Horticulturalist

Job No: ADC14
Location: Ashburton

  • Join a dedicated team passionate about enhancing community spaces.
  • Contribute to the beautification of our parks and gardens.
  • Monday to Friday working week.

 

What the job involves

As a Horticulturalist you’ll perform a range of tasks to contribute to ensuring our parks and are not only beautiful but also serve as vital community hub. Your time will be spent on a variety of amenity horticulture processes including gardening, spraying, weeding, trimming, edging and pruning with machinery operation including mowing on a number of different machines dependent on aptitude and licences or qualifications held.

Our standard working week is Monday to Friday, 8 hours each day starting at 7.30am. This position will provide a challenge, satisfaction and an extremely large ‘backyard’.

For more information on this role view the position description.

 

Who we are looking for

A friendly individual who is physically fit, with a can do attitude who enjoys working outdoors. Relevant experience within the industry or a similar role is preferable but team fit is the key element. A full clean driver’s license is a must, with additional licences such as HT or WTR Endorsement advantageous. We currently have a number of vacancies to fill.

As we want all our employees to be ‘fit for work and fit for life’, we have a range of training, health benefits and safety measures in place. Due to the safety sensitive nature of this position, drug and alcohol testing will occur prior to and during your employment.

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If you're interested in joining a dynamic local government organisation that offers its people rewarding and varied opportunities, we'd really like to hear from you. We provide services and support to one of New Zealand's fastest growing and thriving communities. With a fast paced and changing community, we have an array of interesting projects and initiatives going on. With a diverse and passionate workforce of 300 employees spanning all Council activities, we're dedicated to delivering only the best to our community. Joining Ashburton District Council will not only give you the chance to make your mark within our organisation, it will also enable you to contribute to Ashburton District becoming a better place to work, live and do business. Working in a friendly atmosphere, you'll be supported and encouraged to enhance and further your career. Our values are all about doing what's right, making things happen and working as one team and respecting every voice so if we sound like the type of organisation you want to join, I encourage you to get in touch with us.