Landscape/Decor Specialist

SavATree•Steamboat Springs, CO

1d•$25 - $32

About The Position

This position currently has a sign-on bonus of $1,000 and pays $25-32/hr depending on your experience + paid PTO + paid benefits and 401K! Looking for a place where you can thrive and grow? SavATree's landscape technicians are responsible for maintaining and enhancing outdoor spaces, ensuring that landscapes are visually appealing, healthy, and environmentally sustainable. They use their knowledge of aesthetics to creatively design gardens, walkways, sitting areas, bridges, and other functional aspects of outdoor areas. Duties can include making sure plants grow well in their assigned area as well as cleaning up debris around yards and other areas. In this role you will have you will have the opportunity to work outside on beautiful properties in your community, You will apply your expertise to ensure the on-going health, beauty and well-being of each client’s landscape. This role will have seasonally shifting responsibilities , ensuring trucks, crews, and equipment are properly organized and trained throughout the year: Winter: Oversee the takedown, organization, and storage of all holiday décor projects. Spring: Prepare trucks, equipment, and shop for planting and landscape services. Summer: Manage the nursery and planting materials while assisting with landscape operations. Late Summer/Fall: Set up décor trucks, prepare tools for installs, and oversee quality holiday décor installations, including training new installers. Additional Duties: Travel to other branches within our district as needed to assist with projects or train with other crews. What a day is like: 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. Requires frequent standing, kneeling, walking, pulling, reaching, stooping and bending. Requires walking primarily on uneven turf or rocky areas while on job sites. May be exposed to moderate to loud work environments. These areas will require the use of personal protective equipment such as hearing protection. Will be exposed to dust, dyes, grease, odors, mechanical and electrical hazards, and all types of weather and temperature conditions. Job requires ability to work with hand tools, small and large engine equipment, skid steers, and loaders. Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs. repeatedly through an entire work shift. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Requires good manual dexterity. Excellent stamina is required. Work with and near heavy equipment and other vehicles on a regular basis Flexible working hours including occasional weekend work. What kind of person are we looking for? Someone with: A desire to grow, craves opportunity, loves problem solving and process improvement. The ability to run various types of equipment, who enjoys heavy lifting in various weather conditions.

Requirements

A Degree in Turf, Entomology, Plant Sciences, Horticulture, or equivalent experience
1-2 years of hands-on experience in lawn care maintenance and turf application
Knowledge of plants, trees, and grasses in growing, pruning, and fertilizing shrubs, lawns, bushes, trees, and flowers
Minimum 2 years of experience in landscape related field
Must be able to operate equipment safely
The responsibility and independence to work autonomously
Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills to understand and meet client needs
Valid driver's license
Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs. repeatedly through an entire work shift
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Requires good manual dexterity
Excellent stamina is required

Nice To Haves

Horticulture/Arboriculture Trade Certification a bonus

Responsibilities

Maintaining and enhancing outdoor spaces
Creatively design gardens, walkways, sitting areas, bridges, and other functional aspects of outdoor areas
Making sure plants grow well in their assigned area
Cleaning up debris around yards and other areas
Oversee the takedown, organization, and storage of all holiday décor projects
Prepare trucks, equipment, and shop for planting and landscape services
Manage the nursery and planting materials while assisting with landscape operations
Set up décor trucks, prepare tools for installs, and oversee quality holiday décor installations, including training new installers
Travel to other branches within our district as needed to assist with projects or train with other crews