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General labourer - landscaping

  • Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
  • Langue de travail: Anglais ou Français
  • Heures de travail: 30 to 40 hours per week
  • Education:
  • Expérience:

Education

  • Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Work site environment

  • Outdoors
  • At heights
  • Confined spaces
  • Wet/damp
  • Noisy
  • Odours
  • Cold/refrigerated
  • Dusty
  • Hot

Work setting

  • Work in employer's/client's home
  • Rural area
  • Landscape contractor
  • Remote location
  • Various locations
  • Landscape maintenance
  • Relocation costs not covered by employer
  • Willing to relocate
  • Park and recreation sites
  • Private residence
  • Landfill
  • Municipal government
  • Commercial
  • Greenhouse
  • Associations and non profit organizations
  • Paving
  • Grading
  • Excavation

Tasks

  • Assist with landscape constructions
  • Tie and secure plants
  • Weed, prune and trim trees and plants
  • Cut grass
  • Rake and collect refuse
  • Remove litter and garbage
  • Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
  • Lay sod or seed
  • Plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees
  • Apply fertilizers
  • Repair and maintain equipment
  • Write daily basic progress reports
  • Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
  • Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
  • Tree removal
  • Operate heavy equipment
  • Observe excavation work to ensure that underground facilities are protected
  • Construct foundations for machinery
  • Climb and work aloft on poles, ladders or other support structures

Instrument experience

  • Mechanical

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Backhoe
  • Chain saw
  • Forklift
  • Front end loader
  • Gravel or dump truck
  • Pick-up truck
  • Roto-tiller
  • Small engine equipment
  • Sod cutter
  • Sprayer or duster
  • Tractor
  • Tractor mower
  • Weed trimmer/edger
  • Skidsteer
  • Saws
  • Concrete saws
  • Laser levelling/aligning

Area of work experience

  • Cleaning
  • Snow removal
  • Sub-grade excavating
  • Landscaping
  • Fine grading and finishing

Manufacturing sector experience

  • Agricultural chemicals

Construction specialization

  • Stone garden walls
  • Interlocking brick

Security and safety

  • Criminal record check
  • Driver's validity licence check
  • Driving record check (abstract)
  • Drug test
  • Child Abuse Registry check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Tight deadlines
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Own tools/equipment

  • Tools
  • Safety equipment/gear
  • Steel-toed safety boots
  • Hard hat
  • Safety glasses/goggles
  • Safety vest
  • Gloves
  • Ear plugs
  • Mask
  • Cellular phone
  • Rain gear

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Punctuality
  • Creativity
  • Hardworking
  • Maturity
  • Resourcefulness

Screening questions

  • Are you authorized to work in Canada?
  • Are you available for shift or on-call work?
  • Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
  • Are you currently a student?
  • Are you willing to relocate for this position?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Do you have the equipment you need to work from home (like internet and a workspace)?
  • Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?
  • Do you live near the job location?
  • Do you meet the language requirements listed in the job posting?

Employment terms options

  • Early morning
  • Evening
  • Night
  • On call

Experience

  • Experience an asset

Employment terms options

  • To be determined
  • Day
  • Weekend
  • Overtime required

Workplace information

  • On the road job

Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement

Support for youths

  • Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
  • Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth