Landscape Maintenance

Pika Landscapes has been creating and maintaining beautiful outdoor spaces in Whistler and beyond for more than 20 years.

If you like working outside and getting your hands dirty, we’d like to talk to you. If you’ve mowed lawns and pruned shrubs, awesome. If not, we’ll provide the training.

We’re known for

- Open book management: everyone learns how the business runs, the numbers behind it and how their efforts impacts it. If we hit the goals we set together, everyone shares in the profit with quarterly pay outs.

- Organic principles (Whistler’s only certified Organic Landscape business)
- Supporting a great work-life balance in a lifestyle-oriented mountain resort town
- Having fun
- Our new vehicles and equipment
- Cultivating a tight-knit, high performing team
- Lots of 3-day weekends during the summer months
- Overtime pay (not the industry norm)
- Having systems in place for much of what we do
- Creating growth opportunities for staff:
- transparent organizational structure
- detailed job descriptions and pay scale for each role
- annual budget allocated to key staff education and training

This is a full-time (~40hr/week, Monday to Friday) seasonal role starting early April and wrapping up in late October. Rarely do we ask for overtime. There are too many fun things to do at Whistler to work all the time.

--- Staff Accommodation may be available ---

Job overview

Landscape Maintenance Field Staff are responsible for contributing to all aspects of Landscape Maintenance as part of one of our Commercial or Residential crews as directed by your Crew Lead.

Generally speaking

You’ll perform work as directed by your Crew Lead on a crew of 2-4 people. For most of the season, you’ll work at the same properties every week on a set schedule.

Tasks will include:

- Site cleanups (raking, blowing, shovelling)
- Mowing, line trimming and edging lawns
- Blowing yard debris
- Weeding and pruning
- Cultivating garden beds

You’ll be good at this job if

- You’re organized and adaptable: schedules and circumstances often change no matter how well we plan, so you roll with it with a smile
- You’re responsible and dependable
- You love being outside rain or shine
- You’re self-aware, can take direct feedback and want to grow personally
- You listen well, follow instructions and ask questions when things aren’t clear
- You communicate effectively and proactively
- You’re keen to learn and are genuinely interested in gardening
- You’re accountable and have a mature sense of personal responsibility: you say what you think, make commitments and follow through
- You’re inclined to smile and be polite even when you don’t feel like it. We want our customers to love you.
- You like to have fun. Some days are tough due to foul weather, project surprises, challenging personalities, or difficult work but you’re skilled at modelling fun no matter what.
- You sweat the details. We don’t cut corners and quality is critical.

Requirements

- No previous Landscape Maintenance experience required
- An able body that can handle physical tasks all day long. Able to lift 50lbs over your head many times throughout the day.
- Secondary school diploma
- A working visa or permanent residency

You’ll need

- Steel toe boots and sun protection (hat, sunscreen)
- Blue, black or grey pants or shorts

Compensation and benefits

- $24.5 - $27/hour depending on qualifications and experience
- Access to subsidized shared staff accommodation during busy season (Apr-Oct) if a spot is available. This could be a short-term landing spot for you while you sort out long-term accommodation.

- Overtime pay: 1.5x time for any hours greater than 40 worked per week
- Weekly payroll
- During high summer months, work 10hr days and get every Monday off
- Support for ongoing training and education after one full year of employment

Job Types: Full-time, Seasonal
Contract length: 7 months

Salary: $24.50-$27.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Company events
• Extended health care
• Profit sharing

Flexible Language Requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Overtime pay

Work Location: In person