Senior Exterior Horticultural Technician

Plant Designs is London\’s foremost design-led plant experts, providing quality service to workspace and events. We design, install and care for some of the city\’s most innovative interior plant displays, working with over 350 client\’s to bring the benefits of planting to their workplace.

The Role:

We are looking for talented horticulturalists to join our team in providing horticultural services to a diverse range of clients. This involves routine visits across various commercial spaces and offices to maintain exterior plant displays. This role will be predominantly focused on exterior planting, however will also require maintenance of interior plants of ornamental tropical varieties.

Responsibilities:

• To provide plant care to a range of exterior as well as interior plants, ensuring that displays are maintained to the highest quality and looking their best. Responsibilities include planting, watering, pruning, cleaning and weed control.
• Delivering excellent customer service to our clients and working in a professional manner at all times while visiting various sites across London.
• Following designated shifts and working to the timings and locations as outlined by your maintenance schedule.
• The senior position involves leading a team to carry out required tasks, monitoring standards, assisting with training of junior team members and providing direct reports to management.
• Having a proactive approach to both plant care and customer care.

Requirements:

• Driving license and willingness to drive company vans
• Certified horticultural qualifications and experience working with high end professional settings.
• Experience in customer service or client facing role desirable
• Health & Safety awareness
• Physical ability to lift and move items safely
• Ability to work under own initiative and work flexible hours. This includes working on weekends and early mornings.
• IT Literate and fluent in written and spoken English
• Good communication & people skills
• Right to work in the UK

This is a full-time role where you will be rewarded with a salary of £33,000, uniform and tools to carry out your job. Plus continual opportunity to progress within the role.

You will be joining a hard-working and sociable team, so if you want to work towards our goals and feel that you would fit in, we would love to hear from you.