Assistant Gardener: Rosenberg Cemetery (100%, limited from March to December 2026)
Stadt Winterthur
Winterthur
Key information
- Publication date:17 January 2026
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Winterthur
Job summary
Stadtgrün Winterthur manages green spaces and forests. Join a dynamic team focused on enhancing the city's quality of life.
Tasks
- Maintain lawns, meadows, flower beds, and hedges.
- Assist in tree care and cemetery maintenance tasks.
- Support in grave planting and burial services.
Skills
- Completed gardener training with a focus on landscaping.
- Experience in gardening, especially in cemetery work.
- Team-oriented with a strong sense of responsibility.
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City Green Winterthur
City Green Winterthur plans, maintains, and manages the green and open spaces, the forest, the Bruderhaus wildlife park, the five cemeteries, as well as the crematorium of the garden city Winterthur. Our services are central to the quality of the garden city Winterthur as a residential and business location.Your Tasks
- Maintaining lawns, meadows, flower beds, and hedges
- Assisting with shrub and tree care as well as the maintenance of the cemetery grounds (cleaning benches, water points and fountains, repairing fences, etc.)
- Surface maintenance and general facility upkeep (cleaning, weeds, leaves, waste disposal, etc.)
- Grave planting and care
- Assisting with urn and earth burials
Your Profile
- Completed training as a gardener EBA with a specialization in horticulture and maintenance
- Experience in gardening, preferably in cemetery management, as well as good plant knowledge, especially of native flora
- Driver's license category B and the professional exam for operating machinery and technical understanding for working with machines
- Good physical condition, mental balance, empathetic handling of mourners
- Team player, joy in the profession, high sense of responsibility, precise and careful work, service-oriented working style, German spoken and written
What We Offer
- At least 5 weeks of vacation
- Regular working hours (seasonal)
- Diverse internal course offerings
- Equality, diversity, and inclusion
- Further benefits can be found on our website.
Contact
Your questions about the position will be gladly answered by Samir Kerqeli, team leader, +41 79 699 81 50.Learn more? https://stadt.winterthur.ch/
We look forward to your online application.
