Join a Winning Team at Four Star Greenhouse

 

Located in Carleton, MI, Four Star Greenhouse has been producing high quality garden products since 1977 and is the largest partner/supplier of the nationally recognized #1 plant brand Proven Winners®. Proven Winners® is known for its unique varieties and high quality products that enable consumers to be successful gardeners. Proven Winners® has grown to be a substantial national brand with distribution in national retail chains as well as thousands of independent garden centers. As a team member of Four Star Greenhouse, you will join a highly successful growth company with a very pleasant and rewarding work environment.

Our commitment as a team is to honor our mission statement which is to: Provide the finest and most innovative products and services that make every Proven Winners experience easy, successful and inspiring.

Current Positions Available

Online Vendor Relationship Specialist

Four Star Greenhouse Inc. is the leading ‘Proven Winner’ supplier in North America. Our facilities are one of the largest in the country, with approximately 30 acres of Greenhouses located in Carleton, Michigan. Our products are shipped to customers all over the country including your hometown greenhouses and box stores. Our Ecommerce Department plays a critical role in getting our products directly to our customer through online vendors. 

We are looking for a driven individual to help enhance, maintain, and expand our relationships with these online vendors to increase sales year after year. Tasks in this role may include: 

• Knowing, understanding, and utilizing all the tools & resources of each platform while providing accurate information about our products.  
• Collaborating effectively with each vendor to build a long lasting and successful relationship. 
• Meeting company obligations and deadlines with internal and external stakeholders.  
• Ensuring that our products are represented in the best manner to maintain and increase sales.  
• Remaining current with inventory, market trends and changing platforms. 

This primarily remote position will be working Monday-Friday. While this position is primarily remote, occasional onsite work is required. Compensation will be dependent on relevant skills and experience. We have a very competitive benefits package. 

If you have excellent communication skills, prior vendor relations experience and are looking to join a small and highly collaborative team that sells the number one plant brand in the nation, then this is the position for you!  

Please look at our Job Description for more details regarding this position.  

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Please send your resume to hr@pwfourstar.com to apply!

Administrative Assistant (Part Time)

Customer service is the cornerstone of any successful business. At Four Star, our Administrative Assistant connects both our customers and employees with the support they need with a friendly attitude and a smile to match. 

If you enjoy interacting with customers and helping employees, then you have found the right place. Guests in our office often compliment us on being both professional and friendly.  If this sounds like a good fit for you, we welcome you to apply for this position and join our highly motivated and talented office team. 

The position involves performing a wide range of administrative and office support activities for the Employees, Guests, Managers and Directors to facilitate the efficient operation of the Company. Four Star Greenhouse is looking for someone who embodies our “Mission Statement” to assure that all contact with customers is “…easy, successful and inspiring”. 

The part time schedule may be flexible based on the candidate and workload. Our schedule preference would be from Monday through Wednesday, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, Thursday schedule would be 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm, and Friday would be 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. This position will be onsite at our facilities.

Pay will range from $15.25- $19.95, and will be based on education, skills and experience. 

Qualified candidates please provide a cover letter & resume to: hr@pwfourstar.com.

For a detailed job description please Click Here.

Class A CDL Regional Truck Driver: 75 CPM + Pay Guarantee

Four Star Greenhouse – Family Owned & Operated in Carleton, MI

Drivers will transport our horticulture products and other contracted commercial 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- 85K 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 commercial loads will be no touch.

• Compensation:
• Mileage Rates: 75 CPM for Extended Distance Loads > 200 Miles/day
• Base Hourly Rate: $27.50/hr. Worked for Less than 200 miles/day
• Paid Detention at Hourly Rate
• Potential Safety Bonus - $1,200 paid out quarterly over each year
• Initial 90-day raise opportunity
• Annual raise opportunities
• 4 Weeks of Paid Time Off in first year of employment

• Home Time Minimums:
• (January–June): Weekly home minimum of two nights, often consecutive.
• Touch Deliveries
• (July- December): Weekly home minimum of one night, usually more, often consecutive
• Primarily No-touch Deliveries

• Equipment: 
• Brand New 2022 Freightliner Cascadia Sleeper Tractors and Vanguard Trailers.

• Benefits:
• Insurance: Full Package Including Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability & Other Options
• Paid Time Off: Standard Holidays, Vacation and Sick/Personal Time.
• Retirement: 401K with match of 100% of first 3%, 50% from 3%-5%
• 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

What is Four Star?

We are a family-owned, growing, highly successful company since 1977.  We are the founding partner in the premium national plant brand “Proven Winners”.  You may have seen our beautiful plants, hanging baskets, shrubs and other products at your local garden center, Home Depot, Lowes or online at Amazon.com.  We work out of our headquarters in Carleton, MI, about 10 minutes south of Detroit Metro Airport. We deliver to over 500 customer locations throughout the U.S.  We treat our employees like family. 

How Do I Get More Information?

For a detailed job description please Click Here.

Contact Mike Heulitt, Four Star Human Resources at: (734) 654-7492

Please include your name, a call back number, and times you may be available for us to contact you.

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Send email to:  HR@pwfourstar.com

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 $15.25 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.

For a detailed job description please Click Here.

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
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.

or Mail to:

HR Department
c/o Greenhouse Growing Rotational Internship
Four Star Greenhouse, Inc.
1015 Indian Trail Road
Carleton, MI 48117-9316

For other general employment inquiries, submit your resume today via mail or email.

Mail to:
Four Star Greenhouse
Attn: Human Resources
1015 Indian Trail Road
Carleton, Michigan 48117-9316

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The Four Star Opportunity