Employment Information
- Post ID: 489379450
- Open Date: April 18, 2025
- Close Date: June 7, 2025
- Organization: Modern Earthscapes Land Design
- Sector: Farm, Agriculture & Forestry
- Business Location:Carrying Place, Ontario, Canada
- Total Views: 200
- Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 19 hours ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/ontario/carrying-place/489379450/horticulture-technician/
Job Details
- Experience: 2 years - 3 years
- Job Vacancies: 1
- Compensation: $20.00 to $23.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 30 to 44 hours per week
- Anticipated Start Date: : 2025-04-28
- Apply by: email to [email protected]
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Read blueprints or other instructions to determine work requirements
- Manage landscaping projects
- Write specifications
- 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
- 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
- Weed, prune and trim trees and plants
- Plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees
- Lay sod or seed
- Cut grass
- Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
- Assist with landscape constructions
- Apply fertilizers
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Rake and collect refuse
- Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
Experience and specialization
Landscaping experience
- Residential projects
- Commercial and/or industrial construction
- Restoration and preservation projects
Equipment and machinery experience
- Weed trimmer/edger
- Tractor
- Small engine equipment
- Pick-up truck
- Chain saw
- Tractor mower
Construction specialization
- Automated irrigation system
- Fieldstone paths
- Interlocking brick
- Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls
- Retaining walls
- Rock gardens
- Stone garden walls
Specialization or experience
- Green economy sector
- Specialized environmental skills and knowledge
Area of specialization
- Landscape design
- Landscape construction
- Horticultural consulting
- Plant knowledge and identification
- Horticulture
Credentials
Apprenticeship training
- Pre-apprenticeship training
- Level one apprenticeship training
Benefits
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement
- Bonus
- Gratuities
- Mileage paid
Other benefits
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Other benefits
- Team building opportunities
- Transportation provided by employer
- Parking available
- Variable or compressed work week