General Garden Centre Assistant
Job description
This role is an opportunity for an individual who likes a varied job and working with a range of individuals; assisting customers on the shop floor, helping them to their car, offloading incoming deliveries, ensuring the site, yard and storage rooms are kept to the required standards.
Responsibilities
- Building relationships with our customers to fully identify their needs and allow us to provide a comprehensive service.
- Replenish stock as directed by line manager e.g. compost, pots, bird care, garden care.
- Building of furniture & BBQs when required for customer deliveries.
- General tidying on site which include yard & sales floor as directed by line manager.
- Replenish customer trolleys & baskets from the car park & return to areas throughout the shop floor.
- Operate our EPOS till system & process customer transactions when required.
- Providing customer service to customers in the centre such as assisting them to their cars with heavy/ large items such as compost, pots etc.
- Complete daily checklist.
- Perform any other duties as & when required by line manager.
Skills and Qualifications
Essential Skills
- Previous experience of working within a similar retail environment.
- Demonstrate excellent customer service skills.
- Willing to undertake manual handling and pallet truck training.
- Must possess a practical approach to tasks and initiative to work on your own.
- Can demonstrate great communication skills.
- Ability to stand for long periods of time and undertake tasks which require bending, stooping, lifting and carrying stock.
- Must be available to work a Wednesday, Friday & Saturday as part of working week.
Desirable Skills
- DIY skills.
- Experience using a pallet truck.
- Experience using EPOS till system.
- Vacancy ID
- 1766727
- Job ref.
- G2480
- Job Sector
- Retailing, Wholesaling and Purchasing
- Area
- Co Antrim
- Location
- Ballymena
- Salary
- £11.00 - £12.91 per hour
- No. vacancies
- 1
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Weekly hours
- 18
- Published date
- 27/03/2026
- Closing date
- 06/04/2026
- Worktime
- Wednesday, Friday & Saturday, to be confirmed