Landscaper

Work site environment

• Outdoors

Work setting

• Construction company
• Various locations
• Lawn care company
• Landscape contractor
• Residential
• Excavation
• Horticulture and/or gardening

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Manage landscaping projects
• 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
• Plan and co-ordinate the growth and use of plants for landscaping, ornamental uses and other purposes
• Plan and construct landscaped environments which may include trees, shrubberies, lawns, fences, decks, patios and other landscape structures
• Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens
• Plant and move trees

Experience and specialization

Type of materials

• Concrete products

Landscaping experience

• Residential projects
• Commercial and/or industrial construction

Equipment and machinery experience

• Skidsteer

Area of work experience

• Snow removal

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
• Plant knowledge and identification

Additional information

Security and safety

• Driving record check (abstract)

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence

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

Own tools/equipment

• Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral communication
• Flexibility
• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Punctuality