Lead Landscape Technician

$35/hour - Company Truck Provided

Location: Lower Mainland

TO APPLY: Read the entire job post and submit your answers to the questions

Mission

Ascent Yard Care is restoring balance to British Columbia’s ecosystems by eradicating the invasive plants that threaten our planet’s biodiversity.

We are building the most advanced field operation in Canada to eliminate invasive plants and regenerate natural ecosystems at scale.

We’re not hiring an assistant. We’re hiring an operator.

Ascent is a leading company on Vancouver Island and started serving select customers in the Lower Mainland in spring 2025. We are now hiring a full time, year round operator to handle and grow our Lower Mainland operations.

You’ll be the founding operator in the city, the one who sets the standard others will follow. You’ll run a fully outfitted and equipped company truck (no trailer) and execute jobs across the Lower Mainland. Every hour is paid, every kilometer is covered. You’ll have the best tools, full autonomy, and direct support from HQ.

Ascent does high impact work with unmatched efficiency to create results that truly matter to our customers.

What You’ll Do

Treatments
- Treat lawn and garden weeds with herbicide
- Treat invasive plants with herbicide

Trimming
- Hedge trimming
- Hedge topping
- Shrub trimming and shaping

Pruning
- Tree pruning up to 35 feet
- Fruit tree pruning
- Drop-crotch pruning
- Bush pruning

Garden Cleanups
- Clean out overgrown garden beds
- Cut weeds to ground level and treat them with herbicide

Tools You Will Use
- Backpack sprayers
- Hand held sprayers
- Hedge trimmers
- Long reach hedge trimmer
- Chainsaws
- Pole saw
- Pole pruner
- Backpack leaf blower
- Hand tools
- 16 foot ladders

Communication
- Be friendly and knowledgeable with every customer
- Communicate clearly with HQ

Organization
- Take photos of every job before leaving site
- Follow extremely efficient work flows
- Mark each job as complete after finishing it
- Clock in and out
- Buy supplies, buy replacement tools and equipment, and park the company truck at your residence (company credit card provided)

**Requirements**:

- Extreme ownership mentality
- Excellent communication
- High output under no supervision
- Follow highly efficient processes
- Be able to both follow specific instructions and solve problems on your own
- Comfortable doing things differently than you have done in the past

Expectations
- Do high impact work extremely efficiently
- High output under no supervision
- Operate like it’s your company
- Learn fast, move fast, fix fast
- Be consistent, every hour matters

Why This Matters

Ascent Yard Care is proving that small, focused teams with advanced tools, efficient operations and hard work can outcompete large organizations.

Compensation
- Strong pay raises tied to impact and KPI’s
- Unlimited growth potential for top performers
- Paid drive time
- Company truck and full tool fleet
- Company credit card for supplies, tools, gas, repairs and equipment
- Be part of something that matters
- Lead our team as we grow

Key performance indicators we track
- Percentage of jobs completed on-time
- Percentage of satisfied customers
- Call back rate
- Percentage of jobs with photo documentation
- Percentage of on time starts (arrival time at the first job of the day)

Apply

QUESTIONS:

- You arrive for a hedge trimming job that was quoted to “trim the hedge on the top and all sides.” The customer comes outside and asks if you can reduce the height by 4 feet while you’re there. How do you handle it?
- You’re halfway through a large hedge job and realize it’s taking much longer than expected. You still have another job booked afterward. What steps do you take?
- Describe one thing you would track or measure daily to make yourself faster and more effective over time.

Pay: $35.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company car

Work Location: In person