Careers at Algonquin

Landscape Construction Apprentices offer a fundamental role in our construction team.  

Experience: 0 - 2 years

Benefits:  Uniform, health and dental (after first year)

Responsibility:  Tasks include but are not limited to:

• Preparing and cleaning of job sites
• Material runs.
• Operation of smaller equipment (saws, motorized wheelbarrow, blowers etc.)
• Installation of pavers, sod, gardens and more.

Result:

• Quality landscape construction work is efficiently completed with client satisfaction and crew safety.

Qualifications/Expectations:

• Valid and clean G licence (DZ is a bonus)
• Positive team player, hard and fast worker
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Complete tasks with enthusiasm and a strong customer service orientation.  
• Excellent stamina 
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs repeatedly.
• Work outdoors in various conditions including heat and humidity, rain, dust, noise & cold.
• Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work.
• Responsibility and dependability
• Ethics and integrity

This position requires manual dexterity, good eye-hand coordination, good balance, responsibility and dependability, ethics and integrity and an ability to work both independently and as part of a team.  Activities may include extended periods of standing and walking.  

Wages:  Competitive wages based on experience.

Job Type:  Full-time

As a growing leader on the construction team, you will now be a larger role in the day to day success of the team.  

Experience: 2 – 4 years

Benefits:  Uniform, phone compensation, health and dental (after first year)

Responsibility:  Tasks include but are not limited to:

• Preparing and cleaning of job site.
• Material runs.
• Operation of all equipment
• Installation of pavers, sod, gardens, grading of base, installation of walls and steps
• Overseeing of team members
• Required to supervise a crew of labourers to perform a variety of work in landscape construction.
• Required to assist forepersons with daily tasks.
• Efficiently perform and manage quality, productivity and safe execution of job as planned.
• Submit required paperwork, route sheets (LMN)
• Communicate professionally with foreperson and team.

Result:

• Quality landscape construction work is efficiently completed with client satisfaction and crew safety.

Qualifications/Expectations:

• Valid and clean G licence (DZ is a bonus)
• Able to drive a truck and trailer safely.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills 
• Positive team player, hard and fast worker
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in hardscape.
• Experience with skid steer and mini excavator.
• Ability to work with hand tools, power tools, small engine equipment, heavy equipment, and materials.
• Knowledge of safety and basic truck/machine maintenance.
• Complete tasks with enthusiasm and a strong customer service orientation.  
• Excellent organization skills.
• Maintain standards of cleanliness and organization in assigned trucks, trailers, equipment, jobsites, and shop/yard areas.
• Effective communication skills written and verbal.
• Performance driven, attention to detail.
• Excellent stamina 
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs repeatedly.
• Work outdoors in various conditions including heat and humidity, rain, dust, noise & cold.
• Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work.
• Responsibility and dependability
• Ethics and integrity

This position requires manual dexterity, good eye-hand coordination, good balance, responsibility and dependability, ethics and integrity and an ability to work both independently and as part of a team.  Activities may include extended periods of standing and walking.  

Wages:  Competitive Wages based on experience.

Job Type:  Full-time

As a Landscape Construction Foreperson, you play a vital role in the overall success of the team. 

Experience: 5+ years

Benefits:  Uniform, phone compensation, health and dental

Responsibility:  Tasks include but are not limited to:

• Preparing and cleaning of jobsite.
• Operation of all equipment and training instructor on all equipment.
• Installation of pavers, sod, gardens, grading of base, installation of walls and steps.
• Training and overseeing of the entire team and job site.
• Monitoring projects to ensure deadlines are met.
• Keep track of receipts and materials used.
• Required to supervise a crew of labourers to perform a variety of work in landscape construction.
• Efficiently perform and manage quality, productivity and safe execution of job as planned.
• Submit required paperwork, route sheets (LMN)
• Communicate professionally with customer, lead hand and team.
• Onboard new staff, train to safety standards, and assist with ongoing performance reviews.

Result:

• Quality landscape construction work is efficiently completed with client satisfaction and crew safety.

