Garden Maintenance Team Leader

Reflective Gardens is seeking an experienced horticulturalist or garden maintenance professional to lead a small team maintaining and enhancing some of Sydney’s finest residential gardens.

Operating for more than 25 years, Reflective Gardens is an award-winning landscape construction and garden care company known for quality workmanship, attention to detail and long-term client relationships.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys detailed horticultural work, leading and developing others, and delivering smaller planting and landscape enhancement projects.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading and mentoring a small garden care team

• Maintaining high-end residential gardens to an exceptional standard

• Detailed pruning, hedging, mowing, edging, planting, weeding, fertilising and mulching

• Monitoring plant health and identifying pest, disease, irrigation and soil-related issues

• Planning daily work and ensuring allocated tasks are completed efficiently

• Communicating professionally with clients and reporting recommendations to management

• Operating and caring for garden maintenance tools and equipment

• Leading smaller enhancement works, including planting, garden rejuvenations, turfing, soil improvement and soft-landscape installations

• Maintaining safe, organised and presentable worksites

We are looking for someone who has:

• Strong experience in garden maintenance, horticulture or a related field

• Sound plant identification and horticultural knowledge

• Experience leading, supervising or mentoring team members

• Confidence with pruning, hedging, plant health and detailed garden presentation

• Soft-landscaping or garden enhancement experience

• Excellent communication, organisation and time-management skills

• A reliable, positive and team-focused attitude

• Strong attention to detail and pride in delivering quality work

• The ability to safely carry out physical outdoor work

• A current Australian driver’s licence

A Certificate III in Horticulture or a related qualification will be highly regarded.

• Permanent full-time employment

• Competitive remuneration based on experience and qualifications

• Consistent work across premium residential gardens

• A supportive and established team environment

• Quality clients who value professional garden care

• Opportunities to develop your leadership and horticultural skills

• Variety between ongoing garden maintenance and enhancement projects

• Long-term career opportunities within a respected, award-winning company

If you are passionate about horticulture, enjoy leading people and want to work on gardens you can genuinely be proud of, we would like to hear from you.

Please apply through SEEK with your résumé and a brief introduction outlining your garden maintenance, horticultural and leadership experience.