Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience
7 months to less than 1 year
Work site environment
- Outdoors
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Build models
- Prepare conceptual designs
- Survey and assess designated sites
- Read and interpret blueprints
- 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
- Examine trees and shrubs to diagnose problems and disease
- Plan and construct landscaped environments which may include trees, shrubberies, lawns, fences, decks, patios and other landscape structures
- Plant and move trees
- Tree removal
Experience and specialization
Landscaping experience
- Residential projects
- Commercial and/or industrial construction
- Restoration and preservation projects
Additional information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Flexibility
- Reliability
- Punctuality