Sole Garden/Grounds Manager - Live In - EC6367 - This position has now been filled
Sole Garden/Grounds Manager required
A rare opportunity has arisen for a multi-skilled and experienced estate maintenance person to join an impressive 300-acre family estate in Hampshire. This is a sole position, offered with a generous salary and a refurbished three-bedroom gate house. The role would suit candidates with demonstrable experience in all areas of private estate gardening/horticulture and estate maintenance.
This majestic Georgian home and surrounding estate comprises three separate dwellings, barns and stables, a workshop, swimming pool, bluebell woodland, a tennis court, excellent equestrian facilities including a manege, and a large garden made up of formal and informal areas, all surrounded by expansive lawns, paddocks and mature trees.
The garden areas include a kitchen garden, herbaceous and ornamental borders, a pond, gravel driveways, an orchard and a glasshouse, so applicants for this position must have good plant knowledge including that of propagation, fruit and vegetable production and the growing of indoor plants for the house. Although the more technical aspects of this role may be horticulturally-focussed, the position will involve hands-on management of the entire estate and as such, applicants must be multi-skilled with demonstrable experience in the management of paddocks, woodland and general estate DIY.
Applicants must have good plant identification skills, excellent attention to detail and a methodological approach to their work. Demonstrable experience in the above areas is essential, as is competency in the operation and basic farm and garden machinery; ride-on and pedestrian mowers, hedge cutters, strimmers, blowers, chainsaws etc. Spraying qualifications (PA1/PA6) and chainsaw certification are required for this position, as is a full UK driving licence. Applicants must be tidy in their work, presentable, positive in attitude and possess a working understanding of the considerations and sensitivities required of permanent live-in employees on private estates.
Good physical fitness and an ability to undertake heavy lifting when necessary is essential, as is an understanding of country environments, preferably with experience around animals and of horses in particular.
A refurbished three-bedroom cottage is provided with this position - rent, Council Tax and WiFi included). Payment of bills (electricity, water etc.) will be the responsibility of the occupant. Due to the nature of the estate, this position is unsuitable for candidates who have dependent children, and those without pets are preferred.
SALARY: Circa £28,000 DOE + Accommodation
LOCATION: Hampshire
JOB No: EC6367
If this Sole Garden/Grounds Manager vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Mark Read on 01233 733510 or info@englishcountrygardeners.co.uk.
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Plant Sales Advisor - H073 - This position has now been filled
Plant Sales Advisor required
Our client is a long-established specialist supplier of trees, shrubs and accessories situated on a 12 acre site in the heart of the densely wooded Sussex Weald, supplying to both trade and private clients across Southern England. The company has a reputation for the supply of high-quality trees and plants supported by helpful and expert advice. An opportunity has arisen to join a team of 4 staff in a sales role on their busy retail site.
Do you enjoy advising customers on their choice of plants?
Do you enjoy working as a team maintaining excellent plant quality?
Can you provide a professional friendly service?
Key points
- Focusing primarily on the retail aspects of the business
- Helping customers with their choice of plants
- Dealing with resulting sales transactions
- Preparing quotations for both trade and retail customers
Must have
- Some form of horticultural qualification
- Relevant experience in a plant sales advisory capacity
- Excellent customer service skills
A positive and flexible attitude to all daily tasks
If this Plant Sales Advisor vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Pauline Thomas on 01233 732767 or pauline@horticruitment.com.
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Operations Assistant to the Directors - E139
Our client is an expanding group of garden centres who are looking for an Operations Assistant to the Directors to join their established Operations Team. The newly appointed Operations Assistant should have a proven track record in a similar role, able to hit the ground running and assist in the continuing growth of development work across the group of garden centres.
Do you have strong negotiation skills able to liaise with internal and external contractors?
Are you well organised able to prioritise work in a fast paced and often reactive environment?
Do you enjoy the challenge of raising standards bringing future growth?
Key points
- To partner the Directors and making sure their plans are executed within the business
- To assist the Directors in contacting suppliers and subcontractors to obtain quotations
- Downloading project and tender files/drawings from commercial clients
- Implementing cost saving measures and ensuring best value from suppliers
- Managing expenditure and maintenance budgets
Must haves
- Ability to interpret data quickly and correctly
- Strong negotiation skills with analytic thinking abilities
- Great communication skills, confident to liaise with internal and external parties
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
If this Operations Assistant to the Directors vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Pauline Thomas on 01233 732767 or pauline@horticruitment.com.
