Experienced Hard Landscaper - F246
Experienced Hard Landscaper required
Our client runs a successful landscape construction division within their well-established independent family-run business located close to the North Norfolk coast in the town of Fakenham.
They currently have a position for a Hard Landscaping professional with an eye for detail to join a landscaping team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the carrying out of pre-planned landscaping projects and will work closely with the office-based Manager and Designer who will obtain customer briefs and manage projects and budgets, so excellent communication is essential.
Once in the post, the successful candidate will also be responsible for a labourer when on-site.
Job Description:
- Organising and carrying out individual hard and soft landscaping projects efficiently, to brief and on-time.
- Ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction through excellent customer service, good communication and delivering the desired end result, Planning and setting-out of site.
- Manual hard labour such as paving areas in natural stone, bricklaying, block paving, fencing, installation of water features and pond construction etc.
- Manual soft labour such as planting and laying turf.
- Using excavators and diggers.
- Effective supervision and management of a labourer; motivate, lead and set by example.
- Upholding a high level of Health & Safety on-site, ensuring projects are carried out in a safe manner and that final construction is safe for customer use.
- Working effectively within a small team, upholding excellent communication and using initiative.
- Finishing and final touches on landscaping projects in order to uphold customer expectations; using your keen eye for detail to ensure the final result is pleasing and on-brief.
Key Skills:
- Considerable experience in hard landscaping, bricklaying and paving especially.
- Experience in more traditional crafts like flint walls would be desirable.
- Experience with soft landscaping i.e. preparing ground for turf laying and planting etc.
- A professional and approachable nature with leadership qualities.
- Full UK driving license with the ability to drive Ford Transit Tipper Vans or similar.
- A strong awareness of Health & Safety guidelines.
- Any experience using mini excavators and dumpers.
- Strong customer-service skills; the ability to forge trusting relationships with customers.
- Physically fit to undertake the manual elements for landscaping.
Additional Information:
This is a Monday-Friday position, offered at 40 hours per week with the opportunity for overtime as required.
This is a superb opportunity for someone with a passion landscaping to join a respectable and well-established North Norfolk business.
If this Experienced Hard Landscaper vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Mark Bolam on 01233 732767 or markbolam@horticruitment.com.
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Assistant Manager/Garden Centre Manager
Ref - S546
Our client has a Retail Nursery situated in a naturally attractive setting and has continued to expand, with plants accounting for 80% of sales. The nursery has developed a good customer base and are renowned for providing excellent quality plants. They are currently seeking an Assistant Manager/Garden Centre Manager who will work closely with the owners to ensure the highest standards of customer service are achieved.
Do you love working with and understand plants?
Can you deliver an eye-catching sales area?
Can you ensure a well motivated workforce?
Key points
- Effectively using the retail space to maximise sales of plants and dry goods
- Repeat ordering of stock, receiving, selling and recording
- Staff training and development, rotas and recruitment
- Ensuring the EPOS data system delivers results, sales records, margins and pricing
- Liaising with the Production Manager to ensure the nursery production is in line with sales forecast and expectations
Must haves
- Good horticultural knowledge
- Attention to detail in all daily tasks
- The ability to lead and inspire a team of staff
- A flare for creative presentation and displays
If this Assistant Manager/Garden Centre Manager vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Ruth Bolam on 01233 732767 or ruth@horticruitment.com.
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Assistant Buyer
Ref - D654
Assistant Buyer required for a leading supplier.
The Company:
Our client is a leading supplier of plant material to the British Landscaping Industry, producing an extensive range of plants which is supplemented from key suppliers to ensure they can supply a one stop shop for their clients. The company has ambitious expansion and diversification plans, which makes this an exciting time to join the business. They are currently seeking applicants that have the skills and horticultural knowledge to support the Purchasing Manager to drive the business forward and to take on a good level of responsibility.
Job Description:
- To build and maintain good relationships with existing and new suppliers
- Continually update the knowledge base of the Purchasing, Sales & Marketing teams regarding current range of items and scope for future growth
- Develop and maintain catalogues of information regarding suppliers’ range and prices
- Source new suppliers and build relationships for supply of new and exciting items
- Assist with supplier selection based on price, quality, capacity and reliability
- To ensure the quality and specification of all items purchased meet the agreed standards
- Assist in the administration process for adding new lines
- Support with purchasing, negotiation and tendering process in other areas of the business as required
Key Skills:
The appointed person will possess good horticultural knowledge, strong numeracy and analytical skills, excellent negotiation skills and be highly organised with the ability to prioritize and allocate time effectively.
