Job Title: Garden Maintenance Apprentice
Location: Curdridge
Salary: £6.40 per hour
Job type: Full-time, Apprenticeship
Schedule: 8-hour shift
Work Location: In person
With 54 years of experience and thousands of delighted customers, the company is highly regarded for its professional garden design, construction and maintenance.
About the Role:
Our apprentices will work with our Maintenance teams, and will gain experience of a wide range of horticulture and construction skills and knowledge including:
- Understanding skills need to plant a range of plant, from shrubs and trees to herbaceous plants and lawns. You will learn how to care for them correctly, including basic irrigation methods and identifying plant deficiencies. You will also learn how to prepare a site for planting, including sowing, turfing, preparation of seed beds and mulchin.
- You will learn how to cultivate and improve soil through a range of methods, both by hand and using mechanical tools.
- You will gain experience of managing vegetation (weeds or overgrown plants) using power tools, hand tools and garden machinery.
- You will learn to use a variety of different tools and equipment such as spades, rakes, shovels, measuring equipment (such as tape measures and spirit levels), mowers, handheld strimmers and hedge cutters.
- We will show you how to construct and maintain a variety of garden structures, from patios or walls to fences and decking. You will learn how to present a finished site to the clients expectations.
- Health and safety and care for the environment are really important aspects of this role. You will understand the importance of following relevant health and safety processes and procedures, identifying hazards relevant to horticultural environments and preventing spillages.
Our Maintenance teams Apprentices - will be trained to take on the following key responsibilities:
- To ensure all the relevant vehicles, machinery and materials are available for the start of each working day.
- To ensure maintenance documents are completed and handed to the Hire Shop.
- To be responsible for on - site maintenance and Health & Safety at all times.
- Keep accurate records of times and materials used on site.
- To ensure work is carried out to the specifications of the work schedule / plan.
- To report to the Manager any difficulties as soon as they occur, with proposed solutions, so they may be quickly remedied.
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Additional Information:
Overseas candidates will NOT be considered for this role. We are not sponsoring Visa's at this time, so please refrain from applying unless eligible to work in the UK.
Please note that the rate of pay is £6.40 per hour, in line with current UK Apprenticeship wage.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job title of: Garden Maintenance, Junior Ground Maintenance Operative, Trainee Gardener, Gardener, Grounds Maintenance, Maintenance, Garden Maintenance, General Maintenance, Garden Designer, Landscape Gardener, Grounds, Gardener, Garden Maintenance, Landscaper may also be considered for this role.
