Landscape Technician

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 30 to 40 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:
**Education**:

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

- Outdoors
**Work setting**:

- Various locations
- Lawn care company
- Landscape contractor
- Residential
- Horticulture and/or gardening
**Tasks**:

- Trim trees to achieve the desired pruning objective such as crown cleaning, thinning, raising, reduction, restoration, espalier pruning, vista pruning
- Assist with landscape constructions
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Horticulturist Trade Certification
- International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) certification
- Arboriculturists Trade Certification
- Landscape Gardener Trade Certification
- Canadian Nursery Landscape Association (CNLA) certification
**Type of product**:

- Ornamental trees, shrubs and hedges
**Landscaping experience**:

- Residential projects
- Restoration and preservation projects
**Construction specialization**:

- Automated irrigation system
- Interlocking brick
- Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls
- Poured concrete
- Retaining walls
- Rock gardens
- Stone garden walls
- Irrigation and drainage
**Area of specialization**:

- Landscape construction
- Horticultural consulting
- Plant knowledge and identification
- Horticulture
- Lawn care
**Security and safety**:

- Driving record check (abstract)
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Ability to work independently
- Attention to detail
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Own tools/equipment**:

- Tools
- Safety equipment/gear
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Gloves
- Ear plugs
- Rain gear
**Personal suitability**:

- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Punctuality
**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
**Experience**:

- 7 months to less than 1 year
**Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
**Financial benefits**:

- Group insurance benefits
**Other benefits**:

- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site amenities
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available
- Wellness program
**Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Does not require Canadian work experience
**Support for youths**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
**Support for Indigenous people**:

- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
**Support for mature workers**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage age discrimination
**Supports for visible minorities**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities