Gardening jobs in Kilwinning

Lawn Care and Garden Services Technician

Pro Lawn Ltd – Prestwick

Pay: £12.71–£13.50 per hour, depending on experience and qualifications
Job type: Full-time, permanent
Hours: 38.5 paid hours per week
Start date: Immediate start available

Pro Lawn Ltd is an award-winning independent lawn-care and garden-services company with more than 20 years of experience. We provide professional lawn care, weed control and seasonal garden services throughout the West of Scotland.

Due to continued growth, we are looking for an experienced, dependable and hardworking Lawn Care and Garden Services Technician.

We are particularly interested in candidates who already hold recognised chainsaw, pesticide application or other relevant machinery qualifications. Applicants with suitable certificates and practical experience will be given preference.

The role

This is a varied, year-round outdoor position. During the main lawn-care season, you will carry out professional lawn treatments and improvement work. During autumn and winter, the role will include seasonal garden maintenance, cutting-back and clearance work.

Duties may include:

• Applying lawn fertilisers and approved weed and disease treatments
• Operating professional aeration and scarification machinery
• Carrying out top-dressing, over-seeding, re-turfing and lawn restoration
• Applying weed and moss treatments to hard surfaces when appropriately qualified
• Assisting with lawn-drainage installation
• Pruning shrubs and overgrown bushes
• Cutting back and trimming hedges and conifers
• Clearing and turning over borders
• Raking and removing leaves and seasonal garden waste
• Carrying out end-of-season garden tidy-ups
• Undertaking suitable chainsaw work when appropriately qualified and authorised
• Loading, checking and safely storing equipment and materials
• Driving a company van between customer properties
• Providing friendly and professional customer service
• Recommending suitable additional lawn and garden services

This is a physically active role involving outdoor work in varying weather conditions, powered machinery, garden-waste handling and driving between jobs.

Experience and qualifications

We are looking for someone who:

• Has relevant lawn-care, gardening, landscaping, forestry, arboriculture or grounds-maintenance experience
• Has experience operating powered outdoor machinery safely
• Is reliable, punctual and comfortable working outdoors throughout the year
• Takes pride in completing work to a high standard
• Is polite, friendly and professional with customers
• Can work independently and as part of a small team
• Can follow risk assessments and safe-working procedures
• Holds a full, current UK driving licence

Candidates who already hold relevant qualifications will be prioritised.

Qualifications and experience of particular interest include:

• Recognised chainsaw maintenance and cross-cutting qualifications
• Recognised chainsaw felling qualifications
• PA1 and PA6 pesticide application certificates
• Arboriculture, forestry, horticultural or grounds-maintenance qualifications
• Professional experience using chainsaws, hedge trimmers, leaf blowers, lawnmowers or similar machinery
• Experience pruning shrubs, cutting hedges and conifers or carrying out garden-clearance work

Please include details of your relevant certificates and expiry dates with your application.

The successful candidate will receive a company induction and familiarisation with our services, equipment and working procedures. We are currently looking for someone with relevant practical experience who can become productive after an appropriate induction period.

Company van and work location

A company van is provided and may be taken home overnight.

The working day normally begins at the first scheduled customer property. You must be able to travel to your first job and be ready to begin work at the stated start time.

The position is field-based, with travel to customers throughout the West of Scotland. Attendance at our Prestwick base will be required occasionally for meetings, stock collection and vehicle or equipment maintenance.

Personal protective equipment is provided. Chainsaws and other specialist machinery may only be operated by appropriately qualified and authorised employees.

Working hours

• Monday to Thursday: 8:00am–5:00pm, with a one-hour unpaid lunch break
• Friday: 7:45am–2:45pm, with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break
• 38.5 paid hours per week
• No regular overtime requirement
• Early finish every Friday

Pay and benefits

• £12.71–£13.50 per hour, depending on experience and qualifications
• Permanent, full-time employment
• Uncapped customer referral and sales incentives
• 28 days’ paid annual leave, including allocated holidays at Easter Monday, May Day and over the Christmas and New Year period
• Workplace pension with a 3% employer contribution, subject to eligibility
• Statutory Sick Pay, subject to eligibility
• Company van that may be taken home overnight
• Personal protective equipment provided
• Early finish every Friday
• Varied, year-round outdoor work
• Friendly working environment within an established independent company

The role is subject to a six-month probationary period.

Additional earning opportunities

You can earn additional money through our uncapped customer referral and sales incentive scheme.

Rewards are paid when you introduce a new customer or when an appropriate service recommendation results in confirmed additional work. Recommendations must always be suitable for the customer and their property.

No previous sales experience is required. We will explain our services and how to discuss them professionally.

How to apply

Please submit your current CV and answer the application questions.

Candidates selected for interview will receive a confirmed appointment time and location. If you are unable to attend, please let us know as early as possible.

Pay: £12.71-£13.50 per hour

Application question(s):

• Do you hold a full, current UK driving licence?
• Which relevant certificates do you hold, including chainsaw, PA1 and PA6 qualifications? Please provide certificate names and expiry dates where applicable.

Work Location: In person