Hard Landscaping Assistant
- Employer
- Cameron Landscapes & Gardens
- Location
- Notting Hill, London
- Salary
- Up to £28,000
- Closing date
- 1 May 2021
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Gardening Jobs, Garden and Landscape Design Jobs
- Sector
- Horticultural Specialist, Groundskeeping & Maintenance, Landscaping
Job Details
An exciting opportunity has opened for a Garden Landscaping Assistant to join our well established and growing business. Cameron, based in Notting Hill, is a successful garden design, build and maintenance company established over 20 years ago.
This exciting hands-on role, where you will work closely with your Hard Landscaping foreman within a team of two, offers the opportunity to work on some top end domestic and commercial gardens. You will need hard landscaping experience; some horticultural knowledge is beneficial; a desire to learn and develop is vital. You will need to be good at communicating and enjoy being part of a close-knit team, whilst being able to show initiative.
Job description:
- Support the Hard Landscaping foreman in day-to-day construction works and garden installations to ensure that your gardens reach 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. Reporting any problems immediately.
- Communicate effectively with office-based Project Manager to ensure the smooth and timely progression of jobs, highlighting issues that arise.
- Ensure all health and safety procedures are followed.
- Attend staff meetings.
You will need:
- Experience in working off plans.
- To have some experience in stone work and stone construction – paving, cladding
- To have some experience in garden timber work – decking, trellising and fencing
- To have some understanding of irrigation systems.
- Support the Hard Landscaping foreman to ensure that your gardens reach their full potential.
- Ensure all tools, materials and plants are taken to site when required.
- Ensure that your team’s van is kept clean and tidy with a full set of tools. Reporting any problems immediately.
- Ensure all health and safety procedures are followed.
- To be diplomatic and calm with clients.
- 1-2 years of hard landscaping experience.
- Some horticultural knowledge
Desirable:
- To be skilled in stonework and stone construction – paving, cladding
- To be skilled in garden timber work – decking, trellising and fencing
- Knowledge of irrigation systems.
- Full clean driver’s license.
- CSCS Accreditation
Reward:
- Ongoing training and development
- 25 days paid holiday + bank holidays
- Discretionary annual bonus
- To work on exciting projects with innovative professionals within a successful, opportunity giving company.
Hours of work: 07.30 - 17.00 with 1 hour off for lunch.
Salary: Up to £28,000 D.O.E
Company
Award-winning garden design, build and maintenance. We will bring experience, artistry and discipline to your projects across London and the UK, from country gardens and city refuges to ground-breaking commercial spaces.
At Cameron, we offer a fully integrated, bespoke service. We’ll cover every stage of the process from design to build to development, employing our expertise at every level to ensure that your garden is created and nurtured to your exact specifications.
We pride ourselves on our unique approach, our enthusiasm, our communication and our commitment. From our team of world-class creative designers to our experienced project managers and dedicated planters, we work together with one shared aim: to create spaces that inspire and delight, always breaking new ground.
- Website
- http://www.camerongardens.co.uk/
- Location
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Unit 1, 69 St Marks Road
London
England
W10 6JG
United Kingdom
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