Horticulturalist Indoor Gardens

About the Role

Eram Talent is seeking a Horticulturalist for Indoor Gardens in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves the care, maintenance, propagation, and presentation of indoor plant collections and horticultural displays, ensuring high standards of plant health, quality, sustainability, and visitor experience.

Role Context

The Indoor Gardens team is responsible for maintaining diverse indoor plant collections. This position provides practical and technical support across various horticultural operations, including plant establishment, propagation, irrigation, nutrition, greenhouse management, environmental monitoring, and plant health. The role also supports plant inventory, display maintenance, and pest and disease management, working closely with the Horticulturalist, Botanic Garden Curator, and the wider horticulture team.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain indoor plant collections, displays, and controlled growing environments, including greenhouses.
• Perform routine plant care tasks such as watering, pruning, repotting, fertilisation, plant replacement, and propagation.
• Monitor plant health to identify pests, diseases, nutrient deficiencies, and environmental stress factors.
• Support and implement Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies and appropriate plant-health treatments.
• Monitor environmental conditions including temperature, humidity, light, ventilation, irrigation, growing media, and plant nutrition.
• Maintain accurate plant inventories, labels, databases, and horticultural records.
• Assist with plant propagation using various methods such as seeds, cuttings, and division.
• Ensure high horticultural, aesthetic, and cleanliness standards for displays and visitor areas.
• Support greenhouse operations, indoor display maintenance, and overall plant collection management.
• Collaborate with horticulture teams, botanists, contractors, and other multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Horticulture, Botany, Plant Sciences, or a related discipline.
• Experience: Relevant experience in indoor horticulture, indoor garden management, greenhouse, conservatory, or controlled growing environments.
• Practical Skills: Demonstrated experience in plant care, propagation, pruning, repotting, irrigation, fertilisation, and general plant maintenance.
• Plant Health: Experience identifying plant pests, diseases, nutrient deficiencies, and environmental stress.
• Pest Management: Knowledge and practical experience with Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
• Environmental Monitoring: Experience monitoring temperature, humidity, light, irrigation, ventilation, and growing conditions.
• Record Keeping: Experience maintaining plant collections, horticultural displays, plant records, and inventories.
• Preferred Background: Experience in a botanic garden, greenhouse, conservatory, nursery, public garden, or similar horticultural facility is preferred.

Required Skills

• Strong attention to detail.
• Practical problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the above qualifications are encouraged to apply for this full-time position in Riyadh.