Job Description
Pay Scale: $18-$20 per hour
Benefits Available: Health Care, 401K, Paid Vacation, Professional Uniforms, Comprehensive Training For Career Advancement
Brief Overview: A Landscape Management Crew Leader, is a working team member that oversees, lawn mowing, clean-ups, mulching, trimming, landscape maintenance, pruning, trimming, fertilization, weed control, planting of trees and shrubs, flower installation, leaf clean-ups, and similar tasks.
Crew Leader (Landscape Management Operations) - Job Description
East Coast Facilities, Inc. provides facility maintenance to commercial, industrial, institutional, government and corporate clients. Our Crew Leaders are working foremen that take the lead in a Crew of up to 8 persons. This position reports to a Project Manager.
Trade Skill Requirements
- Able to effectively communicate in the English language
- Drive company vehicles as directed
- Operate various types of equipment and machinery associated with this job description
- Is a journeyman in one or more of the following job sub-categories:* Professional landscape maintenance operations
- Professional landscape construction services
- Landscape repairs, restoration, and remediation
- Licensed arbor care and tree trimming services
- Landscape irrigation repairs and maintenance
- Perform other assigned tasks related to landscape management
- Winter Season Operations* Plow snow using trucks or loaders
- Shovel snow using hand shovels or snow blowers
- Apply salt and other de-icing agents to paved surfaces
- Assist with pre-storm preparedness
- Assist with post-storm clean up and restocking
Company Excellence Requirements
Client Management
- Professionally represents East Coast Facilities, Inc. always.
- Able to respond properly to the client and follow up to make sure their needs have been completed to their satisfaction
- Able to recognize when they do not have the answer for the client and let them know they will find out or get the Project Manager involved
- Keeps the Project Manager aware of all client concerns and communication on the job site
- Maintains positive, responsive, and flexible attitude to all clients
- Inspects site and advises Project Manager of potential liabilities
Crew Supervision
- Ensures that the crew meets projected man hour and materials budgets on assigned work tickets
- Prepares and secures all materials, tools and equipment first thing in the morning for that day’s schedule
- Tops off with fuel, turns in paperwork to office, cleans service vehicle and prepares for next day’s activity
- Able to assign tasks to crew members (if applicable) and follow up to make sure that work was completed properly
- Insures that all crew members (if applicable) report to work on time and follow all company rules and procedures.
- Takes appropriate disciplinary actions as necessary and involves Project Manager when necessary
Crew Training
- Ensures crew members are trained on company safety policies
- Able to certify crews in the job tasks assigned to the Crew Leader
- Trains crew members (if applicable) to do job effectively and efficiently
- Able to cross train crew members in the performance of Crew Leader’s role for future growth
- Can effectively communicate in English and/or Spanish what is to be learned
Performance Reviews
- Able to evaluate the performance of the crew
- Able to assist the Project Manager in a performance review for crew members
- Able to monitor goals based on evaluation process
Safety Management
- Maintains and promotes safe working conditions in the field at all times
- Follows company procedures on discipline if any safety rules are broken
- Have zero preventable accidents
Image Compliance
- Maintains clean, neat, and professional image of service vehicle & trailer
- Ensure crew members maintain professional image using approved ECF uniforms and by monitoring & maintaining proper employee actions
Equipment Management
- Ensures all assigned equipment, tools, safety items, vehicles & trailers or other items are maintained in proper working order by following proper maintenance and inventory schedules
- Is accountable for neglect and abuse of assigned equipment
Administrative
- Able to read and write
- Can organize and implement work schedule
- Responsible for the following forms and procedures* Accident Reporting Forms
- Equipment Inventory Form
- Equipment Repair/Request
- As applicable – MR – FEP - ACP
- Monthly Vehicle Safety Inspection
- Quality Control Inspection Form
- As applicable - Irrigation IMR Form
- As applicable - Trailer Safety Inspection Form
General Qualifications
- Must be a journeyman in one or more of the job sub-categories listed above
- Able to operate a smart phone, send and receive emails, take digital photos
- Able to speak, read and write fluently in the English Language
- Have and hold a clean driver’s license
- Can pass drug test
- Can pass a criminal back ground check
- Comply with business ethics, applicable laws and regulation
- Maintain confidentiality of proprietary information
Work Environment/Physical Requirements
- Work in/or about situations near direct automotive traffic
- Work near or about natural bodies of water
- Work with various types of work lifts
- Able to work overtime or extended shifts if required by Management
- Ability to work in extreme conditions – working temperatures may be between 0 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit
- Ability to work in direct sunlight for extended periods of time
- Ability to work in extreme cold or wintry precipitation
- Ability to lift and carry 50 lbs.
- Ability to bend, stoop and twist continuously throughout the dayHow will my rate of pay be determined?
Each job category has a range of pay associated with it. Hiring managers have corporate guidance on assigning the appropriate rate of pay based on a variety of factors including:
- Years of proven experience for the job you are applying for
- If you qualify and meet our underwriting procedures to drive company vehicles
- Your knowledge and ability to operate equipment classes
- If you have special licensing, such as a CDL, Pesticide Applicators License, Tree Trimming License, ISA Arborist Certification, Lift Certification, etc.
- References of direct supervisors impact the rate of pay of new hires
- Hiring managers can rate match a recruited team member from a competitor
Job Tags
Hourly pay, Full time, Winter season, Gangs, Flexible hours, Shift work, Day shift,