Mornington Green Living Legacy Gardens is a unique 32-acre memorial park in Somerville, where families create lasting legacies through living legacy trees. As the Horticultural Landscape Crew Leader within the Landscaping team, you will supervise a small crew delivering high-quality horticultural maintenance across Mornington Greens, gardens, memorial trees and open spaces. Also including setup and pack down of memorial ceremonies and other events hosted at Mornington Green.

This hands-on leadership role balances practical fieldwork with day-to-day crew coordination, ensuring works are completed safely, on time, and to a standard that exceeds our communities expectations.

Reporting to the Landscape Manager, you will assist in supervising the team but also assist to set out planned scheduled works and also new stage developments.

Key responsibilities

- Supervise the Landscape gardening crew
- Gardening,Tree planting and landscaping duties across our 32-acre property.
- Maintaining gardens, pathways, outdoor areas and facilities
- Maintaining presentation of each of our individual memorial trees and plaques
- General property maintenance and repairs
- Assisting with set-up and pack-down for events and ceremonies
- Keeping equipment, work areas and facilities clean, organised and well maintained
- Helping ensure ceremony spaces are presented beautifully for families
- Moving and arranging chairs, tables and other equipment
- Supporting basic administration and organisational tasks
- Providing practical support to the wider Mornington Green team

About You





- Demonstrated experience in horticulture or open space maintenance, with a background in a supervisory or leading-hand capacity
- Qualifications in Horticulture or a related field with equivalent experience
- Solid understanding of workplace health and safety obligations in an outdoor environment
- Reliable, punctual and takes ownership of their work
- Strong communication skills and the ability to coordinate a team effectively in the field, Enjoys practical, hands-on work and being outdoors
- Takes pride in keeping gardens, grounds and facilities looking their best
- Comfortable working independently as well as part of a team
- Good attention to detail and takes pride in presentation
- Physically capable of undertaking gardening, maintenance and event set-up duties
- Comfortable using basic tools,equipment and machinery.
- Good communication skills and a friendly, respectful manner

About us

Mornington Green is unlike a traditional workplace. Our beautiful gardens provide a peaceful environment, but our days are active and varied. You'll be part of a close-knit team helping create meaningful experiences for families at some of the most significant moments in their lives. Mornington Green is in an exciting growth phase, which represents plenty of future opportunities for the right candidate.

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📌 Horticultural Landscape Crew Leader (Somerville)
🏢 Mornington Green
📍 Somerville