Landscaping Construction Foreman/Forewoman

Landscape Foreman/Forewoman

Location: Wallenstein, ON

Job Type: Full Time Seasonal (Start Date ASAP)

Wage: $32.00-40.00/hour

What's in it for you?

This job will offer you the opportunity to work on some of southern Ontario's most beautiful residential landscape projects. The pace, challenges, and problem-solving opportunities will mean you are never bored. You will have the chance to develop and refine a wide variety of skills in our rapidly growing business. Your colleagues are all highly skilled, with an impressive range of backgrounds and expertise. Above all, they are dedicated to Earthscape's success. We want you to be successful, and we believe in rewarding our staff for exceptional work.

In addition to excellent on-the-job training in project management and site supervision, a safe and inclusive work environment for you and your colleagues, we offer:

1. Extended health and dental benefits
2. Life insurance and AD&D
3. Profit sharing and performance bonuses
4. Participate in our employee share ownership program (ESOP) after 1 year
5. Tuition reimbursement
6. Award-winning projects and designs
7. Company events & social hours
8. Overtime pay

Who are we?

Our company, Earthscape, is recognized as an award-winning design-build firm that specializes in high-end residential landscaping. We are a group of enthusiastic, creative dreamers and builders who work hard and are exceptionally proud of what we design and create. Our project managers aren't afraid to get their hands dirty, and our installation crews know that we trust and highly value their work. It makes for a positive, productive, fun, and rewarding environment, with enough challenges and opportunities to keep us growing.

Our focus is on designing thoughtful, creative, and innovative outdoor spaces that offer a unique vision for each client using a wide variety of materials (stone, concrete, wood, etc.). For examples of past landscape design-build projects, visit our website at http://www.earthscape.ca/

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a Landscape Foreman/Forewoman to support our crews in Kitchener-Waterloo and surrounding areas. In this role, you will supervise, coordinate, and schedule the day-to-day work activities of a landscape construction crew. You will train crew members with onsite training in skills and methods of landscape installation in line with Earthscape's standard operating procedures and quality expectations. You will also plan labor requirements, equipment requirements, and material deliveries and timing to ensure completion of job(s) within the deadline. You will be responsible for coordinating subcontractors and provide any required oversight on location. In addition, you will maintain and enforce standards of safety, cleanliness, and organization in assigned trucks, trailers, equipment, jobsites, and shop/yard areas.

To be the successful candidate you:

1. Align with Earthscape core values of integrity, hard work, teamwork, the pursuit of excellence and loving what we do
2. Have 5+ years of experience across a broad range of landscaping construction site work, including concrete, masonry, carpentry, site layout, site grading and installing and maintaining water features
3. Have experience reading and interpreting scaled drawings
4. Demonstrate leadership by example and the ability to engage others in the accomplishment of tasks in an efficient and organized way
5. Are looking for something new, exciting, and creative to be a part of
6. Have a big imagination and great problem-solving skills
7. Recognize the importance of building to high quality standards
8. Want to be proud of your employer and work for a highly regarded industry-recognized leader
9. Communicate effectively with supervisors, colleagues, and clients
10. Thrive in a busy work environment and respect project timelines
11. Are comfortable and skilled operating a variety of landscaping machinery
12. Have a minimum G class license

Job Type:

Full Time Seasonal

Compensation: $32.00-40.00/hour depending on experience

Location: Wallenstein, ON

Accommodations:

We are committed to treating all people in a way that respects their dignity and independence. Should you require any accommodation during the recruitment process or otherwise, please notify us of this when you apply and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

Pre-employment checks:

As part of our selection process, successful candidates may be required to consent to background checks relevant to the role, prior to receiving a job offer. These could include: work references, education and credential confirmation, employment verification, identity check, criminal offence and driver's license record.

At Earthscape, we are committed to building an environment where everyone feels included, valued, and heard. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging are an important part of our everyday work, and it is our belief that they enable us to reach our goal of bringing incredible outdoor spaces to life. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.