Nursery + Environmental Field Technician Position

Natives of Corkscrew Nursery + Environmental is seeking to hire a (Partime or Fulltime) Environmental Field Technician. Our company provides turn key environmental services from wetland assessments, protected species surveys and relocation, exotic vegetation removal, preserve restoration, lake monitoring and enhancement, landscape design and installation, and has a native plant nursery growing trees, shrubs, wildflowers and grasses for all different terrains across Florida’s ecotypes. It takes plants to shape the life of the terrain. We are here to make that terrain and life better for us and better for those that follow. We as a company primarily work outdoors in all different environments with the mindset of improving and restoring the land we see and walk on. We have grown from a paper napkin idea way before 2015 to a company that has 16 specializes employees that work in their strengths that strengthens the company.

We have grown with patience and hard work and want to add more hands to the mix to ensure we continue to provide quality workmanship and quality plants while educating the public and our neighbors. We dont want growth to cause us to be rushed and short with customers and quick on projects. We have prided our company on providing great customer service which superseded lacking in other areas as a new start-up company. Customer service has at the beginning been our strength and backbone by answering the phones, emails, face to face with the customers, to do anything attitude, patience in explanation, the customer is right, if they don’t want it I don’t want them to have it, if they don’t like it we need to fix it and make it right, people over plants, Ill try to find it, returning phone calls, accurate pricing, easy invoicing/payments, updated inventory, better plan growing, and zero arrogance.

If this is sounding like you, than we might agree. If you are hired, you will soon be providing valuable and beneficial work as a steward of land, water and the environment for Florida and beyond. If you are hired, you will be in a probationary/internship period to determine if you are healthy fit and knowledgeable to continue working for our company.

Qualifications:

Must possess a valid driver’s license and clean driving record

Must be able to carry 25 pound herbicide backpack

Knowledge of Southwest Florida Flora and fauna

Must be comfortable in multiple outdoor environments (i.e. swamps, beach dunes, pine flatwoods ecosystems)

Must be comfortable to work along lake shorelines and from small boat

Must be comfortable with the use of EPA approved Herbicides

Must be able to carry and apply EPA approved herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides in accordance with law and label

Must be willing to learn and gain knowledge of Southwest Florida Flora and fauna

Must be comfortable in multiple outdoor environments (i.e. swamps, beach dunes, pine flatwoods ecosystems)

Must be comfortable to work along lake shorelines and from small boat

Very rare, Overnight travel of 2 days or less may be required on a project by project basis.

Benefits: Natives of Corkscrew Nursery + Environmental is veteran and locally owned company that specializes in Environmental Restoration and Enhancement. We offer competitive pay and benefits.

Work Environment: This position will require a mix of office time and duties performed outside. You will be on your feet a lot walking, using 4X4’s, ATV’s, Tractors, swamp buggies, small boats, and other modes of transport to move through uneven terrain, wetlands, beaches, mangroves, and other types of challenging natural environments.

Typical work week is Tuesday through Thursday, and/or Friday/Saturday, times vary.

I, the Owner believe in a divine creator and divine power that has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence. 2 Peter 1:3

For the Lord God is a sun and shield, the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. Psalm 84:11

For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. Hebrews 6:7

And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth. And God said, " Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruits. You shall have them for food. Genesis 1:28

Bless is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building. 1 Corinthians 3:6-9

If you are interested please send me an email with a resume or provide send an email (accounting@corkscrewnatives.com) to obtain an employment application.

All the best and God's speed,

Chris S