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, with a particular emphasis on 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 and Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-10 years of relevant professional experience in botanic garden maintenance, greenhouse operations, conservatories, specialist horticulture, or a comparable environment.
• Proven experience 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.
• Previous experience in a botanic garden, conservatory, major public garden, research facility, or specialist horticulture environment is preferred.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, focusing on specialized horticultural environments.