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General labourer - landscaping

  • Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
  • Experience: Experience an asset

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • Dusty

Work setting

  • Work in employer's/client's home
  • Various locations
  • Landscape maintenance

Tasks

  • Assist with landscape constructions
  • Tie and secure plants
  • Weed, prune and trim trees and plants
  • Rake and collect refuse
  • Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
  • Lay sod or seed
  • Plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees
  • Apply fertilizers
  • Repair and maintain equipment
  • Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
  • Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
  • Tree removal
  • Build patios, garden walls and other decorative installations
  • Level earth to fine grade specifications
  • Organize planting of trees, gardens and lawns

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Backhoe
  • Small engine equipment
  • Tractor

Transportation/travel information

  • Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Own tools/equipment

  • Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

  • Dependability
  • Reliability
  • Punctuality
  • Resourcefulness

Screening questions

  • Do you have experience working in this field?

Employment terms options

  • Day
  • Work Term: Seasonal
  • Work Language: English or French
  • Hours: 40 hours per week