landscape labourer

MRG Contracting; Lethbridge; On-site; CAD 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading landscaping company in Alberta is seeking a landscape maintenance worker to assist with various outdoor tasks. Responsibilities include planting, pruning, and maintaining gardens, as well as operating equipment. The ideal candidate will have a secondary school graduation certificate and be physically capable of handling demanding tasks in various weather conditions.

Benefits

Other benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in landscape maintenance and construction.
• Ability to operate landscape maintenance equipment.
• Physical capability to handle heavy loads and work outdoors.

Responsibilities

• Assist with landscape constructions and maintenance tasks.
• Weed, prune, and trim trees and plants.
• Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment.

Skills

Client focus

Dependability

Interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Reliability

Team player

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Tools

Pick-up truck

Sprayer or duster

Weed trimmer/edger

Job description

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  
  

Experience

7 months to less than 1 year

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment

• Outdoors
• Wet/damp
• Noisy
• Dusty
• Hot
  
  

Work setting

• Landscape contractor
• Various locations
• Landscape maintenance
  
  

Responsibilities

Tasks

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

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• Pick-up truck
• Sprayer or duster
• Weed trimmer/edger
  
  

Additional information

Security and safety

• Driver's validity licence check
• Driving record check (abstract)
  
  

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Work under pressure
• Tight deadlines
• Repetitive tasks
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Attention to detail
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Ability to distinguish between colours
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
  
  

Own tools/equipment

• Steel-toed safety boots
  
  

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Dependability
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
  
  

Benefits

Other benefits

• Other benefits