Landscape Lead

The Landscape Lead is responsible for providing and overseeing the crew laborer on their route and completing regularly scheduled landscape maintenance service within an established route daily to quality standards. They will work closely with Field supervisor to meet and exceed customer site expectations. Assist in training and educating Landscape crew laborers. Employees will be expected to perform all aspects of landscape maintenance and other services such as planting, leaf removal, hardscape, and winter services. An eye for detail is necessary. They must be reliable, responsible, and have a strong work ethic.

Job Duties:

1. Assure that route is completed according to quality standards and determined timelines.
2. Assures preventative maintenance is occurring on Trucks, Tools, and equipment assigned to their team.
3. Plant/Tree maintenance to include pruning, trimming, deadheading.
4. Turf Maintenance - Mowing, Edging, blowing.
5. Outdoor watering techniques for plants
6. Clearing of landscape and other debris from landscape beds, raking, manual, and mechanical weed control
7. Knowledge of fertilizers and some herbicides
8. General shrub and flower planting knowledge
9. Apply pesticides and fertilizers as determined by management.
10. Complete irrigation system turns on/offs
11. Other Tasks as requested by management.  

Benefits:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance available
2. 401K with matching program
3. Holiday Pay at 1.5 times the normal rate if the employee must work holiday.
4. PTO (Paid Time Off) – one hour for every 40 worked your first two years, 2 hours for every 40 worked years three and four, 3 hours for every 40 worked from year five on.
5. Ability to participate in the safety bonus program

Differential Pay:

1. Pesticide $1.00 per hour additional while completing pesticide work orders
2. Irrigation $1.00 per hour additional while completing irrigation work orders

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

Walking

7 or more hours

Bending at waist

8 or more hours

Bending at knee

6 or more hours

Kneeling

4 or more hours

Reaching above head

4 or more hours

Twisting at waist

6 or more hours

Standing

8 or more hours