Groundskeeper

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 30 to 44 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:
**Education**:

- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- or equivalent experience
**Work site environment**:

- Outdoors
**Tasks**:

- Assist with landscape constructions
- Tie and secure plants
- 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
- Repair and maintain equipment
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
**Area of work experience**:

- Cleaning
- Snow removal
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Public transportation is available
**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
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Own tools/equipment**:

- Steel-toed safety boots
**Personal suitability**:

- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Punctuality
- Creativity
- Hardworking
- Maturity
- Resourcefulness
**Experience**:

- 1 year to less than 2 years
**Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees
- Assists with immediate settlement needs of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: housing, transportation, storage, childcare, winter clothing, etc.)
- Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.)
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
- Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
**Support for Indigenous people**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
- Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
- Facilitates access to Elders who can offer support and guidance to Indigenous workers