Lead Hand

Being a part of Cudmore’s Landscape & Design means you embody our core values and model them for our wider team and community:

- Integrity above all else.
- Connection; with each other, our clients, our craft
- Humility, in success and failure.
- Guts. To dig in. To show up. To be a good teammate.

**Lead Hand**

A Lead Hand at Cudmore’s Landscape & Design are experienced, skilled team members who set the tone on a job site with their productivity and efficiency, reliable and safe drivers and equipment operators and are meticulous with skilled tasks and execute with attention to detail and high quality.

Our Lead Hands will work on multi-week residential design-build projects and install natural stone slab steps, dry-lay square cut flagstone, install a Blu60 patio, lead a rip-and-tear to open a new project and lay out plants and lead large-scale planting projects and renovations.

Your projects will vary and we are looking for someone with the range and a rounded skillset to perform in these key areas within our service offering. This well rounded skillset is aligned with our industry’s Red Seal certification - if you’re interested in pursuing this or have completed it already, we’d love to discuss further.

With a detailed understanding of sequencing and efficiency, you will drive a project forward with exacting execution and collaboration with Crew Leads and Team Members. We expect you may have three to five years of experience in our industry or, one-to-two years complemented by industry specific schooling to fulfill these expectations, but we are focussed on disposition and capacity vs. specific years of service. It’s a bonus if you’re already headlong in industry specific training or schooling - we place a huge value on continued learning and the passion to continually develop and improve.

Some key items that we prioritize, that we expect you will to:

- Treating our team, our clients and yourself with respect, care and kindness
- Bringing a collaborative, ego-free mindset to the job site
- Arriving to our yard (or site) on-time and prepared to work, equipped with PPE
- Demonstrate an engagement with the projects assigned to their crew, understanding the skilled requirements they will be leading.
- Model pace and professionalism while working at a client’s home
- A commitment to quality and a pride in their craft
- You don’t have to have all the answers, but possessing the curiosity and drive to follow through and find out is incredibly important to us.

Areas of skills for a Lead Hand at CLD, include:

- Reading technical landscape plans and executing against them
- Precast stone installation, base preparation, calculations and stone cutting
- Natural stone installation (flagstone, armour, weathered limestone)
- Retaining wall installations
- Following planting plans, finishing projects with high skill and grooming standards
- Completing clean ups, understanding how to make a client’s site look ‘Cudmore’s finished’
- Understanding how to maintain a safe, tidy work site.
- A Lead Hand should also support team member development, sharing knowledge and skills, while delegating and empowering Team Members in a supportive fashion
- Work closely with their Crew Lead to achieve outstanding results

Certifications & designations that are relevant:

- Skidsteer and excavator operator certification
- First AID

Cudmore’s Landscape & Design endeavours to offer sustainable, rewarding careers to our staff, we offer:

- Comprehensive benefits and Telus Health (mobile care app)
- Paid sick days
- A minimum of a certified Living Wage
- Annual personal equipment reimbursement
- Annual continued learning reimbursement & strategic support
- Annual membership to the Royal Botanical Garden

Cudmore's Landscape & Design is a multi-award-winning, second-generation landscape and design company, proud members of Landscape Ontario, an Apprenticeship Employer, Grow Employer of Choice and certified Living Wage Employer. We are a small team who does big work, we are plant people and we are craftspeople. Quality and relationships drive us.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Please note, our standard hiring process is as follows and may be adapted according to a role’s requirements.
- Two employer references will be required.

If you require accommodations for the hiring process as stated, please contact us directly.

Pay: From $27.50 per hour

Expected hours: 44 - 50 per week

Additional pay:

- Bonus pay

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision care
- Wellness program

Flexible language requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 2025-03-24