Skip to main content

Landscaper

Price Landscaping Services

Job Language: English
Wages: $16.65 to $19.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
Number of Vacancies: 3
  • Durée de l’emploi: Saisonnier
  • Langue de travail: Anglais
  • Heures de travail: 40 to 55 hours per week
  • Education:
  • Expérience:
  • Education

  • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • or equivalent experience
  • Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • Work setting

  • Construction company
  • Various locations
  • Lawn care company
  • Landscape contractor
  • Landscape maintenance
  • Tasks

  • Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
  • Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens
  • Plant and move trees
  • Weed, prune and trim trees and plants
  • Repair and maintain equipment
  • Remove litter and garbage
  • Plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees
  • Lay sod or seed
  • Cut grass
  • Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
  • Assist with landscape constructions
  • Apply fertilizers
  • Rake and collect refuse
  • Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
  • Landscaping experience

  • Residential projects
  • Commercial and/or industrial construction
  • Equipment and machinery experience

  • Weed trimmer/edger
  • Sod cutter
  • Small engine equipment
  • Roto-tiller
  • Lawn mowers
  • Chain saw
  • Construction specialization

  • Automated irrigation system
  • Fieldstone paths
  • Interlocking brick
  • Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls
  • Poured concrete
  • Retaining walls
  • Stone garden walls
  • Irrigation and drainage
  • Specialization or experience

  • Green economy sector
  • Specialized environmental skills and knowledge
  • Area of specialization

  • Landscape construction
  • Plant knowledge and identification
  • Security and safety

  • Driver’s validity licence check
  • Transportation/travel information

  • Valid driver’s licence
  • Own transportation
  • Public transportation is not available
  • Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Attention to detail
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Walking
  • Own tools/equipment

  • Steel-toed safety boots
  • Gloves
  • Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Flexibility
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Punctuality
  • Dependability
  • Screening questions

  • Are you available for the advertised start date?
  • Are you currently a student?
  • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
  • Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
  • Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
  • Experience

  • 7 months to less than 1 year
  • Green job

  • Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
  • Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Financial benefits

  • Bonus
  • Group insurance benefits
  • Life insurance
  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
  • Long term benefits

  • Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)
  • Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Other benefits
  • Team building opportunities