Skilled Landscaping Labourer

Earthscape Landscaping; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading landscaping firm in Toronto is searching for a Skilled Landscape Labourer to assist with both landscape construction projects and maintenance. You'll work on beautiful residential landscaping in a fast-paced, rewarding environment. Responsibilities include hardscape and softscape construction, as well as routine maintenance tasks. The role offers excellent training and competitive pay, alongside health benefits and a supportive team atmosphere.

Benefits

Pay rate of $22-$30/hour depending on experience

Extended health and dental benefits

Life insurance and AD&D

Profit sharing and performance bonuses

Tuition reimbursement

Clothing allowances

Spring return incentive

Company events and social hours

Overtime pay

Qualifications

• Ability to work at a fast pace throughout the season.
• Proven capacity to learn quickly under supervision and personal initiative.
• Need for safe and professional work practices.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the construction of hardscape and softscape areas.
• Perform residential landscape maintenance duties.
• Support crews on construction projects.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization in work areas.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Effective communication

Ability to lift 50 lbs

Teamwork

Job description

Earthscape is recognized as an award-winning design-build firm that specializes in high-end residential landscaping. We are a group of enthusiastic, creative dreamers and builders who work hard and are exceptionally proud of, trust, and highly value what we design and create. It makes for a positive, productive, fast paced, fun and rewarding environment, with enough challenges and opportunities to keep us rapidly growing!

Bring your big imagination and great problem-solving skills to our Earthscape team as a Landscaping Skilled Labourer. This is a full time/seasonal opportunity to work on some of southern Ontario’s most beautiful residential landscape projects, and the chance to develop and refine a wide variety of skills. In addition to excellent on-the-job training, site supervision and a safe and inclusive work environment, we offer:

• Pay rate of $22-$30/ hour depending on experience
• Extended health and dental benefits
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Profit sharing and performance bonuses
• Participate in our employee share ownership program (ESOP) after 1 year
• Tuition reimbursement
• Company events and social hours
• Overtime pay
• Clothing allowances
• Spring return incentive

As a Skilled Landscape Labourer you will support our crews in Toronto and surrounding areas in a hybrid capacity by working both on landscape construction projects, and performing residential landscape maintenance for clients whose yards we maintain. Your daily commute will be to our home office in Leaside or directly to a construction jobsite depending on the day. You will assist our crews in the construction of hardscape areas such as pavers, flagstone, natural stone, walls, steps, drainage/utilities installation. It also includes construction of softscape areas such as grading, sod, garden beds, planting. For residential maintenance clients, you will perform duties such as mowing, raking, weeding, edging gardens, and pruning trees and shrubs. You must be able to lift 50 lbs and be able to work at a fast pace throughout the season.

To be the successful Skilled Landscape Labour candidate you:

• Align with our core values of integrity, hard work, teamwork, the pursuit of excellence and loving what we do;
• Communicate effectively with supervisors, colleagues and clients
• Demonstrate an aptitude to learn, and a hunger to do so quickly under supervisor training and through personal initiative
• Will maintain standards of cleanliness and organization in assigned trucks, trailers, equipment, jobsites, and shop/yard areas
• Can work in a safe a professional manner
• Consent to background checks relevant to the role which may include: work references, education and credential confirmation, employment verification, identity check, criminal offence and driver’s license record.

At Earthscape, we are committed to building an environment where everyone feels included, valued, and heard. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging are an important part of our everyday work, and it is our belief that they enable us to reach our goal of bringing incredible outdoor spaces to life. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

Should you require any accommodation during the recruitment process or otherwise, please notify us of this when you apply and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.