Florist

Brief Description

The Florist at Forest Lawn participates in all activities of the Flower Shop Design Room. This role is responsible for ordering, preparing, and designing any style of flowers for viewing rooms, services, flower placements, community events and outside deliveries. They will also meet with Client Families to discuss floral arrangements.

What You'll Be Doing

• Management retains the discretion to add or change the essential duties and requirements at any time.
• Use their sense of style to develop aesthetically pleasing designs. Determine the type of arrangement desired, the occasion, and the date, time, and location for delivery.
• Maintain mortuary, public display, and church areas with flowers and plants.
• Purchase flowers and other products from wholesalers and suppliers to ensure the flower shop maintains an adequate supply to meet department’s needs.
• Answer telephones, take orders, understand what a customer is looking for, explain options, and to ensure high-quality flowers and service.
• Keep work areas clean and safe.
• Directly confer on orders with Flower Shop Representatives and client families.
• Coordinate orders and work-board to meet time lines. Provide excellent organizational skills to ensure that orders are completed on time.
• Must be available to work weekends and all holidays.
• Assist and back up Florist Helpers, and Flower Shop Representatives, processing flower and making deliveries or assisting in the office.
• Maintain a safe work environment and abide by all safety standards. Attend all safety and SDS meetings.
• Wear appropriate safety equipment at all times.
• Work with integrity and ethics; uphold the organizational values; Treat others with respect.
• Manage difficult or emotional customer situations; promptly responds to customer needs.
  
  

Requirements

Forest Lawn has always attracted unique and exceptional individuals; those who aren’t satisfied with simply building a career, but want to go home at the end of the day knowing they’ve made a profound and positive difference in people’s lives. If this sounds like you, take a look at our job openings....We may have your next GREAT OPPORTUNITY!

Job Summary

Forest Lawn is seeking dynamic and creative Florists to be responsible for the preparation and designing of any style of flowers for viewing rooms, services, and outside deliveries.

What You'll Be Doing

• Make flower arrangements for viewing rooms, services, outside deliveries, and placements.
• Demonstrate respect to customer preference and value of materials.
• Maintain the mortuary, public displays, and church areas with flowers and plants
• Process flowers and supplies and make deliveries as needed.
• Order flowers, plants and supplies needed in the design room.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of floral design experience.
• Knowledge of color harmony, flowers and design are required.
• Must be able to lift 50 lbs.
• Read, write and speak English.
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Valid California Driver’s License.
• Comfortable standing for long periods at a time.
• Must be able to work weekends and holidays.
• Must be able to work on-site.
  
  

Summary

COMPETITIVE BENEFITS

Forest Lawn takes pride in offering an excellent benefits package to our employees, which taken as a whole, leads our industry and is competitive with the benefits in just about any other industry. 

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DRUG TESTING POLICY

Prior to beginning employment, all job applicants who receive a job offer will be required to voluntarily submit to a drug screening test conducted by a laboratory designated by Forest Lawn. The drug screening method is a hair collection test that will detect the use of illegal drugs within the past 90 days. A positive drug test may result in the withdrawal of the job offer.

E-VERIFY STATEMENT

Forest Lawn has registered to participate in the federal government's E-Verify program. With E-Verify we are able to confirm the employment authorization of all newly hired employees through an electronic database maintained by the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security. With respect to new hires, the E-Verify process is completed in conjunction with a new hire's completion of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification upon commencement of employment. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates.

For up-to-date information on E-Verify, go to https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/e-verify-overview.

FAIR CHANCE INITIATIVE FOR HIRING ORDINANCE

Forest Lawn will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with Criminal Histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.