Job offer: Outdoor Landscaper

The role of a landscaper is to build and maintain gardens, parks and other outdoor landscapes.

• Passion for plants.
• Problem-solving skills.
  
• Good communication skills.
  
• Understand in plant diseases and their cure.
  
• Advising others on the long-term care and development of a landscape.
  
• Be in touch with new products that come within our industry to be able to always be number one in our industry.
• Follows written and verbal instructions from the crew leader and clients.
• Plants new flowers, trees, grass, hedges and bushes.
  
• Maintains gardens and lawns, including mowing, trimming, pruning, raking and weeding.
  
• Waters plants and lawns and adds fertilizer as needed.
  
• Installs outdoor lighting and sprinkler systems.
  
• Installing of irrigation system.
  
• Builds and renovates stone pathways, patios and ledges.
  
• Loads and unloads equipment and tools into work vehicles.
  
• Drive work vehicles to and from sites.
  
• Adheres to all safety precautions.
  
• Uses equipment, including tractors, mowers, leaf blowers.
  
• Works well independently and within a team.
  

Requirements

• Knowledge of horticulture methods and materials, landscaping and cultivation of trees and plants is an asset.
  
• Ability to use hand and power tools applicable to trade.
  
• Ability to perform grounds maintenance tasks.
  
• Skill in interpreting and completing landscape plans.
  
• Knowledge of fertilizer and/or pesticide applications.
  
• Ability to lift and manipulate heavy objects.
  
• Ability to read, understand, follow, and enforce safety procedures