This position is office based with supplier visits as required to the UK and Europe, working Monday to Friday 8.00 – 5.00 with additional hours as necessary during peak trading times.
If this Assistant Buyer vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Ruth Bolam on 01233 732767 or ruth@horticruitment.com.
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Horticulture and Patio Manager - S265
The Company:
Our client is developing its brand-new garden centre and restaurant which is due to be operational running during the Spring of 2020. Currently being built, the garden centre will create a location and environment for visitors to Southend to shop, indulge, visit, enjoy and relax. This new build is looking to recruit an experienced Horticulture and Patio Manager. Delivering on the job description, the role will suit someone who wants to play a major part as part of the management team in the centre’s development, growth and strategy. This is no ordinary garden centre departmental role, they are looking for someone who ticks all the boxes, with a real passion, with the opportunity to inject their own personality into the department.
The garden centre has a strong plants base, built over the years by its original nursery and this is supported by a brand-new restaurant due to open in August 2020, a large gardening and patio/landscape range, and a very strong pet influence with their own brand pet shop.
The Horticulture and Patio Manager will be responsible for the plant, nursery and patio parts of the business, whilst also supporting the management team and the combined retail team across the whole centre as a duty manager. They will also be responsible for their departmental turnover and margins, control of the department’s overhead budget lines and managing purchases.
Job Description:
Financial Performance:
- Supports Company in building budgets and targets.
- Drives sales to achieve budgets and targets.
- Takes ownership and responsibility for managing all areas of profit, loss and controllable costs within their department.
- Implements appropriate measures to control costs and increase turnover.
- Works with the management team to ensure staff schedules manage the payroll costs effectively and flexibly by monitoring wage costs vs turnover on a weekly basis to achieve garden centre and departmental budget payroll.
- Is responsible for buying and selection of the range throughout the plants and patio departments.
- Controls stock levels effectively throughout their departments to maximise sales whilst managing wastage costs in line with expected gross margin targets.
- Ensures that correct margins are implemented as per budget
- Supportive of indoor manager with being responsible for cash management and banking procedures throughout the centre.
Leading a Team:
- Leads by example and promotes effective team working.
- Inspires, motivates, and develops the team to optimise individual performance.
- Demonstrate an enthusiastic, proactive and flexible approach motivating team ownership and care.
- Ensures performance and attendance issues are managed fairly and consistently, in line with company policy (Bradford factor).
- Communicates with the team effectively.
- Ensures all retail staff complete the induction programme.
- Ensures all colleagues are trained on all processes and procedures relevant to their job role to support service, standards and health and safety.
Operations:
- Ensures stock processes are in place to maintain margin expectations.
- Completes departmental and garden centre stocktake alongside the management team.
- Communicates effectively throughout the garden centre staff.
- Communicates information regarding compliance effectively as required.
- Carries out any other duties that may be outside the standard remit, that will benefit the Company as a whole.
- Responsible for working with the Management in issuing and managing key holding duties, including themselves.
- Undertakes appropriate training/coaching deemed relevant for the role.
- Demonstrating brand values of Passion, Inspiration and Expertise.
Customer Experience:
- Leads from the front in driving the highest standard of customer service to ensure it is consistently achieved.
- Review customer experience given by the team and provide ongoing training and coaching.
- Resolves customer complaints effectively and in a timely manner.
- Provide relevant training and support to colleagues to inspire them to achieve targets and deliver an excellent customer service experience, including for continuous improvements.
- Works with the management team to ensure staff schedules/rotas fall in line with sales trends to achieve targets and maintain excellent customer service.
Health, Safety, Hygiene and Compliance:
- Over aching responsibility for the health and safety within the plants and patio departments, including managing and monitoring compliance to Health & Safety Legislation, Policy and Procedures throughout the garden centre (Training to be provided where identified).
- Ensure that team members have full understanding of their role in health and safety, the Health and Safety at Work Act and procedures and ensure that any changes to practices are fully communicated
- Ensure the accidents are logged and that preventative measures are actioned as required.
