Apply to become an Assitant Nursery Manager - Growing, Planting and Maintaining Native trees

Assistant Nursery Manager

Restore Native
Cambridge, Waikato
Full-time permanent role
$30 per hour

Help grow great native plants with a high-performing team that loves what they do

Restore Native is a fast-growing native plant nursery and ecological restoration business based in Cambridge. We grow around 1.5 million native plants each year and work across the full restoration process — from seed collection and propagation, through to plant supply, delivery, planting, and maintenance.

We have an awesome team culture made up of supportive, high-performing people who have a lot of fun doing meaningful work and delivering great outcomes.

We’re proud of our team, and we’re looking for another important piece of the puzzle.

As we continue to grow and prepare for our move to a new nursery site in 2027, an opportunity has opened for a practical, energetic, and reliable Assistant Nursery Manager to support our Nursery Manager and help keep day-to-day nursery operations moving.

About the role

This is a hands-on nursery role with an opportunity to show leadership.

You’ll support the Nursery Manager with propagation, nursery systems, planning, organisation, plant quality, and team coordination. You’ll also work independently and help lead teammates through practical nursery tasks that keep the operation moving.

This role would suit someone who already has some strong practical experience under their belt and is ready to step up into the next thing. That experience might be in growing, nursery work, farming, horticulture, landscaping, trades, outdoor work, or another practical field where you’ve learned how to work efficiently, take responsibility, and contribute to a team.

Some experience growing plants would be a benefit, but the most important things we’re looking for are attitude, reliability, practical ability, attention to detail, and a genuine desire to contribute to a high-performing team.

You’ll be a strong fit if you enjoy being outdoors, can apply strong practical skills, work at pace, and take pride in doing things efficiently and well.

To find out more check out the job description below.

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Complete the form below and upload a video of yourself (max 2 minutes) covering off the questions outlined in the application pack above.

Feel free to show your personality so we can get to know the real you!

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1. Talk us through your practical skills that would transfer well into an efficient, practical operation like our nursery. This could include experience from nursery work, farming, horticulture, landscaping, trades, outdoor work, production work, or another practical environment.

2. Give us one or two examples of where you have contributed to a team through your own personal efficiency and high performance. We’re interested in how you work when the team needs to get things done properly and at pace.

3. Give us an example of your attention to detail, and where you have demonstrated that you can provide detail alongside efficiency. We’re looking for someone who can work quickly without letting standards slip.

Please upload a video 2 minutes max, telling us a bit about yourself. We really value the people in our team. We have some great people here, and we would love to understand more about who you are as a person, what makes you tick, and how you might fit with our culture.

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Adam Thompson - Founder

Adam's love of growing things started as a young boy in his parent's market garden. His family have a history of Farming, Horticulture and Viticulture so growing things is in his blood.

He first started growing natives as a 25 year old and has expanded every year and continues to grow with Restore Native.

As a Cambridge Farmer and with a finance background Adam is motivated to find great, cost effective solutions for native trees on farms.