Posted 19 days ago
Guest Service - Toronto
@ Sheridan Nurseries Limited
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Sheridan Nurseries Toronto is hiring seasonal guest service associates for its garden centre, full or part time. The role combines retail sales of plants and home and garden products with carry-out help, light plant care and stocking. The posting states minimum wage, requires lifting up to 50 lbs and standing most of the shift, and requires flexibility for weekend and holiday shifts.
Responsibilities:
- Sell complete solutions to garden centre guests
- Greet guests and assist with carry-out and loading
- Water and maintain live plant material
- Restock product and support merchandising initiatives
- Keep the store clean, safe and compliant
Requirements summary:
- Friendly, outgoing and passionate about sales
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and stand most of the shift
- Legally eligible to work in Canada
- Flexible for weekend and holiday shifts
- Retail or horticultural experience is an asset
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-18
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-19
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-19
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Retail |
| Schedule | holidays, weekends |
| Seasonal | Yes |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Store, Outdoors |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · lift 50 lb · computer low |
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Sheridan Nurseries Limited
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NEVER STOP GROWING. Nursery Stock Grown in Glen Williams, ON | Wholesale | B2B | Retail
Full company description
As pioneers of the Canadian horticulture industry since 1913, we are dedicated to inspiring people to Never Stop Growing. We are committed to being a leading grower, wholesaler, and retailer of high-quality nursery stock, garden supplies, patio, and home décor. After 113 years, we offer one of the largest assortments of annuals, perennials, and nursery stock in Southern Ontario. Our local growing farms in Glen Williams and Norval span over 900 acres, where we cultivate more than 1200 perennials annually and ship over 1.8 million plants across Northeastern North America. Our eight retail garden centers in the Greater Toronto Area feature a diverse range of products, from seed-starting supplies to show-stopping perennials, statement trees, stunning patio furniture, and seasonal décor. For Wholesale Direct Business, regardless of your project’s size, save time and money with farm-fresh materials hand-selected by our knowledgeable staff and delivered directly to your job site. Independent Garden Centers looking to enhance their inventory with quality, locally grown nursery stock and perennials can benefit from our wide selection, quick turnaround times on orders, and frequent shipments to Eastern Canada and the Northeast U.S.
- LinkedIn followers
- 3,593
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 260
- Reported office locations
- 12302 10TH Line, RR #4, Georgetown, Ontario L7G4S7, CA
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- Business categories
- Consumer Goods
- Farming
- Home and Garden
- Agriculture
- Landscaping
- Retail
- Horticulture
- Wholesale
- Plant Propagation
- Other recorded names
- Sheridan Nurseries
- Sheridan Nurseries Limited
- Specialties
- Horticulture
- Wholesale
- B2B
- Garden Centre Retail
- Landscape Supply
- Home Décor
- Annuals
- Perennials
- Garden Supply
- Ornamental Trees
- Corporate Planters
- Corporate Gifts
- and Seasonal Decorating
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
As pioneers of the Canadian horticulture industry since 1913, we are dedicated to inspiring people to Never Stop Growing. We are committed to being a leading grower, wholesaler, and retailer of high-quality nursery stock, garden supplies, patio, and home décor. After 113 years, we offer one of the largest assortments of annuals, perennials, and nursery stock in Southern Ontario. Our local growing farms in Glen…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Georgetown, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 1913 |
| Specialties | HorticultureWholesaleB2BGarden Centre RetailLandscape SupplyHome DécorAnnuals PerennialsGarden SupplyOrnamental Trees |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 8 |
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Employment Opportunity
Sheridan Nurseries Toronto is actively searching for:
Guest Service Associates
Seasonal, Full or Part Time
About the Job:
Our Garden Centre Sales Associates provide our guests with a high level of service and actively engage with our guests to ensure that they are sold the complete solution for all of their purchases. Associates will also assist with the carry-out and loading of guest purchases as required, as well as with the overall upkeep of our product, including re-stocking, watering and maintaining plant material.
Regular duties of these positions include actively selling department product, including suggesting all relevant add-ons and explaining the benefits of these products, actively supporting and promoting sales, marketing, and merchandising initiatives, and providing our guests with an exceptional shopping experience. The successful candidate will be friendly, personable, outgoing, and enthusiastic with a strong work ethic and existing knowledge of our products and a willingness to learn and grow.
Your Accountabilities:
- Responsible for actively selling our guests the complete solution while providing exceptional customer service in all aspects, including offering carry-out assistance with their purchases, and loading or unloading product as required.
- Greet guests as they enter the store and ensure that their needs are looked after.
- Actively promotes all related sales, marketing, and merchandising initiatives.
- Assist with watering and maintaining live plant material and stocking of product as required.
- Participate with the store team in achieving all aspects of service excellence, store readiness, cleanliness, safety and compliance with all Sheridan Nurseries policies and standards.
- Assist with other duties as assigned.
Minimum Wage
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Friendly, outgoing and personable with an enthusiasm for providing excellent customer service, ensuring that all guests are cared for equally in and in accordance with the standards of Sheridan Nurseries.
- Passionate about sales and our product offerings is a must.
- Hard working with the ability to follow direction and take initiative when needed, working both independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple tasks and requests while setting priorities.
- Highly flexible with strong interpersonal skills and a willingness to learn.
- Previous retail experience and/or related horticultural knowledge is an asset.
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
- Must be able to lift up to 50lbs. Standing up for the majority of the shift with bending and squatting at various times is required.
- This role will require the flexibility to work a variety of shifts including weekends and holidays as scheduled.
Our Vision, Mission, & Values:
At Sheridan Nurseries we aim to delight our associates, guests, and business partners in everything we do. Independently owned and operated for over 100 years, we are committed to growing the highest quality plants at our local farms, curating the best-in-class home, garden, and lifestyle products and services, delivering unrivaled guest service and satisfaction, and providing meaningful and rewarding careers to our employees. We always strive to inspire and share our knowledge, passion, and expertise to build confidence, loyalty, and trust, while protecting our planet with industry leading environmentally sustainable initiatives and giving back to our local communities and charities.
Our vision is “To inspire people to never stop growing”.
At Sheridan we seek people who will continually strengthen our culture. We work hard to ensure our culture is something we feel proud of and allows us to bring our best selves to work every day. And a great culture starts with values. We have clearly defined values which are embedded in everything that we do so that they are lived and breathed daily.
If you share our values of:
- Doing what’s right
- Being performance driven
- Learning and together
- Being externally focused
- Having bias for action
Then we have a position for you!
We thank all applicants for their interest however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
If selected, please advise if you require special accommodation to attend the interview.
This job posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization.
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