Flower Cooler Maintenance

Phillip’s Flowers is a premier florist founded in 1923 specializing in custom floral designs in the greater Chicagoland area. Our business includes retail, wholesale, and commercial interior plantscaping and displays. We are a family-owned company with deep stable roots that value employees and the communities we serve. Phillip’s Flowers continues to raise the bar stretching limits to provide quality cutting-edge floral design. We strive to delight our customers’ every day!

What Sets Us Apart: For nearly 100 years Phillip’s Flowers has reflected the style of our customers around Chicagoland through flowers and plants, with our multi-generational ownership, multiple locations, creative talent and large delivery fleet, we’re respected by our national peers and local communities.

Position: Cooler Maintenance

Location: Westmont, IL

Employment Type: Mon-Fri 8am-5pm and some Saturdays and Sundays during peak seasons

Position Summary

The Cooler Maintenance Associate will be responsible for maintaining the largest fresh flower cooler in the Central Design Center. The cooler will house standing orders for wedding & events as well as flowers that support our Order Center, Retail Production, and Sympathy departments. Responsibilities include inventory maintenance of the cooler by keeping it organized, condensing, sorting, dating flowers and keeping water clean to maintain freshness of floral product. Additionally, you will support the Floral Design team by keeping their work area safe by sweeping the area of stems and leaves. Taking out garbage and help with Order Center wrapping so product can be carted and prepared for delivery. This is a light labor position and great opportunity for someone looking for flexibility and a place to grow in the floral industry or in a warehouse environment!

Key Responsibilities

• All flowers come from the wholesale department will need to be organized and prepared for the large cooler daily by removing wrappers and rubber bands and bucketing floral product and placing in the correct area of the cooler.
• Managing the cooler by dating product, rotating product, and adding new product into inventory.
• Sort, clean, and organize existing fresh floral product by pulling and cleaning empty buckets as product is being used and condensing similar or same flowers. Repurposing older flowers to the Sympathy department.
• Checking in Wedding & Event flowers by tagging and moving them to the opposite side of the cooler.
• Keeping work areas clean. Sweeping, taking out garbage, and carting product for preparation or delivery.

Essential Skills

• Some knowledge of flowers, floral care and/or degree in horticulture is preferred.
• Basic math/accounting skills required.
• High degree of organizational skills. Experience checking in and maintaining stock.

Physical Requirements

• Lift up to 25 pounds above head. Lift 30-40 pounds occasionally.
• Push, pull, bend, and stoop and be on your feet for 8 hours per day.
• Ability to work in coolers for extended periods of time.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.