Maintenance Gardener
Maintenance Gardener required
Job Ref S399
A new opportunity has arisen for a Maintenance Gardener with an established and successful company, based in West Berkshire. Working alongside many of the national house builders, this company take on projects ranging from small exclusive developments to plot by plot for 500 units plus. They also provide professional grounds maintenance services to a range of clients in many industries and sectors, from business and retail parks to schools, hotels and more. With the companies’ accreditations, extensive array of equipment and with the majority of employees having CSCS cards, the teams undertake a variety of contracts throughout the area and beyond. This is an excellent opportunity for someone new to the industry, ideally with some experience in garden maintenance, landscaping, or associated sectors.
The role will involve working within a team, maintaining borders, lawn mowing, strimming, hedge cutting, pruning, weeding, shrub planting, sports pitch maintenance etc. Good communication skills, enthusiasm for working within a team, and good physical fitness are essential as the position can involve working across multiple areas and some heavy lifting from time to time.
Applicants will ideally have some basic knowledge of plant species commonly used in commercial planting schemes, experience in grounds/garden maintenance, must be able to follow instructions when on site and to work within the established health and safety parameters.
Benefits include 28 days paid holiday (including Bank Holidays) and a pension scheme. This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established multidisciplinary company, and to develop your career with a talented team, under the supervision of an experienced Team Leader.
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Plantarea Manager
Plantarea Manager required
Job Ref E670
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Plantarea Manager to deliver outstanding service and merchandising standards at a garden centre located in the Chiltern Hills, department turnover approx. £850k.
The successful candidate will be managing a team of 6 ensuring high standards are achieved throughout the plantarea department. He / She will be responsible for assisting the Centre Manager to ensure the department runs both efficiently and effectively in terms of merchandising, replenishment and housekeeping across the garden centre.
The Plantarea Manager will adhere to health and safety requirements at all times. He / She will train, motivate and coach members of the department to perform to their best and provide an outstanding customer experience. They will share product knowledge and selling skills expertise with the team to optimise the team's capability to answer customer queries and to upsell as well as work hands on with team members and promote the importance and benefits of effective team working and demonstrating a positive leadership style with an enthusiastic, positive, committed and flexible attitude.
It is important to work collaboratively with other departments regarding cross-merchandising. helping to give customers ideas and link-selling. Working as a team to maximise sales and service within the department by delivering excellent standards of customer service at all times by listening, understanding and dealing with customer queries in a confident, professional, knowledgeable and friendly manner. As well as building and maintaining excellent working relationships with internal and external contacts.
This role would suit a hands-on leader with a passion for delivering a memorable customer service experience.
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Grounds Maintenance Team Leader
Grounds Maintenance Team Leader
Job Ref S281
Our client is an established landscape company based near Reading in Berkshire which provides a range of landscaping and grounds maintenance services to their clients. Their customer base is spread throughout Berkshire and surrounding counties including Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire and includes both commercial companies and homeowners.
The company are in search of a Grounds Maintenance Team Leader to take day to day responsibility for supervising a dedicated maintenance team of 2, working for both commercial and domestic customers. This will involve managing standards, supervising work and providing on-site training. Other specific responsibilities will include:
-Planning and organising work schedules and resources.
-Ensuring work is completed safely, to the quality expected, and within agreed time frames.
-Ensure all equipment and machinery is well maintained and in good working order.
-Provide training to team members as and when required.
-To establish and maintain good working relationships with customers
This is a hands-on role and it is important therefore that candidates should have good technical and practical skills in grounds and garden maintenance including: mowing, strimming, hedge cutting, general garden clearance, pruning, planting, bed preparation etc.
Applicants must be hardworking and reliable, have good leadership and problem solving and communication skills, and must have the ability to plan and organise work making the most effective use of resources. A full UK driving licence is essential, and a horticultural qualification Level 2 or above highly desirable.
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Soft Landscape Team Leader
Soft Landscape Team Leader
Job Ref S404
A new opportunity has arisen for an experienced soft landscape team leader with an established and successful company, based in West Berkshire. Working alongside many of the national house builders, this company take on projects ranging from small exclusive developments to plot by plot for 500 units plus. With their accreditations, extensive array of equipment and with the majority of employees having CSCS cards, the teams undertake a variety of contracts throughout the area and beyond. This vacancy is for a Team Leader to work alongside and supervise two assistants within the soft landscaping division.
