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Company Summary & Role Overview
Peter Majo Home & Garden Landscaping is a premier regional landscape contractor specializing in custom design, high-end hardscape and softscape installations, and meticulous ongoing property maintenance. We are seeking an experienced, highly skilled Senior Landscaping Field Foreman to lead our growing field operations.
The ideal candidate will confidently supervise and coordinate a dedicated crew of field laborers, execute modern layout low-voltage landscape lighting, construct structural hardscapes, and ensure projects meet strict corporate and client standards.
Location: North Vancouver, BC, V7M 1B6
(With travel to various job sites across the Lower Mainland)
Hourly rate: $38.40 hour
Vacancies 1 Vacancy
Terms of Employment Full-time (40 hours / week)
Start Date: As soon as possible
Work Setting: Landscape Contractor (Residential, Commercial, Strata, Parks & Sports fields)
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise, train, and coordinate the daily activities, schedules, and safety protocols of a dedicated field crew of landscape laborers and technicians.
- Plan and estimate the materials, labor, and equipment requirements for individual landscaping contracts and day-to-day site operations.
- Establish work schedules and procedures, and coordinate physical site activities with operational managers and external subcontractors.
- Resolve work-related problems, address site inefficiencies, and prepare and submit daily progress reports to company management.
- Requisition supplies, tools, and plant materials required for daily project execution.
- Enforce safety regulations and ensure all field operations and physical structures flawlessly meet rigid company safety policies and provincial compliance standards.
- Consult professionally with clients and operations managers regarding field planning, progress, design adjustments, and botanical selections.
- Technical Installation & Hands-On Supervision (May perform same duties as supervised)
- Blueprint Interpretation: Accurately read, interpret, and translate complex landscape blueprints, structural scales, and technical layout designs into precise field construction configurations.
- Hard Landscaping Execution: Direct and oversee the construction of highly durable structural driveways, pathways, stairs, patios, and decks. Hands-on management of interlocking brick, fieldstone paths, concrete pouring, and structural stone/retaining walls.
- Soft Landscaping & Vegetation: Coordinate precise botanical installations, including strategic plant layout configurations, moving and planting heavy specimen trees, and maintaining private and public turf/gardens.
- Oversee and coordinate the layout of complex boulder arrangements, natural stone steps, and custom rock gardens.
- Irrigation Grid Oversight: Direct the overhaul, troubleshooting, and repair of existing strata irrigation grids; trace low-voltage 24V field wiring faults, service two-wire decoder systems, install master valves, and assemble professional manifolds.
- Smart Automation & Diagnostics: Program and calibrate digital cloud-based irrigation controllers (e.g., Hydrawise, Hunter, Rain Bird) to manage multi-zone water budgeting in alignment with Metro Vancouver municipal water restrictions.
Landscape Lighting Systems: Oversee layout, zoning, and professional installation of energy-efficient low-voltage (12V–24V) outdoor landscape lighting networks. Ensure precise voltage-drop calculations across long runs and integrate wiring paths seamlessly into structural hardscapes.
Employment Requirements
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate is required.Experience: Minimum of 3 to 5 years of proven, progressive, and verifiable experience in professional hardscape/softscape installation, low-voltage outdoor systems, and irrigation management. Experience in a leadership, supervisor, foreman, or lead-hand role in the landscaping industry is required. Understanding of landscape lighting design concepts and the ability to utilize a digital multimeter to accurately diagnose field voltage drops, line shorts, or poor connections.
Experience and specialization
- Backhoe
- Chain saw
- Forklift
- Front end loader
- Pick-up truck
- Small engine equipment
- Sod cutter
- Tractor
- Tractor mower
- Skidsteer
Language: English
- Computer Knowledge: Basic operational knowledge of MS Word and MS Outlook (or mobile equivalents) for submitting field reports and email communications.
- Work Conditions & Physical Capabilities
- Physical Fitness: Physically demanding role requiring high manual dexterity, repetitive tasks, handling of heavy loads, and acute attention to detail. Demands a constant combination of sitting, standing, walking, bending, crouching, and kneeling.
Work Site Environment: The vast majority of work is done outdoors in highly diverse weather conditions (including extreme cold, rain, and hot summer weather) and frequently loud, noisy environments.
- Own Tools & Safety Equipment: Candidates are required to provide their own basic hand tools, steel-toed safety boots, certified hard hat, safety glasses/goggles, working gloves, and protective ear plugs.
How to Apply: Please submit your application packet including a detailed resume and proof of experience through either method below:
By Email: [email protected]
By Mail: 306 West 1st Street, Suite 307, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 1B6
Pay: $38.40 per hour
Work Location: In person
