Garden maintenance team leader

About the role

Sydney Lawns and Gardens is looking for an experienced and reliable Team Leader to help run our garden maintenance crew. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll be out in the field with the crew managing a team of 2–4 staff on-site, liaising directly with clients, coordinating the daily roster, and supporting the business owner across other parts of the day-to-day running of the business. You'll be responsible for quality garden maintenance and soft landscape work, liaising with clients, plus keeping the team and the schedule running smoothly.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and supervise a team of 2–4 staff on garden maintenance and landscape maintenance jobs

• Liaise with clients on-site — understand their needs, answer questions, and represent the business professionally

• Help roster and schedule jobs, coordinating the team's daily run

• Use the provided phone and software package to schedule runs, communicate with clients, staff and business owners, and log on-site times and materials used

• Support the business owner with other aspects of the business and daily operations

• Carry out hands-on garden maintenance and soft landscape construction work

• Help train, guide and mentor team members

• Ensure WH&S standards are followed on every job

About you

• Relevant horticultural qualification and experience

• Proven experience leading or supervising a small team, ideally in garden maintenance and/or landscape construction

• Passionate about gardening and landscaping

• Strong horticultural and hands-on trade skill

• Excellent communication skills, with confidence liaising directly with clients

• Strong organisational and business/admin skills — able to help manage quoting, scheduling and rostering

• Solid understanding of WH&S

• Reliable, honest and hardworking

• Shares our values of integrity, honesty and mutual respect

• Motivated and able to work well leading a broad range of employees

• Must be non smoking, non vaping

About us

Sydney Lawns and Gardens is based across the Eastern Suburbs, the city and the Lower North Shore of Sydney. We have been in business for 25 years. We manage, maintain and lansdcape both private and strata gardens. Our clients see us as knowledgeable, reliable, honest and pro-active.