Gardener

**Company description**

A small, friendly but rapidly growing team carrying out gardening and grounds maintenance for domestic & commercial customers throughout the South and West Yorkshire areas. We have an eye for details and pride ourselves on high quality workmanship that wouldn't go amiss in our own gardens.

**Job description**

Gardener

We are starting to look for a qualified and/or experienced gardener to join out team or a schedule that suits them in the new year.

We have a large and growing portfolio of gardens and businesses that require their outdoor spaces maintaining - grass cutting, weed killing, plant tending, new planting schemes, soft landscaping and generally all other outdoor maintenance services associated with grounds & gardens maintenance. We also offer some minor hard landscaping aspects, such as sleeper raised bed building, dry stone walling, small areas of paving, small fencing projects and mowing strip installations, to give some indicative examples.

Roles and Responsibilities.
- Assist with the presentation of gardens and grounds to the highest standard at all times.
- Assist with any restoration and development projects within gardens as required.
- General garden work such as mowing, strimming, weeding, pruning and scrub control as well as planting, propagation and border maintenance.
- Hard Landscaping projects such as patio repair and maintenance, raised bed creation, retaining walls and other minor construction work as required.
- Assist in the day-to-day upkeep and maintenance of all garden machinery and equipment.
- At times the job holder is required to work in extreme weather conditions (freezing or wet and windy weather).
- Carry out work in accordance with Health & Safety Executive (HSE) legislation and use a varied range of garden machinery in accordance with safe working practices.
- Driving to multiple gardens and grounds throughout the working day, engaging with customers and feeding back to the office.
- Ensuring safe working practices are followed at all time.

Requirements.
- A knowledge, passion & or experience of gardening, undertaking typical garden tasks,common plant identification, knowledge and their care.
- Self motivated, professional, with the ability to work well as part of a team or on their own. You will be trusted to carry out tasks using your initiative and knowledge with mínimal oversight. Be able to suggest additional relevant work to customers and in their best interest.
- Commitment to excellence, best practise & efficiency.
- Punctuality and reliability.
- Personable & friendly, the role requires conversing with clients & the public. You represent the company.
- Physically able - on your feet all day and loading/ unloading the vehicles/ trailers. We strive to make reasonable accomodations in this area.
- Clean driving license highly desirable, but not required.
- PA1 & PA6 desirable, but not required.
- Level two horticultural qualification or above, and/or relevant and demonstrable experiance.
- Reliable transportation to Deepcar, Sheffield.

Contract
We will work with you to be as accommodating to your needs as possible, with regards to contract length, days worked and working time. Our working day start generally varies between 7:00 and 8:00 and finishes generally between 16:00 and 17:00. Year to date average start time has been 7:58 and average finish time has been 16:48, with an hour lunch. With sufficient notice we can amend the schedule to start and be back at base at requested times.

Annualised hours contract - set monthly salary with balance adjustment throughout the year, due to the nature of our business (less hours in winter, more hours in summer).

**Benefits**:

- Above market pay with regular reviews and with a company aim to match inflation as much as possible.
- £11.25 - £12.50/ hr at time of writing (pro-rata £23920 - £26000).
- Commision scheme on larger one-off or contract works.
- Discretionary bonuses on exceptional work.
- Wage advance scheme (on hours worked, where reasonable).
- Training.
- Trade-shows and working visits.
- 5 days fully paid sick days per annum.
- 5% Employer pensions contributions.
- 28 days holiday - unfortunately bank holidays are classed as a regular working day due to the nature of our business.
- 1.5x overtime rate if unable to balance annualised hours.

**Job Types**: Fixed term contract, Full-time, Part-time, Temporary contract, Permanent

**Salary**: £11.25-£12.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Tips

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Sheffield, S35 7DH: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- What are your pay expectations (£/hr) ?
- What is your highest relevant qualification and years of experience?
- Do you h