Installation and Maintenance Gardener
(Paid Opportunities) Return to Paid Opportunities
Compensation: Competitive hourly pay: $30–$35/hour, based on experience
Green Hūs is a full-service landscape design, installation, and maintenance firm serving clients in New York City and the surrounding areas. We specialize in enhancing home exteriors and beautifying neighborhoods by creating elegant outdoor living spaces. Our services include garden design, installation and maintenance, woodwork, metalwork, irrigation, and landscape lighting. With special attention to detail, we combine our horticultural expertise with seasonal colors, thoughtful design, and high-touch maintenance to create bespoke beauty for our clients. For more information regarding our organization, please visit our website: https://green-hus.com/
Green Hūs is seeking an organized, detail-oriented, and personable horticulture professional to join our team as an Installation and Maintenance Gardener. This role involves caring for residential gardens in an urban setting, ensuring vibrant, healthy landscapes throughout the year. Our projects include urban backyards, rooftop gardens, terraces, balconies, window boxes, and tree pits. As a key team member, you’ll work directly in and around private homes, requiring a professional demeanor and an eye for precision.
Responsibilities/Duties
Installation Responsibilities
- Installation of planters, drainage, and soils
- Planting annuals and perennials: flowers, bulbs, grasses, trees, shrubs, forbs
- Regular use of hand tools and occasional use of power tools
Maintenance Responsibilities - Seasonal plant care: feeding, watering, pruning, planting and removing annuals, spring and fall cleanup, winterizing, seasonal decorating
Qualifications/Requirements
- Minimum 3 years or more experience in horticulture, estate gardening, landscape design, landscape maintenance, and restoration ecology
- Proven experience in urban gardening techniques with a focus on plant health and ecosystem interactions
- Experience with Irrigation and low-voltage lighting systems is a plus
- Certifications: OSHA 30 and SST 10 or willingness to complete training
- Strong interpersonal skills, time management, and attention to detail
- Ability to work in a polite, orderly, minimally disruptive, and tidy fashion
- Physical ability to lift 50 lbs. and work in diverse weather conditions
- A valid driver's license is preferred but not required
Candidates will be asked what aspects of horticulture they have experience with or knowledge of, such as IPM, pruning, planting, plant identification, irrigation, lighting, hardscape, woodworking, etc.
Additional Information
Full-time benefits include:
- 2 weeks of paid time off annually
- 1 week of paid holidays
- Medical insurance stipend
- Retirement plan with employer contributions
- Unlimited MetroCard and Citi-Bike membership
- Opportunities for bonus pay
Working Conditions:
Work takes place rain or shine at multiple locations throughout Manhattan. Shifts are 8 hours per day, Monday through Friday.
How to apply Interested and qualified candidates can email a resume and cover letter to info@green-hus.com. Please include photos of gardens you have worked on or find beautiful. We would love to see your eye for design!
Contact Information
Green Hūs Design
Email: info@green-hus.com