Floral & Plant Specialist

About the Role

St. Regis in Riyadh is seeking a Floral & Plant Specialist for a full-time position. This role is responsible for both floral arrangements and landscape maintenance within the hotel, ensuring all displays and outdoor areas meet luxury hospitality standards.

Key Responsibilities: Floral Arrangements

• Prepare, trim, water, and arrange flowers for display in various hotel areas.
• Receive flowers from suppliers, including verifying quantities, refusing unacceptable conditions, and logging receipts.
• Design and create custom floral arrangements for public areas, restaurant outlets, banquets, and guest rooms.
• Deliver flowers and floral displays/arrangements to customers, property sites, or off-site locations.
• Coordinate site set-up of floral displays/arrangements and follow up with customers or departments to ensure orders are delivered as requested.
• Maintain the storeroom in a neat and clean condition and follow a checklist for cleaning the shop before closing.

Key Responsibilities: Landscape Maintenance

• Supervise and maintain the hotel’s landscaped areas, gardens, lawns, plants, trees, and irrigation systems to ensure a clean, healthy, safe, and visually appealing environment.
• Oversee daily landscape and gardening maintenance activities, including monitoring plant health, irrigation, fertilization, pruning, and lawn care.
• Inspect and maintain irrigation systems, coordinating necessary repairs.
• Assign daily tasks and monitor the performance of the landscaping team.
• Conduct regular inspections of all hotel outdoor areas and maintain inventory of plants, fertilizers, tools, and irrigation materials.
• Coordinate with Engineering and external contractors when required, and prepare daily and weekly maintenance reports.
• Ensure compliance with hotel safety, environmental, and quality standards, maintaining the overall appearance of the hotel’s gardens and outdoor areas to luxury hospitality standards.

General Responsibilities and Workplace Conduct

• Report accidents, injuries, and unsafe work conditions to the manager; complete safety training and certifications.
• Follow all company policies and procedures, ensuring uniform and personal appearance are clean and professional.
• Maintain confidentiality of proprietary information and protect company assets.
• Welcome and acknowledge all guests according to company standards, anticipate and address guests’ service needs, and thank guests with genuine appreciation.
• Communicate professionally and clearly with others, including answering telephones using appropriate etiquette.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and comply with quality assurance expectations and standards.
• Perform physical tasks including reaching, bending, twisting, pulling, stooping, grasping, turning, manipulating objects, moving up and down stairs/ramps, lifting/carrying objects up to 25 pounds, and standing, sitting, or walking for extended periods.

Qualifications and Requirements

• High school diploma or *** equivalent.
• Related work experience is required.
• Supervisory experience is required.