Permanent Horticulture & Outdoor-Trades Recruitment · UK-wide
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Discipline 01

Landscape Gardeners & Installation Foremen

Hands-on landscape gardeners, installation crew and site foremen for domestic-garden and commercial landscape installation firms. CSCS Green/Gold cards, machinery tickets, portfolio-reviewed. BALI-member firms and independent installers.

Discipline 02

Arborists & Tree Surgery Teams

Climbing arborists, ground crews, chipper operators and team leads. LANTRA and NPTC CS30/31/38/39 certification, ISA-certified where required, chainsaw and MEWP tickets verified. Domestic tree surgery firms and commercial arboriculture.

Discipline 03

Grounds Maintenance & Crew Leaders

Grounds crew, mower operators, hedge and pruning specialists, and crew leaders for parks, cemeteries, corporate estates, university campuses and public open spaces. PA1/PA6 spraying tickets where relevant, PASMA/IPAF for elevated work.

Discipline 04

Sports Turf & Greenkeepers

Greenkeepers, assistant head greenkeepers, head greenkeepers and course managers for golf clubs, cricket squares, football pitches and horse-racing turf. BIGGA-registered, agronomy-fluent, spraying and irrigation qualifications verified.

Discipline 05

Head Gardeners & Estate Gardening

Under-gardeners, senior gardeners, head gardeners and garden teams for private estates, historic properties, National Trust adjacent, Professional Gardeners Guild member firms. Walled-garden experience, glasshouse experience and traditional horticultural craft.

Discipline 06

Horticulturists & Nursery Growers

RHS-qualified horticulturists, production nursery growers, propagation specialists, plant health leads and nursery managers for wholesale, retail and specialist growers. Herbaceous, woody, edible and glasshouse specialisms.

Discipline 07

Landscape Designers & Architects

The design end of the trade: BALI-member studios, Landscape Institute chartered practitioners, Society of Garden Designers registered designers. Boutique domestic studios, commercial landscape architecture practices and design-and-build firms.

Discipline 08

Market Garden Operations

Small-scale intensive growers, organic producers, no-dig practitioners, farm-shop growers and CSA operators. Practical growing experience across polytunnels, field-scale veg and soft-fruit plus operations leadership.

Discipline 09

Garden Machinery Technicians

Small-plant technicians for dealer-side and independent workshops: Stihl, Husqvarna, John Deere, Kubota, Toro, STIHL-authorised service centres. Two-stroke, four-stroke, ride-on and commercial machinery experience.

Discipline 10

Utility Arboriculture

Utility line-clearance climbers, hazard tree teams and vegetation management crews for electricity network operators (DNOs), Network Rail and highways agencies. Utility arb tickets, ESSC and specialist utility-arb accreditation.

Discipline 11

Rural Estate Managers

Rural estate managers running mixed operations across gardens, land, tenancies, forestry, farming and heritage buildings for private estates, family offices, land trusts and heritage properties. Practical land management alongside operations leadership.

Discipline 12

Grounds & Outdoor-Trades Leadership

Operations directors, account managers, area managers and site managers for national grounds-maintenance firms, landscape delivery firms and integrated facilities operators. Practical trade background plus commercial and P&L leadership.

How an engagement runs

The discipline determines the sourcing lens and the ticket-verification depth. The workflow stays the same across all twelve disciplines: a structured brief, a considered search, a ranked shortlist and end-to-end offer support. Same consultant from intake through day-90 follow-up.

1. Trade-fluent brief

We arrive at intake ready. We already know the discipline, the ticket ecosystem, the day-rate or salary bands across UK regions, the passive-market context and the seasonal pressure the role runs on. Your time on intake is spent on your site and the crew you want to build, not on our education.

2. Discreet, considered search

We approach our network and the passive market. Client identity is withheld until you give express permission. Approaches to a candidate’s current employer are coordinated with you before we make them.

3. Ranked shortlist

Three to five candidates per brief, tickets verified against issuing bodies, portfolio or site experience confirmed, our written notes on each. Current day-rate or salary, notice position, right-to-work and any competing processes documented before introduction. We rank the shortlist and explain our ranking.

4. Offer support

We coordinate interviews, manage feedback, structure the offer, handle counter-offer conversations and confirm start-date logistics. Follow-up check-ins at day thirty and day ninety to make sure the placement is settling.

What sits outside our scope

Roles that need a specialist desk we do not run. If you ask us for a discipline outside the twelve above, we will say so directly and refer you out with pleasure. Depth of focus inside outdoor trades is what makes our shortlists arrive faster and better matched than a generalist agency can manage.

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A search in one of these?

Submit a vacancy with the site, the crew, the tickets required and the timeline. We will reply within one business day with a clear plan and a fee proposal.

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