Enhancement Landscape Laborer

Overview

Bright View is seeking an Enhancement Landscape Laborer to execute small-scale landscaping operations and maintain grounds and landscapes of commercial properties. You’ll contribute to creating and maintaining best-in-class teams and support a wide range of services, including landscape design, development, maintenance and enhancements.

• Perform plant removal, replanting of lawn, converting lawn areas to planters, or planters to lawn, replace broken sidewalk, lay mow strips, mulch, prune and plant trees.
• Serve as backup to interior, landscaping maintenance, gardening, irrigation technology and grounds person job or function.
• Remove or plant grass, utilize garden tools including rakes, shovels, picks, etc.
• Dig trenches and set up cement forms for sidewalk replacement, mow strips, and planters.
• Utilize pruning and trimming equipment to maintain trees and shrubs.
• Operate lawn maintenance equipment including a 36" mower, blower, gas powered trimmer, and other power equipment.
• Water plants, lawns, and gardens.
• Apply fertilizer in accordance with scheduled use and application standards.
• Perform plant, weed, trim, and blow activities.
• Remove materials from overhead racks on truck and transport materials from site to site.
• Handle tools, dig, cement, plant, weed, maintain, and mow.

• 6 months commercial landscape experience preferred but not required.
• Knowledge to identify proper amount of water application and penetration.
• Current driver’s license.
• Knowledge to adjust and regulate sprinkler heads, finishing cement surfaces, preparing forms for cement pours, and weeding.

• Ability to work with cement in preparing for the pour and following finishing procedures.
• Ability to operate a truck with trailer/gate and ramp for loading, unloading and transport of equipment.
• Ability to stand for 5 minutes, walk for 2 hours and sit for 30 minutes consecutively.
• Ability to lift and carry tools, equipment, and materials weighing up to 20 pounds. Distance carried – 50 feet maximum.
• Ability to handle items such as plants, bushes, hoses, shovels, rakes, and burlap bags – which are handled by two workers.
• Ability to lift 30-50 lbs. (up to 120 lbs. trees lifted and carried by four individuals) a distance of 20 feet for planting.
• Ability to push or pull grass into rolls requiring force up to 20 lbs.
• Ability to push/pull, twist, and turn trees with a force of up to 35 lbs. when planting trees.
• Bend at the waist when picking up leaves, branches, trimming, mowing, digging trenches, setting forms, and planting.
• Must possess a current driver’s license.

Here at Bright View, we’re passionate about caring for clients and colleagues. We’re a leading landscape company with a supportive environment and a small-company feel. Our services include landscape design, development, maintenance and enhancements. There are opportunities to grow with a wide range of projects.

Bright View is an Equal Employment Opportunity and E-Verify Employer. Bright View offers a suite of health, wellness, and financial benefits to full-time team members, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, ancillary and voluntary products, a 401k with employer contributions, and paid holidays. Benefits details are provided during the interview process.