If you are motivated, passionate about quality landscaping and would be interested in joining our national award-winning company we would love to hear from you.
GARDEN DESIGNER
Haywood Landscapes are looking for a garden designer on a full-time basis to join our national award-winning team.
We are based in East Kent and specialise in domestic garden design-and-build.
We Offer
A positive, supportive working environment within a friendly and cohesive team.
Scope for professional development into the widest delivery of this role with commensurate salary.
Potential for further progression within the company.
Starting salary circa £34,000, but negotiable according to experience.
Additional renumeration via our Company Bonus Scheme.
Core Duties
- Undertake initial client consultations and garden surveys
- Create garden designs working to clients’ brief and budgetary guide
- Costing the design builds using ‘Liberate’ estimating software (with support as needed)
- Client presentation of the design and quotation
- Working mainly from our office near Canterbury but with the possibility of some home working
Other Duties (according to experience)
- Project management - overseeing delivery of your designs
- ‘Hands-on’ work eg. planting, pruning or other skilled tasks according to your skill set
Attributes we are looking for
- The ability to create imaginative and deliverable designs in 2D and 3D using CAD design software. Vectorworks is preferred but not essential
- A good plant knowledge to facilitate creation of appealing and site/client appropriate planting plans
- A recognised garden design qualification
- Professionalism and a good work ethic, allied with a personable manner
- Experience of, or an appetite to develop in the role of estimating and project management
- Some ‘hands-on’ landscaping or gardening experience is beneficial
- A full driving licence and own reliable transport (car)
To apply, please email with your C.V. and a Dropbox link to your portfolio, f.a.o. Andy Wiggins, Managing Director at info@haywood-landscapes.co.uk
LANDSCAPE OPERATIVE
Haywood Landscapes are looking for a landscape operative to join our national award-winning team.
We are based in Canterbury and specialise in domestic garden design-and-build.
We Offer
A positive, supportive working environment within a friendly and cohesive team.
The role offers the satisfaction of involvement from start to finish in the process of building beautiful, high-quality gardens, working within both hard and soft landscaping disciplines.
Salary £458 to £500 per 40 hour week according to experience and skill set.
In addition to basic pay we provide:
- Payment for travel time (between our yard and site) at 50% full pay rate
- A performance related bonus scheme (commencing on satisfactory completion of 3-month trial period)
The successful applicant will have
- A full driving licence and own transport (to get to our yard at Chartham Hatch near Canterbury)
- Some experience of landscaping, gardening, ground-works or construction (in a commercial/professional working environment - not your own garden)
- An aptitude for physical, sometimes strenuous work in the full range of weathers
- A personable manner
- A desire to work within a small friendly team creating high quality landscapes
- Some driving of a 3.5 tonne vehicle may be involved subject to eligibility
To apply, please email with your C.V. to info@haywood-landscapes.co.uk
