HIRING NOTICE
HT GARDENING AND LAWNCARE welcomes all applicants, including youth, Indigenous peoples, newcomers, persons with disabilities, capable seniors, asylum seekers with valid work permits, citizens, and permanent residents.
Company Name: HT GARDENING AND LAWNCARE LTD.
Address: 420 Wilson St, New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 3R6
Position Title: Landscape gardener
Vacancies: 01
We are looking for 01 Landscape gardener (NOC 22114).
Job Duties:
- Water and tend to plants, lawns, and gardens
- Apply fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides, and other lawn care products
- Apply various treatments such as pruning, spraying, repairing damaged areas, and injecting treatment solutions
- Examine trees and shrubs to diagnose problems and disease
- Plan and coordinate the growth and use of plants for landscaping, ornamental uses, and other purposes
- Plan and construct landscaped environments which may include trees, shrubberies, lawns, fences, decks, patios, and other landscape structures
- Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens
- Plant and move trees
- Tree removal
- Trim trees to achieve the desired pruning objective such as crown cleaning, thinning, raising, reduction, restoration, espalier pruning, vista pruning
Work Environment and Setting
- Outdoors, at heights.
- Noisy and dusty conditions.
- Lawn care company, Work in employers’/client’s home, Commercial, residential, and various locations.
- Willing to relocate.
Employment Details:
- Terms of employment: Permanent, full-time.
- Start Date: As soon as possible.
- Language of work: Basic conversational English.
- Wage: $37/hour.
- Hours: 6 hours/day, 30 hours/week.
- Location of work: New Westminster, BC (employer's/client's locations). No remote work available.
- Other Requirements: Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
Additional Skills Requirements and Qualifications:
- Personal Suitability: Client focus, efficient interpersonal skills, excellent oral communication, flexibility, organized, reliability, team player, ability to work independently.
- Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities: Attention to detail, repetitive tasks, handling heavy loads, physically demanding, manual dexterity, ability to distinguish between colors, combination of sitting, standing, walking, standing for extended periods, bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Own Tools/Equipment: Safety equipment/gear, steel-toed safety boots, hard hat, safety glasses/goggles, gloves, mask, safety vest
- Professional appearance and attitude
- Being respectful to our clients and our co-workers.
- Secure and safety: Driving record check (abstract).
- Education: Completion of a College/CEGEP or above.
- Work Experience: Minimum 12 months of related work experience. Landscaping experience: Residential projects. Construction specialization: Automated irrigation system, fieldstone paths, interlocking brick, ornamental ponds, fountains, waterfalls, poured concrete, retaining walls, rock gardens, stone garden walls. Area of specialization: Landscape design, landscape construction, plant knowledge, and identification
JOB CONTACT INFORMATION
Please send your application to: htlandscaping604@gmail.com
How-to-apply Instructions:
Please include the following in your application:
- References attesting experience
- Letter of recommendation
- Cover letter
- Screening questions: Are you currently legally able to work in Canada? Are you willing to relocate for this position? Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location? Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
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Equal Opportunity Employer:
HT GARDENING AND LAWNCARE is committed to to promoting diversity in our workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants, including those self-identifying as Indigenous peoples, newcomers to Canada, vulnerable youth, and asylum seekers with valid work permits.
We appreciate all applicants, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.