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Landscape Labourer
Employer
Pinnacle Plants & Contracting Ltd.Date Posted
June 03, 2024Languages
English-
Location Taber, AB
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Earnings $18.07 hourly
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Work Hours 40 hours per week
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Position Seasonal Full Time
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Vacancies 4  Vacancies
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Closing Date Aug 21, 2024
Employer
Pinnacle Plants & Contracting Ltd.
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Wet/damp
- Noisy
- Odours
- Cold/refrigerated
- Dusty
- Hot
Work setting
- Urban area
- Rural area
- Various locations
- Private residence
Tasks
- Assist with landscape constructions
- Tie and secure plants
- Weed, prune and trim trees and plants
- Cut grass
- Rake and collect refuse
- Remove litter and garbage
- Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
- Lay sod or seed
- Plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees
- Apply fertilizers
- Dig cemetery graves
- Repair and maintain equipment
- Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
- Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment
- Tree removal
Equipment and machinery experience
- Chain saw
- Pick-up truck
- Roto-tiller
- Tractor
- Tractor mower
- Weed trimmer/edger
Area of work experience
- Cleaning
- Snow removal
Equipment
Small tractors (lawn/snow removal attachments)
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Reliability
- Team player
- Punctuality
- Hardworking
Experience
7 months to less than 1 year
Support for newcomers and refugees
Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees
Support for Indigenous people
- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
- Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
- Facilitates access to Elders who can offer support and guidance to Indigenous workers
Supports for visible minorities
- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports members of visible minorities
- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities
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Interest Codes
- METHODICAL
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Interest in spraying and dusting as directed to control insects and diseases and in performing other manual duties to clean and maintain landscaped environments
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in operating power mowers, tractors, snowblowers, chainsaws, electric clippers, sod cutters, pruning saws and other equipment
- innovative
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Interest in comparing information to spread top soil, lay sod and plant flowers, grass, shrubs and trees; and in performing other duties to assist with the construction of landscapes and related structures
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.