• Contribute to the beautification of Melbourne’s public spaces
• Engage in hands-on horticultural work
• Enjoy a supportive and safety-focused environment

Qualified Gardener – Full Time – Monday – Friday – 6:40am – 3:10pm

Serco is a place where you can grow
Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Opportunities for professional development and training
• Access to overtime hours for additional earnings
• A supportive and safety-focused work environment
• Equipment and tools provided for all gardening tasks
• Employee assistance programs and wellbeing support

Make an impact at Serco

As a Qualified Gardener, you’ll play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing our horticultural assets to meet and exceed contractual standards. You will engage in hands-on gardening work, working with a dedicated team to ensure all garden works are performed to a high standard and in a safe manner. This full-time role involves a variety of tasks from planting and pruning to lawn care and machinery operation, all aimed at enhancing the beauty of Melbourne’s public spaces.

As a Qualified Gardener in the Horticultural Team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Ensuring all horticultural tasks are carried out professionally and safely
• Maintaining plants, trees, and lawns in a healthy and presentable condition
• Performing garden bed preparation and planting, as well as lawn area preparation and seeding
• Operating small machinery and power tools such as drills and jackhammers safely and effectively
• Monitoring and reporting any defects in plant and equipment promptly

Serco is a place for you

You are passionate about horticulture and have a strong attention to detail. You enjoy working outdoors and take pride in contributing to the community by maintaining beautiful public spaces. You’re a team player with a proactive attitude and a commitment to safety and high-quality work.

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• A Trade Certificate in Gardening/Landscaping or equivalent experience
• A current driver’s licence
• Experience in parks, gardens, or landscape maintenance
• Strong knowledge of plant care, including watering and pruning techniques
• Ability to identify and control weeds, pests, and diseases
• Awareness of occupational health, safety, and environmental standards
• A completed qualification in Horticulture and/or Conservation and Ecosystem Management (Desirable)
• Demonstrated experience maintaining biodiverse native vegetation landscapes (Desirable)

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. If you like the look of the role, we’d love to hear from you.

As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across the areas of justice, immigration, defence, space, customer services, health, and urban mobility. In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals.

Please note:

This position carries trust and responsibility. To support this, a comprehensive probity assessment, including a Federal Police Check, is a key part of the selection process for this role.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?
At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in health, defence, maritime, justice, immigration, and community services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans, and people with disability. By joining Serco, you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Impact a better future at Serco.