Job Description
Full Job Description
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- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
Work site environment
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- Odours
- Outdoors
Work setting
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- Greenhouse
Tasks
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- 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
- 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 move trees
Area of specialization
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- Plant knowledge and identification
- Propagation
Transportation/travel information
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- Valid driver’s licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
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- 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
Personal suitability
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- Flexibility
- Reliability
- Team player
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you currently a student?
- 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?
- Work Term: Temporary
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week