landscape horticulturist

at  Klon Services Ltd

• Durée de l’emploi: Permanent
• Langue de travail: Anglais
• Heures de travail: 40 to 60 hours per week
• Education:
• Expérience:

EDUCATION

• Registered Apprenticeship certificate
• or equivalent experience

LANDSCAPING EXPERIENCE

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

WORK CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES

• Ability to work independently
• 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

EXPERIENCE

• 2 years to less than 3 years

• Interpret blueprints or other instructions to plan methods or sequences of operation
• Plan the incorporation of landscape structures
• Read blueprints or other instructions to determine work requirements
• Trim trees to achieve the desired pruning objective such as crown cleaning, thinning, raising, reduction, restoration, espalier pruning, vista pruning
• Manage landscaping projects
• Estimate costs
• Prepare contracts and tenders
• Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
• Apply fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides and other lawn care products
• Apply various treatments such as pruning, spraying, repairing damaged areas and injecting with treatment solutions
• Assess the health of lawns
• Examine trees and shrubs to diagnose problems and disease
• 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