Landscape Horticulture Apprentice

If you love gardening, working outdoors, aren’t afraid of hard work and would like to have the opportunity to advance, this is the job for you. Landscape Horticultural Apprentice’s can expect to learn the particulars of beautifying a landscape from on-site training. These individuals assist in building and maintaining gardens and landscaped environments. They study, grow, and care for plants and trees. They advise customers on horticultural matters. Tasks include planting, weeding, cultivating, and edging of garden beds, pruning, raking, cleaning of equipment and trucks, ensuring safe work and wearing of PPE.

**Experience**: 0-2 years

**Benefits**: Uniform, health and dental (after first year)

**Responsibility**:

- Perform as a team player with focus on optimism and passion.
- Efficiently complete landscape tasks according to plan, with focus on quality and production.

**Result**:

- Quality landscape work is efficiently completed while growing in skill and professionalism, in a positive team environment.

**Qualifications/Expectations**:

- Valid and clean G licence (a licence is preferred but not required)
- Team player, hard and fast worker
- Positive attitude
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- High quality of work
- Excellent stamina
- Work outdoors in various conditions including heat and humidity, rain, dust, noise & cold.
- Flexible working hours
- Responsibility and dependability
- Ethics and integrity

This position requires manual dexterity, good eye-hand coordination, good balance, responsibility and dependability, ethics and integrity and an ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Activities may include extended periods of standing and walking.

**Wages**: Competitive Wages based on experience.

**Job Type**: Full-time or Seasonal