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Form of work
SalaryOverview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
3 years to less than 5 years
Work site environment
- Dangerous
- Odours
- At heights
- Noisy
- Outdoors
- All weather conditions
Work setting
- Construction company
- Various locations
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Build models
- Interpret blueprints or other instructions to plan methods or sequences of operation
- Plan the incorporation of landscape structures
- Read blueprints or other instructions to determine work requirements
- Trim trees to achieve the desired pruning objective such as crown cleaning, thinning, raising, reduction, restoration, espalier pruning, vista pruning
- Survey and assess designated sites
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Apply fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides and other lawn care products
- Apply various treatments such as pruning, spraying, repairing damaged areas and injecting with treatment solutions
- Assess the health of lawns
- Plant and move trees
Experience and specialization
Landscaping experience
- Residential projects
- Commercial and/or industrial construction
- Institutional construction
- Restoration and preservation projects
Construction specialization
- Automated irrigation system
- Fieldstone paths
- Interlocking brick
- Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls
- Poured concrete
- Retaining walls
- Rock gardens
- Stone garden walls
- Irrigation and drainage
Area of specialization
- Landscape construction
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- 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
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Punctuality
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