Candidate requirements:
- Leads from the front
- Set the standard for service across all departments
- Commercially aware to drive and make changes to increase sales
- Experience horticulturist within a garden centre environment.
- Shows examples for responsibility for achieving targets and results
- Has product buying and negotiation experience
- Create and maintain an outstanding shopping experience for customers
- Operationally strong to duty manage in a diverse role
- Ensure high Visual standards at all times
- IT literate, with capability to use EPOS systems
- Experience in legislative and business standards and procedures e.g. licensing law, health and safety and cash management knowledge plus the administration required to ensure compliance.
- Will show experience in being accountable for processes, compliance, management and overhead control, including ordering, pricing, cash management, HR and health & safety.
It will be important for the garden centre team to work together to maximise sales and control costs to enable it to establish itself efficiently, with the Horticulture Manager being a core driver of this. Strong leadership, communication, teamwork and sharing responsibility will be essential to make this work for the garden centre.
Management will be required to work a minimum of alternate weekends.
If this Horticulture and Patio Manager vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Mark Bolam on 01233 732767 or markbolam@horticruitment.com
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Head Gardener - EC9533
An incredible opportunity has arisen for a Head Gardener with design, implementation and development experience to create a beautiful heritage orchard and kitchen garden on the edge of Bristol. This exciting project will be on a two-year contract full time with accommodation provided.
The site was a 14th century dairy farm and orchard converted into a 1950s 5-bed farmhouse with about 2 acres of grass. The new owners have a vision to create 4 eco-homes sharing a beautiful working garden. They wish to explore ideas for a heritage orchard with mixed fruit trees, walled garden with trellis fruit, automated greenhouse providing fresh produce. They are motivated by eco-friendly approaches to reduce maintenance and increase biodiversity, family engagement with child-friendly environment, preserving native wildflower & wildlife habitat, robustness to climate change.
The Head Gardener will work closely with the owners and architects to create a 2-year plan for the garden in line with their aspirations and implement the plan to create an extraordinary garden. There will be contractors and landscapers (for the hard landscaping) working onsite. The successful applicant will have good communications skills and ability to work alongside other staff. He / She will be very hands on in their role, organised and able to plan and prioritise the workload.
Applicants will ideally have a minimum level 2 horticultural qualification combined with excellent plant and tree knowledge as well as experience with developing gardens. Experience with implementing a kitchen garden and growing fruit and vegetables is essential. The ability to operate a wide range of garden machinery and good craft skills are also desired for the role.
The Head Gardener will be provided with a budget to source plants, garden machinery and any equipment required hence prior budget management experience is required.
The property onsite, a 5-bedroom farmhouse, will be available for sole occupancy of the Head Gardener to live in for the first year. But as construction starts in second year, the Head Gardener will likely be required to move to temporary accommodation onsite. Accommodation will be provided for the full two years of the contract with council tax and water & electricity bills covered by the employer.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven and knowledgeable Head Gardener with a creative flair and prior experience developing gardens to put their name to the creation of a beautiful garden.
SALARY: Circa £35,000
LOCATION: Near Bristol
JOB No: EC9533
If this Head Gardener vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Sara Yassin on 01233 733510 or info@englishcountrygardeners.co.uk.
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Recruitment Consultant
Recruitment Consultant position at Horticruitment (UK) Ltd
Working Hours: 08:30 – 17:00 Monday - Friday
Salary + Commission: £30,000 -£35,000 DOE
Contract: Permanent
Who we are?
Horticruitment (UK) Ltd is a niche recruitment agency with its primary focus on placing skilled and experienced candidates across all sectors of the horticultural industry. We are a responsible modern organisation, with best practice a fundamental part of our 30-year history. We believe that excellent client and candidate management can only be achieved by making staff motivation and well-being a top priority. Horticruitment (UK) Ltd has significant growth planned over the next 3 years with a firm focus on business development across all horticultural sectors.
Over Horticruitment’s 30-year history we have sourced candidates from either a recruitment background or direct from the horticultural industry with work experience in any one of the following sectors: garden centre retail, nursery, landscape and arboriculture.
30 years of permanent recruitment built by great people!
Your working environment?
