Lachlan Nimmo

Groundskeeper for downer group and the RAAF base in Wagga.

I have been working here since July last year and I am currently the lean leader and have been for 6 months now. This job includes maintaining lawn and garden areas at the RAAF base such as using whipper snipers, edgers, blowers and a wide range of mower such as zero turns, front deck, mowers, wide area mower, and tractor slashing and finish mowing sport fields. Spraying for pest and diseases with knapsacks or tank on the back of the Ute. irrigation work and maintenance of irrigation systems. Garden work such as hedging, pruning, uplifting, mulching and planting plants. In my team leading role I have experience with work orders and contacting the poc and going through the work to satisfy the customer, experience in quoting jobs and ordering and making sure all my machines are safe and up to date with servicing.

In this job I was a landscaper for Kane and we do a wide range of domestic and commercial landscaping projects such as paving, concreting, construction of block or timber retaining walls, installing irrigation systems. Creating new garden beds this work included planting new plants mulching the gardens or installing irrigation systems.