Nursery
Nurseries and plant producers are vital to New Zealand. They’re often the starting point for food production, forestry, beautification, and environmentally focused work.
Job overview
You’ll find many career opportunities in nurseries. You need to have a genuine enthusiasm for horticulture with a passion for growing and nurturing healthy plants to make a greener, more productive, and increasingly beautiful New Zealand.
Skills and experience
- Physically fit and enjoy working outdoors
- Growsafe certificate and first aid certificate an advantage (link to Growsafe)
- Able to work as part of a team
- Customer focused
- Able and eligible to work in New Zealand
- Eager to learn and train while you work
- Have a driver’s licence
News from our learners and employers
Nga Rakau Nurseries was founded by the Beaumont family in the 1930s, on a block of land at Mudgeways Road in Massey, which is their home base to this day.
Rainbow Park Nurseries has been growing plants and trees since 1977, and now supplies over 1.5 million plants to retailers across the country from their 15-hectare nursery.
Grace Ng wants people to appreciate that nursery production is a technical skill and involves more than just planting a plant, or sowing a seed, and expecting it to grow.
One of Primary ITO’s most successful nursery production students has now become a training assessor, supporting his colleagues to improve their skills and launch rewarding careers of their own.