Landscape Crew Leader

Title: Landscape Crew Leader

Pay Rate: $22.00/hr

Hours and Days: Monday - Friday 7am to 3:30 pm

Location: Front Royal, VA

Lifting Restrictions: Must be able to lift 35 lbs. repetitively.

Experience Required: 1-3 years

Responsibilities: Will include directing other employees to carry out tasks assigned by the foreman and manager. This is a working supervisor and will include mowing, mulching, planting sod, irrigation and spraying as needed.

Position Summary: The LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE CREW LEADER performs lawn maintenance and supervises the laborers on his/her crew according to specifications by performing the following duties, other duties may be assigned.

Core competencies:

• Ability to manage people to consistently maintain a very high level of quality in the landscape 

• Requires a proactive approach to managing all aspects of the job within the limits of authority

• Ability to manage the details of the day to day operations

• Customer centric, maintain excellent internal and external customer relations

• Be a solution provider 
  
  

Position Responsibilities: 

• The CREW LEADER ensures all equipment is loaded on the truck each morning and is responsible for inventory of the equipment and tools at the end of the day.

• Responsible to check that all tools are in safe working condition before assigning to crew members.

• May be responsible to monitor irrigation controllers.

• Responsible to inspect plants and turf for insects, and, or disease (IPM) and notify the Foreman of issues.

• Monitors time management during breaks.

• Required to be involved in the snow and ice removal program.

• Ensures all safety equipment is on vehicles and all equipment is functioning each day.

• Makes sure all crew members are working safely and are using safety equipment properly.

• May distribute granular fertilizers on lawn and in planting beds.

• Performs on-the-job equipment training for each crew member.

• Mows, performs leaf removal, trimming, edging and mulching.

• Completes any reports that are assigned relating to time and materials used.

• Notifies the mechanic of any vehicle problems.

• May operate heavy equipment including, but not limited to, bushhogs, tractors, and mowers.

• Tags any broken or unsafe equipment for the mechanic.

• Operates other equipment, such as blowers, weed-eaters, and trimmers.

• Keeps company vehicle clean.

• Transports tools, materials and other employees to and from job site.
  
  

Additional Job Functions

Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product, and suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of shop, department, or work crew.

May train new workers. 

Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervises 3-5 employees.  Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.  Responsibilities include instructing and training employees.

Position Qualifications/Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the

knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education and/or Experience: Minimum of 2 years experience in the landscape maintenance field.

• Language Skills: Must speak English and have the ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.  Ability to write simple sentence.

• Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. 

• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.  Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Must have a valid driver’s license issued from the state in which they reside.  The driving record must meet the standards in the Employee handbook.
  
  

Physical Demands: 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 regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee frequently is required to sit.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  On occasion, the employee may lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing 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 regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions (extreme heat and cold).  The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and vibration.  The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places.  The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

The Budd Group Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or regulation. #LI-DNI