Gardeners/Installers

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Start Date: March/April 2023  Compensation: $20 - $30/hr

Huntergreen is a small, full-service garden design/build company based in Brooklyn.

We create elegant gardens and outdoor spaces and work with an awesome team of gardeners, builders, and craftspeople to build and maintain our projects. We're a hardworking, easy-going, tight-knit diverse crew that take pride in our work because we love what we do. We are putting together our 2023 garden crew and hope you’ll join us. 

Our crew works together on all aspects of our projects from plantings, hardscape prep, irrigation installation and maintenance, deliveries, plant sourcing and garden maintenance. Candidates should be hardworking, team players, great communicators, self - sufficient, detail oriented and reliable. A background in horticulture and landscaping is a plus. Compensation is commensurate with level of experience.


 

Responsibilities/Duties

  • Take direction from crew leader and designer on all matters of project installation.
  • Planting and prepping sites both in ground and container gardens
  • All manner of garden care: pruning, planting, raking, sweeping
  • Making deliveries of plants and landscaping materials
  • Demo and removal of job waste
  • Irrigation maintenance (willing to teach)
  • Assist with plant buying trips to Long Island nurseries, including driving
  •  Keep track of daily expenses

Qualifications/Requirements

Qualifications / Requirements

- Strong work ethic, able to work the occasional weekend during the high season

- Horticultural/landscaping knowledge and experience a plus

- Can perform basic outdoor construction/installation tasks 

- Experience laying patios or outdoor carpentry is a plus

- Experience installing irrigation is also a plus, but willing to teach

- Strong enough to lift 50 lbs: demo bags, pavers, or potted trees

- Capable of working 8 hour days in the colder months, summer sun or in light rain

- Drivers license, feels comfortable driving a truck in the city and has a clean record

- 3 professional references and a resume required

- Keep track of daily expenses
 

Additional Information

  • While this is an hourly position based on our 2023 job load, in years past, the team worked 5 days a week through most of the year
  • Flexible schedule
  • Can help subsidize a vehicle


 

Contact Information

Huntergreen
Contact Name: Jeff Salcito
Email: jeffrey@huntergreen.nyc