Landscape Gardener Helper

**About us**

**Newport Landscaping, established in 2006, is a design/build firm with a landscape maintenance division, based out of Vineland, ON. Our organization's continued success and accelerated growth is due in large part to the investments we've made in our employees, in our equipment, and the long-term relationships we've developed with our clients.**

**Responsibilities**

**Tasks**
- Attend to sites across the Region in a company vehicle, service sites
- Coordinating with other crews and management to complete tasks
- Reporting of daily duties and ensuring tasks are completely thoroughly
- Loading and unloading of trucks and trailers in the AM and PM of all required tools and equipment to reach daily goals
- Maintain standards of cleanliness and organization of jobsites, trucks, equipment, and shop/office area
- 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
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment as needed

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

**Work setting**
- Sports field
- Rural area
- Landscape contractor
- Various locations
- Landscape maintenance
- Willing to relocate
- Private residence

**Experience and specialization**

**Equipment and machinery experience**
- Chain saw
- Pick-up truck
- Small engine equipment
- Sod cutter
- Tractor mower
- Weed trimmer/edger

**Area of specialization**
- Lawn care
- Garden care
- Cold regions

**Additional information**

**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

**Personal suitability**
- Dependability
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player

**Schedule**
- Day Shift
- 35-50 hours per week
- Canadian citizens and permanent or temporary residents of Canada.

**Salary**: $17.65 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- Vision care

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Gardening: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person