Landscape Gardener - Oakville, Canada - Cudmore's Landscape & Design
3 weeks ago
Description
GROW Program Verified Employer
Cudmore's is a second-generation, family-owned and operated landscape and design company and online garden market, servicing Oakville, Burlington and the surrounding communities.
A certified Living Wage company at the champion level, we endeavour to offer sustainable, meaningful and fulfilling careers in the green industry.
We are proud to be growing our team, seeking a:LANDSCAPE GARDENER
ROLE SUMMARY
We are looking for an experienced landscape gardener/softscaper with a passion for plants and horticulture to join our team and help support our growing Garden Care program in Oakville and Burlington.
We care for a variety of gardens - some large, some small, some naturalized and some ornamental - we are seeking someone with the range of experience, who understands what needs to happen within an individual garden to promote plant health, make a site look great in a time-efficient manner and loves working and developing relationships with our wonderful clients and Garden Care team.
JOB CHARACTERISTICS
- Variety of activities and multiple projects occurring simultaneously
- Maintaining an oversight of all client gardens and objectives and ensure your team is making progress each week towards those goals
- Multitasking Sense of urgency for goal achievement within a fastpaced environment
- Managing scheduling... our priority will be relationships and cultivating longterm connection, but your responsibility will be to balance this with overall time management on site.
- People/relationships focus, team building to inspire, motivate others, and engage their commitment including sharing garden inspiration with clients
- Coach and work with your team member (will vary who this is) to jointly achieve objectives and optimize time spent on site.
- Involve others in decisionmaking process cooperative, collaborative decisionmaking while leading and assuming responsibility for risk
- Healthy communication with Jenn and Will (exact communication structure TBC), while being proactive in identifying what needs to happen for your clients and their ongoing garden care
- Extroverted, warm, enthusiastic, empathetic and stimulating communicator
- Leadership based on ability to motivate others
- Strong commitment to results
- Our success is built on wordofmouth referrals and a reputation for a high quality of product and service. Commitment to onsite details, professional appearance, tidiness, etc., will help the great gardening we do shine.
Cudmore's Landscape & Design's accountabilities to you:
- Ensuring a safe, respectful work environment.
- Nurturing an environment for learning and growing.
- Understanding your learning style and offering tailored training.
- Providing appropriate project support to avoid acute fatigue and/or injury.
- Ensuring reasonably timed breaks to promote wellbeing.
- Clearly communicating project objectives and expectations.
How we support our people:
- Providing comprehensive benefits to fulltime staff to support health and wellbeing.
- Providing a minimum of a certified Living Wage to all employees.
- Covering all PPE, uniforms and annually contributing towards boots and equipment.
- Providing financial contribution and strategic support towards continued learning and training.
- Sponsorship of annual membership to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.
- Organizing social events to promote bonding with team members.
Contract duration:
September 18th to December 1st (with expectation of year-round contract for 2024)
Compensation:
$25 per hour
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