Weed Control & Restoration Team Member

As our great harbour capital, Wellington City Council's vision is for Wellington to be an inclusive, sustainable, and creative capital where people can live, work, and play.

The future of Wellington is compact, inclusive and connected, greener, resilient, vibrant and prosperous.

The Parks team provides a critical customer-facing service, ensuring the city's residents and visitors enjoy a well-managed and beautifully maintained environment.

Āu ake mahi | What you'll do

We're looking for a passionate and motivated person to join our team as a Weed Control & Restoration Team Member.

You'll be helping protect Wellington's native environment by controlling pest plants across our ecological restoration sites, hands-on outdoor work that makes a real difference to the health of our city's green spaces.

This role sits within the Operational Projects Team, based at the Parks Newtown Depot. The team delivers a wide range of maintenance and restoration programmes across the city's parks, reserves, and play spaces.

You'll mainly focus on weed control, but you'll also support a variety of other programmes and contracts such as :

• Restoration planting and maintenance
• Auditing work related to these programmes

Ngā tohu me ngā wheako | Qualifications and experience

We're looking for someone with a positive attitude, willingness to learn, and strong team spirit.

Ideally, you'll have a horticultural qualification or relevant experience, but this isn't essential.

A full, clean Class 1 driver's licence is required, and a Growsafe certificate would be desirable (training can be provided).

You will :

• Be self‑motivated and physically fit
• Have experience using small machinery
• Be able to follow programmed maintenance schedules
• Demonstrate strong health and safety awareness
• Work well both in a team and independently
• Have experience interacting with customers or the public

We value our people. You'll have access to a wide range of training and career development opportunities, with potential to gain relevant qualifications.

We have a great team culture and place strong emphasis on the wellbeing of our people and our places.

This is a full‑time, Monday‑Friday position (40 hours per week) based at our Newtown Depot. Overtime may be required from time to time.

As this is a safety‑sensitive role, successful candidates will need to pass a musculoskeletal assessment and pre‑employment drug and alcohol screening.

Nōu te rourou | What's in it for you

Working for the Council offers you a range of benefits including 5 weeks annual leave, flexible working options, health and wellbeing support, Council staff discounts and a range of learning and development programmes and opportunities.

Applications close9th of November 2025. All applications must be submitted online.

All applicants must have the right to work in New Zealand and be prepared to obtain and maintain a ministry of justice check.

We want to make sure any accessibility requirements you may have are well supported so the selection process is equitable for everyone. Please let us know if there are any adjustments or support, we can offer to make our process more accessible to you by emailing :

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