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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