landscape worker

Experience

• 1 year to less than 2 years

Work setting

• Work in employer's/client's home
• Urban area
• Rural area
• Landscape contractor
• Various locations
• Landscape maintenance
• Park and recreation sites
• Private residence
• Commercial

Tasks

• Assist with landscape constructions
• Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
• Lay sod or seed
• Plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees
• Write daily basic progress reports
• Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
• Plant and move trees

Landscaping experience

• Residential projects

Type of related experience

• Landscape construction

Equipment and machinery experience

• Small engine equipment
• Automated irrigation system
• Retaining walls
• Poured concrete
• Interlocking brick
• Fieldstone paths
• Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls

Security and safety

• Driver's validity licence check

Transportation / travel information

• Own transportation
• Willing to travel regularly
• Valid driver's licence
• Travel expenses paid by employer

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Own tools / equipment

• Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Team player
• Hardworking
• Maturity