Landscape Laborer

**Overview**

**Languages**

English

**Education**
- No degree, certificate or diploma

**Experience**

2 years to less than 3 years

**Work site environment**
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Hot

**Work setting**
- Landscape contractor
- Various locations
- Private residence

**Responsibilities**

**Tasks**
- Assist with landscape constructions
- Tying
- 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

**Experience and specialization**

**Equipment and machinery experience**
- Backhoe
- Small engine equipment
- Sod cutter
- Weed trimmer/edger

**Additional information**

**Security and safety**
- Driver's validity licence check

**Transportation/travel information**
- Own transportation
- 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

**Personal suitability**
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player

Contract length: 24 months

**Salary**: From $18.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Brantford, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Landscape maintenance: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 2023-09-24