Qualifications/Expectations:

• Valid and clean G licence (DZ is a bonus)
• Able to drive a truck and trailer safely.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills 
• Positive team player, hard and fast worker
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Years of experience in hardscape.
• Years of experience with heavy machinery and ability to instruct others on such equipment.
• Ability to work with hand tools, power tools, small engine equipment, heavy equipment, and materials.
• Knowledge of safety and basic truck/machine maintenance.
• Ability to read and construct landscape drawings.
• Complete tasks with enthusiasm and a strong customer service orientation.  
• Ability to enforce safety and recognize unsafe work conditions.
• Ability to coach and train all team members.
• Cost awareness, efficient use of time, materials, and equipment.
• Efficiently directs crew and manages time.
• High quality of work
• Communicates well with customers in a polite and courteous manner.
• Maintain standards of cleanliness and organization in assigned trucks, trailers, equipment, jobsites, and shop/yard areas.
• Effective communication skills written and verbal.
• Performance driven, attention to detail.
• Excellent stamina 
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs repeatedly.
• Work outdoors in various conditions including heat and humidity, rain, dust, noise & cold.
• Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work.
• Responsibility and dependability
• Ethics and integrity

This position requires manual dexterity, good eye-hand coordination, good balance, responsibility and dependability, ethics and integrity and an ability to work both independently and as part of a team.  Activities may include extended periods of standing and walking.  

Wages:  Competitive Wages based on experience.

Job Type:  Full-time

Experience: 0-2 years 

Benefits:  Uniform, health and dental (after first year) 

Responsibility: 

• Perform as a team player with focus on optimism and passion. 
• Efficiently complete landscape tasks according to plan, with focus on quality and production. 

Result: 

• Quality landscape work is efficiently completed while growing in skill and professionalism, in a positive team environment. 

Qualifications/Expectations: 

• Valid and clean G licence (a licence is preferred but not required) 
• Team player, hard and fast worker 
• Positive attitude 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• High quality of work 
• Excellent stamina  
• Work outdoors in various conditions including heat and humidity, rain, dust, noise & cold. 
• Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work. 
• Responsibility and dependability 
• Ethics and integrity 

If you love working outdoors, aren’t afraid of hard work and would like to have the opportunity to advance, this is the job for you.  Landscape Apprentices can expect to learn the particulars of beautifying a landscape from on-site training.  Tasks include trimming, blowing and cutting of grass, weeding, cultivating and edging of garden beds, pruning, raking, cleaning of equipment and trucks, ensuring safe work and wearing of PPE. 

Wages:  Competitive Wages based on experience. 

Job Type:  Full-time 

Experience: 0-2 years 

Benefits: Uniform, health and dental (after first year)

Responsibility: 

• Perform as a team player with focus on optimism and passion. 
• Efficiently complete landscape tasks according to plan, with focus on quality and production. 

Result: 

• Quality landscape work is efficiently completed while growing in skill and professionalism, in a positive team environment. 

Qualifications/Expectations: 

• Valid and clean G licence (a licence is preferred but not required) 
• Team player, hard and fast worker 
• Positive attitude 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment. 
• High quality of work  
• Work outdoors in various conditions including heat and humidity, rain, dust, noise & cold.
• Flexible working hours 
• Responsibility and dependability 
• Ethics and integrity 

This position requires manual dexterity, good eye-hand coordination, good balance, responsibility and dependability, ethics and integrity and an ability to work both independently and as part of a team.  Activities may include extended periods of standing and walking.   

 Wages:  Competitive Wages based on experience. 

Job Type:  Full-time or Seasonal 

As you mature and become more experienced in the industry, you will gain more responsibilities.  

Experience: 2+ years

Benefits:  Uniform, phone compensation, health and dental (after first year)

Responsibility: Tasks include but are not limited to:

• Direct and help apprentices.
• Assist forepersons with daily tasks such as truck prep, LMN and maintenance of machines and tools.
• All basic lawn and garden tasks including operation of zero turns.
• Learning and practicing of more advanced pruning techniques.
• Required to direct and help crew of labourers to perform a variety of work in landscape maintenance.
• Required to assist forepersons with daily tasks.
• Efficiently perform and manage quality, productivity and safe execution of job as planned.
• Submit required paperwork, route sheets (LMN)
• Communicate professionally with foreperson and team.

