Head Gardener

**We are hiring**

**We are looking for full-time and part-time lead gardener.**
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Company: Yarra Gardening Solutions

We are a very innovative company and provide a fresh outlook to gardening and home care.
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**Benefits**:

- Competitive rates - Gardner $30, Lead Gardener $35-39.99, Apprentice $25 with opportunity for end of year bonus.
- Help with setup of ABN if you have ambitions to works as a sole trader.
- Flexibility of work and hours.
- Localised work and no long travels (get home early and on same time everyday).
- Opportunity for growth with and within the company.
- Autonomy to run your own show and lead other gardeners in your team.
- Dynamic and Flexible work culture.

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**Duties**:

- Garden services including: pruning, weeding, leaf and rubbish removal.
- Using brush cutter/whipper snippers.
- Blowing leaves/debris.
- Removing/spraying weeds.
- Raking/sweeping up green waste.

Key Personality requirements:
Enjoys outdoors

Kind and helpful

Takes pride in their work
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**Requirements**:

- Experience in garden services including: pruning, weeding, leaf and rubbish removal.
- Reliable, punctual, and hardworking.
- Well presented with good communication skills.
- Enjoy working independently as well as part of a team.
- Physically fit.
- Strong commitment to safe work practices.
- Current Australian driver’s license (can be Probationary).
- COVID Cert.
- Police Check.
- Working with Childrens Check.

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Other favourable skills and experience that will propel you to a leadership role:

- Identification and treatment of weeds, pests and diseases in both plants and turf.
- Planting, feeding and fertilisation of plants and turf assets.
- Minor landscape upgrades.
- Business admin.
- Cert III in Horticulture or Parks and Gardens.
- Strong horticultural background in lawn and gardening maintenance.
- A manual drivers licence.
- Chemical Users licence (ACUP).
- Knowledge of irrigation systems is preferred.

Contact Bailey for a quick no obligation chat
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**Salary**: $35.00 - $39.99 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Employee mentoring program
- Travel reimbursement

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Supplementary Pay:

- Overtime pay
- Performance bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Melbourne VIC: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Gardening: 3 years (preferred)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)