Trainee Landscaper

Job offer: Trainee Landscaper

Do you have a keen eye to learn key skills to change the landscape around you, willing to work hard and be taught the skills to create beautiful spaces for people to enjoy. Are you comfortable with people and willing to be outdoors with nature all around you, then we have the perfect job for you.

Who we are

Oak Landscapes Ltd are an expanding hard landscaping company within the Bromley/ Orpington Area. With 10 years of experience in the landscaping profession, we pride ourselves on a customer relation like no other, talking through a job with the customer from the start process of the quotation to the very last day on site. Making sure the customers have the garden/ driveway that they have dreamed of.

Must haves

· Clean Driving License

· Professional Attitude on site always.

· Be able to meet me on site every day on time. Or be picked up if we are working in your area

What you'll do day to day

Day to day the job of a trainee landscaper can change within an instate, your day-to-day job activity will be as follows:

· Helping with unloading and loading tools into the van/ work site.

· Cleaning tools and learning how to use power tools with skill and precision.

· Keeping the Site clean and tidy.

· Helping with demolition of the various sites we work on to create beautiful spaces for customers to enjoy

· Bringing in key material to help the job move forward, also helping to install various material to bring a new aspect to the different customers gardens to help provide them with a new, beautiful space within their property.

· Learning key skills off myself and being able to have the confidence to ask to do some hard landscaping to build your confidence and learn.

· Carry jobs on when material needs to be picked up or if rubbish needs to be cleared

· Most importantly have a customer relation that we pride ourselves on and talk the customers through with me what the next steps are within the job.

· Regular discussions will be had so that you can ask any questions you have on your mind/ a 6 monthly wage discussion will be had to discuss your monthly pay as a reward for your hard work and being part of the team. This is dependent on whether we see an improvement in you.

Future Goals

· Training Course/ Events will be provided for new landscaping methods such as:

o Resin Bond Training Courses

o New Material Training Courses

o Merchant Events sometimes after work (Usually involves free food)

o FutureScape yearly events

· Being able to transfer the skills I have taught you onto running your own jobs/ teaching the next employees how we run a successful site/ business

· Weekend work/additional hours is available as overtime

Probation/ Wage & Holiday Allowance

· 2-month probation period being a 4-day week – Monday to Thursday 8/8:30am to 4/4:30pm with a half an hour lunch break. Once the 3-month probation period is finished you will be then working a 5-day week Monday to Friday 8/8:30am to 4/4:30pm with a half an hour lunch break. Tea Breaks throughout the day too.

· £13 per hour raising to £15 per hour after 3-month probation period (If successful), with meetings every 6 months to discuss your wage depending on improvements.

· 32 hours per week going up to 40 hours per week once the 2- probation period has ended.

· Holiday allowances are as follows, 28 days including bank holidays. (8 days bank holidays, Christmas Break Bank Holidays included in 8 days bank holidays).

· Christmas break holiday to be determined closer to each Christmas. Allowing for 1 and a half weeks or 2-week holiday depending on dates of Christmas break.

Benefits

· Uniform provided

· Safety Boots provided

· 2 weeks full sick pay (Statutory sick pay after those 2 weeks)

• Pension Contribution

· Yearly Bonus

· Paid outings every 6 months.

· Overtime Work if applicable

· Insured on Van after 2 years of full-time employment if employee would like to be insured.

· Paternity/ Maternity Leave

Why Join Oak Landscapes Ltd

Joining Oak Landscapes Ltd will give you the chance to see this small hard landscaping business grow and flourish every year, hopefully we grow into a company with a yard with more vehicles and more teams of landscapers to help teach and build the business to what I envisage Oak Landscapes Ltd to become.

Choosing Oak Landscapes will allow you to be involved with a company that are passionate about landscaping and changing the gardens around them to what the customers have dreamed of within their properties.

How to Apply/ Tell us if you Accept the Job.

Reply to the email that this has been sent from or give me a text/ WhatsApp on Make sure you attach your CV and any cover letters/ references you have. Thanks for taking the time to read our job opportunity that we have for you.

If accepted we will need your personal details and NI Number to be able to write your employee contract and our accountants need this information to be able to give you your monthly salary.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: From £13.00 per hour

Expected hours: 32 per week

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Sick pay

Work Location: In person