Landscape Construction Apprentice - Experience Required
Get Paid to Build Your Skills. Grow Into a Foreman.
V.I.L. Landscaping
Oakville and Milton, Ontario
Full-time | Year-round
Pay: CA$23–CA$26 per hour, based on experience
Landscape construction and winter snow work
V.I.L. Landscaping is looking for a reliable, hardworking Landscape Construction Apprentice who already has landscaping experience or knows how to safely operate landscaping and construction equipment.
This is a hands-on position for someone who understands the basics and wants to develop advanced hardscaping, equipment operation, and crew-leadership skills.
You don’t need to be an expert, but you must have practical landscaping or construction experience and be comfortable using common tools or equipment.
This is a long-term development opportunity designed to help you grow into a Hardscape Foreman.
Required Experience
Applicants must have at least one of the following:
- Previous landscaping, hardscaping, or outdoor construction experience
- Experience safely operating landscaping or construction equipment
Applicants without relevant field experience or equipment knowledge will not be considered.
What You’ll Do
- Help build patios, walkways, retaining walls, steps, and outdoor spaces
- Assist with excavation, grading, drainage, and base preparation
- Move and install soil, gravel, stone, and other materials
- Safely use hand tools, power tools, compactors, and saws
- Operate equipment based on your demonstrated experience
- Assist with concrete, cutting, masonry, carpentry, and planting
- Load and unload trucks and trailers
- Keep job sites clean, organized, and safe
- Help the crew meet daily production and quality targets
- Participate in snow and ice operations during winter
- Accept increasing responsibility as your skills develop
Equipment Experience
Experience using any of the following is a strong advantage:
- Skid steer
- Mini excavator
- Dingo or compact utility loader
- Plate compactor
- Masonry or concrete saw
- Laser level
- Zero-turn mower
- Snowplow or salt spreader
- Pickup truck and trailer
- Common landscaping power tools
What You’ll Continue Learning
- Advanced patio and hardscape construction
- Excavation and base preparation
- Grading and drainage
- Concrete, cutting, and masonry
- Carpentry and outdoor structures
- Planting and horticulture
- Landscape lighting
- Truck, trailer, and equipment operation
- Snow and ice management
- Reading plans and calculating materials
- Crew leadership and project planning
You’ll Be a Good Fit If You
- Have landscaping, hardscaping, or construction experience
- Know how to safely use landscaping tools or equipment
- Show up on time and ready to work
- Can handle physically demanding outdoor work
- Follow safety procedures and instructions
- Ask questions and learn from mistakes
- Accept feedback without making excuses
- Take pride in completing work properly
- Want a long-term career—not temporary seasonal work
- Want to develop into a crew leader or foreman
A valid Ontario G driver’s licence and reliable transportation are strongly preferred.
Your Development Path
Year 1: Strengthen your knowledge of safety, tools, materials, and job-site fundamentals.
Year 2: Develop advanced grading, cutting, installation, and equipment-operation skills.
Year 3: Read plans and lead smaller parts of a project.
Year 4: Help coordinate team members, materials, production, and quality.
Year 5: Become ready to manage a hardscape crew.
Advancement is based on skill, reliability, productivity, quality, and leadership—not simply time on the job.
What We Offer
- CA$23–CA$26 per hour, based on experience
- Full-time, year-round work
- Hands-on training across multiple skilled trades
- A clear development path toward becoming a foreman
- Opportunities to operate trucks and equipment
- Winter work through our snow division
- Increasing responsibility and advancement
- A serious team that values growth, safety, and quality
Application Requirements
Please send:
- Your résumé
- A brief description of your landscaping or construction experience
- A list of the tools and equipment you can operate
Please also answer:
- How many years of landscaping, hardscaping, or construction experience do you have?
- Which landscaping or construction equipment can you operate safely?
- Have you built patios, walkways, retaining walls, or similar projects?
- Do you understand grading and base preparation?
- Do you have a valid Ontario G driver’s licence?
- Are you comfortable driving a pickup truck and trailer?
- Are you available for winter snow and ice operations?
- Why do you want to build a long-term career in landscape construction?
- Where do you want to be professionally in five years?
Ready to Step Up?
Call Pam at 365-909-0524 to schedule your interview.
Alternatively, email your résumé and equipment experience to [email protected].
Job type: Full-time
Work location: In person
Pay: $23.00-$26.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
