At a Glance
- Tasks: Create stunning gardens and maintain natural swimming pools and ponds.
- Company: Join a passionate team dedicated to transforming outdoor spaces.
- Benefits: Enjoy travel opportunities, accommodation covered, and time off between projects.
- Other info: Work in a friendly team and develop practical skills in landscaping.
- Why this job: Experience the joy of crafting beautiful landscapes while working outdoors.
- Qualifications: No prior experience needed, just a willingness to learn and work hard.
The predicted salary is between 22000 - 28000 £ per year.
You will be joining our pool and pond finishing team creating beautiful gardens from start to finish around our natural swimming pools and pond projects.
From ground preparation to planting up, you will be installing steel edging and drainage, turfing and seeding meadows, bark spreading, installing irrigation systems and gravel gardens, fencing, and carrying out garden and pond maintenance.
The work is seasonal and varied and creating a garden from start to finish will give you a great sense of achievement.
In winter you will be joining our pool maintenance team carrying out pool and pond specialist servicing.
Job Description
- Working from landscape plans with supervision, setting out gardens
- Measuring up gardens, assist with site surveys
- Work alongside our small team of skilled construction specialists and soft landscapers
- Use of hand tools and power tools and some machinery, including excavators, rotavators, kubotas
- Ground preparation, grading, with an eye for levels and ground contours
- Turfing
- Fencing
- Flower meadow preparation and seeding
- Installing irrigation systems and surface drainage
- Experience in installing ponds is beneficial but not essential
- Soft landscaping, including tree planting, handling and staking large specimen trees, general planting of shrubs, perennials, bulbs
- Gravel gardens installation, bark spreading
- Seasonal garden maintenance and natural swimming pool and pond maintenance
- We don't expect you to have all the skills required, but we do expect you to be
- Practical, lateral thinking, good at problem solving
- Adaptable, willing to learn on the job
- Happy working outdoors and in all weathers
- Comfortable working on a construction site or a domestic garden
- Hard working and enthusiastic
- Have a good eye for detail and strive for excellence
- Happy working in our small team of friendly, skilled craftsmen
- Working away on long distance projects with expenses, travel and comfortable accommodation paid with time off between projects an option
- Full driving licence
- Trailer license beneficial
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Soft Landscaper employer: Ellicar Pools
Join a dynamic team dedicated to creating stunning gardens and natural swimming pools, where your contributions will be valued and celebrated. Our supportive work culture fosters collaboration and personal growth, offering opportunities to learn from skilled craftsmen while enjoying the beauty of outdoor work in various seasons. With travel expenses covered and comfortable accommodations provided for long-distance projects, you'll experience both adventure and fulfilment in your role as a Soft Landscaper.
