Landscape labourer

Tobermory; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Nutri-Lawn Ottawa is seeking a Landscape labourer to join our outdoor maintenance team in Ottawa. The role involves hands-on landscaping, equipment operation, and helping create healthy outdoor spaces for our clients.

The ideal candidate is English-speaking, physically capable, reliable, and a good team player who can work long hours outdoors in varying weather conditions. Training and safety guidelines provided by the company.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English.
• Secondary school graduation required.
• Experience is an asset.
• Applicant should be client focused.
• Candidate should be dependable.
• Must be organized and flexible in nature.
• Must be reliable and a good team player.
• Willing to work long hours outdoors.

Responsibilities

• Assist with landscape construction.
• Weed, prune, and trim trees and plants.
• Cut grass.
• Rake and collect trash.
• Cart and spread topsoil and other materials.
• Lay sod or seed.
• Plant trees, shrubs, flowers, and bulbs.
• Apply fertilizers.
• Water and care for plants, lawns, and gardens.
• Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment.
• Dust or spray plants with insecticides and fungicides.
• Spread sand or salt on sidewalks to prevent snow and ice accumulation.
• Assist in pruning of trees, shrubs, and plants.
• Apply fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides.

Skills

English fluency

Team player

Dependable

Organized

Flexible

Client-focused

Reliable

Education

Secondary school diploma

Tools

Chainsaws

Sod cutters

Tractors

Weed trimmers/edgers

Power mowers

Driver’s license

Job description

Nutri-Lawn Ottawa is located at 1038 Belfast Rd, Ottawa, ON K1B 3S3. The company is actively seeking applicants for the role of Landscape labourer. The applicant should be a self-motivated individual with excellent interpersonal skills. The selected candidate will be expected to join and start the work at the earliest. It will be a Permanent employment or Full time job.

Employer Name: Nutri-Lawn Ottawa
Position: Landscape labourer
No. of vacancies: 10
Salary: $19.50 hourly / 30 to 44 hours per week
Employment type: Permanent employment, Full time
Location: 1038 Belfast Rd, Ottawa, ON K1B 3S3

• The candidate must assist with landscape construction.
• The candidate must weed, prune, and trim trees and plants.
• The candidate must cut grass.
• The candidate must rake and collect trash.
• The candidate must cart and spread topsoil and other materials.
• The candidate must lay sod or seed.
• The candidate must plant trees, shrubs, flowers, and bulbs.
• The candidate must apply fertilizers.
• The candidate must water and care for plants, lawns, and/or gardens.
• The candidate must operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment.
• The candidate must dust or spray plants with insecticides and fungicides.
• The candidate will be responsible for spreading sand or salt on sidewalks to prevent snow and ice accumulation.
• The candidate must assist in the pruning of trees, shrubs, and plants.
• The candidate must apply fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides, and other lawn care products.

Job Requirements

• The candidate should be fluent in English language.
• The candidate must have a certificate of Secondary (high) school graduation.
• Candidate having experience is an asset.
• The candidate should be client focused.
• The candidate should be dependable.
• The candidate should be organized and flexible in nature.
• The candidate should be reliable.
• The candidate should be a good team player.
• The candidate will be required to work long hours in an outdoor environment.

Work setting

• The candidate should work in the landscape maintenance division, which is the art and profession of keeping a landscape healthy, clean, safe, and attractive, usually in a garden, yard, park, institutional setting, or estate.

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• The candidate must have experience operating chainsaws, sod cutters, tractors, weed trimmers/edgers, and power mowers.

Area of work experience

• The candidate must have prior experience with snow removal.

Area of specialization

Additional information

Security and safety

• The candidate’s driving record should be thoroughly checked (abstract).

Transportation/travel information

• The candidate must have a valid driver’s licence.

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• The candidate should be able to work in fast-paced busy environment.
• The candidate should be willing to work under pressure.
• The candidate must finished the work with in the given time line.
• The candidate should be required to perform repetitive tasks on frequent basis.
• The candidate should be required to handle heavy loads as part of routine work.
• The candidate should be prepared to perform physically demanding tasks as part of their daily work.
• The candidate must perform manual dexterity tasks.
• The candidate should have an eye for details.
• The candidate must have excellent hand eye coordination.
• The candidate must be willing to walk for long periods of time.
• The candidate must be willing to work long hours in bending, crouching, and kneeling positions.