Plant Maintenance Technician FHC6

Plant Maintenance Technician

UK-Wide

Up to £24K depending on Exp and location

Additional Benefits:  Overtime Available

Pension and Profit Share Bonus.

Hours:  40 hrs per week

Our client:

Is a busy and fast-growing company based in Leicester.

They are now recruiting for extra staff to join their Maintenance teams in Manchester, London and Leicester. This is a hands-on, customer centric position and candidates need to be flexible, physically fit, hard-working, and have a strong can-do attitude.  It is an excellent opportunity for candidates looking for a chance to prove themselves and progress within a growing business.

The company have been providing plant displays using both tropical and outdoor plants for over 40 years, and count some of the countrys biggest companies as their customers.  They take pride in their service levels, and work hard to encourage long lasting, strong relationships with customers.

About the job:

This is an interesting, varied, and exciting opportunity to join a busy team in a rapidly expanding company.  As a member of our frontline maintenance team you will be travelling throughout the London area maintaining interior and exterior live plant displays and floristry.

You will be watering, feeding, cleaning, weeding and pruning live plant displays and other features such as living walls, so ideally you will have experience of indoor and/or exterior plant maintenance techniques, including working at height. A knowledge of individual plants requirements for optimum growth in different environments would be an advantage. Their wide range of clients include blue chip offices, top hotels, restaurants, retail centres and showrooms, with the ultimate objective of over delivering on customer service expectations.

They're looking for:

Attitude, personable, hard-working, can-do attitude and working to strict deadlines.

Flexibility, wide range of tasks, some early starts and self-management.

Physical fitness the role is hands on and can include lifting/moving items safely.

Ability, you will need to be comfortable with driving, proactively solving problems, communicating with customers and ideally experienced/passionate at working with plants.

FULL DRIVING LICENSE REQUIRED

So why should you apply for this job?

They ideally seek a driver but there is a little flexibility to this.

The Team. Are pleasant, friendly, and easy to work with.

Enjoyable Job. A rewarding, interesting and varied role that relies on your initiative.

Progression
There is scope for progression and further training.

Opportunity. Whilst ideal you do not need prior horticulture experience, we provide training.

If you feel you have the skills, expertise and attitude for this challenging role then please apply today. Our client is looking for people to start as soon as possible so, if we feel you have what it takes to make a difference then telephone/face to face interviews will be arranged with the company very quickly.  

In addition to this role we have plenty of other roles across the Horticultural sector, please visit our website www.freshhortcareers.com for more information