landscape worker
Mylestone Property Maintenance
Date: 16 hours ago
City: Ottawa, Ontario
Salary:
CA$18.5
-
CA$24
per hour
Contract type: Full time
- Durée de l'emploi: Saisonnier
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 37.5 hours per week
- Education:
- Expérience:
Education
- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dusty
- Hot
Work setting
- Urban area
- Landscape contractor
- Various locations
- Landscape maintenance
- Commercial
Tasks
- Assist with landscape constructions
- Tie and secure plants
- 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
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
Equipment and machinery experience
- Pick-up truck
- Roto-tiller
- Small engine equipment
- Tractor mower
- Weed trimmer/edger
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
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Gloves
- Cellular phone
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Punctuality
- Hardworking
- Maturity
Screening questions
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
Experience
- 1 year to less than 2 years
Financial benefits
- Bonus
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