Palms and Ferns palmsandferns.com.au , formerly Sydney and Central Coast Palm is a premium production nursery, providing established palms and ferns to property developments and landscape designers.
Currently we are seeking the right candidate for a long-term career role. We have a core staff of 3 people and would like to increase that to 4 or 5. We are a nieche provider of beautiful, large palms and ferns. You need to have a passion for plants and a love of working out doors to help grow, care for a take pride in each of these advanced specimens.
For this role, you need to be hard working for growing, transplanting, plant salvaging and general nursery duties. You will play a key role in:
- Bagging large ex-ground stock
- Planting stock to grow in ground
- Propagation and growing plants
- Irrigation construction and maintenance
- Weed control and plant health care
- Helping with infrastructure maintenance and improvements
- Machine operation including excavators, skid steers, and attachments (on the job training will be provided)
Candidates should be fit to work outdoors preforming physical work and manual tasks. We use machines for heavy work, so stregth is not so important. To be on your feet and active is important.
From time-to-time we travel to extract ex-ground plants from old nurseries or similar, so ideally you would be in a position to travel with us for work. This is not essential.
We are located in a beautiful fertile valley at the base of the Watagan National Park.
As an employer we provide an equal opportunity, secure work environment and look forward to hearing from you.
We welcome applications from candidates with any valid Australian work rights.
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📌 Plant Nursery Hand (Lake Macquarie City Council)
🏢 Sydney and Central Coast Palms
📍 Lake Macquarie City Council
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