Maintenance Team Leader

Christine's Touch Gardening Ltd; Toronto; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A residential gardening service in Toronto is seeking a dedicated maintenance Team Leader to oversee a garden maintenance route. You will lead a team to ensure high-quality results and client satisfaction, while fostering a positive team environment. The ideal candidate will have experience in garden and turf maintenance, leadership skills, and a strong commitment to detail and quality work.

Qualifications

• Eagerness to be helpful and humble.
• Desire to learn from others.
• Physical fitness, strength, and agility for a demanding role.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of maintenance techs.
• Ensure gardens look their best on maintenance route.
• Communicate proactively with clients and business owners.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

People skills

Improvisation

Education

Formal or informal education/training in horticulture

Tools

Commercial vehicles

Job description

As our new maintenance Team Leader, your goal is to own a residential garden maintenance route. You’ll lead a team of maintenance techs to ensure each garden on your route looks its absolute best.

You’ll be great at this role because you’re attentive and meticulous, noticing every detail in the gardens under your care. When there’s room to improve something, you communicate proactively with your clients and business owners, to ensure every client is totally delighted with their garden.

Leaders that belong on our team have innate intelligence, great people and organizational skills, and thrive on improvising to get the job done. You inspire and model professionalism and quality work for your team. You know what tools and training they need to perform their best. You take pride in knowing that your team enjoys coming to work each day and that your support is a big reason why.

Qualifications

The most essential qualifications are an eagerness to be helpful, a sense of humility, and the desire to learn from others. In addition, these qualifications will help you stand out :

• Experience in garden and turf maintenance
• Experience as a leader of people and teams
• Physical fitness, strength and agility. It can be a physically demanding role.
• Any formal or informal education / training in horticulture is an asset
• G driver’s license and experience driving commercial vehicles preferred