About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Asset languages: Spanish; Castilian. Work site environment: Outdoors. Work setting: Urban area. Various locations.
Lawn care company. Nursery - horticulture. Landscape contractor. Residential.
Tasks
- Trim trees to achieve the desired pruning objective such as crown cleaning, thinning, raising, reduction, restoration, espalier pruning, vista pruning.
- Manage landscaping projects.
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens.
- Apply fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides and other lawn care products.
- Apply various treatments such as pruning, spraying, repairing damaged areas and injecting with treatment solutions.
- Assess the health of lawns.
- Direct crews who maintain the health and appearance of golf courses and their surrounding landscapes.
- Examine trees and shrubs to diagnose problems and disease.
- Plan and co-ordinate the growth and use of plants for landscaping, ornamental uses and other purposes.
- Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens.
- Plant and move trees.
- Tree removal.
- Landscaping experience: Residential projects.
- Commercial and/or industrial construction.
- Park and recreation sites.
- Area of work experience: Snow removal.
- Construction specialization: Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls.
- Retaining walls.
- Rock gardens.
- Stone garden walls.
- Irrigation and drainage.
- Area of specialization: Landscape design.
- Landscape construction.
- Horticultural consulting.
- Plant knowledge and identification.
- Horticulture.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Attention to detail.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Manual dexterity.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Own tools/equipment: Steel-toed safety boots.
- Gloves.
- Personal suitability: Client focus.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Screening questions: Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting for the position (English or French)?.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Shift.
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years.
- Employment terms options: Morning.
- Day.
- Overtime available.
- Health benefits: Dental plan.
- Health care plan.
- Vision care benefits.
- Financial benefits: Group insurance benefits.
- Other benefits: Free parking available.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees.
- Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.).
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition.
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees . Support for youths: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment.
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth.
- Support for Veterans: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Veterans . Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.) . Support for Indigenous people: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people.
- Support for mature workers: Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports mature workers . Offers phased retirement options that allow mature workers to gradually reduce their workload (for example: flexible or reduced work hours, part time employment, project-based or seasonal work, etc.) .