a founding member of Proven Winners® – a leading consumer garden brand in North America. Our lab strives to ensure that our customers receive only premium, pest-and-pathogen-free products. This guarantees an easy, successful, and inspiring gardening experience for the end-consumer.
Four Star Greenhouse is seeking a full-time seasonal lab technician to assist in performing daily testing activities for the onsite lab. These activities include:
- Pulling soil, water and tissue samples
- Performing in house testing for chlorine, PH, EC and viruses
- Pull samples for outsource testing
- Tracking and recording data regarding positive and negative outcomes
- Recording insect counts within crops
- Troubleshooting any issues that may arise, with the supervisor
Our Seasonal Lab Technician will follow well-developed virus testing protocols to maintain optimum sanitary standards. If you possess a high attention to detail and take pride in producing high-quality products in a clean environment, then this is the position for you!
This will be a full-time seasonal position with a pay rate of $16.60 per hour for the entry-level candidate. The time frame for employment will be December to June.
Please send your resume and any other supporting materials to hr@pwfourstar.com
SOLO & TEAM OTR CLASS-A TRUCK DRIVER
Drivers will transport our horticulture products and other contracted linehaul loads to customer destinations across the U.S. primarily in the Midwest, East Coast, Southeast, and Central U.S. regions covering annual mileage in the range of 75K- 95K for solos (150k-175k for teams) per year. Drivers are front line ambassadors for Four Star with our customers. Drivers will assist dock teams as appropriate with loading and unloading of horticultural products at Four Star and customer sites. Most linehaul loads will be no touch.
Compensation:
- Mileage Rates:
- Solo .70 CPM for Extended Distance Loads > 200 Miles/day
- Teams .80 CPM for Extended Distance Loads > 200 Miles/day
- Base Hourly Rate ($26.00) for Non-Driving Tasks Including (But Not Limited To):
- Pre & Post trip
- Loading/Unloading
- Fueling
- $26.00/hr for Less than 200 miles/day
- Paid Detention at Hourly Rate (Teams split at 50/50)
- Potential Safety Bonus – $1,800 (paid out quarterly) over each year
- Initial 90-day hourly raise opportunity
- Annual raise opportunities
- Paid Time Off package is competitive, some PTO issued upon hire, over time and annually. (Equivalent of 18 days per year on accrual schedule plus 6 paid Holidays)
Home Time Minimums:
- (January–June): Weekly home minimum 1 night.
- Touch Deliveries
- (July- December): Out 14 days (+/- 2 days) 1.5 days off for every week out.
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Primarily No-Touch Deliveries
Equipment:
- Acquired new 2022 Freightliner Cascadia Sleeper Tractors and Vanguard Trailers (which have been well maintained since purchase)
- Trucks are assigned to a driver, not shared.
- TV, microwave, refrigerator
- Company issued smart phone
- Company issued tablet
- Sirius radio app
Benefits:
- Insurance: Health, Dental & Vision (All plans are BCBSM or BCN. Two health plans offer an HRA in which Four Star pays the 1st half of the deductible automatically. The other two plans are HSA plans)
- Company paid Life/AD&D is $15k
- Company Paid Short Term Disability
- Company Paid Long Term Disability
- Voluntary benefits include LegalShield, IDShield, Hospital Indemnity, Accident, Critical Illness
- Paid Time Off: 6 paid Holidays, Earned Sick Time (ESTA) issued at time of hire and then annually, Vacation
- 401K with match of 100% of first 3%, 50% from 3%-5% after one year of employment
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
Requirements:
- Must meet all DOT requirements as a CDL- A driver
- Minimum of 1 to 2 years of driving experience as a CDL-A driver
Contact Mike Heulitt, Four Star Human Resources at: (734) 654-7492
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Solo Driver Compensation
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Category
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Average
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Low
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High
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Total compensation
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$89,092
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$76,836
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$100,748
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Mileage only
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$59,500
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$52,500
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$66,500
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Hourly
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$28,392
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$24,336
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$32,448
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Bonus
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$1,200
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$0
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$1,800
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Team Driver Compensation (Per Driver)
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Category
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Average
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Low
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High
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Total compensation
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$94,593
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$84,336
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$104,248
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Mileage only
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$65,001
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$60,000
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$70,000
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Hourly
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$28,392
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$24,336
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$32,448
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Bonus
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$1,200
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$0
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$1,800
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Team Driver Compensation (Combined)
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Category
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Average
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Low
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High
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Total compensation
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$189,185
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$168,672
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$208,496
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Mileage only
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$130,001
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$120,000
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$140,000
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Hourly
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$56,784
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$48,672
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$64,896
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Bonus
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$2,400
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$0
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$3,600
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Section Grower
If you would like to turn your passion for growing into a career, we will train you to grow plants as a Section Grower inside our 25+ acre greenhouse complex. Section Growers are the caretakers for our crops. Once trained, this position is responsible to decide what to water, when to water and how much to water. Applying fertilizers and making other applications are additional functions you would learn. Growing quality crops in time to ship to our nationwide customer base is the end goal.
