London Temple Gardner | United Kingdom

London Temple Gardner | Surrey (United Kingdom) | Full-time (40 Hours) | Permanent

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The London Temple is looking for a gardener to ensure the temple grounds reflect the beauty, cleanliness, and sacred nature of the temple experience. The Church offers a competitive salary and additional health & retirement benefits. We have one position available.

• Ensure the temple grounds reflect the beauty, cleanliness, and sacred nature of the temple experience by performing gardener/grounds keeping work, maintaining and caring for landscaped areas, sidewalks, driveways, building entrances, and other assigned areas.
• Resolve routine questions and problems and refer more complex issues to higher levels.
• May assist with seasonal displays.
• Mow lawns using hand and power mowers.
• Maintain the original landscape plan by planting perennials, shrubs, and trees.
• Trim and edge around walls, flower beds, and walks using hand clippers and power edging tools.
• May operate heavy tractors and other large power equipment to maintain landscape.
• Prune and shape shrubs and trees to provide optimum growth efficiency of plants and enhance beauty of grounds.
• Spray lawns, shrubs, and trees for disease, weed, and insect control and perform regular fertilization as needed, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Ensure that all power equipment and machines are properly maintained.
• Provide guidance to volunteers in the maintenance of grounds.
• Water lawn and garden areas.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Previous experience in grounds maintenance, horticulture, gardening, agriculture, landscape design, or related field.
• Knowledge of various plants and fertilizers.
• Ability to follow directions, work independently and with a team.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds (22.68 Kgs).
• Full UK driving licence.

• NVQ Level 2 in Horticulture or an equivalent qualification.
• NPTC Spraying Certificates: PA1 and PA6.
• Chainsaw Certification: NPTC CS30, CS31B, and CS36, or LANTRA equivalent.

Only applicants with the right to work in the UK will be considered.