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Shop Manager - D094
Our client has a family run garden centre who are proud to offer an extensive range of top-quality plants, leisure goods, garden sundries & gifts. The centre has grown from strength to strength with a new restaurant and is used as a popular destination garden centre. They are currently seeking an experienced shop manager who will support the centre manager in delivering an exceptional level of customer sales and service.
Can you provide excellent retailing standards of a wide range of products?
Do you enjoy leading and motivating a team of staff?
Are you keen to reach and exceed sales targets?
Key points
- To manage the daily activities of a large shop department
- To ensure the correct stocking levels are maintained throughout each season
- To deliver excellent merchandising standards of a wide range of products
- To lead a team of staff by example and provide training where necessary
- To support and contribute to the achievement of budgeted company sales
Must haves
- A proven track record in retailing bringing success to the business
- Excellent team leadership skills and determination to succeed
- The ability to deliver a professionally presented department at all times
- Able to provide a high level of customer sales and service
If this Shop Manager vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Pauline Thomas on 01233 732767 or pauline@horticruitment.com.
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Skilled Gardener - Live In - EC6311 - This position has now been filled
Skilled Gardener required
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a skilled and experienced gardener to join a close estate team on a beautiful private property in central/east Dorset, on a full-time basis. Applicants should hold academic horticultural qualifications, preferably at Level 3 or above, as well as demonstrable experience of managing private gardens at Skilled/Senior or Sole Gardener level. This position is offered with a generous salary plus accommodation by way of a one-bedroom coach house flat; suitable for a single person or a couple.
The rural property is situated in a beautiful location, approximately 20-miles from the Dorset coast. The historic main house is surrounded by formal gardens with parkland, a river, mature trees and managed paddocks beyond. A small team of staff ensure the smooth running of the estate, of which the successful applicant will play an integral part.
The formal gardens include ornamental beds and borders, a glasshouse, expansive lawns, a swimming pool, a lake, and mature trees throughout. This position will require applicants to have a thorough understanding of, and demonstrable experience in kitchen gardening, as a wide variety of produce is grown for the house on an ongoing basis.
The Skilled Gardener will play a leading role in the management of the formal gardens and will be required to provide guidance and direction to part-time gardeners when on site. The owner of the property is passionate about the gardens and will provide priorities at the beginning of each week in relation to the changing requirements of the estate.
Suitable applicants for this role will have extensive experience of managing gardens on private estates from a hands-on perspective and will preferably have some experience of directing/supervising garden staff. Applicants should have good plant identification skills, excellent attention to detail and a methodological approach to their work. Demonstrable experience in kitchen gardening and plant propagation/glasshouse work is essential, as is competency in the operation and basic maintenance of garden machinery. Spraying qualifications (PA1/PA6), an in-date First Aid certificate, and chainsaw certificate would be desirable, though training can be provided for otherwise suitable candidates if necessary. Applicants must be tidy in their work, presentable, positive in attitude and possess a working understanding of the considerations required of gardeners on private estates.
SALARY: £22,000 - £25,000 DOE + Accommodation
LOCATION: East Dorset
JOB No: EC6311
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Hardy Plant Manager - L329
Our client has developed a thriving garden centre, well known for their superb customer service, with a very strong horticultural team and excellent plant displays which provides a unique and enjoyable shopping experience, once described as a gleaming glass beacon with the wow factor! They have an exciting opportunity for a Hardy Plants Manager to join the team.
Do you have extensive plant knowledge?
Can you provide inspirational plant displays throughout the year?
Can you maintain excellent retailing standards?
Key points
- Merchandising and displays of a wide range of plants
- Monitoring of plant sales and taking appropriate action
- Providing a high level of customer sales and service
- Maintaining a good level of housekeeping standards
- Ensuring the department is well stocked and looking fresh
Must haves
- A good working knowledge of plant retailing
- The ability to merchandise effectively creating innovative displays
- Be well organised with good attention to detail
- A passion for horticulture with a flexible approach to all tasks
If this Hardy Plant Manager vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Pauline Thomas on 01233 732767 or pauline@horticruitment.com.
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Landscaping Team Leader - L016
Are you an experienced soft landscape construction Team Leader?
Do you have experience of working with developers?
Would you like to join an expanding but experienced team?
Our client is looking for an experienced Landscape Team Leader to assume the day to day responsibility for current projects.
Duties will include:
- Ensuring that projects are completed to the quality required
- Day to day organisation of individual projects
- Take responsibility for other members within the team
- Follow health and safety policies and procedures
Must haves
Candidates should have previous experience within the landscape construction industry, excellent communication skills and the ability to plan and execute work efficiently. Good leadership skills are also important as are good organisational skills and an eye for detail.
