Fine Gardener Crew Leader

Summary of Position: Southview Design is seeking top talent to join our team as a Fine Gardener Crew Leader. The Fine Gardener Crew Leader is responsible for leading a team while upholding work schedules, procedures, and quality standards on high-end residential and commercial properties. This position oversees detailed horticultural maintenance of gardens, ensuring properties are maintained to exceptional aesthetic and quality standards while managing job sites for efficiency, client satisfaction, and expert garden care.

Duties:

• Communicate with Operations Managers, sales team, and team members to ensure exceptional communication, quality standards, and client expectations are consistently met.

• Lead, supervise, and develop crew members while assigning daily tasks based on skill level and service requirements. Monitor performance and address quality or productivity concerns.

• Oversee and perform detailed horticultural maintenance of gardens, beds, containers, and landscape features including management of perennials and annuals, pruning, shaping, deadheading, hedging, mulching, seasonal color maintenance, and other fine gardening tasks to maintain exceptional property appearance and plant health.

• Monitor plant health and identify pest, disease, irrigation, drainage, or other landscape concerns. Document findings, escalate issues, and provide recommendations as needed.

• Maintain strong client relationships through professional communication, responsiveness, and on-site expertise.

• Ensure daily administrative tasks including time entry, inventory/material tracking, DOT pre-trip inspections, and related documentation are completed accurately and timely.

• Train and mentor crew members in proper horticultural practices, pruning techniques, and fine gardening standards.

• Safely and efficiently operate landscaping equipment, hand tools, and company vehicles necessary to perform job duties.

• Ensure work areas, trucks, trailers, equipment, and uniforms are maintained in a clean, organized, and professional manner.

• Make recommendations to management regarding property enhancements, plant replacements, and opportunities to improve landscape quality.

• Know and enforce all company procedures, safety standards, and personnel policies.

• Perform seasonal snow and ice removal tasks during winter months. Plowing, shoveling, salt applications, and various other duties as assigned. Supervise or manage areas/zones as requested with direction from snow management team.

• Schedule: LANDSCAPE SEASON: (March - December) Workload will be heavy, during landscape season, you will work between 55-60 hours/week. This may include Saturdays and Holidays as production demands. SNOW SEASON: (January-March) During snow season, you will work a minimum of 24-32 hours/week. This may include overnights, holidays, or weekends as the weather is unpredictable.

• Perform additional duties as assigned, with responsibilities and tasks subject to change as needed.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum Qualifications: Minimum 2-3 years of experience in the landscape industry with prior horticulture, fine gardening, or estate garden maintenance experience.

• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and develop team members while effectively delegating tasks and providing feedback.

• Strong knowledge of horticultural practices including plant care, pruning, pest/disease identification, and seasonal garden maintenance.

• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact professionally with high-end clients.

• Strong time management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

• Chemical applicator license preferred but not required.

• Must possess a valid driver’s license and maintain an insurable driving record.

• Bilingual Spanish a plus.

• Educational Requirements: High School Diploma required. College degree, certificate, or formal education in Horticulture, Landscaping, or related field preferred but not required.

• Physical Demands: Must be able to lift/carry materials up to 50lbs on a regular and consistent basis, move about the work site.

• Exposed to exterior elements (i.e. pollen, chemicals, cold and heat etc.).

• Requires extended periods of activity including walking, standing, kneeling, bending and lifting, up to 100% of a workday.

• Working Environment: Employee is frequently exposed to exterior elements (i.e. pollen, chemicals, cold and heat etc.).

• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold, and extreme heat.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Employers can only E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

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Mariani Enterprises, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment with regard to race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, age, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status or unfavorable discharge from military service or any other characteristic protected by law.