Outdoor Grounds Technician

BrightView Landscapes; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 20,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health and wellness coverage

401k savings plan

Job summary

BrightView Landscapes is hiring for outdoor landscaping roles in Memphis. You will spend your day outside, caring for grass, trees, and client landscapes using mowers, blowers, clippers, and edgers.

You’ll join a team focused on safety and efficiency, with responsibilities from setup and cleanup to operating equipment and assisting climbers. A strong practical understanding of landscape basics helps. CDL and Spanish language skills are a plus.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years old and able to work outdoors.
• Able to lift 35–80 pounds regularly.
• Experience with landscaping basics is helpful.
• CDL is a plus.
• Bilingual (Spanish) a plus.

Responsibilities

• The many activities that make grass, flowers and client relationships bloom. Using a variety of equipment such as mowers, blowers, clippers, and edgers to create and prep soil for plant placement.
• Set up and clean up, and taking good care of our trucks and machinery.
• Working as part of a team.
• Setting up safety items including positioning cones and signs and roping or taping off crew work areas
• Handing tools to the climber and receiving tools from the climber using a rope to hoist them up into the tree
• Gathering branches into piles, transporting to the chipper, feeding them into the chipper and unloading tree trunks and chips at the appropriate facility
• Ensuring that all operations, job sites and employees are safe and that the general public which might come into contact with the area will be safe
• Communicating effectively with other crew members and the public

Skills

Outdoor work

Physical stamina

Teamwork

Safety awareness

Tools

Mowers

Blowers

Clippers

Edgers

Job description

BrightView Landscapes is hiring for outdoor landscaping roles in Memphis. You will spend your day outside, caring for grass, trees, and client landscapes using mowers, blowers, clippers, and edgers.

You’ll join a team focused on safety and efficiency, with responsibilities from setup and cleanup to operating equipment and assisting climbers. A strong practical understanding of landscape basics helps. CDL and Spanish language skills are a plus.