Landscape Horticulturist

Employment Information

  • Post ID: 430611289
  • Posted Date: Jan 16, 2025
  • Closing Date: Mar 21, 2025
  • Company: KLon Services Ltd.
  • Category: Landscape & Carpentry
  • Business Location:Albright, Alberta, Canada
  • Total Views: 200
  • Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
  • Last Updated: 4 hours ago
  • Job URL: https://tribaljobs.ca/jobs/430611289/alberta/albright/landscape-horticulturist/
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Job Details

  • Experience: 2 years - 3 years
  • Opening Positions: 1
  • Remuneration: $25.00 to $33.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 40 to 60 hours per week
  • Commencement Date: : 2025-04-01
  • Education: Registered Apprenticeship certificate
  • How to apply: email to [email protected]

Job Description

Tasks

  • Interpret blueprints or other instructions to plan methods or sequences of operation
  • Plan the incorporation of landscape structures
  • Read blueprints or other instructions to determine work requirements
  • Trim trees to achieve the desired pruning objective such as crown cleaning, thinning, raising, reduction, restoration, espalier pruning, vista pruning
  • Manage landscaping projects
  • Estimate costs
  • Prepare contracts and tenders
  • 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

Experience and specialization

Landscaping experience

  • Residential projects
  • Commercial and/or industrial construction
  • Park and recreation sites
  • Sports field

Area of specialization

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

Credentials

Apprenticeship training

  • Level two apprenticeship training

Benefits

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • Group insurance benefits

Other benefits

  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • Team building opportunities
  • Transportation provided by employer
  • Parking available