What are the responsibilities and job description for the Landscape Designer position at Timberline Landscaping Inc?
Landscape Designer
Timberline Landscaping, LLC is an award-winning company serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas, “Creating your little bit of Heaven” for over 40 years. We offer a full range of services, including landscape design, construction, and maintenance.
We are seeking a Landscape Designer to create attractive, functional outdoor living spaces for homeowners and businesses, as well as estimate plans and sell work. Designers work closely with clients, crews, and superintendents to bring a client's vision to life. They use creativity and the beauty of nature to design harmonious, aesthetically pleasing, and functional areas such as lawns, walkways, and outdoor living spaces, and more.
Duties & Responsibilities:
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Perform client meets to understand their needs and be able to provide a complete landscape plan and then sell them on the vision
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Create accurate estimates based on detailed takeoffs created from your landscape and irrigation designs and specifications
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Analyze subcontractor and vendor bids if required and incorporate those proposals into the estimate accordingly
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Verify material prices with vendors
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Revise contract templates to customize them for specific jobs
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Present, promote, and sell products/services using persuasive communication to both current and potential clients
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Perform site analyses that include the assessment of current plants, soil conditions, slope/grade, lighting, the view, and architectural style of the property
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Research topics such as plant health and their ability to survive within our climate, guidelines, and codes
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Perform other duties as assigned
Physical Demands & Work Environment:
- Fast-paced, fun, and casual office environment
- Must be flexible with the schedule to accommodate client needs
- Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, bend, and lift/move up to 30 lbs.
- Walking, bending, twisting, reaching, crawling, stretching, and standing on occasion is required
- The job is partly an indoor office setting. The other part of the job is spent out-of-office in sales meetings/pitches, client site meetings, visiting vendors, and evaluations. This will require you to be outdoors.
Salary : $55,000 - $65,000