Seasonal Gardener

Newfields
Newfields
4000 Michigan Rd
Indianapolis, IN 46208, USA

Newfields
Newfields
4000 Michigan Rd
Indianapolis, IN 46208, USA

Salary or Hourly: $18/Hourly (32 hours a week, March - November)

Opportunity Overview

The Garden at Newfields is seeking applicants for Gardeners. This is a rare opportunity to work with a dedicated professional staff at one of the premier public gardens in the Midwest. The successful applicant will work in the historic gardens of Oldfields, a National Historic Landmark property, as well as the contemporary gardens located throughout the 52-acre landscape. This is an ideal opportunity to improve one's gardening skills and greatly expand one's plant knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Installation of trees, shrubs, bulbs, and herbaceous planting.
• Provide cultural care for plants and gardens (watering, deadheading, pruning, etc.).

Required Skills

• Learning new physical and technical gardening skills
• Desire to learn plant identification and care
• Ability to think critically and solve problems
• Enthusiastic attitude

Educations and/or Experience

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as planting plans, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
• Ability to use horticultural equipment and tools with proper training

Physical Demands of the Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/ or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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