Garden Maintenance Assistant/Assistant Horticulturalist Aylesbury, England
Job description
About us
Cambium Horticulture is a small business in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. We are professional, customer-centric, collaborative, and our goal is to provide an unrivalled professional horticultural and gardening service.
Our work environment includes:
- Growth opportunities
- On-the-job training
- Safe work environment
An excellent opportunity to join our young and fast-growing team of gardeners and horticulturalists.
Before going any further, if you intend to apply for this position but have no intention of arriving to interview or trial please do not apply. If you are not looking to work hard, learn and improve you need not apply. If you cannot communicate and work as a team, you need not apply.
We provide a high-quality professional grounds maintenance servicing all sizes of domestic and commercial properties. We work with a horticulture-based approach ensuring highest standards are achieved with a number of show/open gardens within our portfolio.
Your responsibilities will include working as part of a team, visiting 2-6 sites a day covering a wide and complete range of maintenance tasks, including: mowing, strimming, hedge cutting, seasonal pruning, planting, leaf blowing and soft landscaping. Garden design, landscaping and fencing occasionally undertaken.
Our ideal candidates will demonstrate good horticultural/garden maintenance knowledge, be physically fit and motivated, have relevant qualifications (nvq, p.a1/6, rhs etc), driving licence preferred, demonstrate knowledge of plants and trees.
As you may have gathered from the top paragraph, we are fed up with time wasters and people unwilling/unmotivated to work.
We expect and encourage the best from all our employees. We take pride in the works we do and expect the same from you. A professional approach is a must as liaising with customers will be regular. Good time keeping, a positive attitude, willingness to learn, hardworking and a love for gardens is all you need.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Apprenticeship
Salary: £20,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekend availability
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
- Tips
- Yearly bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: One location
