Landscape Construction Crew Leader or Lead Hand

**Job description**

LANDCARE is an established, award-winning company with over 30 years experience. Located in the High Park and Bloor neighbourhood, we boast a friendly environment with hardworking professionals dedicated to delivering quality service and workmanship. Landcare provides maintenance, enhancements, construction, and snow removal for commercial and residential properties across Toronto.

We are actively looking to employ someone who is ready to work in a high-skilled capacity, can lead a team, and is fully capable in making independent decisions with premium construction materials.

Do you have the “Right Stuff”? Are you:

- Always a step ahead?
- Full of potential, waiting for the right opportunity?
- Always looking to learn and grow?
- Looking for the satisfaction of producing high-quality work?
- Have the drive, just need somewhere to aim it?

At Landcare you won’t just find a job, you’ll find a rewarding career

We are offering year-round employment that comes with competitive pay, opportunities for growth, and a team-oriented culture that rewards hard work Join our team and grow with us

**What work with Landcare can offer you**:

- Career: Year-round, full-time, permanent work providing stability and peace of mind
- Work: Goal oriented and task driven
- Safety: We prioritize training and making sure all our team members are safe on the job
- Top Industry Wages/Salary: dependent on experience, skills, division
- Incentives: Overtime pay, bonuses, sales commission, and regular raises for consistent growth and performance
- Benefits: Drug, Dental, Paramedical, Emergency, Life
- Vehicles: Commuter access to company trucks available
- Training and Seminars: In house and outside classes
- Team: We work together to complete all tasks, and look out for each other every day
- Culture: Supportive atmosphere, recognition of team members contributions, team meals and social events
- Install landscape construction projects
- Site preparation, hardscapes, softscapes
- Read plans, elevations, take offs
- Record keeping; timesheets, order receipts, crew and safety evaluations, etc.
- Manage crew of 1-5 labourers
- Train crew members in proper landscape construction techniques
- Skid steer operation
- Vehicle, tools and equipment maintenance
- Construction shop and yard housekeeping
- Winter snow removal
- Other tasks as assigned

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum 5 years of landscape construction experience
- Well rounded skill base: natural stone, interlock, retaining walls, basic wood work, planting & odd jobs
- Minimum 2 years of experience leading crew members
- Experience with landscape layout and site preparation required
- Capable of physical labour
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills
- Organized, self-motivated, dependable
- G licence with clean driver's abstract is required
- Skid Steer experience is required
- Experience driving in Toronto is an asset
- Landscape diploma or certification is an asset
- Experience in snowplowing is an asset

**Rate of Pay: $28.00 to $35.00 - negotiable dependent on experience**

Other titles for this role include: landscaping, construction landscape, construction crew leader, snow removal, construction foreman, construction supervisor, construction labourer, labour, hardscape, hardscape crew leader, stone mason, builder, and contractor.

**Job Types**: Permanent, Full-time

**Salary**: $24.00-$35.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus pay
- Overtime pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Toronto, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Do you have your own vehicle YES NO

**Experience**:

- landscape Construction Supervision: 2 years (preferred)
- landscape construction: 3 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Clean G Licence (required)

Work Location: On the road

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $24.00-$35.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Vision care

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- On call
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus pay
- Overtime pay

**Experience**:

- construction: 5 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Class G Licence (required)

Work Location: In person