Landscaper (6-month Contract)

Job Description

Posted Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

Boardwalk provides Canadians with a quality, comfortable, home living experience. We offer rental apartments and townhouses that come in a wide breadth of shapes, sizes and sets of amenities. We operate 33,000 units across Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Quebec.

Boardwalk recognizes our Associates as our most valuable asset. We are proud to provide competitive wages, profit-sharing, and amazing benefits like flexible group medical and dental, fitness reimbursement, training and development, group RRSP matching, rental discounts, and more.

We are looking for an experienced Landscaper who enjoys being outside – rain, shine, or snow! You will be responsible for performing a variety of landscape maintenance tasks, including snow removal. If you have a great eye for detail, physically fit, and enjoys working with others, this role is for you!

Responsibilities

• Ensure site cleanliness
• Remove heavy furniture, garbage and appliances from suites and around site as required
• Snow and ice removal, sanding and salting, completion of snow and ice removal logs
• Lawns, trees, hedges, and flowerbeds: cut, trimmed, watered, edged, and free of weeds
• Parking lots: sweep, wash, lines and keep all catch basins clear of foreign debris
• Fences: repaired and/or stained as necessary
• Building exterior: eves cleared, siding, lights working, signage clean and visible
• Spring clean-up: hazard line painting, irrigation start-up, power washing, planting, filling potholes, etc. as determined by the spring landscaping plan
• Fall clean-up: leaf removal, close off (blow out) irrigation; winterize gardens and beds, trees trimmed, etc.
• Painting halls, suites, parkades and other areas as assigned
• Flexible on-call hours required between the hours of 6 am through 9 pm (including weekends)
• Proper operation and maintenance of all landscaping equipment, specifically Bobcats and heavy equipment (tractors, sweepers, small and large bobcats)
  
  

Experience And Educational Requirements

• 2 years Landscaping Service experience required
• Minor mechanical experience an asset
• Professional training and experience with landscaping equipment (example: Bobcats)
  
  

Technical Requirements

• Working knowledge of English both verbal and written
• Driver’s license and own reliable vehicle required
• Ability to operate a Bobcat and train others to do so in a safe manner
• Ability to operate smaller equipment including sweepers, lawn mowers, snow blowers and small tractors
• Familiarity with computer tablets is an asset
  
  

Requirements

Non-Technical Requirements:

• Strong commitment to providing excellent customer service
• Dedicated to building better communities for all our Customers and surrounding communities
• Ability to take responsibility for all actions and decisions and to follow through
• Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
• Ability to spend up to eight hours walking, standing, climbing stairs, lifting
• Ability to maneuver up to 90kg with the proper equipment
  
  

Interested applicants are invited to submit a cover letter and resume.

We would like to thank you in advance for your application, however, only those candidates who are being considered will be contacted. Offers of employment will be contingent on satisfactory Security Background Checks, Reference Checks, and Post-offer/Pre-employment Physical Testing where applicable.

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Ready to shape the future of our communities? Come work with us and learn where doing what you love means never working a day in your life!

Deeply rooted in family spirit and humility, Boardwalk’s five core values of integrity, associates, teamwork, customer service and social responsibility are more than just words - they are a way of life. Coupled with our Golden Foundation of ‘treat others as you would like to be treated,’ ‘be good,’ ‘love community’ and ‘have fun,’ we believe in happiness and creating the most memorable experiences for both our Associates and Resident Members, continually looking for new and innovative ways to enhance and strengthen all our Boardwalk communities.

We hope these values speak to you as they speak so meaningfully to us!

As we continue to grow, we remain unwavering in our commitment to providing Resident Members with the best quality rental communities. This same commitment means Boardwalk is always seeking individuals who have a positive attitude, are energetic and passionate, self-driven, productive, have the capacity to deliver high-quality results and who believe in the power of teamwork.

Together, with you as part of our team, we will continue to create meaning every day for those who choose to call Boardwalk home.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment Statement

We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse team that will honour and celebrate your experiences, perspectives and unique identity regardless of age, ethnicity, race, colour, abilities, religion, socio-economic status, culture, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Together, our communities strive to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

We believe every Associate in our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of values, customs and experience to better understand and engage with the world around us, identify challenges, so as to discover, design and deliver solutions together.