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Horticulture Worker
Employer
GSL Landscape Ltd.Date Posted
July 19, 2022Languages
English-
Location Duagh, AB
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Earnings $19.00 to $21.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 40 to 61 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 3  Vacancies
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Closing Date Aug 18, 2022
Employer
GSL Landscape Ltd.
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work Site Environment
- Outdoors
- Hot
- Noisy
- Dusty
Work Setting
Staff accommodation available
Tasks
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Assist in pruning trees, shrubs and plants
- Mix and prepare soils
- Plant bulbs and seeds
- Apply fertilizers
- Assist in grafting activities
- Dig up wrapping rootballs of trees and shrubs
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Weed, prune and trim trees and plants
- Remove litter and garbage
- Lay sod or seed
- Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
- Assist with landscape constructions
- Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Manual dexterity
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Tight deadlines
Personal Suitability
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Team player
- Initiative
- Accurate
- Excellent oral communication
- Judgement
- Organized
Experience
Will train
Other benefits
Transportation provided by employer
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Interest Codes
- METHODICAL
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Interest in speaking to provide information to customers on gardening and the care of trees, shrubs, flowers, plants and lawns; and in maintaining inventory and order materials
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in operating equipment to spray against disease and pests; and in positioning and regulating greenhouse and outdoor irrigation systems; may operate tractors and other machinery and equipment to fertilize, cultivate, harvest and spray
- innovative
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Interest in comparing information to prepare soil and plant bulbs, seeds and cuttings; and in grafting and budding plants and in transplanting seedlings and rooted cuttings
The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation.
It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.
Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.
A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.
A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.