About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma.
Work setting: Remote location.
Staff accommodation provided.
Tasks
- Clean the crops.
- Greenhouse cleaning.
- Harvest seedlings.
- Mixing fertilizer.
- Tie and secure plants.
- Weeding.
- Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants.
- Mix and prepare soils.
- Plant bulbs and seeds.
- Pot and re-pot plants.
- Transplant seedlings or rooted cuttings.
- Report signs of insect or disease damage.
- Dig up wrapping rootballs of trees and shrubs.
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens.
- Clean work area.
- Type of product: Perennials.
- Christmas trees.
- Ornamental trees, shrubs and hedges.
- Seasonal plants.
- Tropical plants.
Transportation/travel information: Valid driver's licence.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Repetitive tasks.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Physically demanding.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Large workload.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Weight handling: Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).
- Personal suitability: Client focus.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
Screening questions: Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Employment terms options: Evening.
- Morning.
- Experience: Experience an asset.
- Employment terms options: Day.
- Weekend.
- Health benefits: Health care plan.
- Other benefits: On-site housing options.
- Travel insurance.
Support for persons with disabilities: Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities . Support for newcomers and refugees: Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.) . Support for youths: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth. Support for Veterans: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for Veterans . Support for Indigenous people: Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers . Support for mature workers: Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination . Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers . Supports for visible minorities: Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.). Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities.