Qualified Gardener

Qualified Gardener - Westgate Park

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 10,000+ professionals across Asia Pacific (APAC) and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Flexible working arrangements that support balance and wellbeing
• Access to learning and development pathways in horticulture
• Supportive team culture with leaders who are committed to your growth
• Employee benefits across health, lifestyle, and wellbeing services
• Stable, long-term opportunities through government-backed work
• A safe and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued

Make an impact at Serco

At Serco, we do important work that really matters. As a Qualified Gardener, you'll help create and maintain outdoor spaces that support the community and enhance the experience of residents and visitors. You'll work closely with a dedicated horticulture team, using your skills to care for parks, gardens, and native landscapes.

Guided by Serco's values of trust, care, innovation, and pride, you'll play an important role in supporting our purpose to impact a better future.

As a Qualified Gardener in the Parks & Gardens team at Westgate Park, you'll make a positive impact by:

• following guidance from the Head Gardener to deliver daily horticultural tasks
• maintaining parks, gardens, and bushland landscapes, including granitic paths and tractor mowing
• ensuring all work is completed safely and professionally
• undertaking environmental tasks such as herbicide application, hand weeding, brush-cutting, and footpath care
• maintaining vehicles, tools, and equipment to manufacturer standards
• reporting accidents, incidents, and near-misses promptly
• providing a clean, safe public environment through daily litter removal, waste management, minor graffiti removal, and bio-hazard response

Serco is a place for you

You could be a great fit if you have:

• strong knowledge of local plant and weed species
• experience maintaining parks, gardens, reserves, or bushland environments
• a collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively with your team
• confidence using and maintaining horticultural machinery and tools
• the ability to complete outdoor physical work in varying weather
• Employee Working With Childrens Check (or the ability to obtain)
• practical experience in environmental care, weed management, or pesticide application (advantageous)
• Certificate III in Horticulture or equivalent

In joining us, you'll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders who will help you achieve your goals. Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term government-backed contracts.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world's most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, Immigration, and Community Services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQI+, veterans and people with disability.

By joining Serco, you'll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Impact a better future at Serco.