- Work Term: Seasonal
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 50 hours per week
- Education: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
Work site environment
- Odours
- Outdoors
- All weather conditions
Work setting
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Garden centre
- Urban area
- Rural area
- Greenhouse
- Remote location
- Various locations
- Lawn care company
- Nursery - horticulture
- Landscape contractor
Tasks
- Interpret blueprints or other instructions to plan methods or sequences of operation
- Read blueprints or other instructions to determine work requirements
- Manage landscaping projects
- Estimate costs
- Write specifications
- Survey and assess designated sites
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Apply various treatments such as pruning, spraying, repairing damaged areas and injecting with treatment solutions
- Assess the health of lawns
- Examine trees and shrubs to diagnose problems and disease
- Plan and co-ordinate the growth and use of plants for landscaping, ornamental uses and other purposes
- Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens
- Plant and move trees
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Horticulturist Trade Certification
- Landscape Gardener Trade Certification
- Landscape Architecture Technologist Certificate
- Landscape Architecture Technician Certificate
- Canadian Nursery Landscape Association (CNLA) certification
- Certified Landscape Horticulturist Technician (CLHT)
- Chemical application certificate or licence
- Not required
Landscaping experience
- Residential projects
- Restoration and preservation projects
Area of specialization
- Landscape construction
- Horticultural consulting
- Plant knowledge and identification
Security and safety
- Driving record check (abstract)
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Punctuality
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Wellness program