landscaper

Overview

Languages

French

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

No experience (will train)

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment

• Outdoors
• All weather conditions

Work setting

• Work in employer's/client's home
• Garden centre
• Various locations
• Lawn care company
• Landscape contractor

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Plan the incorporation of landscape structures
• Trim trees to achieve the desired pruning objective such as crown cleaning, thinning, raising, reduction, restoration, espalier pruning, vista pruning
• Manage landscaping projects
• Prepare conceptual designs
• Prepare proposals
• Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
• Plan and co-ordinate the growth and use of plants for landscaping, ornamental uses and other purposes
• Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens
• Plant and move trees
• Tree removal

Experience and specialization

Landscaping experience

• Residential projects
• Commercial and/or industrial construction
• Park and recreation sites

Area of work experience

• Snow removal

Construction specialization

• Fieldstone paths
• Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls
• Retaining walls
• Rock gardens
• Stone garden walls
• Irrigation and drainage

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Ability to work independently
• Attention to detail
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Standing for extended periods
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

• Organized
• Reliability
• Team player
• Punctuality