Landscape Gardener
Onshore applicants only
Visa sponsorship
Trade · Auckland, New Zealand · Full-Time · $25 - $40/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored · Applicants: Onshore applicants only
This is a full-time opening in Auckland, New Zealand, for a Landscape Gardener with a company that designs, builds and maintains gardens for its clients.
First, the work itself. You will maintain lawns and plantings to a high standard, operate garden equipment and lead the crew by example.
Second, the hours. The job is 40 hours per week, and part-time and casual work is also offered.
Third, the employer's status. The company is an accredited employer and can sponsor the right candidate, and it requires the right to work in New Zealand.
Finally, your application. Prepare an English CV that lists your horticulture qualification, driver's licence and years of garden work in order. Organise your landscape gardening CV with Build AI CV before you apply.
Key Responsibilities
- On every visit, mow, weed, plant, prune and trim until the site meets a high standard
- Guide the crew through your own example
- Give each customer an exceptional level of service
- Start, run and service the landscaping machinery
- Know your way around chainsaws, mowers for lawns, hedge and line trimmers, power washers and building tools
- Speak with customers and crew members regularly and resolve whatever they need or worry about
Requirements & Eligibility
- A track record of 2 years or more working as a landscape gardener, ideally with hard landscaping in the mix
- Holds a qualification in horticulture
- Deep knowledge of horticulture, matched by a real interest in plants
- Communicates excellently and can hold conversations with customers
- Performs in a team and without supervision
- Sticks to instructions and finishes tasks on deadline
- Holds a full driver's licence for manual as well as automatic vehicles (manual training on offer if needed)
- Puts health and safety first, notices details, takes initiative at a high level and keeps a good level of physical fitness
- Entitled to work in NZ
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