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Horticulture Worker
Job Number: 160320
Horticulture Worker (NOC 8432)
Employer: Seven M Construction Ltd.
Location: 22303 – 112 Ave, Edmonton, AB, T5S 2T8; may occasionally travel to various sites in Edmonton area to inspect plants.
Terms and Conditions of Employment: Permanent, Full time; Day, Weekend, Overtime
Salary: $15.30 - $15.75 / Hour
Hours: 30-40 hours/week in Winter, 40-50 hours/week in Summer
Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
Vacancies: 2
Requirements:
Languages: English
Education: Not required
Experience: Experience an asset but not required
Own Tools/Equipment: Steel-toed Safety Boots
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities: physically demanding, bending, crouching, kneeling, fast-paced environment, standing for extended periods, ability to distinguish between colours, attention to detail
Work Site Environment: Outdoors
Personal Suitability: Team player
Specific Skills:
- Prepare soil; plant bulbs, seeds and cuttings; graft and bud plants; and transplant seedlings and rooted cuttings
- Monitor plants for healthy growth and potential weed, insect, disease, and fertilizer problems in greenhouse crops
- Spray trees, shrubs, flowers and plants to prevent disease and pests
- Position and regulate greenhouse and outdoor irrigation systems to water plants and fields
- Dig, cut and transplant trees, shrubs, flowers and plants and prepare them for sale
- Provide information to customers on gardening, the use of various garden tools and products and the care of trees, shrubs, flowers, plants and lawns
- May operate tractors and other machinery and equipment to fertilize, cultivate, harvest and spray fields and plants
- Maintain inventory and order materials as required
- Clean working areas
Area of Specialization: Flowers, sod, nursery-grown trees, greenhouse
HOW TO APPLY
By Mail: 22303 – 112 Ave, Edmonton, AB, T5S 2T8
By Fax: (780) 452-2224
By Email: greenhousejob@7m.ca
Veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces, Indigenous peoples, Newcomers to Canada, Visible Minorities are welcome to apply.