Better places, thriving communities.
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: London and surrounding areas+ travel across the UK
Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary: Up to £32k per annum based on experience + benefits including life assurance, virtual GP and store discounts
Are you looking to grow your horticultural career and have a head for heights?
Come and join the Biotecture team.
Biotecture are the UK's leading specialist in living walls and vertical landscapes.
We are looking for supervisors to lead a small team (typically teams of 2) maintaining green walls across London and further afield.
This Role will require travel across the UK including overnight stays approximately once a month during growing season.
Not worked on living walls before? This role would suit someone with a horticultural maintenance background including hedge trimming, or tree surgery. We can offer you a varied workday, and real career progression.
Full training will be provided, but horticultural maintenance experience and supervisory experience is desirable.
THE ROLE:
1. Lead a small team (typically a team of 2) carrying out regular maintenance
of our living walls including horticultural and irrigation maintenance.
2. Assisting with Christmas tree installations October – December
3. Provide reporting in line with Biotecture's processes.
4. Monday – Friday with occasional weekend or evening
work available (overtime rate).
WHAT WE CAN OFFER:
5. Career development: The chance to develop your
horticultural and leadership skills and the opportunity to
progress into a management role.
6. Company vehicle
7. Suite of benefits including life assurance, virtual GP and
store discounts
DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
8. Horticultural maintenance background
9. Good plant knowledge
10. Supervisory experience
11. Comfortable working at height
12. Knowledge of irrigation systems
13. UK Driving license
14. PA1 & PA6
15. Ideally hold IPAF and PASMA
Does this sound like the right job for you? Please apply now.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .