Gardener
Wellington City Council
- Passionate about our environment and enjoy being part of a passionate motivated team?
- Looking to contribute your skills and expertise to enhance Wellington's urban gardens?
- Permanent, full-time role
Kia mahi ngātahi mō Pōneke mō tōna āpōpō - Working together for Wellington's future.
As a great harbour capital city, Wellington City Council has established a vision for Wellington as 'an inclusive, sustainable and creative capital for people to live, work and play'. The future of Wellington is compact, inclusive and connected, greener, resilient, vibrant and prosperous. Every day we deliver critical services to over 200,000 residents and thousands of businesses and actively works to ensure Wellington is a great place to live, work and play. Making a positive difference to people and community is our purpose. People are our most valuable resource, and people are the reason we exist.
The Open Space and Parks team provide a critical customer facing support service, ensuring the city's residents and visitors enjoy a well-managed and maintained environment.
The Parks Operations team provide a crucial customer facing support service, ensuring the city's residents and visitors enjoy a well-managed and maintained environment.
The role
We are looking for a physically fit, motivated, and enthusiastic individual to join our Horticulture Team. Satisfying, challenging, and rewarding, if you have a passion for plants, love learning and enjoy working in the outdoors, this could be the perfect career path for you.
In this important, fun, and rewarding role, you will earn a salary while you gain valuable work experience, complete qualifications (including traffic management, Growsafe), work in a variety of locations across the many beautiful gardens of Wellington and enjoy the benefits of working alongside knowledgeable industry professionals with years of experience.
Who are we looking for?
This role requires you to have a driver's licence - even better if you have a class 2 heavy trade licence but if not, we can support the right person to complete this. A Horticulture qualification would be ideal but not essential however you do need to be willing and eager to learn. If you've got NZQA Level 3 National Certificate in Amenity Horticulture, we can support you to complete your level 4 qualification.
You will need to be comfortable using agrichemicals, be tech savvy on a mobile phone with the ability to learn new apps and systems.
Please note this role is safety sensitive and will require you to undergo pre-employment drug and alcohol, health and musculoskeletal testing.
The Council uses the AS/NZ drug standard to determine the cut off levels for drug testing. Some prescription drugs may be included within this standard.
If you want to know more about the position, team or mahi, feel free to contact Martin Simonlehner on martin.simonlehner@wcc.govt.nz
About us
Working for the Council offers you a range of benefits including 5 weeks annual leave, flexible working options, health and wellbeing support, Council staff discounts and a range of learning and development programmes and opportunities.
Salary range: $63,029 - $74,151 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
Applications close on Wednesday, 21 January 2026. All applications must be submitted online. All applicants must have the right to work in New Zealand.
We want to make sure any accessibility requirements you may have, are well supported so the selection process is equitable for everyone. Please let us know if there are any adjustments or support, we can offer to make our process more accessible to you by emailing: recruitment@wcc.govt.nz
Diversity: We want your application to enable you to portray the real you. Skills are gained across many areas of our life, not just formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the advert through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter. We welcome applications from all walks of life and like our workforce to reflect the diverse communities we serve.
Accessibility Support: We want to make sure any accessibility requirements you may have, are well supported so the selection process is equitable for everyone. Please let us know if there are any adjustments or support, we can offer to make our process more accessible to you by emailing: recruitment@wcc.govt.nz
