Michael Smith
Junior Department Manager
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About
Dedicated Junior Department Manager with experience at Stodels Garden Centre and Tuingenoot Nursery. Holds National Diploma in Horticulture. Proficient in customer service, team collaboration, and computer literacy. Thrives in high-pressure environments.
Experience
Junior Department Manager - Stodels Garden Centre
(2025-01 - 2026-01)
- Ordering and pricing of Landscaping products
- Help customers with prices and quotations
Admin - Tuingenoot Nursery
(2023-01 - 2025-01)
- Cashier work and reconciling cash ups
- Social media via Facebook- posts daily to groups
- Customer inquiries answered and quotations send out
- Telephone inquiries answered
Driver/Admin - Auto Asher
(2017-01 - 2023-01)
- Vehicle parts order
- Take vehicles for services
- Opening of files of Vehicles
- Checking histories and warranties
- Take vehicles for Roadworthiness certificates
Field Guide - Mabula Game Reserve
(2016-01 - 2016-01)
- Learn about nature and what it entails
- Took customers out for Game Drives and give info
Supervisor - Green Cube Garden Services
(2015-01 - 2016-01)
- Take out teams to various gardens of customers to clean up and maintain weekly
- Maintaining lawnmowers and brushcutters
Supervisor - The Garden Group
(2013-01 - 2015-01)
- Picking up team at security gates
- Place each team at various points to cut and clean certain areas in Estate
- Picking up of rubbish at end of day and spraying of sick plants with certified insecticides or fungicides
Production Manager - Flora RSA Nursery
(2012-01 - 2014-01)
- Production of prescribed plants as per catalogue via seeds or cuttings
- Taking out team to various Municipal parks to collect seed and cutting material
- Buying in raw material for mixtures in production
- Take out orders for customers and customer requests
- Cashier on weekends, cushups and banking of cash
- Doing displays of plants and cement products
Assistant Manager - Newlands Wholesale Nursery
(2009-01 - 2012-01)
- Ordering of plants
- Growing of plants via divisions or seeds and cuttings
- Cash banking
- Helping customers with inquiries and orders
- Display of plants and ornaments
- Quotations for client inquiries
- Supervising staff to see that nursery is in a good state
Driver - Five Little Men Butchery
(2007-01 - 2008-01)
- Delivering fresh meat and biltong products to different shops and Shopping centres
Supervisor - Phatsima Garden Service
(2005-01 - 2007-01)
- Take a team out for clean ups of gardens
- Clean up rubbish and dumping of excess rubbish collected
Production Manager - Garden World
(2000-01 - 2005-01)
- Growing of plants via divisions or seed and cuttings
- Take plants up that is sellable and put on labels
- Spraying of plants if sickness spotted
- Helping customers with inquiries
Sales - Style Decor
(1997-01 - 2000-01)
- Sell cemented products
- Help with displays
- Pricing of products
- Salesman pricelists set up
Education
National Diploma - Horticulture - Tshwane University of Technology (1993-01 - 1997-01)
National Highschool Diploma - Matric - Highschool Hercules (1987-01 - 1993-01)
