Assistant Nursery Manager - K624
Our client has established a successful wholesale bedding and pot plant nursery supplying contract grown plants to local authorities, landscapers, pubs and restaurants and commercial premises.
Are you confident in your abilities to oversee all aspects of nursery operations?
Do you have a proactive and dynamic approach?
Can you work to deadlines and deliver high standards of plant maintenance and care?
Key points
- Daily management of nursery operations
- Organising and managing the despatch team
- Creating production schedules
- Contacting and responding to all customer enquiries
- Pursuing new business opportunities
Must haves
- Previous experience of nursery operations
- Good IT skills
- A proactive and dynamic approach to all tasks
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
If this position is of interest please apply or contact Pauline Thomas on 01233 732767 or pauline@horticruitment.com
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Thank you for the interest you have shown in this Assistant Nursery Manager 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 Assistant Nursery Manager vacancy will have been unsuccessful.
Gardener - ADV230 - Apply Direct to Advertiser
We are a small team of enthusiastic gardeners with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. To be our ideal candidate, you will have experience of working in a historic garden as part of a team, as well as being comfortable with working on your own. Using you initiative you will have the opportunity to lead in caring for your own areas of the garden, taking the chance to enjoy maintaining them to a standard which makes you feel proud, and improving them through planting and design.
We have a mixture of topiary and formal hedges which the whole team work together to maintain. You’ll also be happy to muck in with the day to day tasks of mowing, weeding, dead-heading, and edging up, to make sure that we keep the whole garden looking beautiful all year round.
Our ideal candidate has a minimum level 2 horticultural qualification and two years’ experience working in historic gardens. If this sounds like the perfect job for you, and for further information please get in touch!
Head Gardener - Live Out - EC4216
A superb opportunity has arisen for an experienced Head Gardener who has excellent plant knowledge and wide-ranging horticultural skills to supervise a team of 2/3 gardeners in managing the garden and grounds of a Grade 2 listed country estate in South Warwickshire. The garden is approximately 10 acres in size and has a number of themes such as walled garden, orchard, open parkland, wild flower meadows and extensive water garden. The garden is open to the public for an annual NGS open day and other private events.
Applicants will need to demonstrate comprehensive hands on experience in a similar role managing a large private garden to the highest of standards. Therefore you will ideally have a horticultural qualification to minimum of RHS level 2 and ability to manage the grounds with minimal supervision. Your primary responsibility will be the upkeep of various different compartments of the garden with an emphasis on the greenhouse and borders.
The owners are keen gardeners and work alongside current staff and wish to maintain the happy working environment that exists in the garden. Applicants will therefore need to be able to work not only with the owners but also alongside the two other grounds staff as team work is paramount. Part of the role would also be working with the gardeners to share and teach new skills as they are both keen to learn and develop their knowledge.
Other key attributes for the role are enthusiasm, sense of humour and pride in your work.
Whilst the garden is well established there are a number of ongoing projects meaning that the appointed Head Gardener will need to be flexible in his or her approach to work and willing to adapt to regular change and variation in the garden work as it is regarded by the owner as a ‘Garden in Motion’.
ACCOMMODATION: Live out position
SALARY: Circa £36,000 – £40000 dependant on experience and qualifications
LOCATION: Between Stratford upon Avon and Moreton in the Marsh
JOB No: EC4216
If this position is of interest please apply or contact Mark Hudson on 01233 733510 or mark.hudson@englishcountrygardeners.co.uk
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Cash & Carry Supervisor - S472
Are you interested to join a Wholesale Cash & Carry Nursery who’s mission is to provide a tailored first class service?
Would you enjoy sourcing a wide range of plant material from nurseries UK and abroad?
Can you take responsibility for all customer enquiries and sales?
Key points
•Ensuring customers have an excellent experience on each contact or visit
•Taking responsibility for plant husbandry and presentation to the highest standards
•Ensuring an appropriate solution to all sales enquiries
•Supporting the Director in driving forward all areas of the business
Must haves
•Extensive Plant knowledge
•Proven experience in a nursery or plantarea environment
•Be a team player with a can do attitude
•Computer literate ideally with experience of Growmaster or other nursery software
If the Cash & Carry Supervisor vacancy is of interest please apply or contact Pauline Thomas on 01233 732767 or pauline@horticruitment.com
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Thank you for the interest you have shown in this Cash & Carry Supervisor 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 the Cash & Carry Supervisor vacancy will have been unsuccessful.