We offer a competitive wage and benefits package. We prefer to hire full-time year-round but we may also be open to a seasonal full-time schedule working from December through mid-June.
Job summary is to correctly perform the cultural requirements needed for each crop in such a way to produce quality plants, on a consistent basis, with minimal losses, and as efficiently as possible. Maintain the growing area to meet the sanitary and organizational standards of the company.
This position starts at $17.35 per hour for the entry level candidate. Starting pay may increase based on relevant skills, experience and education. We pay a $2/hr shift premium for weekend work. We pay time and a half for all hours worked past 40 hours in a week. We offer the opportunity for a merit increase after 90 days and annually thereafter.
Qualified candidates please send your resume to our HR Department at hr@pwfourstar.com.
Greenhouse Growing Rotational Internship
Four Star Greenhouse is a growing, highly successful, family-owned company, founding partner in the premium national plant brand “Proven Winners”. We are recognized nationally for our strong investment in research and development, breeding, rigorous testing, and trials to ensure high garden performance and a user experience that is Easy, Successful, and Inspiring. You have likely seen our beautiful plants, hanging baskets, shrubs and other products at your local garden center, Home Depot, Lowes or online at Amazon.com. We have been operating in the horticulture industry since 1977 with state-of-the-art facilities headquartered on 30-acres in Carleton, MI, with an additional 4+ acres of outdoor growing area and a large display garden, about 15-minutes south of Detroit Metro Airport. Our company has a genuine middle market family-feel, highly cohesive and collaborative with a casual setting focused a team-success.
Four Star recognizes the importance of internships when starting a career. Our rotational growing internship will provide interns with the full scope of how greenhouse growing works at Four Star Greenhouse. Interns will gain knowledge in crop care, production, pest management, plant testing and sampling, greenhouse facilities, and the new technology that we have. Paid positions are available in the fall, winter, and spring/summer with specific dates flexible enough to fit your schedule.
This internship will primarily focus on gaining high levels of knowledge in:
- Greenhouse Growing
- Season Dependent
- Stock and Mother Plants
- Young Plants
- Finished Crops
- Color Choice Shrubs
- Plant Health Identification
- Multiple Irrigation Techniques
- Greenhouse Equipment
- Pesticide Applications and Growth Regulator Applications
This internship will also have the opportunity to gain knowledge in:
- Young Plant Production
- Propagation of Vegetative Tip Cuttings
- Seed Sowing
- Shipping of Young and Finished Plants
- Finished Plant Production
- Integrated Pest Management System including:
- Pest Identification
- Beneficial Insects
- Tissue and Soil Sampling
- Test, Read and Adjust Soil for pH and EC
- Virus Testing
- Greenhouse Environmental Control Systems
- Inventory Management
- Product Line Management
- Four Star Greenhouses Display Garden
*All aspects of the internship are season and length of internship, dependent*
Requirements:
Submit an updated resume
Submit a brief essay/cover letter describing background, interest in field and career goals
Additional Details:
Full Time Paid Position
Program with flexible start and end dates
Fully Furnished House Provided- walking distance from the Greenhouse
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Opportunity to attend “Cultivate” the largest all-industry trade show and conference in the horticulture industry
Email Resume with subject listed as: Greenhouse Growing Rotational Internship
Please send your resume to our HR Department at hr@pwfourstar.com.
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