Our modern open planned office is in the rural location of Kenardington and is a 5-minute journey from Hamstreet Train Station, and a 10-minute direct link to Ashford International Station. We have several meeting areas to include a conference and training room, an open more relaxed space as well as an outside break area to enjoy pleasant weather and fresh air for all employees.
What a consultant’s role for Horticruitment (UK) Ltd involves;
• An end-to-end recruitment process, working closely with clients and delivering a streamlined and efficient recruitment process
• To have a good understanding of the horticultural sectors
• Write job descriptions and adverts, along with social media (LinkedIn and Twitter being the main platforms)
• Carry out pre-screening, telephone interviewing and arrange face to face interviews
• High level of customer service
• Always looking for opportunities to drive performance
• To build and establish relationships
• A good knowledge in the use of Word, Excel, and Outlook and ability to use a CRM information system including, accessing, inputting and compiling data.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, along with excellent IT skills
• Work within tight and conflicting time frames, responding to queries from candidates, external agencies and hiring managers.
• To handle confidential information and sensitive matters
• To support your colleagues, working together, building strong working relationships and ultimately being part of a strong unified working environment.
Thank you for the interest you have shown in this Recruitment Consultant vacancy. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications that we receive, it is not possible to respond to every one. Therefore, unless you hear from us within the next 14 days, your application for this Recruitment Consultant vacancy will have been unsuccessful.
Senior Gardener - EC8416 - This position has now been filled
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Senior Gardener to join a stunning private estate near Epping in Essex. This role would suit an academically qualified and experienced gardener with the drive and initiative to manage a horticulturally diverse garden to a very high standard.
The beautiful 22-acre private estate has had the input of respected garden designers and artists in recent years, and the owners plan to continue to develop the property with the assistance of the successful applicant. The current Senior Gardener has developed the garden significantly and to a high standard but is now moving on in order to be closer to family.
The garden comprises formal and informal lawns, an orchard, hot border, a large lake, rose parterres, shrub and herbaceous borders, climbing wisteria, box and mixed topiary, and a kitchen garden. The garden also includes, and is surrounded by, a variety of mature exotic and native tree species which provide depth and character throughout the estate. The Senior Gardener will be required to manage one full-time Assistant Gardener and will benefit from occasional assistance from the housekeeper in the garden where necessary. The successful applicant must also be able to work with the garden consultant/designer and the property owner in relation to further garden development.
Applicants for this position should hold academic horticultural qualifications, preferably at Level 3 or above, extensive experience of gardening on private estates and good plant/horticultural knowledge in general. The ability to work to a high degree of detail is essential, as is the willingness to assist with other estate duties alongside the estate team when necessary. Applicants should hold demonstrable experience in each of the above garden areas and be keen to pass on their knowledge to the full-time Assistant Gardener.
In addition to a Level 3 Horticultural qualification (or above), suitable applicants will ideally hold certificates in spraying (PA1/PA6) and must be able to undertake basic routine machinery maintenance (strimmers, mowers and hedge cutters etc.) when required. Applicants should hold a full UK driving licence, must be physically fit, presentable, friendly and positive in their outlook to maintain the warm and welcoming atmosphere of the estate.
SALARY: Circa £35,000 DOE
LOCATION: Nr Epping, Essex
JOB No: EC8416
If this Senior Gardener vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Mark Read on 01233 733510 or mark.read@englishcountrygardeners.co.uk.
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Plantarea Manager
Ref - K203
An exciting opportunity exists for a Plantarea Manager to join a modern new build garden centre providing a superb range of unique garden plants, houseplants, gift & homeware. Stocking everything from cacti to spring bulbs, flowers and trees, this centre has plants for many different types of soils and terrain, from a traditional English rose to exotic orchids, supplied by a dedicated team of staff.
Do you have excellent plant and product knowledge?
Can you provide a good level of merchandising and displays?
Can you lead and inspire a team by example?
Key points
- Purchasing of a wide range of trees, shrubs and seasonal line
- Merchandising and displays of all plant stock
- Providing excellent customer sales and service
- Maintaining accurate stocking levels according to seasonal demands
- Maintaining a good level of housekeeping throughout
Must haves
- An eye for detail presentation and displays
- The ability to lead and inspire the team
- A sound knowledge of Horticulture along with relevant qualification
- A hands-on practical approach to all tasks
If this Plantarea Manager vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Ruth Bolam on 01233 732767 or ruth@horticruitment.com.
