59209

Closes: 29 September 2025

Classification: General Service Officer Level 3/4
Salary: $63,489 - $66,674 plus superannuation
Position No: 59209
Directorate: City and Environment
Advertised (Gazettal date): 08 September 2025
Contact Officer: Erin Nugent on erin.nugent@act.gov.au or (02) 6207 2445

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Details: Are you passionate about plants and the environment and want to take the first steps to a rewarding career in Horticulture? Then you may be the right person for the role of Wholesale Nursery worker at Yarralumla Nursery.

Yarralumla Nursery is the largest wholesale nursery in the southern tablelands and sells high quality, competitively priced plants to landscape, wholesale, and retail industries; Landcare groups; and local, state governments as well as the Australian Government. The Nursery propagates and grows over 200,000 cool climate plants annually from its own plant stock and seed bank including local, rare, and endangered species.

We are looking for an energetic, highly motivated person that loves the outdoors to fill a full-time permanent position in our Sales team. The primary responsibilities for this role are to:

• Pick plant orders, weed, clean pots, label, and prepare for transport or delivery.
• Assist in customer service-related tasks and administrative duties.

This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in a dynamic and supportive workplace that is making a difference to the landscape we live in. As part of the team, you will help produce and sell high quality plants to the Canberra community and the surrounding regions.

The role is based at the Yarralumla Nursery in Canberra.

Suitable applicants may be offered the opportunity to fill future vacant roles in either Production or Sales over the next 12 months.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.

Eligibility/Other requirements:

• Driver’s licence Class C is essential.

This position requires a pre-employment medical prior to employment to ensure the employee has the ability to:

• Lift heavy materials (16-20kg)
• Bend repeatedly
• Carry out a variety of other heavy manual work
• Work outdoors in all seasons

Notes: A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.

How to apply: Applicants should address the numbered Selection Criteria, listed on the Position Description, in a two page ‘pitch style’ response and submit along with contact details of two referees and a current curriculum vitae.

Applicants should note that a Joint Selection Committee (JSC) established in accordance with the collective/enterprise agreement provisions will assess all applications for this position.

Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now button below.

City and Environment

City and Environment Directorate was established on the 1 July 2025. This new directorate is an amalgamation of positions previously advertised under Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate and Transport Canberra and City Services Directorate.

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