Landscaping Construction Crew Leader

Default Brand; Vineyard Haven (MA); On-site; USD 41,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental benefits

Sign-on bonus up to $3,000

Job summary

SavATree is looking for landscape technicians to maintain and enhance outdoor spaces, ensuring landscapes are visually appealing, healthy, and environmentally sustainable on client properties. You will apply your knowledge of plants, turf, and design to create functional spaces and thriving landscapes.

This role involves outdoor work with heavy lifting and equipment operation, and requires a valid driver’s license and 1–2 years of hands-on lawn care experience.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years hands‑on experience in lawn care maintenance and turf application
• Knowledge of plants, trees, and grasses for growing, pruning and fertilizing shrubs and lawns
• Valid driver's license required

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance outdoor spaces to ensure landscapes are visually appealing, healthy and sustainable
• Design gardens, walkways, sitting areas, bridges and other functional outdoor features
• Apply expertise to ensure ongoing health and beauty of client landscapes
• Operate or supervise use of landscape equipment safely in various weather conditions
• Collaborate with team to meet client needs and uphold safety standards

Skills

Landscape maintenance

Equipment operation

Communication skills

Driver's license

Education

Horticulture/Arboriculture background

Tools

Lawn care equipment

Skid steers & loaders

Job description

Looking for a place where you can thrive and grow?

SavATree's landscape technicians are responsible for maintaining and enhancing outdoor spaces, ensuring that landscapes are visually appealing, healthy, and environmentally sustainable. They use their knowledge of aesthetics to creatively design gardens, walkways, sitting areas, bridges, and other functional aspects of outdoor areas. Duties can include making sure plants grow well in their assigned area as well as cleaning up debris around yards and other areas.

In this role you will have you will have the opportunity to work outside on beautiful properties in your community, You will apply your expertise to ensure the on-going health, beauty and well-being of each client’s landscape.

Pay is between $30-$38/hr based on experience + benefits + PTO + 401k. Qualified candidates may be eligible for a sign-on bonus of up to $3,000, determined by experience and credentials at time of hire.

What a day is like:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Requires frequent standing, kneeling, walking, pulling, reaching, stooping and bending.
• Requires walking primarily on uneven turf or rocky areas while on job sites.
• May be exposed to moderate to loud work environments. These areas will require the use of personal protective equipment such as hearing protection.
• Will be exposed to dust, dyes, grease, odors, mechanical and electrical hazards, and all types of weather and temperature conditions.
• Job requires ability to work with hand tools, small and large engine equipment, skid steers, and loaders.
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs. repeatedly through an entire work shift.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent stamina is required.
• Work with and near heavy equipment and other vehicles on a regular basis

What kind of person are we looking for? Someone with:

• A desire to grow, craves opportunity, loves problem solving and process improvement.
• The ability to run various types of equipment, who enjoys heavy lifting in various weather conditions.
• A Degree in Turf, Entomology, Plant Sciences, Horticulture, or equivalent experience
• 1-2 years of hands‑on experience in lawn care maintenance and turf application
• Horticulture/Arboriculture Trade Certification a bonus
• Knowledge of plants, trees, and grasses in growing, pruning, and fertilizing shrubs, lawns, bushes, trees, and flowers
• Minimum 2 years of experience in landscape related field
• Must be able to operate equipment safely.
• The responsibility and independence to work autonomously.
• Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills to understand and meet client needs.
• Valid driver's license

Why you might love working here:

• We have lots of training and development opportunities and will support your continuing education in the industry.
• You’ll work alongside some of the best trained and equipped teams in the industry, with an emphasis on quality and safety.
• We’re collaborative, so you’ll have the ability to connect and collaborate with people in experts in the field.
• We offer a competitive salary and benefits, including health and dental, paid time off, vehicle program, and a matched 401(K)
• The opportunity to advance your knowledge in the field as well as in the company.

Physical demands of this role:

These physical demands described must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of the job, the employee is subject to frequently lift and/or move up to fifty (50) pounds.

We want everyone to be able to identify and achieve their own version of success, which means giving each employee the room and opportunity to grow. To ensure that everyone has the best chance to succeed, we invest heavily in training and continuing education. We make it easy for you to reach out and get the help you need, even when it’s from the other side of the country. This means actively fostering a collaborative culture where we come together to learn from each other and help each other succeed. We pride ourselves on creating an environment where each employee has the resources and opportunities to advance his or her career and become a go-to subject matter expert. That’s why we often say that when you work here, you thrive here.

SavATree is an equal opportunity employer and a Drug Free Workplace

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