Role: Horticulture Career Opportunity - Native Plant Nursery
Location: Canterbury
About Southern Woods
Southern Woods is one of New Zealand's leading innovative, diversified, and integrated commercial nurseries and retail garden centres. We produce a wide range of trees, shrubs, and grasses for projects large and small.
Located just south of Templeton (Christchurch), we specialise in supplying healthy, hardy plants for a wide range of projects across New Zealand. These include native revegetation plantings, landscaping, forestry, fruit and nut trees, and ornamental trees and shrubs for around the house.
Southern Woods focuses on sustainable growth, providing the highest level of quality, with a passion for our people, community, and environment.
Our company is poised for further growth and expansion with these solid foundations.
Primary responsibilities, tasks, and duties
These may include, but are not limited to:
- Quality control – weeding, grading, quality control, general plant and site maintenance
- Production – potting machine operation, hand potting, laying out plants
- Propagation - Cuttings, Seed cleaning and sowing, mother plant care
- Ensure that your work and working environment comply with OSH standards.
Skills Required
- Physical - performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as lifting, walking, stooping, and handling materials
- Teamwork – a resourceful team player who excels at building trusting relationships with work colleagues.
- Communication - High attention to detail and accuracy, along with excellent communication skills.
- Willingness to Learn – Reasonable technical knowledge required to perform well in the role over time. Interest in plants, gardening and horticulture is crucial to learn this on the job.
Attributes we would like:
- Personal interest and passion for plants and gardening
- Previous experience working in nursery or horticulture
- Physically fit and not afraid to get hands dirty
- Team player
- High energy
- Able to prioritise tasks
- Able to use initiative
- Honest, reliable, and punctual
- Experience applying agrichemicals (GrowSafe licence is an advantage)
- Experience driving tractors and/or forklifts
Working Conditions
Most of the working day will involve standing, crouching, and reaching. Some heavy lifting may be required at times.
To be considered for this role, you will need a positive attitude and willingness to learn and work with minimum supervision in an outdoor environment.
Applications
Please address a cover letter and resume to Devin Westley – Nursery Manager. Contact Devin on 0800800352 ext 5 if you have any questions.
Closing date
Applications close on 18 August 2022.
You are advised to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close posts at any time once we have received sufficient applications. Therefore, we recommend submitting your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
Working status
Applicants must have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.