Horticulture Technician

Employment Information

  • Post ID: 102006990
  • Posted Date: Apr 16, 2025
  • Closing Date: Jul 4, 2025
  • Company: Modern Earthscapes Land Design
  • Category: Farm, Agriculture & Forestry
  • Business Location:Carrying Place, Ontario, Canada
  • Total Views: 205
  • Duration: 2 calendar days (3 business days)
  • Last Updated: 2 days ago
  • Job URL: https://tribaljobs.ca/jobs/102006990/ontario/carrying-place/horticulture-technician/
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Job Details

  • Experience: 2 years - 3 years
  • Opening Positions: 1
  • Remuneration: $20.00 to $23.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 30 to 44 hours per week
  • Commencement Date: : 2025-04-28
  • Education: High school graduation certificate
  • How to apply: email to [email protected]

Job Description

Tasks

  • Read blueprints or other instructions to determine work requirements
  • Manage landscaping projects
  • Write specifications
  • Survey and assess designated sites
  • 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
  • Weed, prune and trim trees and plants
  • Plant bulbs, flowers, shrubs and trees
  • Lay sod or seed
  • Cut grass
  • Cart and spread topsoil and other materials
  • Assist with landscape constructions
  • Apply fertilizers
  • Write daily basic progress reports
  • Rake and collect refuse
  • Operate and maintain landscape maintenance equipment

Experience and specialization

Landscaping experience

  • Residential projects
  • Commercial and/or industrial construction
  • Restoration and preservation projects

Equipment and machinery experience

  • Weed trimmer/edger
  • Tractor
  • Small engine equipment
  • Pick-up truck
  • Chain saw
  • Tractor mower

Construction specialization

  • Automated irrigation system
  • Fieldstone paths
  • Interlocking brick
  • Ornamental ponds, fountains and waterfalls
  • Retaining walls
  • Rock gardens
  • Stone garden walls

Specialization or experience

  • Green economy sector
  • Specialized environmental skills and knowledge

Area of specialization

  • Landscape design
  • Landscape construction
  • Horticultural consulting
  • Plant knowledge and identification
  • Horticulture

Credentials

Apprenticeship training

  • Pre-apprenticeship training
  • Level one apprenticeship training

Benefits

Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement
  • Bonus
  • Gratuities
  • Mileage paid

Other benefits

  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • Other benefits
  • Team building opportunities
  • Transportation provided by employer
  • Parking available
  • Variable or compressed work week