Result:

• Quality landscape work is efficiently completed with client satisfaction and crew safety.

Qualifications/Expectations:

• Horticultural certification or comparable designation
• Valid and clean G licence
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills 
• Positive team player, hard and fast worker
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to direct employees and manage the job in the absence of the foreperson.
• Able to drive a truck and trailer safely.
• Can identify the major trees, shrubs and perennials that are seen on properties.
• Complete tasks with enthusiasm and a strong customer service orientation.  
• Ability to work with hand tools, power tools, small engine equipment, heavy equipment, and materials.
• High quality of work.
• Knowledge of safety and basic truck/machine maintenance.
• Maintain standards of cleanliness and organization in assigned trucks, trailers, equipment, jobsites, and shop/yard areas.
• Effective communication skills written and verbal.
• Performance driven, attention to detail.
• Excellent stamina 
• Work outdoors in various conditions including heat and humidity, rain, dust, noise & cold.
• Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work.
• Responsibility and dependability
• Ethics and integrity

This position requires manual dexterity, good eye-hand coordination, good balance, responsibility and dependability, ethics and integrity and an ability to work both independently and as part of a team.  Activities may include extended periods of standing and walking.  

Wages: Competitive Wages based on experience.

Job Type:  Full-time

Experience: 5+ years 

Benefits:  Uniform, phone compensation, health and dental 

Responsibility: 

• Required to supervise a crew of labourers to perform a variety of work in landscape maintenance. 
• Efficiently perform and manage quality, productivity and safe execution of job as planned. 
• Submit required paperwork, route sheets (LMN).
• Communicate professionally to customer, lead hand and team. 
• Onboard new staff, train to safety standards, and assist with ongoing performance reviews. 

Result: 

• Quality landscape work is efficiently completed with client satisfaction and crew safety. 

Qualifications/Expectations: 

• Horticultural certification or comparable designation 
• Valid and clean G licence 
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
• Positive team player, hard and fast worker
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment. 
• Complete tasks with enthusiasm and a strong customer service orientation.   
• Ability to enforce safety and recognize unsafe work conditions. 
• Ability to work with hand tools, power tools, small engine equipment, heavy equipment, and materials. 
• Cost awareness, efficient use of time, materials, and equipment. 
• Efficiently directs crew and manages time. 
• High quality of work 
• Communicates well with customers in a polite and courteous manner. 
• Maintain standards of cleanliness and organization in assigned trucks, trailers, equipment, jobsites, and shop/yard areas. 
• Effective communication skills written and verbal. 
• Performance driven, attention to detail. 
• Work outdoors in various conditions including heat and humidity, rain, dust, noise & cold. 
• Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work. 
• Responsibility and dependability 
• Ethics and integrity 

This position requires manual dexterity, good eye-hand coordination, good balance, responsibility and dependability, ethics and integrity and an ability to work both independently and as part of a team.  Activities may include extended periods of standing and walking.   

Wages:  Competitive Wages based on experience. 

Job Type:  Full-time 

Window Cleaning and Power Washing Apprentices need to be willing to learn, have positive attitude and be willing to work outdoors in the elements daily.

Experience: 0-3 years

Benefits:  Uniform, health and dental (after first year)

Responsibility:  Tasks include but are not limited to:

• Prepping trucks and jobsites.
• Driving company truck
• Cleaning windows interior and exterior
• Cleaning eavestroughs
• Pressure washing decks and other surfaces
• Setting up and securing ladders.

Result:

• Quality window cleaning and power washing work is efficiently completed while growing in skill and professionalism, in a positive team environment.

Qualifications/Expectations:

• Valid and clean G licence 
• Team player, hard and fast worker
• Positive attitude
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• High quality of work
• Excellent stamina 
• Work outdoors in various conditions including heat and humidity, rain, dust, noise & cold.
• Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work.
• Responsibility and dependability
• Ethics and integrity

Wages:  Competitive wages based on experience.

