Gardener, Generic Base Level Firenze

Gardener, Generic Base Level
Firenze
Toscana, Firenze

Position Summary:

La Pietra Srl is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to being a welcoming campus community that reflects and enacts the values of inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and accessibility that inform academic excellence. Employees in this organization are expected to contribute to diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible working environments for our community.

This position helps to ensure that the gardens and grounds of Villa La Pietra are maintained and developed. Gardener responsibilities include maintain the health of green areas and the plants that form them, watering and feeding plants, trimming trees and shrubs, fertilizing plants and mowing lawns, weeding gardens and keeping green spaces and walkways clear of debris and litter.

Principal Duties

- pruning and clipping of boschetti and hedges of various dimensions;

- cutting of both fine turf and wildflower meadows;

- sweeping of leaves etc. from graveled areas in order to ensure they are clean, tidy and safe;

- watering of plants in both post and the open ground.

- maintenance of drainage systems across the estate;

- planting and caring of a range of garden plants;

- prepare for garden-based events and, if required, participate in hosting them.

- Machine operation

Qualifications:

**Required Education**:

Required Certification/Other Qualifications

Possession of, or willingness to acquire certification to spray pesticides and to drive a tractor,

Possession of, or willingness to acquire certification as a First Aider.

Languages: Italian - English

**Preferred Education**:

Diploma from an Istituto Agrario

**Preferred Certification/Other Qualifications**:

Certification to operate a cherry picker

Certification to testify attendance of a course in the safe use of a chainsaw

Any certification attesting capabilities as a tree climber or ability to fell or prune trees

**Required Experience**:

Three years of practical, hands-on, gardening experience as a gardener.

**Preferred Experience**:

Three years of practical, hands-on, gardening experience in a listed Italian historic garden.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

An ability to speak English

An ability to use basic computer programs.

**Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**:

Additional Information:

Considered a vital role in ensuring the green estate that is Villa La Pietra remains famous throughout the world. La Pietra aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040.

**The University is an equal opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity and social inclusion.