Landscaping Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

seasonal opportunity-40 hours a week

Looking for a place where you can thrive and grow?

GreenWorks landscape technicians are responsible for maintaining and enhancing outdoor spaces, ensuring that landscapes are visually appealing, healthy, and environmentally sustainable. A Landscaping specialist is responsible for providing aeration services that improve soil health and promote healthy grass growth by using specialized equipment to perforate the soil, allowing better air, water, and nutrient flow to plant roots. Duties can include performing lawn aeration services, 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.

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.
• Use lawn aeration and overseeding equipment
• Clean up debris in flower beds and leaves on lawns
• Job requires ability to work with hand tools, small and large engine equipment
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs. repeatedly through an entire work shift.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Work with and near heavy equipment and other vehicles on a regular basis

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

• The ability to run various types of equipment, who enjoys heavy lifting in various weather conditions.
• Horticulture/Arboriculture Trade Certification a bonus
• Must be able to operate equipment safely.
• 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.
• 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. 

Thrive is an equal opportunity employer and a Drug Free Workplace

This position pays $18-22/hr.