Durée de l'emploi : Permanent
Langue de travail : Anglais
Heures de travail : 30 to 40 hours per week
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- All weather conditions
Work setting
- Construction company
- Landscape contractor
Tasks
- Interpret blueprints or other instructions to plan methods or sequences of operation
- Read blueprints or other instructions to determine work requirements
- Trim trees to achieve the desired pruning objective such as crown cleaning, thinning, raising, reduction, restoration, espalier pruning, vista pruning
- Manage landscaping projects
- Estimate costs
- Write specifications
- 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
- 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
Computer and technology knowledge
Landscaping experience
- Residential projects
- Commercial and / or industrial construction
- Institutional construction
- Park and recreation sites
- Restoration and preservation projects
Construction specialization
- Automated irrigation system
- Fieldstone paths
- Interlocking brick
- Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls
- Poured concrete
- Rock gardens
- Stone garden walls
- Irrigation and drainage
Area of specialization
- Landscape design
- Landscape construction
- Plant knowledge and identification
- Propagation
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Attention to detail
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Own tools / equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses / goggles
- Gloves
- Ear plugs
- Rain gear
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Punctuality
Experience
- 3 years to less than 5 years