Landscape Maintenance

Pika Landscapes has been creating and maintaining beautiful outdoor spaces in Whistler and beyond for more than 20 years.

If you like working outside and getting your hands dirty, we’d like to talk to you. If you’ve mowed lawns and pruned shrubs, awesome. If not, we’ll provide the training.

**We’re known for**
- Open book management: everyone learns about the business's operations, financials, and how individual efforts contribute to the overall success. By working together to meet shared goals, everyone can benefit through quarterly profit-sharing payouts.
- Supporting a great work-life balance in a lifestyle-oriented mountain resort town
- Having fun
- Our new vehicles and equipment
- Cultivating a tight-knit, high performing team
- Lots of 3-day weekends during the summer months
- Having systems in place for much of what we do
- Creating growth opportunities for staff:

- transparent organizational structure
- detailed job descriptions and pay scale for each role
- annual budget allocated to key staff education and training

This is a full-time (~40hr/week, Monday to Friday) seasonal role starting early April and wrapping up in late October. Rarely do we ask for overtime. There are too many fun things to do at Whistler to work all the time.

** Staff Accommodation may be available **

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**Job overview**

Landscape Maintenance Field Staff are responsible for contributing to all aspects of landscape maintenance as part of one of our Commercial or Residential crews as directed by your Crew Lead.

**Generally speaking**

You’ll perform work as directed by your Crew Lead on a crew of 2-4 people. For most of the season, you’ll work at the same properties every week on a set schedule.

Tasks will include:

- Site cleanups (raking, blowing, shovelling)
- Mowing, line trimming and edging lawns
- Blowing yard debris
- Weeding and pruning
- Cultivating garden beds

**You’ll be good at this job if**
- You’re organized and adaptable: schedules and circumstances often change no matter how well we plan, so you roll with it with a smile
- You’re responsible and dependable
- You love being outside rain or shine
- You’re self-aware, can take direct feedback and want to grow personally
- You listen well, follow instructions and ask questions when things aren’t clear
- You communicate effectively and proactively
- You’re keen to learn and are genuinely interested in gardening
- You’re accountable and have a mature sense of personal responsibility: you say what you think, make commitments and follow through
- You’re inclined to smile and be polite even when you don’t feel like it. We want our customers to love you.
- You like to have fun. Some days are tough due to foul weather, project surprises, challenging personalities, or difficult work but you’re skilled at modelling fun no matter what.
- You sweat the details. We don’t cut corners and quality is critical.

**Requirements**:

- No previous landscape maintenance experience required
- An able body that can handle physical tasks all day long. Able to lift 50lbs over your head many times throughout the day.
- Secondary school diploma
- A working visa or permanent residency

**You’ll need**
- Steel toe boots and sun protection (hat, sunscreen)
- Blue, black or grey pants or shorts

**Compensation and benefits**
- $24.75 - $27.5/hour depending on qualifications and experience
- Profit share plan eligibility
- A health spending account
- Weekly payroll
- Overtime pay (1.5x) for any hours more than 40 worked in a week
- During high summer months, work 9hr days and take every second Monday off
- Access to subsidized shared staff accommodation during busy season (Apr-Oct) if necessary. This could be a short-term landing spot for you while you sort out long-term accommodation.
- Support for ongoing training and education after one full year of employment

**Job Types**: Full-time, Seasonal
Contract length: 7 months

Pay: $24.75-$27.50 per hour

Additional pay:

- Overtime pay

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Profit sharing

Flexible language requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

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

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 2025-07-14