Groundskeeper / Grass Cutter

**Company overview**

Founded in 1990 with one truck and lawn mower, Garlatti Landscape Inc. has spent the last 30 years growing into a premier landscape and property maintenance firm with expertise in maintenance, landscape, hardscape, decks, fences, and outdoor living space construction. As an award winning Landscape Company servicing Windsor-Essex County, Garlatti Landscape also offers a unique and nurturing work environment by mentoring and coaching their team members who have a passion for horticulture and landscape arts.

Our environment is encouraging, supportive and designed for employee success. Our landscape apprenticeship program will teach you the foundations of the trade, and offer you the opportunity to be trained on installation, maintenance, machine operation, and job coordination. We come in everyday with a “slay the day” attitude and place our best foot forward for our customers.

If this sounds like they type of team you would like to be a part of, then please send your resume to us and we will be in touch for an interview.
- Visit client sites in work truck with the team and unload grounds keeping equipment to start the job
- Operate grounds keeping equipment (i.e. push mowers, riding mowers, weed whippers etc.) to complete the required tasks on the customer job site
- Occasionally operate aerator machine (spring) and fertilize lawns to ensure proper growth
- Conduct general site cleanup / garbage pickup prior to leaving job site
- Ensure that all job site equipment is in good working order and is properly packed into the work truck at the end of each job
- Adhere to all health and safety regulations and wear all proper personal protective equipment
- Valid G driver’s license with a clean driver’s abstract
- Own vehicle / reliable transportation to and from work each day
- Ability to work outdoors in most conditions (thunderstorms and extreme weather excluded)
- Ability to lift upwards of 50 lbs.
- Ability to work Full-Time hours (Monday to Friday, with Saturdays as scheduled)
- Ability to operate a push lawn mower and weed whipper
- Experience operating riding lawnmower (considered an asset, but not required)
- Experience pulling trailers 15ft-25ft (considered an asset. But not required)

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

Pay: $18.00-$20.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Vision care

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Commission pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

- LaSalle, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Application question(s):

- do you have previous experience using a zero turn?
- How many years / seasons of grounds keeping experience do you have?

Licence/Certification:

- Class G Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person