Enhancement Crew Leader

Description

Job Summary

The Enhancement Crew Leader is responsible for leading a team of 2-6 people performing a wide range of landscaping duties to enhance and maintain commercial properties. This includes sod installation, planting, pruning, irrigation, hardscape installation, and other property enhancement tasks. The role requires the use of hand tools, power equipment, and occasional light construction duties.

This role reports directly to the Enhancement Manager

Core Values

1. Culture of Safety – Safety is always job #1
2. A Growing Tradition Plants, Personally, Financially and Professionally
3. Employee Owned – Personal Pride in Success with an Owners Mentality
4. Exceptional Customer Experience – Delighting our Clients with our Products and Services
5. Good Neighbors – Community Pride – Sharing our Success
6. Respectability – Treating Others as we want to be treated

Duties/Responsibilities

•  Train and mentor crew members to promote skill development and team performance with a strong emphasis on safety
•  Coordinate with supervisor on scheduled jobs
•  Ensure proper materials are gathered/prepared and loaded for the day’s task
•  Direct, assist, transport, & supervise your team during activities that may include installation of lawns & flower beds, installation of landscape lighting, cleaning up work sites, installation of water features, installation of masonry stone & pavers, installation of retaining walls
•  Assist with maintenance of seasonal services as needed, perform minor repairs & maintenance procedures on equipment utilized in grounds keeping
•  Reads and conveys information from sets of blueprints
•  Ensure safety of crew and equipment operation
•  Efficiency and client standards are attained
•  Conducting site inspections, provide hands-on leadership, and provide guidance for soil, planting, watering, and insect control
•  Maintains schedules, and reviews charts and reports
•  Landscape and plant material installation, flowerbed cultivation, flowerbed design layout and prep, tree and shrub pruning and shearing
•  Standard landscape maintenance techniques required for mowing, trimming, mulching, pruning and clean-up
•  Any other duties assigned

Requirements

Required Skills/Abilities

•  Knowledge of safe operation of landscape and maintenance equipment
•  Strong organizational, leadership, and communication skills
•  Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred but not required
•  Ability to read blueprints and other instructions in English
•  Knowledge of plant material, and horticultural practices
•  Works well in a crew/team environment
•  Excellent customer service skills

Education and Experience

•  HS Diploma or equivalent
•  1-year of commercial landscape and install experience preferred
•  1-year (minimum) experience managing 2+ person crew

Physical Requirements

•  Outdoor work environment in varying weather conditions.
•  May require lifting up to 50 lbs and working with tools or machinery.
•  Exposure to machinery, dirt, and dust
•  May require occasional overtime, including weekends
•  May require travel to outside locations and overnight stays

This Job Description is not a complete statement of all duties and responsibilities comprising the position.

Job descriptions are not intended and do not create employment contracts.