The role will involve implementing basic planting plans on new-build housing complexes and estates, in supervision of two assistants. Time management and physical fitness are essential as the position can involve planting across multiple areas and some heavy lifting, e.g., tree planting.
Applicants will ideally have experience in commercial soft landscaping and possess good knowledge of plant species commonly used in commercial planting schemes. The successful applicant should be able to work from planting plans and be able to constructively manage and develop the skills of assistant soft landscapers / maintenance gardeners. Applicants must have experience in a comparable role, be competent with a range of garden machinery, and must possess a full driving licence.
Benefits include 28 days paid holiday (including Bank Holidays) and a pension scheme. A van is provided for work purposes. This is an excellent opportunity to join a well-established multidisciplinary company, and to develop your career alongside a talented team.
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Senior Gardener
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a talented and well-rounded horticulturist to manage one assistant on a beautiful private estate near Hungerford. This role will suit academically qualified gardeners with demonstrable experience on private estates at Senior or Sole Gardener level.
Recently purchased by the new owners, this quintessentially English country house and grounds of 32-acres comprise a beautiful main house with a coach house and lodge, surrounded on all sides by woodland, rolling landscape, a lake and managed gardens. The formal aspect includes a greenhouse, specimen trees, expansive areas of lawn, a kitchen garden (with chickens), mixed and herbaceous beds and borders, cutting flowers, a swimming pool and tennis court, gravel driveways, terraces with pot plants and climbers all set within picturesque grassland and woodland that allows privacy on all sides.
One assistant gardener currently manages the gardens following the recent retirement of the previous Senior Gardener. As such, it is the aim of the client to have the successful applicant start work as soon as is reasonably possible, in time for spring. The Senior Gardener will be responsible for the Assistant Gardener and for all aspects the gardens including each of the above areas, i.e., kitchen gardening, plant propagation and cut flower production, machinery operation and basic maintenance, health and safety, ground-based tree work, development of new garden areas and associated planting design.
Applicants for this role must be physically fit, hands-on, and talented horticulturists with a very well-rounded knowledge of garden management. Strong ornamental plant knowledge is essential, as is an ability to carry out species-specific pruning, soil treatment/management, pest and disease control and the safe operation and basic maintenance of a range of garden machinery. An academic horticultural qualification at RHS level 3 or equivalent/above is desired, as is the ability to operate a chainsaw safely, though the latter will not discount otherwise suitable applicants as training can be provided. Experience in kitchen gardening and plant propagation/glasshouse work and cut flower production is required, alongside a demonstrable ability to carry out efficient seasonal garden management and planning. Due to the rural location of the property and the potential requirement for some driving duties, a full driving licence is required of all applicants.
As this is a position of responsibility on a private estate, applicants should be willing and able to contribute to the smooth running of the estate in the owner’s absence, and to always assist where possible. Candidates with a willingness and an ability to check and monitor non-horticultural aspects of the house and grounds, i.e., basic swimming pool maintenance, occasional driving, estate handyman duties etc. are encouraged to apply. Discretion is of the utmost importance in this role, so applicants with experience of managing private gardens for HNW clients are sought.
This role is offered with on-site accommodation; however, the property in which the Senior Gardener will initially live is undergoing refurbishment while another property is being built on site. Upon completion of the new property, the Senior Gardener will be offered this accommodation (unfurnished). Rent is covered by the employer, with utility bills the responsibility of the tenant.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled, qualified, and experienced horticulturist to take the lead on a truly stunning garden on a permanent basis. Applications are sought from experienced Sole/Senior and Head Gardeners in search of genuine reward for their talent and a garden in which to achieve their full potential. The role will require hard work and dedication and will offer proportional reward and pride to the successful candidate.
SALARY: £30,000 - £32,000 + Accommodation
LOCATION: Hungerford, West Berkshire
JOB No: EC26452
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Hard Landscaping Foreman
Hard Landscaping Foreman required
Ref No X942
Our client is an award-winning design, build and maintenance company located near Reading with the added benefit of their own plant nursery. They have been transforming gardens for over 30 years.
An exciting opportunity has become available for a skilled hard landscaper with previous foreman experience to lead a team and complete high-end landscaping projects.
