Gardener
- Full-time
Company Description
Kylin Arts is a playful, engaging place to work. We laugh, we sweat, we sing, we haul and we create beautiful environments for our clients. We are all artists of one stripe or another, music, sculpture, drawing, and food. We are a small, tight team that love being outside, with each other, and among nature.
The Kylin Arts philosophy is to inspire a liveliness in the community by designing green spaces that keep native and edible plants in the mix and invasive plants and chemicals out. Using the arts to guide an aesthetic pallet diverse in color, structure, and habit. Kylin Arts treads playfully and imaginatively, yet lightly.
Job Description
We are currently looking for a creative Gardener (mid-March through mid-December).
You will love this job if you have:
- Artistic experience
- Plant ID skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Discerning eye for quality
- Ability to train and develop fellow crew members
- Problem solving skills
- Positive attitude and a willingness to learn
- Exceptional communication skills
- Work fast and attentively
Hours are subject to weather and client demands but are generally Monday through Friday, 7:30am - 4pm. This is a great opportunity to get experience in the horticulture industry.
Qualifications
1) Playful, positive, deeply caring state of being. Kylin Arts project turn arounds are tight, our days can be long, physically challenging, and extreme in temperature. Each member of our team has constant accountability for exceptional results within the garden. Despite this intensity, we each ensure that every day in the garden feels like one spent with friends and family. We work very hard and we are not afraid to have fun while we do it. We create this environment by living in a state of kindness and appreciation for each other, our clients, and all others with whom we interact.
2) Ability to work quickly with extremely high attention to detail. Our team is small and tight knit, and we rely on each other. Every person's work shows up and needs to be of the highest caliber while remaining fast and efficient. Our customers are sublime and we treat them that way. They go out of their way for us, bringing us snacks or lemonade, and we go out of our way to make sure each job is done exquisitely.
3) Ability to handle the physicality of the job, for example: shovel rocks all day, lift bags of mulch up a steep hill, dig out large established shrubs or small trees, consistently lift 40 lbs, occasionally lift 75 lbs, kneeling for long periods of time. We work for 6-10 hours per day.
4) Eager to learn. As a key member on the Kylin Arts team, you will need a fanatical eagerness to receive constant training, actively seek out process improvements from other team members, and to seek out and share your own discoveries. Even tiny improvements add strength to our competitive advantage and help us deliver more value to our clients and team members. Plant knowledge helps our team move faster and more accurately in weeding, identifying diseases, and pruning. Bringing plant ID knowledge to the team is ideal and adding to that knowledge is vital.
5) Express artistic creativity in some capacity. We are a team of artists with an eye for the aesthetic.
Knowing when something looks right and always meeting or exceeding that mark.
Additional Information
Hourly rate is $10-$12/hour. This job lasts from mid-March through mid-December. There are opportunities for moving up.