Job Type:  Full-time

The window cleaning and power washing foreperson is responsible for all tasks done by the apprentice.  He/she is responsible for managing the team in order to ensure the timely completion of jobs.

Experience: 3+ years

Benefits: Uniform, phone compensation, health and dental

Responsibility:

• Prepping trucks and jobsites.
• Driving company truck
• Cleaning windows interior and exterior
• Cleaning eavestroughs
• Pressure washing decks and other surfaces
• Setting up and securing ladders.
• Ensure crew safety.
• High standards of quality and efficiency.
• Operate a variety of tools and equipment.
• Maintain and perform minor repairs to equipment.
• Responsible for all timesheets on LMN.

Result:

• Quality window cleaning and power washing work is efficiently completed with client satisfaction and crew safety.

Qualifications/Expectations:

• Valid and clean G licence
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills 
• Positive team player, hard and fast worker
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Complete tasks with enthusiasm and a strong customer service orientation.  
• Ability to enforce safety and recognize unsafe work conditions.
• Cost awareness, efficient use of time, materials, and equipment.
• Efficiently directs crew and manages time.
• High quality of work
• Communicates well with customers in a polite and courteous manner.
• Maintain standards of cleanliness and organization in assigned trucks, equipment, jobsites, and shop/yard areas.
• Effective communication skills written and verbal.
• Knowledge of LMN (Training provided)
• Performance driven, attention to detail.
• Work outdoors in various conditions including heat and humidity, rain, dust, noise & cold.
• Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work.
• Responsibility and dependability
• Ethics and integrity
• This position requires manual dexterity, good eye-hand coordination, good balance, responsibility and dependability, ethics and integrity and an ability to work both independently and as part of a team.  Activities may include extended periods of standing and walking.  

Wages:  Competitive Wages based on experience.

Job Type:  Full-time

The snow shoveller is responsible for the safe and productive removal of snow and ice from commercial jobsites, walkways, and traffic areas.

Experience: No experience required

Benefits:  Uniform, health and dental (after first year if a full-time employee)

Responsibility:

• Respond promptly to calls for snow and ice events.
• Clear snow and ice accumulations from customer sites from designated areas using shovels, snowblowers, salt spreaders and bagged salt.
• Wear appropriate personal protective equipment at all times.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures.

Qualifications/Expectations:

• Physically fit with strong stamina 
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs repeatedly.
• Ability to follow safe working procedures.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Good observation skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work both independently with little supervision, and as part of a team.
• Work outdoors in various conditions including extreme cold, rain, dust, noise & wet conditions.
• Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work.
• Responsibility and dependability
• Ethics and integrity
• Activities may include extended periods of standing and walking.  

Wages:  Competitive wages based on experience.

Job Type:  Seasonal

The snowplow operator is responsible for the safe and productive operation of trucks, skid steers and loaders for the purpose of controlling snow and ice accumulations on jobsites.  Snowplow operators are expected to be available 24 hrs/day, 7 days/week at any time a snow or ice event occurs on their sites.

Experience: 2 year minimum snowplowing experience

Benefits:  Uniform, health and dental (after first year if a full-time employee)

Responsibility:

• Respond promptly to calls for snow and ice events.Operate vehicles and snowplow equipment in a safe, responsible and efficient manner following all recommended operating procedures.
• Control ice accumulations at jobsites with the safe and responsible use of de-icing agents (salt, treated salt or other de-icing chemicals)
• Hand-shovel or hand-treat site areas as required (walkways, doorways, etc.)
• Accurately document site service records for each and every site including times, services performed, weather conditions etc.
• Must wear appropriate personal protective equipment at all times.
• Comply with all company policies and procedures.

Qualifications/Expectations:

• Valid and clean G licence
• Physically fit with strong stamina 
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs repeatedly.
• Ability to follow safe working procedures.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Good observation skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work both independently with little supervision, and as part of a team.
• Work outdoors in various conditions including extreme cold, rain, dust, noise & wet conditions.
• Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work.
• Responsibility and dependability
• Ethics and integrity

Wages:  Competitive Wages based on experience.

Job Type:  Seasonal