Landscape Maintenance

Dog Tales Rescue and Sanctuary; King City; On-site; CAD 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Dog Tales Rescue and Sanctuary seeks an in-house horticultural staff member to maintain extensive grounds and gardens at the King City facility. You will join a team responsible for lawn cutting, planting, pruning, mulching, and general landscape care in a setting with domestic animals and public visitors.

The role emphasizes teamwork and independent work, with a willingness to learn and adapt to seasonal and weather-related maintenance needs.

Qualifications

• Experience in horticultural or landscape services preferred.
• Willingness to learn and grow in grounds maintenance.
• Ability to work outdoors in various weather conditions.
• Safely operate pruning tools and lawn equipment.

Responsibilities

• Regular garden bed weeding.
• Mulching and edging garden beds.
• Shrub and small tree pruning.
• Planting new flora and landscapes.
• Handling soils, compost and aggregates.
• Hedge trimming and border maintenance.
• Maintain and operate lawn care equipment safely.
• Assist with routine landscape equipment maintenance.

Skills

Outdoor work

Team player

Independent work

Safety awareness

Equipment operation

Tools

Lawn mowers

Pruning tools

Garden machinery

Job description

Opportunity

We are now interviewing select candidates to join our in-house horticultural staff to help creatively maintain our extensive grounds and gardens in the rolling country landscape of King. In this role, you will assist other landscape team members in daily lawn cutting and horticultural maintenance activities on properties with farm, medical and residential environments. Familiarity, comfort and respect while working around a variety of domestic animals and the public is essential.

Opportunity

We are now interviewing select candidates to join our in-house horticultural staff to help creatively maintain our extensive grounds and gardens in the rolling country landscape of King. In this role, you will assist other landscape team members in daily lawn cutting and horticultural maintenance activities on properties with farm, medical and residential environments. Familiarity, comfort and respect while working around a variety of domestic animals and the public is essential.

The Role

As a landscape maintenance crew member, your duties may include:

• Regular garden bed weeding
• Mulching
• Shrub and small tree pruning
• Planting
• Handling and application of soils, compost and aggregates
• Hedge trimming
• Garden bed edging
• Familiarity and care of battery and gas-powered lawn and garden equipment
• Prior experience with commercial grade grass mowers

What You Bring

We understand that the "ideal candidate" doesn't exist, so if you don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We value a passion for tending to the health and beauty of nature and a willingness to learn!

• Prior work history in horticultural or landscape services is preferred.
• Ability and willingness to strive to maintain lawns and gardens to a high standard of quality is essential.
• Work actively outdoors full time in most weather conditions.
• Work as part of a team as well as independently on assigned tasks.
• Operate pruning tools and lawn equipment safely.
• Knowledge to be able to assist with routine maintenance of landscape equipment an asset

Schedule

5 days a week or reliably part-time, 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM at our main location in King. This position is seasonal/temporary.

Available for special events or weather-related maintenance exigencies.

Compensation

$18-$23.00 per hour based on experience.

We welcome and encourage applications from individuals with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

If you require accommodations during the recruitment or interview process, please contact us at [e-mail].

Please note, this position is on-site. Additionally, reliable access to a car is necessary as there is no public transit near our facility.

We thank all applicants in advance, and only those selected for an interview will be contacted.