Mobile Gardener

Application Close Date: 30/11/2022 (Closed)

Mobile Gardener | Norfolk / Suffolk

Salary – Dependent on skills and experience

Annualised hours –  45 hours per week (Mon-Fri) Summer period (March 1st to October 31st);  35 Hours Winter period (February 31st -November 1st). 

Are you highly motivated? Do you enjoy working outdoors? Are you enthusiastic and hardworking?

If you identify with the above, this role was made for you!

At Glendale, we have a great new opportunity for a mobile gardener to join our team in East Anglia working on a variety of sites across the region.

And most importantly, you will be joining a company that can offer valuable career prospects and believes in investing in its people.

Who are we?

Glendale, a winner of BALI Employer of the Year, has revenues of £45 million.

Glendale is one of the largest green space management service providers in the UK and specialises in tree care and management, grounds maintenance and landscaping. For more information visit www.glendale-services.co.uk. We are a green business with “green thinking” at the core of everything we do. We have been at the forefront of green services provision since 1989 and offer innovative solutions for the management and maintenance of the green environment. 

Who are you?

Applicants must hold a full, clean driving licence and experience of driving light commercial vehicles and towing trailers is desirable. Applicants must be reliable and conscientious, have a can-do attitude and willingness to learn with the ability to work on their own initiative. Previous experience of grounds maintenance work, horticultural tasks and use of handheld machinery is desirable but full training will be given.

You will need to be good at communicating and enjoy being part of a close knit team, whilst being able to show initiative as the role requires the successful person to be able to work remotely. 

A Glimpse into the Role awaiting You…

• General horticultural duties including planting, hedge cutting, lawn mowing, border edging and watering.
• Shrub bed maintenance, weeding and seasonal pruning.
• Support the customer account manager to ensure that each site reaches their full potential.
• Ensure all tools, materials and plants are taken to site when required.
• Ensure that the van is kept clean and tidy with a full set of tools.
• Ensure all health and safety procedures are followed.
• Attend staff meetings.
• Ensure work schedules are met
• Ability to organise your own work structure 

You will need

• Previous landscape maintenance experience. 
• PA1 PA6 (desirable)
• Horticultural Qualification
• To be highly organised and work efficiently.
• A desire to develop and learn.
• A drivers licence.

What can Glendale offer you?

• Incremental annual leave
• Free gym membership for you and a nominated person
• Employee health cash plan
• Employee discount portal – discounts on travel bookings, high street vouchers, gift cards, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities and your day to day spending
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Pension Scheme
• Company sick pay
• Career progression
• Training and development

How to Apply

If you feel like you could bring some fresh ideas to the table we want to hear from you.  Please apply with a letter of application and CV to neil.akers@glendale-services.co.uk

If you are interested in applying for this role, we suggest that you do so at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as interviews will be held throughout the process. Please note that if you have not received correspondence within 21 days then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.