Production Manager

J Sharp's Landscaping (Sharp's) seeks a highly motivated, experienced, and client-focused professional to join our growing Doylestown, PA, business as a Production Manager. 

Please note: This role requires full bilingual Spanish proficiency to effectively serve Sharp's diverse employee population. We value diversity and inclusion, and your ability to speak Spanish will be a significant contribution to our team. 

The Company 

Sharp's goal is to get the job done right and surpass client expectations. Our employees take pride in their work, whether mowing lawns or performing a multi-million-dollar installation job. The company's portfolio has changed from residential homes in Pennsylvania to clients that include major universities, hospitals, apartments, and office buildings.  

The Opportunity: 

The Production Manager (PM) is our field frontline crews' leader, ensuring job site quality and efficiency in a safety-focused environment. The Production Manager works closely with our account management team to deliver unparalleled service to our customers and their sites. The position oversees the development of monthly production planning, material procurement, and cost buying associated with this period. It is responsible for participating in the hiring and training of crew members. As a Production Manager, you'll:

• Understand client expectations and deliver through a quality assurance program for each job site
• Identify opportunities for more efficient processes to achieve gross margin targets
• Develop and maintain crew member relationships to ensure a positive and productive work environment as measured by crew member retention
• Mentor supervisors to train and develop crew members' talent and bench strength
• Schedule and review work tickets for accuracy and performance and create purchase receipts in Aspire
• Responsible for the successful onboarding of new crew members and overall crew member retention and engagement.
• Schedule and coordinate crews and job site maintenance objectives
• Perform informal and formal landscape quality audits to meet client and company standards
• Recommend enhancement and maintenance opportunities.
• Involvement in branch growth, participating in contract renewals
• Ensure profitability goals align with costs for subcontracted services, materials, equipment, projects, labor, crew member uniforms, personal protective equipment, etc.
• Responsible for hiring, coaching, counseling, performance management, assigning, and re-directing crew members' workload.

If this sounds exciting to you, we are seeking a leader with these qualifications:

• Five years of maintenance experience with an emphasis on exterior services or comparable work
• Exceptional interpersonal communication and relationship-building skills. 
• Strong organization and conflict management abilities 
• Capacity to make critical judgments, solve problems, and demonstrate careful attention to de

Physical Requirements and Working Environment/Conditions:

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

The physical activities of this position include:

• Balancing – Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling, walking, standing, or crouching
• Reaching – Must extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction
• Standing – Must be able to stand for sustained periods of time
• Walking—The person in this position needs to move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly long distances or moving from one location to another within the work site
• Use hands/fingers dexterity—Constantly Pick, pinch, and otherwise work, primarily with fingers rather than the whole hand as in handling
• Grasping – Must be able to apply pressure to an object with the fingers and palm
• Talking- The person in this position frequently communicates with the Crew Members, Crew Lead, Account Manager, and Clients. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken information accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Repetitive motion – Constant movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and fingers

The physical requirements of this position:

• Lifting – Must be able to move equipment and material weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Drivers – Requires good eyesight, hearing, and physical condition.
• The conditions the worker will be subject to in this position:
  • Work is performed primarily in a field environment, traveling from site to site.
  • Exposed to work in moving traffic areas.
  • Constant exposure to outside elements, e.g., heat or cold.

As a Sharp's Landscaping Production Manager, you will enjoy: 

• Competitive salary, plus a healthy performance and retention-based incentive program 
• Paid vacation and holidays 
• Company vehicle, laptop, and phone 
• Full suite of health insurance – medical, dental, vision, etc. 
• 401(k) with company match 
• Accelerated professional development opportunities. 
• Exceptional company culture