General labourer - landscaping

  • Work Term: Seasonal
  • Work Language: French
  • Hours: 35 to 45 hours per week
  • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • Experience: 1 to less than 7 months
  • or equivalent experience

Work site environment

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

Work setting

  • Work in employer's/client's home
  • Landscape contractor
  • Landscape maintenance
  • Private residence

Tasks

  • Assist with landscape constructions
  • Weed, prune and trim trees and plants
  • Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
  • Lay sod or seed
  • Plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees
  • Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Small engine equipment

Security and safety

  • Driver's validity licence check

Transportation/travel information

  • Own vehicle
  • Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Tight deadlines
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Own tools/equipment

  • Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Punctuality
  • Hardworking

Employment terms options

  • Day
  • Overtime available

Financial benefits

  • Bonus

Other benefits

  • Learning/training paid by employer
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