Driving licence and CSCS card are essential requirements.
If this Landscaping Team Leader vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Mark Bolam on 01233 732767 or markbolam@horticruitment.com.
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Landscape Supervisor - L017 - This position has now been filled
Are you an experienced soft landscape construction Supervisor?
Do you have experience of working with developers?
Would you like to join an expanding but experienced team?
Key points
The Supervisor will have soft landscaping experience in the construction industry and must be able to organise and assist teams to complete projects on time. The candidate will need to demonstrate organisational skills and must be willing to be part of an experienced team. Hard landscaping back ground will also be beneficial.
This is the perfect role for someone who is ready to leave the tools and progress their career. It is important that the individual can separate themselves from the ground teams and want to progress their career further in the future. (great opportunity)
Must haves
- Full UK driving licence
- CSCS card
- Team Leader/Supervisory experience in soft landscape construction
- Good horticultural and plant knowledge
If this Landscape Supervisor vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Mark Bolam on 01233 732767 or markbolam@horticruitment.com.
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Plantarea Manager/Buyer - L264 - This position has now been filled
Plantarea Manager/Buyer required
Our client has developed a popular Garden Centre that has grown considerably over recent years with an ever increasing customer base and award winning restaurant. They strive to continuously meet and exceed customer expectations stocking a vast range of plants, gardening products, home and leisure goods and much more. They have exciting plans in place to expand the garden centre and are currently seeking an experienced Plant Manager/Buyer who will play an important role in developing the business.
Do you have excellent plant purchasing skills and product knowledge?
Do you have excellent negotiating skills and knowledge of leading plant suppliers?
Can you lead and inspire a team of staff to offer excellent customer sales and service?
Key points
- Holding total autonomy for purchasing of all horticultural products
- Re-designing the layout of the outside plants department
- Providing innovative plant displays throughout each season
- Maintaining accurate stocking levels and a good level of housekeeping
- Key holder duties as and when required
Must haves
- Excellent plant purchasing skills ideally from a multi-site operation
- The ability to lead and motivate a team of staff
- Have a customer focused approach
- An energetic and inspirational personality with a flexible approach to all tasks
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Skilled Gardener/Groundsperson - Live In - EC6227 - This position has now been filled
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Skilled Gardener/ Groundsperson to join a beautiful private Chateau located between Tours and Poitiers near the small town of Richelieu in France.
This charming chateau is surrounded by a moat and 50 acres of land including a courtyard with climbers and a lush garden planted with roses, shrubs, mixed ornamental and herbaceous beds/borders, bulbs and perennials, woodland, a truffle orchard and a fruit orchard, an aquatic garden and a meadow.
The owners are looking for a skilled and passionate gardener to work closely with them in the planning and execution of new and exciting horticultural projects and who, in their absence, will take charge of the projects, progress them and show initiative as required. The property offers scope for further development gardening-wise and the projects currently include: the extension of existing borders and the creation of new ones, the creation of classical parterres as well as more informal areas of planting, building a lake with relevant planting and the creation of a wildflower meadow.
In addition to the developments, the ideal candidate will be expected to take care of the maintenance and smooth running of the grounds, sharing the duties with the existing Gardener/Groundsman. They will be responsible for daily monitoring of the property, arranging maintenance and repairs as necessary, managing all aspects of 24-hour security, arranging and receiving deliveries, amongst other duties.
He / She must be fluent and able to communicate on a daily basis in French – interviews will be conducted in French. The candidate sought will be of a mature disposition, able to deal with emergencies calmly, conscientious and willing to assume responsibility. They will have the ability to work alongside other staff and contractors and have the determination and drive to get a job done to a high standard. The ability to operate a range of garden machinery and good craft skills are also desirable for the role.
The successful candidate will have excellent plant identification skills, knowledge of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants and be fully conversant with planting methods, soil properties, pest control, pruning and cultivation. He / She will hold a horticultural qualification and a spraying certificate (PA1/ PA6) and chainsaw certificate would be an advantage however not essential. A driving licence is required for this position.
Accommodation is available for the successful applicant (and family if applicable). Pets are also welcome.
This is a fantastic opportunity for driven and hands-on Skilled Gardener /Groundsperson with enthusiasm for maintaining and enhancing the gardens of a beautiful Chateau in a rural and beautiful part of France.
SALARY: Circa €29,000 plus accommodation
LOCATION: Between Tours and Poitiers in France
JOB No: EC6227
If this Skilled Gardener/Groundsperson vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Sara Yassin on 01233 733510 or info@englishcountrygardeners.co.uk.
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