Horticultural Technician - Scarborough, Canada - Dr. Landscape Inc.
Description
Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 to 60 hours per week
- Education: College, CEGEP or other nonuniversity certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
- Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years
Work site environment:
- Noisy
- Outdoors
Work setting:
- Work in employer's/client's home
- Garden centre
- Urban area
- Rural area
- Remote location
- Various locations
- Lawn care company
- Nursery horticulture
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
- Landscape contractor
Tasks:
- Write specifications
- Read and interpret blueprints
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Assess the health of lawns
- Direct crews who maintain the health and appearance of golf courses and their surrounding landscapes
- 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
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses:
- Horticulturist Trade Certification
- Arboriculturists Trade Certification
- Landscape Gardener Trade Certification
- Canadian Nursery Landscape Association (CNLA) certification
Computer and technology knowledge:
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- MS Word
Landscaping experience:
- Residential projects
- Restoration and preservation projects
Area of specialization:
- Landscape construction
- Horticultural consulting
- Plant knowledge and identification
- Propagation
Security and safety:
- Driving record check (abstract)
- Eligible for professional liability insurance
- Criminal record check
Transportation/travel information:
- Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Attention to detail
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Own tools/equipment:
- Safety equipment/gear
- Steeltoed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Gloves
- Ear plugs
- Mask
- Safety vest
Personal suitability:
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
Other benefits:
- Other benefits
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