The successful candidate will have a minimum of 10 years of experience in hard landscaping, and be fully qualified and experienced in paving, fencing, brick / blockwork, timber decking, composite decking, turfing and planting. He / She will lead a team of 3 – 7 and oversee all aspects of the quality of work. Responsibilities include liaising directly with the client as required, reading and setting out to scale drawings and working to specifications. He / She will be confident using a range of garden machinery and power tools. A full driving licence is required for the role.
The role is a full time, permanent position and the hours of work are 7.30 am to 4.30 pm. A work vehicle will be provided for travel to and from work and for work activities. Benefits include training opportunities, 28 days holiday and a company pension scheme.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced hard landscaping foreman to join a driven and motivated team and work on exciting high-end project.
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Skilled Gardener
A rare and wonderful opportunity has arisen for a Skilled Gardener to assist with the management of a celebrated seven-acre private garden on the Berkshire Downs, located between Newbury and Wantage in Oxfordshire. The garden has been recognised by a very significant critic, that it ‘quintessentially exemplifies the qualities and traditions of the English garden. Very recently, in a competition organised by The English Garden Magazine and the National Garden Scheme for the Nation’s favourite of the 3500 NGS gardens, it was nominated in the final 30.
The devoted owners have been resident at the property for over 50 years, with the lady of the house – herself very well respected in the industry - dedicating her time to the garden on most days, alongside three other part-time gardeners. The garden is open on a regular basis as part of the NGS, as well as for private tours by appointment. The owners are now looking for an energetic, physically fit, skilled and enthusiastic gardener to assist with management of the garden on a full-time, permanent and live-in basis.
The seven-acre garden consists of a series of garden rooms that include herbaceous borders, an arboretum, kitchen garden, bog garden, and greenhouses. The property itself dates from the mid-seventeen hundreds and provides a picture-perfect centre point for the stunning and horticulturally diverse gardens.
Ideal applicants will have comprehensive hands-on experience within a large private garden of a similar nature. The successful candidate will be willing to work on their own as well as with the owners, and with additional part-time help. Applicants must therefore possess the ability to work on their own initiative whilst being sensitive to the garden theme and associated preferences of the owners.
Candidates for this position will ideally hold an academic horticultural qualification at RHS Level 3 or equivalent/above, with PA1/PA6 spray certificates being an advantage. Certification of chainsaw competence is desirable but not essential. Other duties besides gardening will include general estate DIY tasks and responsibility for the security of the property when the owners are away. The property is located in a very rural area on the top of the Berkshire Downs; therefore, a car and full driving licence are essential requirements.
This is a wonderful opportunity for a passionate and skilled gardener to play a key role in a traditional, beautiful and horticulturally diverse English country garden that has been painstakingly yet lovingly developed over the past 50 years by the devoted owners.
This position is offered with accommodation by way of a very well presented and recently refurbished two-bedroom cottage with its own garden, located just inside the main gate at the end of a short driveway. Council tax is covered by the client. Children and partners are welcome, though dogs must be kept indoors or in kennels when the gardens are open to the public and must be under strict management at all other times. Working hours are typically 08:00 – 17:00 with the expected seasonal variation where applicable, with 20 days holiday (plus bank holidays).
If this Skilled Gardener vacancy is of interest, please apply or contact Mark Read on 01233 733510 or info@englishcountrygardeners.co.uk.
SALARY: Circa £25,000 depending on experience
LOCATION: West Berkshire Downs
JOB No: EC21674
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Maintenance Gardener
Maintenance Gardener required
Job Ref B888
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a gardener to work for an established company in the Reading area, Berkshire. The company has been in business for over 26 years and offers a range of services, primarily to domestic clients.
The ideal candidate will hold a good level of gardening experience, have good plant knowledge, experience with a range of grounds maintenance equipment and will be used to working with common garden plants and features. The role will primarily involve acting as a mobile gardener, working under and alongside the existing small team of likeminded employees.
You must be conscientious, well presented, able to work under your own initiative and have a positive attitude when it comes to working with your colleagues, and of course for the company’s loyal client base. A good sense of humour is always important. You must have experience with hedge cutting, lawn maintenance, pruning, planting, bed/border management and be willing to undertake other gardening maintenance tasks as they arise. A spray certificate (PA1/PA6) is beneficial but not essential. A full UK driving licence is essential for this role.
The standard working week will consist of 44 hours with any overtime paid at time and a half. An hourly rate of £10.25 is offered to the successful candidate until successful completion of a three month probation period, after which the rate will increase to £10.60/hr, equating to an annual salary of £24,252.
