Amenity (parks and gardens)
Keen to create vibrant community spaces and grow your team at the same time? Amenity horticulture is about creating vibrant spaces we can all enjoy — growing, establishing, and managing gardens and public spaces.
Our programmes will provide the skills and knowledge to build and maintain stunning gardens and public spaces, on any scale. Even in our Regional Council parks!
Job overview
If you love being outdoors and have a passion for garden maintenance and plant knowledge, you couldn’t find a more fulfilling career. No experience is no problem. You’ll start as a garden assistant, working in a team to help create and maintain beautiful spaces.
Skills and experience
- Physically fit and enjoy the satisfaction of a hard day’s work
- A team player with excellent communication skills
- Skills with tools and machinery an advantage
- Reliable
- Full driver’s licence
- Eager to learn and train while you work
- Able and eligible to work in New Zealand
- Growsafe certificate desirable
News from our learners and employers
New Zealand’s future farmers, fencers, contractors and rural workers are already learning the ropes not from behind desks, but out in paddocks, yards and woolsheds across Horowhenua and Kāpiti.
Photo & Article Credit: Frankie Webb, Horowhenua Chronicle
Photo & Article Credit: Frankie Webb, Horowhenua Chronicle
Industry employers have an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of work-based learning in the food and fibre industry over the next few months.
After fifty years in horticulture and vocational education, Primary ITO Training Adviser Dom ‘the dominator’ Steenstra is retiring on 5 December to pursue retirement, or possibly a new career pathway.
Primary ITO vehicle and chainsaw micro-credentials are now available for self-employed owner-operators and people working in industries not related to the primary sector.