Gardener Job Description

A Gardener maintains the outdoor grounds around your facilities, ensuring that everything looks presentable, healthy, and aesthetically pleasing.

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What is in a Gardener's Job Description?

A Gardener is a real expert with everything related to plants and garden landscaping. Gardeners perform a variety of tasks, including cutting the grass, controlling weeds, nurturing trees, and working garden equipment.

Essential parts of a Gardener’s job description:

  • Gardeners oversee the maintenance of your company’s garden(s) to ensure it looks healthy, organised, and presentable at all times.
  • A Gardener plants, nurtures, and maintains new and existing plants, flowers, and trees, while simultaneously managing and exterminating weeds or pests.
  • Gardeners often also perform garden landscaping duties where they plan, organise, and budget for the design of the garden and the greenery inside it.
  • Gardeners can be employed by any type of organisation, within any type of industry, as long as they have grounds that need maintenance.

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Gardener Job Description Example

  • Be clear in your description. Know the tasks of the role and ideally who the candidate should be.
  • This means you won’t need to read through too many CVs to find your superstar.
  • You might be tempted to use bullet points in this section, but resist the urge! Tell a story, show off all the cool things they would be responsible for, and get them excited to apply.
  • You should be more focused on your company culture and what your mission is, instead of their daily tasks.

About the role

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We are looking for an experienced Gardener with green fingers and a passion for plants.

Do you enjoy maintaining green spaces? Do you know exactly what trees, plants, and flowers need to stay healthy and vibrant? Do you enjoy thinking of creative landscaping ideas and different ways to further liven up a green space?

If you answered yes to all these questions, we would love to hear from you! As our new Landscape Gardener here at [Company Name] you will be responsible for our multiple gardens around our facilities. You will get a budget to design and create a green space as you see fit, giving you a lot of freedom to work your green magic!

Does that sound like something for you? Then apply now!
Du weißt genau, was Bäume, Pflanzen und Blumen brauchen, um gesund und lebendig zu bleiben? Du liebst es, kreative Ideen für die Landschaftsgestaltung auszudenken und umzusetzen? Grünflächen mit immer neuen Möglichkeiten Leben einzuhauchen ist deine Superkraft? Wenn du alle diese Fragen mit Ja beantwortet hast, würden wir uns freuen, von dir zu hören!

Wir suchen einen erfahrenen Gärtner (m/w/d) mit grünem Daumen und einer Leidenschaft für Pflanzen. Als unser neuer (Landschafts-)Gärtner hier bei [Name des Unternehmens] bist du für unsere zahlreichen Gartenanlagen rund um unsere Einrichtungen verantwortlich. Du erhältst die Möglichkeit, Grünflächen mithilfe eines angemessenen Budgets nach deinen Vorstellungen zu planen und anzulegen. Klingt gut? Bewirb dich jetzt und freu dich auf eine Tätigkeit mit viel Freiheit bei der Ausübung deiner grünen Magie!
  • This section is all about your candidate's experience and responsibilities. You should outline very clearly what they should expect from the job role, not from the company itself. 
  • You should use language that speaks to the candidate directly, use of “you”, “we” and “our” are all positives. 
  • Hard skills in this section are important, but don’t overlook the significance of soft skills, like communication and being a team player, these can make a huge difference to the way people work alongside each other and gel professionally. 
  • What do you believe in, and what are your core values?

Gardener Responsibilities

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Remember these are example responsibilities, not all of these will be relevant to your specific job ad. Please edit the text to match your company’s needs.

• Ensure all garden grounds and its trees, plants, and flowers are kept presentable and in excellent condition.
• Mow the grass and trim the hedges/trees
• Mulch, edge, and weed where appropriate.
• Water the plants/trees/flowers and fertilize the ground.
• Take out dead plants and flowers, as well as fallen leaves using a leaf blower.
• Practice pest control using (environmentally friendly) pesticides and counter measures.
• Design and landscape the gardens according to your expert opinion while working within an allocated budget.
Denken Sie daran, dass es sich hier um beispielhafte Aufgaben handelt, von denen nicht alle für Ihre spezifische Stellenanzeige relevant sein müssen. Bitte passen Sie den Text an die Bedürfnisse Ihres Unternehmens an.

• Du sorgst für einen gepflegten Zustand unserer Grün- und Gartenflächen und ihrer Bäume, Pflanzen und Blumen.
• Du mähst den Rasen und stutzt Hecken und Bäume gemäß ihrer Bedürfnisse.
• Du mulchst und säumst Pflanzen und jätest Unkraut, wo nötig.
• Du bewässerst und düngst unsere Pflanzen/Bäume/Blumen und den Boden.
• Du entfernst abgestorbene Pflanzen und Blumen
• Du entlaubst den Boden mit einem Laubbläser.
• Du bekämpfst Schädlinge mit nachhaltigen und umweltfreundlichen Gegenmaßnahmen.
• Du planst und gestaltest unsere Gärten nach deinem fachlichen Urteil und im Rahmen des vorgegebenen Budgets.
  • This section is essential to finding the candidate with the skills and qualifications that will help them in their job role.
  • This should be clear and concise and set boundaries for submissions.
  • The more information you add to your skills section, the less candidates you’ll have to sift through to find the right one.
  • This would waste both your time and the potential candidate so avoid being wordy as much as possible. Think about what would be an essential part of this role, and what would the applicant need to be successful in the job?

Gardener Requirements

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Remember these are example requirements, not all of these will be relevant to your specific job ad. Please edit the text to match your company’s needs.

• Experience working as a Gardener, Landscaper, or Greenkeeper
• Knowledge of regional and seasonal trees, plants, and flowers
• Knowledge of environmentally friendly, sustainable fertilizers and pesticides
• Ability to work with gardening equipment and tools, including mowers, leaf blowers, and trimmers
• Experience in landscaping design is preferred yet not required
• Familiarity with local health and safety regulations regarding landscaping and gardening
Denken Sie daran, dass es sich hierbei um Beispielanforderungen handelt, die nicht alle auf Ihre spezifische Stellenanzeige zutreffen. Bitte passen Sie den Text an die Bedürfnisse Ihres Unternehmens an.

• Du kannst Erfahrung in der Arbeit als Gärtner, Landschaftsgärtner oder Greenkeeper vorweisen.
• Du besitzt Kenntnisse zur Pflege regionaler und saisonaler Bäume, Pflanzen und Blumen.
• Du kennst dich mit umweltfreundlichen, nachhaltigen Düngemitteln und Schädlingsbekämpfungsmitteln aus.
• Du kannst mit Gartengeräten und Werkzeugen wie Rasenmähern, Laubbläsern und Trimmern umgehen.
• Du bringst idealerweise Erfahrungen in der Landschaftsgestaltung mit.
• Du bist mit den örtlichen Gesundheits- und Sicherheitsvorschriften für den Landschafts- und Gartenbau vertraut.

Need inspiration?

Your job description will not attract talent all on its own. So when putting together your job post, be sure to show what it's like working at your company not just textually but visually!

  • Remember, attracting a candidate is just as much about your company culture as the job role itself. Make sure to include points that make you seem desirable too!
  • Add photos that show off your office space, team events and your team having a great time.
  • Maybe you could include a video of some team members explaining why they love coming to work, or why they like their role.
  • Include a grid of attractive perks with some nice illustrations. Maybe you have unlimited holidays, or you have an attractive parental leave cover - show off!
  • Why not embed your company's Instagram feed to give a IRL overview of the day-to-day.

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