Landscaping Manager

• Have you worked in the landscaping industry for 4 or more years?
• Can you speak both English and Spanish fluently?
• Are you an early riser who can be at work by 6:00 a.m. PST?
• If so, please keep reading…

As the company’s newest Landscape Manager, your primary goal is to make sure our clients are thrilled with the work your team does.

The right person for this position is someone with extensive landscaping, or horticultural experience
; someone who has led a bilingual English/Spanish-speaking team and who wants to serve as “La Jefa” or “El Jefe.”

Ideally, he/they/she has worked on landscaping- and hardscaping-related projects in Northern California and understands the equipment and crew needed to plant, maintain or remove a wide variety of species ranging from shrubs, hedges, and screens to perennials, grasses, flowers, and trees.

Our new Landscape Manager will be an experienced mentor/coach, good with training her/his employees on landscaping techniques including P.H.C. (Plant Health Care), able to learn new software systems, familiar with working in a landscaping industry environment, orderly enough to keep their yard area shipshape, and able to respond to emergency calls as needed.

Since 1980, The Professional Tree Care Company has been trusted for tree services throughout Northern California. Based in Berkeley, Ca, we service commercial, residential, and public works projects from Mendocino to Monterey, and from San Francisco to Sacramento.

What makes us unique? Aside from having the staff and equipment to take on tree work of any size, we recycle 100% of material removed from job sites at our own Green Waste Recycle Yard (see ). We also mill logs into dimensional lumber, build outdoor furniture from logs, create wood chips, mulch, and electricity from mulch in cooperation with All Power Labs.

• Industry Experience. You have worked in the landscaping industry for 3+ years, ideally as a Landscape Manager or Foreman/Foreperson.
• People management skills and experience. You’re a natural mentor/trainer who enjoys helping others advance their professional careers by your efforts. You routinely give out praise with an “Atta boy!” or “Atta girl!” when deserved, know how to give constructive criticism in private, value a culture of accountability and optimism in which everyone on the clock is as productive as possible.
• Communication skills. The ability to communicate effectively and professionally including email, team announcements in both English and Spanish. (Being bilingual is a MUST for this role.)
• Strong computer literacy with proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, etc.) Familiarity with calendar management, clerical tasks, and able to learn billing and timekeeping software. You will create your own estimates and be responsible for delivering them to clients.
• Customer-facing experience. You’ve worked with clients, contractors, sub-contractors, etc.
• Hardworking. The person we hire will always be available by phone as needed.
• Clean CA DL You have a clean and current California Driver’s License and will be able to drive a company vehicle to job sites. Experience hauling a trailer is a plus.
• Physically fit and able to hustle. Our LM must be able to work at a brisk pace at least 6+ hours per day. They must also be able to ascend/descend stairs, tromp through forests, vineyards, and/or wilderness to evaluate projects, and lift equipment that weighs +/-40 pounds onto truck beds.
• Neat. If your garage is highly organized, this may be your dream job. You’ll oversee ensuring that every facet of your stockrooms, storage area, team vehicles, and the yard are well organized.
• Sense of humor. When projects get stressful, we’ll rely on your corny jokes to break the tension.
• ABW/Always Be Working. The candidate we hire is someone who moves quickly, gets a great deal of work done, and uses software or a demonstrated system to track tasks/daily to-dos. They have a good sense of what it takes to keep an entire team running efficiently and know when to request assistance.
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

• Experience with Microsoft Project or another project…