Garden Maintenance Crew Member

Job Overview

This position entails daily yard and garden maintenance for our commercial and residential maintenance customers. This role requires regular communication with the Maintenance Production Manager and Crew Leader to ensure all responsibilities and work performed is done to Company and industry standards. The right candidate will be detail oriented and have a passion for maintaining beautiful, ecological landscapes within a growing Company. 

Responsibilities and Duties

  • Meet with the Maintenance Manager to discuss daily/weekly maintenance customers.

  • Maintain institutional gardens as well as residential gardens and landscapes.

  • Maintenance responsibilities include, but not limited to, weeding, pruning, harvesting, use of gas-powered equipment and applying insect/weed controls per client contracted needs.

  • Ensure proper tools and materials are available and onsite for each job.

  • Maintain a high level of tidiness and professionalism at job sites and throughout the community.

Qualifications

  • Experience maintaining vegetable gardens and/or landscape management experience is preferred. 

  • Knowledge of organic gardening, herbicides and pesticides a plus.

  • Ability to lift and move 50 lbs repetitively.

  • Position is full-time requiring extended periods of standing/walking/kneeling outside in the day-to-day elements.

Salary & Benefits

  • Four Day Work Week: Position is full-time, Monday-Thursday 7:00am-5:00pm (Friday as needed when rain-outs occur)

  • Starting pay $16/hour, dependent on experience. 

  • 3 weeks paid vacation accrued; Company Simple IRA available; Training Certifications