Botanic Garden Maintenance Specialist

About the Role

Eram Talent is seeking a Botanic Garden Maintenance Specialist to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role focuses on the specialized maintenance, environmental management, and plant-health care of botanic collections, particularly rare, delicate, and environmentally sensitive species. The specialist will ensure optimal growing conditions within greenhouses, conservatories, and specialized plant areas through systematic monitoring and preventative maintenance.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain optimal environmental conditions in greenhouses, conservatories, and specialized plant areas, including temperature, humidity, lighting, ventilation, and irrigation.
• Conduct regular plant-health inspections to identify signs of stress, pests, diseases, nutrient deficiencies, and environmental issues.
• Implement specialized care and maintenance protocols for rare, sensitive, and high-value plant collections.
• Operate, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot irrigation, environmental control, lighting, sensors, and other horticultural systems.
• Manage irrigation and fertilization programs based on plant requirements, seasonal conditions, and water quality.
• Monitor soil, growing media, substrates, drainage, moisture, and root-zone conditions, and prepare or amend growing media as needed.
• Implement greenhouse and conservatory cleaning, sanitation, sterilization, and biosecurity procedures.
• Support Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and preventative plant-health programs.

Required Experience

• Proven experience (5-10 years) caring for rare, delicate, sensitive, or high-value plant collections.
• Hands-on experience with controlled-environment systems, irrigation, fertilization, growing media, plant-health management, IPM, and greenhouse hygiene.
• Experience operating, troubleshooting, maintaining, and calibrating horticultural and environmental monitoring equipment.
• Experience implementing preventative and seasonal maintenance programs and maintaining detailed technical and plant-health records.
• Experience working collaboratively with horticulture, facilities, engineering, contractors, and specialist technical teams.

Work Environment

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working closely with various teams, including horticulture, facilities, engineering, and external contractors, to ensure the optimal health and environment of botanic collections.

Application Process

Candidates interested in this Botanic Garden Maintenance Specialist role are encouraged to apply. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.