Botanic Garden Maintenance Specialist (Saudi Arabia)

The Botanic Garden Maintenance Specialist is responsible for the specialised maintenance, environmental management, and plant-health care of botanic collections, with particular focus on rare, delicate, and environmentally sensitive species. The role ensures that greenhouses, conservatories, specialised plant areas, and associated horticultural systems maintain optimal growing conditions through systematic monitoring, preventative maintenance, and effective environmental control.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain optimal environmental conditions across greenhouses, conservatories, and specialised plant areas, including temperature, humidity, lighting, ventilation, and irrigation.
• Conduct regular plant-health inspections and identify signs of stress, pests, diseases, nutrient deficiencies, and environmental issues.
• Implement specialised 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 fertilisation programmes according to 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 required.
• Implement greenhouse and conservatory cleaning, sanitation, sterilisation, and biosecurity procedures.
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