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Landscape Gardeners

JOB SUMMARY

Company Confidential
Industry Environment
Category Skilled labor
Location Accra
Job Status Full-time
Salary GH¢ 
Education -:-
Experience N/A
Job Expires Sep 09, 2017
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Job Description

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • To care for, manage and develop identified garden areas.
  • To ensure that identified garden areas are cared for, managed and developed in order that they can be used to support curriculum delivery and enrichment.
  • To develop and maintain garden areas and beds, sometimes working alone and sometimes working with others.
  • To ensure that all health and safety issues related to identified garden areas are addressed to enable students and staff to use the areas safely.
  • To be responsible for purchasing required materials, plants and equipment in order that the gardens can be cared for, managed and developed effectively.
  • To have a knowledge and understanding of the way in which to care for, manage and develop identified garden areas, including soil cultivation, digging, forking, mulching, watering, raking, weeding, edging, pruning, seed sowing, bed preparation and planting.
  • To have knowledge and ability in the use and maintenance of hand tools.
  • To have knowledge and ability in the use and maintenance of landscape gardeninh equipment and machinery such as walk behind and push mowers, ride on mower, edge trimmer, brush cutter, leaf blower etc.
  • To work collaboratively with colleagues as part of a professional team; working at all times within the company’s policies and procedures.
  • To comply with the requirements of Health & Safety.
  • To participate in training courses in the use of new equipment as required.

Salary: Attractive

Required Skills or Experience

Education/ Qualifications:

  • Essential: Good general standard of education
  • Preffered: Qualifications specifically related to horticulture

Experience:

  • Essential
    • Experience of gardening activities
    • Experience of issues relating to health and safety in garden areas
    • Experience of working with outdoor areas
  • Preffered
    • Experience of caring for, managing and developing gardens
    • Experience of issues relating to health and safety in school garden areas
    • Experience of working to meet the requirements of the outdoor areas

Knowledge:

  • Essential
    • The skills required to care for, manage and develop garden areas
    • Ability to identify and order the materials needed to care for a garden effectively
  • Preffered:
    • The skills required to care for, manage and develop school garden areas to meet best standards

Skills:

  • Essential
    • Ability to identify and order the materials needed to care for a garden effectively

 
Aptitude  : 

  • Essential
    • Ability to work as a part of a team and to use own initiative when appropriate    
    • The ability to be flexible

Personal Qualities:

  • Self motivated
  • Enthusiastic
  • Fit and capable of heavy work To be able to work in all weather conditions including rain, etc.
  • To be able to adapt to change
  • Work to high standards
  • Ability to take direction
  • Ability to work in a team
  • Able to work unsupervised
  • Sense of humour

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