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Crew Leader Landscape Maintenance

Position Type: Full Time- Non-Exempt

Pay Range: $19 to $24 per hour

Location: Sterling, VA

Job Summary:

This role ensures top-notch landscaping maintenance services by prioritizing client satisfaction. The Crew Leader oversees crew members, ensuring quality service within budgeted hours. Responsibilities include crew supervision, adhering to client preferences, task coordination, and safety enforcement. Required skills include landscaping knowledge, safety consciousness, receptiveness to feedback, and attention to detail. Preferred qualifications include 3 years of landscape maintenance experience and a clean driver's license and proficiency with landscaping equipment. Join us to create stunning outdoor spaces while prioritizing client needs and safety.

About Rossen Landscape:

Rossen Landscape, based in Great Falls, Virginia, has become the premier comprehensive landscape company in the greater Washington DC metro area. Over the last 20 years in business, our mission has been to create environments that nurture and delight our team, clients, and community. We specialize in landscape services for the luxury market through thoughtful, sustainable solutions that maximize the natural outdoor environment for our clients. Join our growing and dynamic team to take your career to the next level!

Learn more about us at RossenLandscape.com

Key Responsibilities:

• LMA- Lead, Manage, and hold design-build crews Accountable to manage a crew of 2-4 laborers. Provides on site supervision of crew assignments. Trains the crew on the safe operation of equipment and proper horticultural practices
• Participate in Maintenance Production- Actively services annual landscape maintenance contracts and special projects for company clients. Is attentive to the clients’ needs and requests as detailed on the preferences list and communicates any concerns or questions related to the clients’ gardens to the operations manager.
• Time Keeping and Working Within Budget- Perform job tasks according to budgeted hours and materials. Record time and materials by task and job daily through Aspire.
• Completion of Specified Tasks- Coordinates with the Production Manager to complete the necessary assignments to achieve successful landscape maintenance projects.
• Follows Instructions- Listens to Production Manager instructions and provides quality landscape maintenance services and develops procedures to maximize efficiency and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Crew Safety- Ensures that the crew conducts our operations according to Company policies and OSHA standards. Enforces proper usage of relevant PPE for the specific task.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Basic knowledge of landscaping tools and equipment.
• Familiarity with lawn care techniques.
• Ability to work safely and with a sense of purpose (i.e., hard worker)
• Be receptive to feedback and coaching.
• Have the ability to follow instructions and pay attention to details.

Preferred Education/Certification/Experience:

• Experience in landscape maintenance and enhancement services (3 years).
• Valid Driver’s License (Clean Record).
• Bilingual (Spanish and English) is preferred.
• Experience in the landscape industry, including proficiency using the common equipment and machinery.

Core Values:

The ideal candidate aligns with our company’s core values:

• Drive
• Relationships
• Integrity
• Professionalism
• Safety

Benefits:

Join a company with a stellar reputation and market-leading compensation structure (base plus incentives) & benefits, including:

• Paid Time Off (Holidays, Vacation, & Wellness)
• Health Insurance, including Subsidized Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans
• 401(k) Plan with Company Match
• Sponsored Continuing Professional Education
• Employee Referral Program
• Career Advancement Opportunities
• Team Events, Contests, and Surprise & Delights

Physical Demands:

• Frequently stand, walk, or crouch on narrow and/or slippery surfaces.
• Stoop, kneel, and/or bend to pick up or move objects.
• Walking for long distances and on sloped ground and uneven surfaces.
• Move, lift, and carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Normal manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
• Corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• Smoke-free office, vehicles, and facilities.
• Substance-free workplace.
• Willingness and ability to work overtime during peak season and when the role requires it.

Working Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those our team members encounter while performing the various essential job functions of our business. Depending on your role, you may encounter any, all, or none of these conditions. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with varying abilities to perform essential functions. Our team members regularly work on-site at the client’s property to deliver our maintenance and/or construction services. As such, team members may be exposed to the following conditions, which are just a sampling and not intended to be a comprehensive list: moving mechanical parts, precarious places, fumes/airborne particles, outdoor weather, risk of electrical shock, etc. The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate to loud. Alternatively, while performing the duties of a job, the team member may work in an office setting where the noise is usually quiet to moderate. In all of our work environments, team members are required to operate in compliance with company safety policies, procedures, and applicable laws.

Rossen Landscape is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

For any inquiries regarding this job posting, please email hr@rossenlandscape.com. You may also call us and ask to speak to a member of our HR team at (703) 327-2284, x1002.