Enhancement Laborer

Description

Job Summary 

The Enhancement Laborer is responsible for using hand and/or power tools or equipment to perform a wide range of landscape duties. The most common duties will be laying sod, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, racking, and all other property enhancement duties as assigned. 

Core Values 

1. Culture of Safety – Safety is always job #1 

1. A Growing Tradition Plants, Personally, Financially and Professionally 

1. Employee Owned – Personal Pride in Success with an Owners Mentality 

1. Exceptional Customer Experience – Delighting our Clients with our Products and Services 

1. Good Neighbors – Community Pride – Sharing our Success 

1. Respectability – Treating Others as we want to be treated 

Supervisory Responsibilities 

• None 

Duties/Responsibilities 

• Using hand and/or power tools or equipment to perform a wide range of landscape and irrigation duties such as: 

• Laying sod 

• Planting 

• Watering 

• Fertilizing 

• Digging 

• Raking 

• Installing sprinklers 

• Installing mortar less segmental concrete masonry wall units 

• Additionally, employees are expected to abide by all internal control & compliance practices to: 

• Safeguard assets from theft and misuse 

• Ensure segregation of duties to minimize fraud 

• Comply with business ethics, applicable laws, and regulations 

• Maintain confidentiality of proprietary information 

• Periodically reconcile physical assets to accounting records 

Qualifications

Required Skills/Abilities 

• Use hand equipment with mechanized moving blades such as gas-powered shears 

• Use manual hand tools such as shovels 

• Work from elevated heights such as an 8’ A-frame ladder 

• Use a hand shovel for extended period 

• Moves soil, equipment, and materials, digs holes, and plant trees, shrubs, and flowers 

• 6 months commercial landscape experience preferred but not required 

• Work near or about natural bodies of water 

• Ability to read and write the English language 

• Bilingual (Spanish/English) a plus but not required 

Education and Experience 

• High school graduate or equivalent desired 

• Previous outside construction, landscape, or similar field experience 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills a must 

• 6 months commercial landscape experience preferred but not required 

Physical Requirements 

• Must maintain regular and reliable attendance at a level acceptable to the company, including the ability to work overtime, holidays, evenings, or weekends, as necessary 

• Position requires extended work hours and flexibility in scheduling 

• This work may be performed outside in all sorts of weather conditions (i.e., hot, humid, cold, wet, windy, rain, snow) which means the person will need to be adequately prepared. May be required to work weekends and holiday 

• Must be able to lift 40 pounds 

• Ability to load/unload burlaps with plant cuttings onto trailer (up to 50 lbs) 

• Ability to bend, stoop and twist continuously throughout the day 

Salary : $17 - $19