12/05/2026
🚧🪵 WE’RE HIRING – LANDSCAPE BUILDER / FENCING CONTRACTOR 🪵🚧
Kiwi Excavations is on the hunt for someone solid to join the crew building fencing, retaining walls, and landscaping projects throughout the Nelson/Tasman region.
The majority of our work is timber fencing, along with retaining walls and landscaping projects completed to a high standard. We take pride in our work, and we’re looking for someone who does too.
🔨 Ideally you’ll have:
✔ Previous experience building fences and retaining walls
✔ A strong work ethic
✔ A good sense of humour
✔ The ability to think ahead and plan your day
✔ The common sense to charge your tool batteries at night
A qualified builder would suit this role well, however someone with strong hands-on experience and practical skills would also fit in nicely.
👀 WHAT THE JOB IS REALLY LIKE:
✅ No two days are the same
✅ You’ll be all over the district, not stuck on one site for months
✅ Plenty of variety
✅ Physical work that keeps you fit
✅ Good crew environment
✅ Opportunity to grow your skill set throughout the landscaping industry
This role requires forward thinking and preparation. Turning up organised, with the right gear for the day, is expected.
You’ll also need to be adaptable and communicative. Customers can sometimes change their minds or alter the scope of work along the way, so being able to communicate clearly and ensure everyone stays on the same page is important.
You’ll generally be required to pick up materials for your jobs and deliver them to site, while working alongside the team to keep projects moving efficiently.
We provide all the tools needed but if you’ve got your own quality gear, that’s a bonus too.
🚫 THIS JOB PROBABLY ISN’T FOR YOU IF:
❌ You’re rough in your workmanship
❌ You’re rough on the gear
❌ You struggle getting to work on time
❌ You like taking extended smoko breaks
❌ You prefer standing around talking instead of working
❌ You don’t work well in a team environment
❌ Hard physical work scares you
❌ You’re about to lose your driver’s licence
❌ You forget your tools regularly
❌ You forget to charge your batteries at night
❌ Your toolbox mainly consists of Ryobi products or similar quality
❌ You’re easily offended when someone tells you the post holes are crooked
❌ You bring outside drama to work every day — we build fences, not relationship counselling sessions
❌ You turn up to work high and think nobody notices
❌ You lack accountability and always have an excuse ready to go
❌ You carry a negative attitude everywhere you go
❌ You can’t take constructive criticism without throwing your toys out of the cot
❌ You need to be spoon-fed instructions all day and lack initiative
❌ You lack work ethic and expect everyone else to carry you
❌ You’re a professional victim and nothing is ever your fault
❌ You’re a “that’s not my job” specialist but still expect pay rises and growth every second week
❌ If you’ve seen it once on YouTube and suddenly think you’re experienced
❌ If you’re the type who always seems to have a reason to knock off early, disappear before pack-up, or pull the old, I’ve gotta duck off early,”
❌ If you’re the type to work unsafely around machinery, think blind spots are optional, or treat excavators like bumper cars.
❌ If you’re the type to annoy the digger driver all day, stand in blind spots, or try guide machinery with interpretive dance signals.
❌ If your alarm clock “mysteriously didn’t go off” three times a week, or you’re constantly setting land speed records trying to get to site by 8:30am, this job probably isn’t for you
🚨 EXTRA RED FLAGS:
If you’ve been known around previous worksites by any of the following nicknames… this job probably isn’t for you:
🔹 Blister – shows up after the hard work’s done
🔹 Lantern – not very bright and always getting carried
🔹 Sensor Light – only works when someone walks past
🔹 Deck Chair – folds under pressure
🔹 Seaweed – drifts around all day doing nothing
🔹 Brake Pad – slows everyone else down
🔹 G-**ot – nobody can ever find them
🔹 Free Trial – good for a couple days then useless
🔹 Wi-Fi – disappears when things get tough
🔹 Boomerang – always comes back after knocking off early
🔹 Bungalow – nothing upstairs
🔹 Incognito Mode – impossible to track down when there’s work to do
🔹 Parking Inspector – walks around all day contributing nothing
🔹 Slinky – looks fun until put to work
🔹 Flash – all show, no substance
🔹 Transformer – changes into someone else when work starts
🔹 Pothole – everyone tries to avoid them
🔹 Scarecrow – outstanding in their field doing absolutely nothing
🔹 Sundial – only works when conditions are perfect
🔹 GPS – constantly recalculating and still lost
🔹 Bookmark – never finishes anything
🔹 Bluetooth – never connects properly
🔹 Monday – nobody wants to deal with them
🔹 Mascot – always there but contributes very little
🔹 Software Update – takes forever and nobody notices the difference
🔹 Netflix – stops working under pressure
🔹 Fog – turns up and everyone slows down
🔹 Goalpost – always moving
🔹 Speed Bump – slows the whole site down
🔹 Apprentice Whisperer – spends more time talking than working
🔹 Smoke Alarm – loud with no real danger present
🔹 Tour Guide – walks around site talking all day
🔹 Air Fryer – full of hot air
🔹 Crypto – sounds exciting until you realise there’s nothing there
🔹 PowerPoint – lots of presentations, no action
🔹 QR Code – confusing and nobody knows what they do
🔹 USB Cable – never works first go
🔹 Council Worker – leaning on a shovel supervising everyone else
🔹 Consultant – tells everyone how to do the job but never picks up a tool
🔹 Know-It-All – has all the answers but no results
🔹 Flat Battery – completely useless before smoko
🔹 Drone – buzzing around site annoying everyone
🔹 Excel Spreadsheet – complicated for no reason
🔹 Sniper’s Nightmare – never stays still long enough to hit with a job
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✅ WHAT WE DO WANT:
✔ Character
✔ Honesty
✔ Reliability
✔ Coachability
✔ Good communication
✔ Technical skills
✔ Reliable and punctual attitude
✔ Physically fit
✔ Full driver’s licence
✔ Good with customers
✔ Able to work independently and in a team
✔ Good at paperwork, recording materials, and stock reporting
✔ Someone who takes pride in doing a proper job
✔ Someone who can think ahead and get stuck in without needing constant direction
🔥 BONUS SKILLS:
➕ Landscaping experience
➕ Truck driving experience
➕ Digger operating experience
➕ Farm fencing experience
💥 WHAT WE OFFER:
🔨 40–50 hours per week
🔨 Variety of interesting projects
🔨 Great family-friendly work environment
🔨 Supportive crew
🔨 Contract or wages available, with pay based on experience and suitability
If this sounds like you or someone you know, please do get in touch.
Send through your C.V too
📧 [email protected]
📞 Matt – Kiwi Excavations
027 549 4344
