Gardener Botanical Garden 80%
Stadt St.Gallen
St.Gallen
Key information
- Publication date:02 October 2025
- Workload:80%
- Place of work:St.Gallen
Job summary
Join our gardening team at the Botanical Garden in St.Gallen. Enjoy a collaborative work environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Maintain the school and various plant sections, including the water garden.
- Care for hedges, shrubs, and perform winter pruning tasks.
- Engage in seed collection for international exchanges and plant labeling.
Skills
- You have training as a gardener and experience in plant care.
- Handy with tools and machines, showing reliability in teamwork.
- Interest in botany and willingness to work weekends when needed.
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Your new role
You will strengthen our well-coordinated gardener team in the outdoor area of the Botanical Garden St.Gallen. Together with the other team members, you maintain the facilities in impeccable condition. Your main focus will be the care of the school departments, the useful plants departments, as well as various assortment departments including the water garden. Other tasks include hedge maintenance, winter pruning of woody plants, overwintering with all associated work for non-hardy outdoor plants, engraving plant labels, and seed collection for international seed exchange.
This position is for you if
- You have training as a gardener
- You have experience in the care of hedges, perennials, and woody plants
- You are interested in botany
- You have manual skills and work independently
- You are proficient in handling machines and equipment
- Reliability and teamwork are among your strengths
- You are willing to work weekend and on-call shifts on a rotating basis
Good reasons to work for the City of St.Gallen:
Your department
City Green plans, designs, and maintains the public green spaces of the City of St.Gallen. We are responsible for the green areas of sports and school facilities, parks, street trees, playgrounds, cemeteries, the Botanical Garden, as well as nature and landscape protection.
What we offer
We offer you a versatile workplace with interesting activities. Regular working hours, work time models that can be adapted to your needs, a municipal family allowance, and a 20-day paternity leave are part of our family-friendly framework conditions.
Our selection process
For further information about the position, please contact Jutta Müllinger, Team Leader Botanical Garden, jutta.muellinger@stadt.sg.ch. For the selection process, please contact Verena Signer, HR Officer, phone 071 224 50 02. Please submit your complete application exclusively online.
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