Landscape Tradesperson

**LANDSCAPE TRADEPERSON**

**About the Role**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Manual landscaping tasks such as planting, mulching, soil spreading and garden edging
- Other landscaping tasks as directed by Site Supervisor
- Ensure junior staff are completing landscaping works as instructed by the senior site team
- Demonstrate professional standards of punctuality, personal presentation and reliability
- Attend daily morning site toolbox discussions before work commences, noting relevant safey issues, the day's activities, and how to record on timesheets
- Report all site issues, changes and requirements to Site Supervisor
- Monitor workplace practices and ensure health, safety and environmental standards are adhered to in accordance with the Deep Green OHS&E Plan.
- Monitor and maintain a safe working site, identify, rectify and report hazards to Site Supervisor and maintain safe and tidy work zones
- Correctly use all personal protective equipment
- Attend monthly company toolbox meetings, raise issues and contribute ideas
- Maintain site tools, equipment, materials. Conduct equipment pre-starts before use.
- Ensure team has all the resources required for site tasks, such as relevant plant and equipment and fuel.
- Procurements of materials as directed by site supervisor
- Maintain any company vehicle or machine in your control in a clean and tidy condition and raise any vehicle issues with the Operations Manager
- Provide support for the site supervisor
- Ensure the professional construction of landscaping projects to the highest quality
- Ensure a safe working environment for all Deep Green employees and subcontractors
- Promote a positive site work environment
- Promptly identify, report and action all site issues

**Skills**:

- Reasonable level of physical fitness
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Good team building ability

**Knowledge**
- Safe working practices
- Residential and commercial landscape construction techniques
- Building construction and horticultural practices
- Tools and machinery used in hard and soft landscaping

**Requirements**:

- Essential - First Aid qualification
- Essential - Construction White Card
- Desirable - MR class drivers license
- Desirable - Certificate III in Landscape Construction or similar
- Highly desirable - leading a team of labourers
- Highly desirable - commercial and residential landscape construction

**Job Type**: Casual

Pay: $32.59 - $65.18 per hour

Expected hours: 40 - 50 per week

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Penalty rates

Work Location: In person