Unit 1Unit 1Careers in Greenhouse Careers in Greenhouse

Management Management Greenhouse Greenhouse

ManagementManagement

ObjectivesObjectives

Objective 3:Objective 3: Identify career Identify career opportunities in plant science.opportunities in plant science.

Identify and describe the major areas Identify and describe the major areas of plant science.of plant science.

Identify career opportunities in plant Identify career opportunities in plant science, and determine the science, and determine the education and training they entail.education and training they entail.

Career Opportunities in Career Opportunities in Plant SciencePlant Science

Greenhouse caretakerGreenhouse caretaker Plant propagatorPlant propagator Orchard Care TakerOrchard Care Taker Pesticide ApplicatorPesticide Applicator GroundskeeperGroundskeeper Tractor OperatorTractor Operator Combine harvesterCombine harvester

Career Opportunities in Career Opportunities in Plant SciencePlant Science

Greenhouse managerGreenhouse manager Golf course managerGolf course manager Pesticide dealerPesticide dealer Crop supply salespersonCrop supply salesperson Greenhouse supply salespersonGreenhouse supply salesperson

Career Opportunities in Plant Career Opportunities in Plant ScienceScience

Crop marketing specialistCrop marketing specialist Crop production specialistCrop production specialist Fertilizer technologistFertilizer technologist Erosion control scientistErosion control scientist Soil conservationistSoil conservationist Seed technologistSeed technologist Turf grass specialistTurf grass specialist

Graduate level careers in Plant Graduate level careers in Plant ScienceScience

Plant geneticistPlant geneticist Plant breederPlant breeder BiotechnologistBiotechnologist Genetic engineerGenetic engineer Plant pathologistPlant pathologist Plant physiologistPlant physiologist StatisticianStatistician Weed scientistWeed scientist

Some of the skills needed in Some of the skills needed in the horticulture industrythe horticulture industry Growing SkillsGrowing Skills

WateringWatering FertilizingFertilizing TransplantingTransplanting Seed sowingSeed sowing Disease controlDisease control

Mechanical SkillsMechanical Skills

Structure erection Structure erection and maintainenceand maintainence

Equipement repairEquipement repair Plumbing, heating Plumbing, heating

and coolingand cooling

Marketing SkillsMarketing Skills

AdvertizingAdvertizing Price SettingPrice Setting Quality ControlQuality Control Post Harvest Post Harvest

StorageStorage GradingGrading PackagingPackaging ShippingShipping

Administrative SkillsAdministrative Skills

Hiring/ FiringHiring/ Firing Coordinated Coordinated

responsibilityresponsibility SchedulingScheduling Financial elementsFinancial elements Records/computer useRecords/computer use OrderingOrdering Scheduling plantingScheduling planting Billing Billing

Legal SkillsLegal Skills

Pesticide laws and Pesticide laws and regulationsregulations

Interstate Interstate transportationtransportation

TaxesTaxes Local and state Local and state

ordinances and ordinances and lawslaws

Objective 3.2Objective 3.2List and explain the types of List and explain the types of growersgrowers Wholesale growerWholesale grower

Sells to retailersSells to retailers May not sell to the May not sell to the

publicpublic I.e. Parks in Van I.e. Parks in Van

BurenBuren

RetailersRetailers Sells to the publicSells to the public

Ft. Smith Garden Ft. Smith Garden CenterCenter

Shruam’sShruam’s

PropagatorPropagator All phases of All phases of

propagationpropagation Maintains light, Maintains light,

temperature and temperature and moisture conditionsmoisture conditions

GrowersGrowers

In charge of In charge of production of one production of one large greenhouselarge greenhouse

Oversees every Oversees every element of their element of their assigned assigned greenhousegreenhouse

Marketing ManagerMarketing Manager

Grading, Grading, postharvest and postharvest and storage, packaging storage, packaging and shipmentand shipment

Orders cartons, Orders cartons, containers and containers and packaging materialspackaging materials

In charge of the In charge of the graders and packersgraders and packers

Shipping Room Shipping Room ManagerManager

Handles the crop Handles the crop from the time it from the time it comes from the comes from the greenhouse until it greenhouse until it is packedis packed

In charge of the In charge of the graders and graders and packerspackers

Other Career AreasOther Career Areas

Soil personSoil person DriversDrivers General laborGeneral labor