**Qualified Horticulturist/Greenkeepers/Apprentice**:
**Job no**: 494623
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: All Canberra ACT
**Categories**: Trades and Services
**Qualified Horticulturist/Greenkeepers/Apprentice**
Citywide Canberra are recruiting for a** Qualified Horticulturist, Greenkeepers and Apprentice** to join our team. This role will see you maintaining high profile gardens in some of Canberra's most iconic locations.
**Duties include but are not limited to**:
- Pruning
- Weeding
- Mowing
- Pest & disease identification and control
- Hedging
- Mulching
- Planting
- Turf renovation
**Skills and experience required**:
- 3-5 years' experience maintaining high quality landscapes
- Cert 3 Horticulturist/Greenkeepers (preferred)
- Arborist experience (Highly Desirable)
- Chemcert (Desirable)
- White Card
- Asbestos card
- Drivers Licence - Medium Rigid/Heavy Rigid (Desirable)
- Knowledge and appreciation of OH&S;
**In return we offer**:
- The opportunity to work in some amazing Canberra locations
- The ability to demonstrate your Horticulture skills
- The opportunity to further develop your skills in a strong, supportive environment
- A workplace that focuses on safety first
**About Citywide**:
Citywide is a company with a clear purpose and mission - we shape liveable cities for more than 14 million people in communities along Australia's eastern seaboard. We manage and maintain all aspects of civic amenity, assets and infrastructure for government and private enterprise customers, to the benefit of the host communities in which we work and whom we serve.
Citywide is responsible for maintaining the National Capital Estate (on behalf of the National Capital Authority, Commonwealth Government and public). This includes large areas of public green space and nationally significant assets such as Anzac Parade including the memorials, Commonwealth and Kings Parks, the Parliamentary Zone (including the Old Parliament House Rose Gardens) and areas surrounding Lake Burley Griffin.