Horticulturist (Nursery)

**_Do you want your work to make a difference for NSW?_**
- Together, we create thriving environments, communities and economies._
- **Specialist Nursery Horticulture role**:

- **Ongoing Full Time Opportunity, based in Sydney’s world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens**:

- **Salary relative to experience, and ranges from $67,458 to $73,175 + super**

Our Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney team is currently seeking to appoint a **Horticulturist (Nursery)** to develop and maintain horticultural collections and displays in the nursery, including propagation of a broad range of plants, turf horticultural development, management and maintenance, landscape construction and supervision of junior staff. This horticulturalist role requires a love of the nursery environment, where care is methodical, organised and to international standards of tending to a plant and keeping it at its best health.

**About You**

In this role a key challenge would be the careful curation of a diverse range of plants (primarily tropical and subtropical, but as diverse as aquatics) in a nursery setting, including the control of pests and diseases, weed control, plant nutrition and irrigation control. You will facilitate community awareness, positive aesthetics, education and conservation.

Maintaining knowledge of an increasingly diverse range of plant collections and establishing appropriate conditions for the maintenance of horticultural collections and displays, is also vital to the success of not only the plants, but this role.

To truly succeed in the role, you will be well equipped in and enjoy a nursery setting, perhaps having worked in a botanic gardens in the past. You will also be familiar with acute data and records management.

**Essential Requirements**
- Certificate III in either Horticulture or Parks & Gardens or equivalent qualifications with experience in the maintenance of horticultural displays, pest and disease control, weed management, plant nutrition and irrigation control and in the maintenance and use of all associated plant and equipment.
- Current driver’s licence with the ability to drive manual vehicles and willingness to undertake fieldwork for extended periods of time and have the ability to lift and carry a minimum 15 kilos.
- Ability to work outside of normal working hours and on weekends if required.

For more information read the full Role Description: Horticulturalist (Nursery)

**About Us**

Transport for NSW keeps our State moving by providing safe, integrated and efficient transport systems. We put our customers at the centre of everything we do - and we do a lot. We connect people, communities and industry and manage how they use our road, rail and maritime networks and services, and active modes like walking and cycling. The work we do connects the journeys you take every day.

We are in the middle of delivering the largest transport infrastructure program in Australia's history. We work across planning, policy and procurement, harnessing data and technology to develop smarter and more adaptive transport solutions.

**The Division**

The Cities and Active Transport Division ensures our cities and neighbourhoods are integrated with transport and we make our streets and public places functional, beautiful, inclusive, and inviting for all to enjoy.

We do this through creating alignment across government on strategic outcomes and a focus on excellence in placemaking and quality design.

**To Apply**

**_ Please note, the Department of Planning & Environment (DPE) currently provides recruitment services to Transport for NSW._**

**Applications close Tuesday, 31st January 2023 at 11:55PM.**
- A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months._

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