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Horticulture Manager - S296
Horticulture Manager required
Our client has a fresh and modern highly successful Garden Centre where you will be inspired by their fantastic range of plants and stunning displays, allowing the customer to bring their garden to life with a vast selection of flowers, plants, trees, shrubs and bulbs. They currently have an exciting vacancy for a Horticultural Manager who will manage a horticultural team in creating and maintaining all year round fantastic plant displays.
Can you provide excellent visual merchandising standards?
Are you a dedicated team leader able to inspire others?
Are you confident to reach targets and provide excellent customer sales and service?
Key points
- Implements seasonal changes and range reviews within company time lines
- Maintain the expected visual merchandising standards, seeking to inspire the customer
- Oversee the management of stock and control wastage to achieve sales figures
- Responsible for engaging with local suppliers and purchasing of stock
- Acts as a role model to colleagues to ensure a high standard of customer service is delivered
- Set clear directions with the team to deliver objectives as agreed with the General Manager
Must haves
- Previous management experience within garden centre retailing
- A high level of plant knowledge and experience and or relevant qualification
- Be a strategic thinker with the ability to enhance processes to improve efficiency
- Be energetic and inspiring with the ability to get the best out of your team
If this Horticulture Manager vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Sara Yassin on 01233 732767 or sara@horticruitment.com.
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Couple
Couple required
A rare opportunity has arisen for a Skilled Gardener to take ownership of an impressive private garden near Wye in Kent, with 2-3hrs/day housekeeping duties offered to a partner. Applications are sought from suitable couples with experience in each respective area. The minimal housekeeping duties will allow the candidate their own time to maintain other activities for most of each day, i.e. working from home etc.
The stunning Georgian property is owned by a family of six and has benefitted from management by a gardener for the past 41-years, though the present owners have only been in the property for the last three years. The current Gardener will be moving to a nearby house in early 2021 and whilst nearing retirement age will continue to work in the garden alongside a new Gardener, who in time will take over full time. This is therefore an excellent opportunity for a skilled and knowledgeable gardener to move into a position of responsibility, or for an experienced Sole/Senior Gardener to take on an attractive new role on a live-in basis, alongside their partner.
The large historic property encompasses approximately 20-acres of lawns, woodland, a river and a stream, mixed bed/borders and flower beds. The gardens require full time attention from the gardener and although the woods are maintained by contractors, they would still require some basic maintenance at times. Duties include mowing of the lawns (approximately 1.5 days per week), hedge cutting, flower bed maintenance, edging, weed control, stream clearing, shrubbery maintenance, management of herbaceous borders, roses, ornamental pots, riverside plantings, plus other general garden maintenance duties. There is currently no kitchen garden on site and no plans to create one, however glasshouse and plant propagation will be required and as such, applicants must have experience in raising plants from cuttings and seed. There is also a regular requirement for 'handyman' jobs around the estate, though the primary focus of the role is gardening and horticulture. Help from an assistant gardener in the summer months is available in one section of the garden, on a limited basis.
Suitable candidates for the Gardener role will have strong horticultural knowledge and time management skills, ideally with experience in a similar position; either in a position of seniority and/or responsibility as a Sole Gardener. Good strength and physical fitness are essential as the role may involve heavy lifting and extended periods of hedge cutting with machinery, for example. Applicants should have experience in the operation and basic maintenance of machinery, such as cylinder and ride-on mowers, long-reach hedge cutters and ideally, chainsaws. Experience in species-specific pruning (including roses), basic plant pest and disease control and plant propagation is required, as well as a positive attitude and an ability to work alongside the property owners in a creative and constructive way. The successful candidate will be easy to get on with, have good interpersonal and social skills, be proactive, loyal, a hard worker, gets on well with children and is reliable and trustworthy.
Housekeeping duties will be general and basic, such that professional experience in this area is not required, though always beneficial. A combined salary will be offered as stated below, with accommodation provided. A DBS/criminal background check will be asked of the successful candidate.
SALARY: Circa £35,000 + Accommodation
LOCATION: Kent
JOB No: EC23855
If this Couple vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Mark Read on 01233 733510 or info@englishcountrygardeners.co.uk.
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