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Launch your Horticulture career! Graduate Technician Role with Urban Planters
Join Our Team and Make a Difference!
Do you enjoy problem solving and helping customers? Do you have a passion for horticulture? Become a Graduate Technician with Urban Planters in Reading. Full training provided, no experience necessary. Apply now!
We are currently seeking a Graduate Horticulture Technician to join our dedicated team at the Reading branch, covering the Reading area. Successful individuals in this role will include graduates with a science-based, horticultural or agricultural degree. If you’re looking for a company that prioritises colleague development, this could be the job for you!
Why Join Urban Planters?
Competitive Salary Package: Start with a basic salary of £26,700 per annum, with bonus and commission schemes available.
Benefits: Company vehicle, fuel card, mobile phone, uniform, and RI Rewards.
Work-Life Balance: Full-time, permanent role, Monday to Friday (40 hr week).
Externally Accredited Training: Receive top-notch training to support our customers and your development.
Graduate Horticultural Technician Role:
You will start as an Interior Maintenance Technician, with your initial 6-12 months dedicated to covering a specific geographical area. You’ll provide invaluable support to customers by maintaining their live and artificial plant displays while receiving comprehensive externally accredited training. Key responsibilities include:
- Watering, feeding and pest control of live plant displays
- Replacing dead, dying or overgrown plant displays
- Maintain artificial plant displays
- Assist with plant display installations
- Assist with seasonal installations
- Comply with all relevant health and safety procedures
- Providing exceptional customer service and upholding a professional image at all times.
- Offering valuable advice to customers on the upkeep of plant displays.
During the next 12-36 months, you will have an exciting opportunity to continue your career with the potential following opportunities:
- Sales Consultants
- Service Supervisor
- National Account Manager
Urban Planters/ Rentokil Initial offers you the platform to follow your own career path while constantly learning on the job and developing your career.
Requirements:
Graduate Horticultural Technician Requirements:
- A minimum 2.2 degree in a BSc subject - Science, horticultural or agricultural
- A full UK driving licence.
- A desire to work hard and have fun while meeting and interacting with customers daily.
- Flexibility with working patterns to support business needs.
- You may be required to pass a DBS check depending on the role you have applied for
- Ability to work using own initiative
- Plant knowledge and a passion for horticulture would be advantageous
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Benefits:
- Additional opportunities to earn more with potential bonus and commission schemes.
- Access to a company vehicle and fuel card.
- Salary grading system - linked to performance for those keen to develop their career within our business.
- Exciting discounts and cashback offers from over 3,000 retailers with RI Rewards.
- Overtime opportunities - potential to earn extra in overtime to meet the needs of our customers.
- Uncapped Leads commission - although this isn’t a sales job, we appreciate and reward you for passing on sales leads.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - free to access and available 24/7 to you, your family, and friends.
- Refer a Friend - earn up to £1,000 for referring someone to work for Rentokil Initial.
A Company Putting “People First”
Rentokil Initial (FTSE100) is one of the largest business services companies in the world, operating in over 90 countries and providing services that protect people and enhance lives.
As a business, we focus on the Right People, doing the Right Things, and in the Right Way. We invest a lot of time and money in training and developing all our colleagues to be the best they can be, and we are always looking for talented and driven people to join our Rentokil Initial Family.
As part of the Rentokil Initial business, Urban Planters has been bringing homes and workplaces to life with plants since 1965. We deliver our products and services using our national network of branches, spanning the length and breadth of the UK. This means we can offer the personalised service of a local business but with the standards and resources of a national organisation.
We now have a carbon negative business whose teams install planting in, on and around the building of the companies we partner with. We are happiest while we are landscaping, installing indoor planting schemes or maintaining the plants or grounds of our clients.
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