What are the responsibilities and job description for the Landscape Fine Gardener position at Gardens to Love?
Gardens to Love is a boutique design, build, and maintenance landscape company with 40 years of experience in the South. The quality of our work and our horticultural expertise continues to be noticed across the Atlanta area.
At Gardens to Love, we create beauty. Beautiful landscapes, beautiful relationships, and beautiful teams! We are currently looking for a Fine Gardener who loves to create something beautiful and that enjoys helping grow both gardens and people.
The position pays a competitive hourly rate based on experience along with some other nice benefits, such as 401k and reimbursement for health insurance assistance. We are growing; and with our growth there is also growth opportunities for our team members. It’s a win-win.
Job Responsibilities:
- A gardener who can see three dimensionally to be proficient in pruning.
- A strong knowledge of local plant material.
- A talent for color and plant composition.
- Good organizational skills.
- A commitment to and understanding of the work.
- Pruning and trimming trees, shrubs and hedges.
- Trimming and picking flowers and cleaning flower beds.
- Good understanding of landscape maintenance and equipment.
- Give priority to customer service
- Properly installing of and caring for plant materials, including dead-heading, technical pruning, watering and fertilizing.
- Controlling weeds in plant bed and keeping beds clean of leaves and debris
- Determining appropriate plant location based on desired optimal conditions.
- Observance of standard horticultural practices.
- Promote safety and maintain a safe work environment.
- This is an active position requiring stamina to work outside with a team, as well as independently.
- This position includes working at and on both high end residential and commercial job sites completing work.
- The employee will encounter varying temperatures and noise levels from these areas.
- The employee will be exposed to the normal noise levels associated with power driven equipment.
Education:
- High school graduation or GED equivalent required
Job Requirements:
- 2 or more years of experience completing all types of landscape maintenance work individually and by coordinating the daily job activity of other workers to get the job done.
- Valid driver's license
Pay Frequency:
- Bi-Weekly
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday (7:15 am - 4:00 pm)
- Some overtime
- Occasional Saturdays
*Compensation on experience in the landscape industry*
Marcia Weber Gardens to Love is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. '
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Work Remotely
- No
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $18.00 - $24.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed
Experience:
- Fine Gardening: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)
Work Location: Multiple locations
Application Deadline: 11/22/2021
Salary : $18 - $24