Grow LA’s Resilience – and Your Own!
This is a role leading a team that reshapes lives and beautifies Los Angeles. You’ll be appreciated for your ability to solve clients’ challenges,and lead teams’ onsite work. You will ensure your gardens and your team members reach their full potential. Several times a day, you and your team will feel pride as you look back on spaces made more beautiful, that day, and year over year, by your attentive care.
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Job Description
Our maintenance foremen lead maintenance teams onsite. They learn clients’ interests and preferences and develop plans and practices for each garden. Foremen schedule team members, organize work onsite, ensure team members have the tools they need, and help team members learn new skill sets. They also work side-by-side with their teams in garden.
We need you to bring:
- Excellent client communication skills
- The ability to motivate and manage a team
- An attention to detail and willingness to learn
- Horticultural care expertise – particularly if you know native plants
- Understanding of smart irrigation technology
You will:
- Be provided with the tools, equipment and PPE you and your team need to safely do your best job at every task
- Represent our company to those who approach you and your team
- Take pride in and responsibility for the growth of each garden in your team’s care
- Create quality care photo books and punch lists to set team goals
- Report all client and garden needs daily through the clock shark tool
- Suggest plant replacements, tree trimming, mulch or other upgrades to improve the aesthetic of the project overall to maintenance care managers
- Deliver seasonal tasks in addition to standard, year-round maintenance tasks
- Identify and communicate ways to improve company efficiency through all processes
- Abide by rigorous health and safety standards and ensure team members do as well
On average day as a maintenance team foreman, you will work hand-in-hand with your team as they:
- Dig
- Plant
- Rake
- Sweep
- Water
- Weed
- Manage low-flow, subsurface drip irrigation and weather-based controllers
- Manage landscape lighting systems
- Move and reshaping soil
- Use hand and/or power tools and/or equipment to perform a wide range of duties
You’ll like this job if you enjoy jobs where you:
- Like to see the results of your work and feel accomplishment several times per day
- Work outside, sometimes in high-heat and/or other adverse weather conditions
- Work sometimes alone, sometimes with a team
- Bend, move, stoop, and twist continually throughout the day
- Often hear birdsong and see wildlife
Job Requirements
- Locations: LA County, Multiple Locations (Required)
- Work Authorization: US (Required)
- Experience: Construction: 2 years (Preferred), Management: 1 year (Preferred)
- Languages: English (Preferred)and Spanish (Preferred)
- Licenses: California Driver’s License (Preferred), California Native Plant Landscapers Certification (Preferred)
Benefits
Because we value your health and that of all Angelenos, you will not engage in many activities common in the landscape maintenance industry. For example, you will NOT:
Build your success with us. Benefits of this position include:
- Job Type: Full-Time
- Pay: $20.00 – $21.50 per Hour (38,000-41,280 Annually)
- Schedule: 8 hour shift, Monday to Friday (No Weekends)
- Supplemental Pay: Overtime, Bonus Pay, Signing Bonus
- Health Insurance
- Retirement: 401(k), Employer Contributions
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Additional: Paid Training, Referral Program
COVID-19 considerations
We value your health, and our sustainable practices will protect it. Beyond that, we also keep the highest safety standards and were among the first businesses to earn LA County Public Health’s Covid-19 Safety Compliance Certificate.