Landscape Maintenance (Lead Hand)

Company Overview

Cedar Springs has the distinct honour of maintaining and caring for some of the finest landscape properties in Ontario. Our care team professionals have a keen eye for detail and are passionate about working outdoors with natural beauty and ensuring gardens, turf, hardscapes & softscapes are always kept in pristine condition.

Who should apply?

Experienced landscape maintenance foreman, those with just a small amount of experience, apprentices, or those who have a general construction background. Primarily we are seeking people who are passionate about working outdoors in a team setting and consistently moving about numerous properties in a day. Each member displays a keen interest in working with equipment and specialty tools to complete their daliy tasks.

Job Duties:

• Weed, prune and trim trees and plants
• Repair and maintain equipment
• Remove litter and garbage
• Plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees
• Mowing grass
• Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
• Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
• Leaf cleanup
• Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
• Manual labour (not shy of physical work)

Responsibility:

• Customer and quality focus (private residential, institutional, commercial)
• Effective communication skills and able to follow instructions
• Team players
• Dependability
• Ethics and integrity

Required Skills:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to drive truck and trailer (as support to foreman of the crew)
• Desire to complete repetitive, yet important tasks
• Safe operational use of equipement: mowers/trimmers/blowers/tools
• Attention to detail
• Walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling

What else is offered?

• Competitive industry wages
• Overtime pay
• A collaborative team environment
• on the job training from journeyman
• Benefits and RRSP options

Pay: $23.00-$30.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Company events
• On-site parking
• Store discount
• Vision care

Work Location: In person