Summer jobs, Student jobs

Hiring: Summer Gardener
Type: summer job
Employer: St. John's Kilmarnock School
Location: between Kitchener-Waterloo and Guelph, Ontario

St.John's Kilmarnnock School is looking for a motivated horticulturalist or landscape technician to join its groundskeeping team for the summer of 2025.

SJK is the leading co-educational independent school in the Waterloo Region of Ontario. The School, which was founded in 1972, is located on a beautiful 36-acre natural campus offering enriched educational programming for day students from JK-Grade 12 and international boarding students from Grades 9-12 through our accredited International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme.

As a member of the groundskeeping team, the horticulturalist or landscape technician will assist the team with maintenance and construction of flower beds, planted boulevards, seasonal raised planters, naturalized meadows, lawns, as well as our natural turf athletic fields. Our recently expanded campus of 40 acres offers a variety of landscapes and opportunities to learn many different aspects of the landscape industry.

Daily tasks can consist of but not limited to; mulching, weeding, hand watering, pruning, planting, hand watering, bed edging, and grass cutting and trimming. Other additional tasks may be assigned relating to landscape projects around campus .

Qualifications:

• is currently enrolled in a horticulture or landscape technician program OR
• prior experience in the horticulture or landscape industry beneficial
• enthusiastic, dependable, hard working, eagerness to learn
• able to work outdoors in various weather conditions
• ability to use hand and power equipment related to landscaping.

Applications with cover letter and/or resume emailed to: julian.sinclair@sjkschool.org

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