Overview
Languages
English
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Confined spaces
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
- Cold/refrigerated
Work setting
- Landscape maintenance
- Private residence
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Assist with landscape constructions
- Tying
- 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
Experience and specialization
Equipment and machinery experience
- Front end loader
- Small engine equipment
- Sod cutter
- Sprayer or duster
- Tractor mower
- Weed trimmer/edger
Area of work experience
- Cleaning
- Snow removal
Additional information
Security and safety
- Driver's validity licence check
- Driving record check (abstract)
Transportation/travel information
- Vehicle supplied by employer
- Valid driver's licence
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
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Punctuality
- Hardworking