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Experienced Gardener
Experienced Gardener required
An enthusiastic hands-on gardener is required to join a small team on my client’s beautiful family home in Newbury, West Berkshire. This rare opportunity will involve assisting with the garden management of a historic property on a full-time permanent basis. This is an excellent opportunity for an energetic gardener with a desire to work within a close-knit team and for very welcoming owners. The successful applicant will work with two part-time assistants as well as external contractors where necessary, alongside/under the direction of an existing Senior Gardener.
The historic property encompasses 23-acres including 3-acres of garden, 4-acres of woodland and 16-acres of paddocks. The gardens are made up of several rooms containing large herbaceous borders, many varieties of roses (including wall-trained climbing roses), extensive lawns, terraces with container planting, a croquet lawn, ornamental planting, mature trees throughout (cedar, beech, chestnut and impressive lime avenues) and areas of managed woodland. The less formal areas of the garden, including the hedgerows and woodland, are being developed specifically to encourage wildlife. Amenities include an En Tout Cas tennis court and a saltwater swimming pool. The property does not have a kitchen garden and there is no requirement for plant propagation work. The surrounding paddocks are managed by a local farmer, and the hedges managed by local tree surgeons.
As a member of the team, the successful candidate will also be expected to assist with ad-hoc estate duties such as recycling, stocking the house with logs for the fire, basic swimming pool maintenance/monitoring when in use, feeding the hens and other similar tasks as and when they arise. This is a family home with a friendly team of staff so applicants must possess a positive can-do attitude and the desire to settle into a genuinely enjoyable role on a long-term basis. A desire to learn and to exchange knowledge is important, as is a natural desire to work hard and well within a team.
Suitable applicants will need to have a good grounding in horticulture with experience in the operation of a full range of garden machinery. A good level of physical fitness is essential for this role. Academic horticultural qualifications would be beneficial but not essential if relevant experience can be demonstrated. Spraying certificates (PA1/PA6) and a certificate of chainsaw competence are desired, as is experience in a similar role within a private home/estate. A full driving licence and your own transport are required due to the rural location of the property.
SALARY: £26,000 - £28,000 DOE
LOCATION: Newbury, Berkshire
JOB No: EC19759
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Experienced Gardener
A new opportunity has arisen for an experienced gardener to join a developing private estate near Hungerford, West Berkshire. This role will suit a skilled and academically qualified gardener with a desire to be part of an exciting project alongside a leading garden design team.
The estate covers approximately 50-acres in total, with 25-acres being dedicated to the garden to varying degrees of formality. The highly maintained gardens comprise wide herbaceous and grass borders, herb gardens, a large kitchen garden and walled gardens, wider shrub and woodland planting around a lake, with extensive natural woodlands, natural swimming ponds and water meadows. The new garden areas are expected to be completed by the end of next year.
Working under the direction of the Head Gardener, the successful candidate will work alongside the garden design team and landscape contractors to help implement the new aspects of the gardens as well as ensure the maintenance of established areas. The role will also involve general garden maintenance such as mowing, hedge cutting, strimming, pruning etc. in addition to the maintenance of all plantings, weed control, staking/wire supports, assistance within the woodland areas, maintenance of all lawn areas, wildflower areas and water meadows, seasonal bulb and pot planting, seed collection and propagation, maintenance of all drives, paths, terrace and tracks, maintaining the irrigation system, mulching, maintenance of garden features e.g. water features, sculptures, seating, checking drains, the maintenance of equipment, composting of waste on site, assisting with vegetable, fruit, nut and cut flower production in the kitchen garden, maintenance of a natural swimming pond as well as general estate maintenance where necessary.
Suitable candidates will ideally hold academic horticultural qualifications at RHS Level 2 or above/equivalent as well as experience as a Skilled Gardener on private estates. Applicants should have good horticultural knowledge as well as some experience in plant propagation and kitchen gardening. Physical fitness is essential as is an ability to safely operate garden machinery. Chainsaw and chemical spray certificates would be beneficial.
This is an excellent opportunity to join an impressive private estate at an exciting stage of a new project, and to work alongside a leading team of garden designers. The role does not come with accommodation so applicants will ideally live within a reasonable commute of Inkpen, Hungerford.
SALARY:£27,000-£28,000
LOCATION:Hungerford, West Berkshire
JOB No:EC17925
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