Landscaper (Houston, TX)

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• Summary: We are searching for a talented and dedicated landscaper to join our team. You will perform a range of general lawn maintenance duties including applying fertilizers, maintaining the landscape design, removing weeds and dead plants, and repairs.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Here’s what you’d do:

• Mows lawns and trims grass around walks, flower beds, trees and walls.
• Trim overgrown limbs, hedges, and leaves.
• Removes fallen or damaged leaves, branches, and twigs using mowers and other hand and power tools.
• Lays out and maintains flower beds, mulch beds, or other decorative vegetation.

Safety:

• · Ensuring all crew members perform their work safely and in accordance with company policies.
• · Ensuring equipment is in good working order and receives appropriate preventative maintenance.
• · Logging equipment usage and maintenance cycles

Competencies:

• · Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• · Exceptional customer service skills
• · Effective decision making and problem-solving skills
• · Results oriented; ability to adhere to schedules
• · Demonstrated ability to lead people and get results
• · Inspires and motivates others to perform well and accepts feedback well

Experience:

Experience: 2+ years landscape-related field

Physical Requirements and Work Content:

Americans with Disability Specifications: 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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, move, operate with hands and arms, and lift up to 50 pounds. The employee is regularly required to use hands to operate or feel objects, tools or controls, communicate, distinguish or identify, adjust or focus.

Work Environment:

Americans with Disability Specifications: 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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, move, operate with hands and arms, and lift up to 50 pounds at times. The employee is regularly required to use hands to operate equipment, tools or controls, communicate, distinguish or identify, adjust or focus.

Additional Comments:

These declarations are not to be an “all-inclusive” list of the duties and responsibilities nor of the skills and abilities required to do the job. They are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and a reasonable representation of its activities. Additional essential functions and/or tasks may be identified by the company and listed as such in the incumbent’s performance appraisal. Various tasks may be assigned under each task or function. The incumbent performs other job-related duties as assigned and required. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” employment relationship. EOE, including disability / vet