Employment Information
- Post ID: 583171342
- Open Date: February 13, 2025
- Close Date: April 8, 2025
- Organization: Tina's Elite Garden Maintenance Inc
- Sector: Landscape & Carpentry
- Business Location:Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
- Total Views: 206
- Duration: 5 calendar days (4 business days)
- Last Updated: 5 days ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/british-columbia/sooke/583171342/landscaper/
Job Details
- Experience: 2 years - 3 years
- Job Vacancies: 8
- Compensation: $34.50 per hour / 40 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: : 2025-02-06
- Apply by: email to [email protected]
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
Job Description
Tasks
- Trim trees to achieve the desired pruning objective such as crown cleaning, thinning, raising, reduction, restoration, espalier pruning, vista pruning
- Manage landscaping projects
- Prepare conceptual designs
- Estimate costs
- Write specifications
- 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 co-ordinate the growth and use of plants for landscaping, ornamental uses and other purposes
- Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens
- Plant and move trees
- Tree removal
- Schedule work
- Repair and maintain equipment
- Plan and direct grounds maintenance
- Plan and estimate labour and materials
- Organize and direct construction of decks and decorative or retaining walls
- Hire, train, direct and motivate staff
- Schedule events, programs and activities
- Resolve work problems by providing technical advice to increase the value and functionality of a property
- Organize planting of trees, gardens and lawns
- Direct planting of trees, gardens and lawns
Experience and specialization
Type of heavy equipment operated
- Front end loader
Equipment and machinery experience
- Tractor
- Sod cutter
- Small engine equipment
- Pick-up truck
- Chain saw
- Backhoe
- Forklift
- Tractor mower
- Skidsteer
Area of work experience
- Design
Area of specialization
- Landscape construction
Additional information
Security and safety
- Driver’s validity licence check
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver’s licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Large workload
- Tight deadlines
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Safety vest
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Initiative
- Judgement
Benefits
Financial benefits
- Bonus
Long term benefits
- Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)
Other benefits
- Transportation provided by employer