- Have you worked in the landscaping industry for 5 or more years at a supervisory level?
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Do you have experience reading blueprints, working with landscape designers and high-end customers?
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Are you a hands-on leader with experience DOING this work?
- If so, please keep reading…
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITYAs the company’s newest Landscape Manager, your primary goal is to make sure our clients are
thrilled with the work your team does.
The right person for this position is someone with
extensive landscaping, hardscaping and/or horticultural experience; someone who has
led a bilingual English/Spanish-speaking team and who wants to serve as “La Jefa” or “El Jefe.”
Ideally, she/they/he has worked on
horticulture-, landscape- and hardscape-related projects in Northern California and understands the equipment and crew needed to plant, maintain or remove a wide variety of species ranging from shrubs, hedges, and screens to perennials, grasses, flowers, and trees – AND how to build walkways, walls, retaining walls, etc.
Our new Landscape Manager will be an experienced mentor; someone who genuinely enjoys coaching, training, and celebrating the growth and success of their staff.
ABOUT US
Since 1980, The Professional Tree Care Company has been trusted for tree services throughout Northern California. Based in Berkeley, Ca, we service commercial, residential, and public works projects from Mendocino to Monterey, and from San Francisco to Sacramento.
What makes us unique? Aside from having the staff and equipment to take on tree work of any size, we recycle 100% of material removed from job sites at our own Green Waste Recycle Yard, (see greenwasterecycleyard dot com). We also mill logs into dimensional lumber, build outdoor furniture from logs, create wood chips, mulch, and electricity from mulch in cooperations with All Power Labs.
QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS-
Industry Experience. You have worked in the horticulture and/or landscaping industry for 5+ years, ideally as a Landscape Manager or Foreman/Foreperson
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People management skills and experience. You’re a natural mentor/trainer who enjoys helping others advance their professional careers by your efforts. You routinely give out praise with an “Atta boy!” or “’Atta girl!” when deserved, know how to give constructive criticism in private, value a culture of accountability and optimism in which everyone on the clock is as productive as possible
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Strong computer literacy with proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, etc.), familiar with calendar management, clerical tasks, and able to learn billing and timekeeping software. You will create your own estimates/bids and be responsible for delivering them to clients
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Communication skills. You enjoy communicating effectively and professionally with a wide variety of folks including clients, colleagues, and vendors. This including email team announcements in both English and Spanish. (Being bilingual is strongly preferred for this role.)
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Customer-facing experience. You’ve worked with clients, homeowners, contractors, sub-contractors, etc. and enjoy establishing rapport
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Hardworking. The person we hire will always be available by phone as needed, especially, during fire season
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Likeable. You have a long list of clients and former co-workers who think you’re an awesome person
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Physically fit and able to hustle. Our LM must be able to work at a brisk pace at least 6+ hours per day. They must also be able to ascend/descend stairs, tromp through forests, vineyards, and/or wilderness to evaluate projects, and lift equipment that weighs +/-40 pounds onto truck beds
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Sense of humor. When projects get stressful, we’ll rely on your corny jokes to break the tension. We’ll also reply on your strong EQ (Emotional Intelligence)
- ABW/Always Be Working. The candidate we hire is someone who moves quickly, gets a great deal of work done, and uses software or a demonstrated system to track tasks/daily to-dos. They have a good sense of what it takes to keep an entire team running efficiently and know when to request assistance
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Clean CA DL You have a clean and current California Driver’s License and will be able to drive a company vehicle to job sites. Experience hauling a trailer is a plus
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Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
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Local. Living within a 45-minute commute of the GreenWasteRecycleYard (dot) com @ 2550 Garden Tract Rd., Richmond, CA. You’re a.m. arrival time will be +/- 6:00 a.m.
BONUS POINTS FOR-
Being bilingual English/Spanish
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Knowing residential IRRIGATION systems: multiple manifold systems designed for the landscaping your team installs.
- Hands-on HARDSCAPING experience: rock walls, walkways, retaining walls, gravel pathways
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General CONSTRUCTION experience: able to build a deck, electrical wiring basics
- Experience using CAD or another design software used in the landscape industry
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Experience with Microsoft Project or another project scheduling software that can be used for tree care projects
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Having a better than average memory is a HUGE plus
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College degree is a plus. Especially, construction management, accounting, or business. Please highlight your education to indicate when you graduated, and the degree earned, if any
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE-
Manage. Serve as your team’s point of contact for our clients, landscape foreman/fore-people, the billing/job costing group, arborists/estimators, your recruiting team, our residential scheduler, Director of Field Operations or GM, and President/CEO.
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Line your crew out daily: Meet them each morning to outline the day’s work. Produce and distribute work production/progress reports to foremen/fore-people
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Mentor and train the staff you oversee; provide weekly positive feedback for jobs well done, and determine what went wrong when projects went over time or over budget
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Train staff on plant identification, pruning techniques, fertilization practices and P.H.C. (Plant Health Care) solutions that may include low-toxicity pesticides
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Lead safety meetings and serve as the point-person for field-related training
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Sell. Visit client’s properties throughout the Greater Bay Area as assigned by our Scheduler to develop project estimates, maintenance contracts, and special projects bids
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Learn about the East Bay’s Fire Hazard Zones and create bids for upcoming projects
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Work alongside our Plant Health Care Specialist to ensure you are up to date on the most recent non-toxic solutions we have to offer
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Walk clients through solutions to landscaping issues and/or proactively suggest P.H.C. (Plant Health Care) measures that could solve their issues
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Collaborate w/HR and people-related support: Interview crew candidates, write performance reviews, coach team members who are lacking specific hard or soft skills, and serve as the point-person for all H.R. or payroll-related issues including helping train crew to use the time-keeping application on their phone. Collaborate with our Accounting/Billing team on a weekly basis to increase billing efficiency
- Brainstorm with Marketing. This is an exciting time in a burgeoning industry. We’d love to hear what is working well for the landscaping company you’re currently/recently with
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Take on special projects. Work with our President/CEO as needed
Who Should NOT APPLY:-
Folks who do not have either: 1) LANDSCAPING industry experience, 2) HARDSCAPING experience, or 3) HORTICULTURAL experience.
- Anyone living farther than 45 minutes away from our site at 2550 Garden Tract Road, Richmond, CA
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Late night-ers. Your start time is 6:15 a.m. on site, so you’ll need to arrive by +/- 6:00 A.M. and may need to hold phone meetings with our CEO even earlier
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People who do not have a CURRENT and CLEAN CALIFORNIA driver’s license, cannot drive or don’t have transportation to remote sites: forests, fields, streams, etc.
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Anyone uncomfortable using a port-a-potty as their primary loo
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS-
Base salary of $105,000.00 to $120,000 salary based on
- Company vehicle, gas card, phone, laptop, and gear
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Immediately: Participation in our 401(k) program, worker’s compensation and auto insurance
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After 90 days of employment:
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Medical, dental, and optical insurance paid at 100%
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5 Paid holidays
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5 Paid sick days
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Paid time off. PTO is earned as one goes.
Schedule:-
+/-9-hour shifts: 6:00 a.m. to +/- 3:00 p.m.
- Monday through Friday. Rare weekends
