Mentor - Landscaping (Edmonton, AB)

Boardwalk provides Canadians with a quality, comfortable, home living experience. We offer rental apartments and townhouses that come in a wide breadth of shapes, sizes and sets of amenities. We operate 33,000 units across Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Quebec.

Boardwalk recognizes our Associates as our most valuable asset. We are proud to provide competitive wages, profit-sharing, and amazing benefits like flexible group medical and dental, fitness reimbursement, training and development, group RRSP matching, rental discounts, and more.

Responsibilities:

• Assist lead landscapers with L2 interviews
• Meet with all new Associates on their first day of work
• Conduct hands-on training with all new Associates, following mentorship training guides
• Conduct all technical and equipment related training with new associates, both Dayforce and on site practical
• Provide ongoing feedback to Associates during training including face to face and written testing
• Conduct additional formal training as needed
• Follow-up with new Associates on a weekly basis
• Continue to be available as a resource to new Associates after training is complete
• Provide feedback to Leader on new Associate training
• Provide Leader with updates regarding the necessity of additional training or recertification
• Conduct necessary retraining with existing Associates
• Develop training guides or procedure manuals per Leader / Human Resources requests
• Ongoing review and implementation of improvements to mentorship program
• Liaise and participate with Human Resources / Leaders regarding the effectiveness of mentorship program
• Conduct landscape shed and equipment inspections, providing feedback to leader and landscape coordinator
• Make recommendations to leader on equipment type and placement as needed
• Assist with L2 and L3 coverage as needed
• Oversee landscape shared equipment, updating spreadsheet, delivering equipment as required and monitoring need/ utilization as well as looking for other items that would be beneficial (and cost effective)

Experience and Educational Requirements:

• Post Secondary Education preferred
• Boardwalk Experience in necessary positions

Technical Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of tools, parts, equipment types and maintenance/ operation
• Strong knowledge of Boardwalk applications - BPMS, BPMS Mobile, and BOSS
• Familiarity with computer tablets, and ability to train on use, is an asset

Non-Technical Requirements:

• Ability to communicate effectively in English both written and oral
• Dedicated to building better communities for all our Customers and surrounding communities
• Able to troubleshoot site/equipment technical issues
• Exceptional organizational, interpersonal and time-management skills
• Experience dealing with day-to-day business operations
• Deadline and goal oriented
• Exceptional team building and leadership skills, including ability to motivate and lead other Associates in a team environment
• Ability to work independently and with other Associates in a team environment
• Ability to create trust and build lasting business relationships
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize workload, and the workloads of others
• Eager to take on new challenges and to challenge the status quo of doing things
• Must have vehicle and clean driving record
• Willing to travel
• Participate in additional formal training

Additional Details:

• Valid driver license
• On-call overtime required

Interested applicants are invited to submit a cover letter and resume.

We would like to thank you in advance for your application, however, only those candidates who are being considered will be contacted. Offers of employment will be contingent on satisfactory Security Background Checks, Reference Checks, and Post-offer/Pre-employment Physical Testing where applicable.

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Ready to shape the future of our communities? Come work with us and learn where doing what you love means never working a day in your life!

Deeply rooted in family spirit and humility, Boardwalk's five core values of integrity, associates, teamwork, customer service and social responsibility are more than just words - they are a way of life. Coupled with our Golden Foundation of 'treat others as you would like to be treated,' 'be good,' 'love community' and 'have fun,' we believe in happiness and creating the most memorable experiences for both our Associates and Resident Members, continually looking for new and innovative ways to enhance and strengthen all our Boardwalk communities.

We hope these values speak to you as they speak so meaningfully to us!

As we continue to grow, we remain unwavering in our commitment to providing Resident Members with the best quality rental communities. This same commitment means Boardwalk is always seeking individuals who have a positive attitude, are energetic and passionate, self-driven, productive, have the capacity to deliver high-quality results and who believe in the power of teamwork.

Together, with you as part of our team, we will continue to create meaning every day for those who choose to call Boardwalk home.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment Statement

We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse team that will honour and celebrate your experiences, perspectives and unique identity regardless of age, ethnicity, race, colour, abilities, religion, socio-economic status, culture, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Together, our communities strive to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

We believe every Associate in our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of values, customs and experience to better understand and engage with the world around us, identify challenges, so as to discover, design and deliver solutions together.