Crew Lead

2 weeks ago


Victoria, Canada Costa Verde Contracting Full time

**Do you love gardening but are looking for more diversity in your work day? Do you enjoy hedging and pruning? Are you ready to take the next step in your career?**

**Position**:_Crew Lead - Hedging & Pruning Specialist_

**Company**:
Since 2007, Costa Verde has become one of Victoria’s leading gardening and landscaping businesses. We pride ourselves on our fun and social workplace culture and wealth of opportunities to learn new skills and progress your career with ongoing training programs. We are a growing team of crew leaders, professional gardeners, enthusiastic newbies and industry experts—all sharing our knowledge, a common vision and a hard-working attitude.

**Description of Duties**:

- Interact with customers in a professional manner and ensure their requests are met and they are happy with the service provided
- Perform exceptional and detailed gardening services, including:

- Pruning; seasonal, technical, pre and post treatments
- Hedging; reductions, formal, tall ladder work
- Customer education; inform and educate customers on their garden needs
- Soil amending; analysis, fertilizing, mulching
- Bed work; plant and weed identification, invasive control and debris relief
- Tool use: Knowledge and experience with a range of gardening tools, including hand and power tools such as professional use of a hedger, pole saw, chainsaw and mini chainsaw and secateurs. Confidence on a range of ladders, including the tall 16 ft ladder.
- Tool care and management: clean, organize and sharpen all tools for efficient, high-quality work
- Day to day worksite and crew management: task delegation, time management and quality control

**Who Are We Looking For?**:
We are looking to hire someone who has a strong horticultural knowledge and lots of practical experience with pruning and hedging specifically. This person has a passion for gardening and looks at challenges with a positive attitude, as well as holding themselves professionally at all times. They also have a track record of being a great coworker and someone that people respect

**Skills and Requirements**:
2+ years in residential garden installation and maintenance
Preference given to those with horticulture education
Excellent communication skills
Possess a class 5 driver’s license with a clean drivers abstract
Posses a smartphone with data
Passionate for the outdoors and working outside
- While experience is important we put a lot of effort into finding someone with the personality traits that will enable them to be successful in the role_

**Compensation**:

- Competitive wages of $24+ per hour (depending on past experience).
- Ford F150 work truck
- Benefits available
- Education support opportunities

We like to invest in our staff and we want your time at Costa Verde to act as a launching pad to further your career We look forward to hearing from you

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From $24.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company car
- Company events
- Extended health care
- Tuition reimbursement

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Application question(s):

- Are you comfortable with working from a range of ladder heights? including 16ft pruning ladder.

**Experience**:

- Gardening: 2 years (required)
- Hedging & Pruning: 1 year (required)

Work Location: One location


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