Experienced Gardener
Core
Full-time mobile gardening role maintaining high-quality outdoor spaces across multiple sites in Melbourne, including horticultural maintenance, team leadership, and landscape improvement.
Role type
Senior IC horticultural maintenance specialist (team lead)
Builds
Ornamental gardens, hedges, lawns, feature planting areas, and maintained green spaces for schools and facilities
Domain
Landscaping / Horticulture / Groundskeeping
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Horticultural maintenance (mowing, edging, pruning, weeding, mulching, fertilising), ornamental garden and hedge management, turf renovation, pest and disease identification/treatment, irrigation system operation, tool and machinery operation, seasonal planting, team leadership
Preferred skills
None stated
Technologies
Hedgers, whipper snippers, blowers, hand tools, petrol-operated equipment, irrigation systems
Responsibilities
Lead a team of horticultural maintenance staff, perform regular horticultural maintenance, maintain ornamental gardens and lawns to premium standards, operate and maintain tools and machinery, assist in seasonal planting and landscape projects, identify and treat plant pests and diseases, collaborate with grounds staff for events
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership