Leading Hand - Native Garden Landscaping Job

Have you been thinking or looking for how else you can apply your landscaping skills and experience to create more interesting and environmentally friendly gardens? Read on!

Are you  someone who:

• is looking for either contract, part-time or casual work with the option of becoming permanent or staying as a contractor;
• is open to learning a new methodology of landscaping with wildflowers and creating gardens that are more in tune with our WA landscapes;
• is a team player and able to take instructions and implement gardens in partnership with wildflower horticulturalist and designers/project managers;
• is great at creating the garden structure that is aligned with the garden topography;
• is seeking an opportunity to grow a role and together create a lasting legacy, sense of place and a dot on The Wildflower Corridor with every garden installed;
• has an interest, not necessarily knowledge,  in wildflowers, nature or landscaping in a sustainable way; and
• is able to work off scaled drawings, not to scale sketches and concept designs

Do you also possess some or most of the following skills and experience?

• General Landscaping Garden Knowledge;
• Creative hardscaping skill and artistic flare: Using natural resources on site such as wood, stone and metal in a softer creative way;
• Straightcurve installation: Experience in working with various forms of this product from edging to gardens, stand alone to retaining walls;
• Reticulation: experience in creating new irrigation designs to reconnecting existing pipe work to suit wildflower gardens;
• Greenwaste removal: certified chainsaw skills for felling of small trees or large shrubs to create new wildflower gardens;
• Machinery: experience and good skills with dingo, compactors, cultivators or rotary hoes, angle grinders, various saws and drills;
• Carpentry Skills: creative and mending wood work skills;
• Retaining walls: experience in working with various types of building materials to build stairs or walls under 50cm in height.  From metal edgings through to rock gabion walls, or brick or limestone traditional walls or natural walls;
• Paving: experience in working with various types of pavers and porous materials - from fixing up existing/recycled  pavings to installing pavers or a (porous) natural dirt path;
• Experience in purchasing, ordering and picking up of products/materials required onsite;

And finally:

• Leadership potential: able to demonstrate leadership and inclusiveness of other tradespeople or labourers.

If you meet some or most of the above criteria, then this position may just be what you are looking for. Be an integral part of the team that creates gardens reflecting Western Australian culture and environment every day!

Benefits

• Flexible, inclusive and supportive workplace culture;
• A leader in the transition and maintenance of wildflower and native gardens throughout WA;
• We have an amazing client base;
• The successful applicant(s) will be supported to grow with the business.

The application form will include these questions:

• Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia?
• Do you have a current Australian driver's licence?
• Do you own or have regular access to a car?