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Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Hot
Work setting
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Urban area
- Rural area
- Landscape contractor
- Remote location
- Various locations
- Landscape maintenance
- Park and recreation sites
- Private residence
- Commercial
Tasks
- Assist with landscape constructions
- Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
- Lay sod or seed
- Plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
- Plant and move trees
Landscaping experience
- Residential projects
Type of related experience
- Landscape construction
Equipment and machinery experience
- Small engine equipment
- Skidsteer
- Automated irrigation system
Construction specialization
- Stone garden walls
- Rock gardens
- Retaining walls
- Poured concrete
- Interlocking brick
- Fieldstone paths
- Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls
Security and safety
- Driver's validity licence check
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
- Willing to travel regularly
- Valid driver's licence
- Travel expenses paid by employer
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Hardworking
- Maturity
Workplace information
- On the road job