Are You Ready to Lead a Crew — Not Just Be On One?
Lawn Lad is looking for an experienced landscape professional who can lead a small maintenance crew, work alongside them, and take responsibility for the finished result.
Our longtime Maintenance Foreman recently retired after approximately 20 years with Lawn Lad, creating an opportunity for someone who wants a stable position with good equipment, year-round work, and room to grow.
We're not looking for an estate gardener or master horticulturist. We are looking for someone who knows professional landscape maintenance, works hard, operates equipment safely, treats people well, and can increasingly be trusted to run the day without someone standing over them.
If you're an experienced landscape employee who's ready for greater responsibility but haven't officially been called a foreman yet, we'd still like to hear why you're ready.
What You'll Be Responsible For
Lead and work alongside your crew. You'll organize the day's work, set an appropriate pace, provide direction and basic training, and make sure the crew works safely and productively.
Own the finished result. Before leaving a property, you'll make sure the work is complete—mowing, trimming, edging, beds, and cleanup. We expect professional, consistent work, not estate-level perfection.
Operate professional-grade equipment. You'll drive a dedicated Isuzu crew-cab landscape truck and operate commercial-grade landscape maintenance equipment. You'll also help less-experienced employees learn to use equipment properly.
Pay attention to the whole property. A good foreman notices things: wet turf that shouldn't be driven across, a declining plant, fallen limb, bare lawn area, beds needing mulch, or something else that needs attention. You don't need to know every answer—you need to notice and communicate what you see.
Represent Lawn Lad well. Our crews work on both residential and commercial properties, and you'll occasionally interact with homeowners, commercial site representatives, and the public. We want someone friendly, professional, and interested in leaving clients happy with the work we've performed.
The Experience We're Looking For
You should have hands-on professional experience with most normal landscape maintenance work, including:
- Professional mowing, line trimming, edging, and cleanup
- Spring and fall cleanups
- Bed maintenance and weeding
- Routine shrub trimming/shearing
- Basic pruning
- Professional-grade landscape equipment operation
- Landscape or work-truck operation
Experience with vegetation-control applications is valuable.
Advanced plant identification, advanced pruning, and extensive horticultural knowledge are not required. If you have those skills, we value them. If you want to learn them, even better.
The Person We're Looking For
Technical ability matters, but being a good foreman requires more than knowing how to run equipment.
We're looking for someone who can stay level-headed when the day doesn't go perfectly, patiently teach someone who's learning, work alongside the crew, respectfully address poor work, make reasonable field decisions, and communicate problems rather than ignoring them.
You should take pride in what the crew leaves behind and care whether the customer is happy with our work.
You don't have to be the loudest person on the crew. You do need to be someone others can respect and rely upon.
Why Lawn Lad?
Year-Round Stability — Full-time landscape-season work plus commercial snow and ice management. We don't plan seasonal layoffs.
Paid On Time, No Excuses — You receive the wages you've earned when they're due.
Premium Winter Earnings — Earn an additional $3–$5/hour during qualifying winter shifts, plus applicable overtime.
10,000 Sq. Ft. South Euclid Facility — Our organized shop sits on two acres and is centrally located to our Greater Cleveland service area.
More Than $1 Million Invested in Equipment — We invest in professional-grade equipment that reduces unnecessary physical labor and downtime.
Purpose-Built Maintenance Trucks — Dedicated Isuzu crew-cab landscape trucks with custom landscape bodies eliminate the need to tow a large trailer on normal maintenance routes.
On-Site Fueling & Organized Logistics — Spend less time chasing fuel, tools, and supplies and more time getting work accomplished.
Small-Company Environment — Your contribution is visible. Good ideas are welcome, and we're actively improving our systems, technology, training, and employee-development opportunities.
Compensation & Benefits
$21.00–$28.00/hour, based on demonstrated experience and capability, plus:
- $3–$5/hour qualifying winter shift premium
- Overtime when applicable
- 50% company-paid individual health insurance
- SIMPLE IRA with 3% company match
- Vacation/PTO
- Annual boot allowance
- Company-provided uniforms, PPE, and tools
- Continuing education and development opportunities
Basic Requirements
- Professional landscape maintenance experience
- Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record
- Ability to safely and confidently drive a landscape/work truck
- Ability to lift approximately 50 lbs. as required
- Ability to perform physical outdoor work in varying weather conditions
- Ability to use a smartphone/mobile app for job information, reporting, and photographs
- Availability for normal Monday–Friday landscape-season scheduling
- Availability for winter snow and ice operations
CDL, pesticide licensing, horticultural education, and industry certifications are positives but are not required.
Winter Work
Lawn Lad provides year-round employment.
During winter storm events, Foremen participate in commercial snow and ice management operations. Winter work includes premium hourly pay in addition to applicable overtime.
Before You Apply
Please answer all application questions completely.
We actually read your responses and use them as an important part of deciding whom we contact.
If a question doesn't apply to you, write “N/A” rather than leaving it blank.
If your resume doesn't show all of your relevant landscape experience, tell us about the missing experience in your answers.
If you don't meet every qualification but believe your experience makes you worth considering, tell us why.
Pay: $21.00 - $28.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Opportunities for advancement
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
Application Question(s):
- Do you have a valid driver's license with four or fewer points on your driving record?
If no, please explain.
- How many total years of professional landscape maintenance experience do you have, and what type of landscape work have you performed?
Please compare your answer with the work history shown on your resume. If some or all of your landscape experience is not shown on your resume, tell us where you gained that experience, approximately when and how long you worked there, and what work you performed.
If you don't have professional landscape experience, please say so and explain what other experience or skills you believe make you worth considering for this position.
- How much experience do you have as a foreman, crew leader, supervisor, or in another position where you were responsible for directing the work of others?
Tell us approximately how many people you typically led and what you were responsible for.
If you haven't formally led a crew but believe you're ready to, tell us why.
- Briefly describe your professional experience in each of the following areas:
Mowing/line trimming/edging; seasonal cleanups; bed weeding; shrub trimming/shearing; basic pruning; vegetation control; and professional-grade landscape equipment.
You don't need to be an expert in everything. Please identify areas where you have little or no experience as well.
- What trucks and professional-grade landscape equipment have you regularly operated for work?
Please include the approximate size/type of truck. Have you regularly driven a truck with a trailer? Do you have a CDL?
- Is there anything that would prevent you from regularly working approximately 7:45 a.m.–6:00 p.m., Monday–Friday, during the landscape season; participating in winter snow/ice operations; or performing physical outdoor work that includes lifting approximately 50 pounds?
If yes, please explain.
- A newer crew member keeps performing a task incorrectly after you've already shown them how to do it. What would you do next?
- Your crew has completed the scheduled work at a customer's property. As you're preparing to leave, you notice something that doesn't look right or something you think the customer may be unhappy with. What would you do?
- Why are you considering leaving your current or most recent employer, what interested you about this Lawn Lad opportunity, and what are you hoping to find in your next workplace?
- What haven't we asked that you think we should know about you? Tell us something that would help us understand why you could be a strong addition to Lawn Lad.
Work Location: In person
