Landscape Installation Laborer

Overview

The Landscape Laborer performs various tasks related to landscaping and grounds maintenance to enhance the appearance and functionality of Thompson + Hanson’s clients as well as their own property grounds.

• Perform tasks involving physical labor on job sites.
• May clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, and clean up rubble, debris and other waste materials.
• Clean or prepare construction sites to eliminate possible hazards.
• Dig ditches or trenches, backfill excavations, or compact and level earth to grade specifications, using picks, shovels, pneumatic tampers, or rakes.
• Load and unload planting material and machinery.
• Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes.
• Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners.
• Gather and remove litter.
• Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans.
• Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds.
• Rake, mulch, and compost leaves.
• Knowledge of how to prep beds and plant large to small materials.
• Follow instructions given by crew foreman.
• Adhere to safety policies.
• Maintain high quality workmanship.

Thompson + Hanson requires minimal education and no previous work experience for this position. The incumbent may also be bilingual and not fluent in English, though it is helpful to be fluent in English.

• Little experience needed; training provided
• Interpersonal skills

The landscape laborer typically works outdoors in various weather conditions, including extreme heat, cold, rain or snow, depending on the season. The company will notify their employees if extreme weather conditions are unworkable for the day/week in advance. However, should the weather permit workable, it is expected to be exposed to outdoor weather in extreme heat or cold, high places such as rooftops, sounds or noise levels that may be distracting and uncomfortable.

Landscape laborers are expected to use herbicides, fertilizers, pesticides and any related products to complete the job and can be exposed to hazardous equipment. The risk of using such products and equipment are minor burns, cuts, bites or stings or exposure to extremely bright or inadequate lighting.

While performing the duties of this job the incumbent is regularly required to bend, twist the body, maintain balance, and perform repetitive motions such as standing, sitting, kneeling, crouching, squatting, walking and running. The incumbent may also be required to push/pull objects, bend or stoop to pick up objects, climb ladders, scaffolding and stairs, grasp or squeeze to hold onto railings or items, and move or lift objects up to 75 pounds such as large pots and equipment or multiple plants.

The incumbent is expected to be knowledgeable in using tools such as lawn mowers, rakes, pruners and shears, hedge trimmers, weed whackers, blowers, power saws (chainsaw and pruning saw), hand or power tools, tillers, spreaders (mulch, rotary, sand), wheelbarrows and wagons.