Irrigation Technician

Company: Green Summit Landscape Management LLC

Location: Albuquerque, NM

Job Title: Irrigation Technician

Job Type: Full-time — 40 hours per week with occasional overtime.

Salary: $60,000.00-$70,000.00 per year

Summary: An Irrigation Technician produces irrigation repairs, makes irrigation upgrades, and manages water in landscapes.

Reports to: Field Operations Manager

• Ensures quality irrigation repairs and other irrigation work.
• Responsible for meeting daily route/project requirements of Green Summit Contracts.
• Oversees and manages 1 other person (irrigation tech helper).
• Proactively manages irrigation needs for the maintenance accounts.
• Responsible for safe operation of all equipment required to complete the work on any given workday.
• Meets productivity budgets for hours, gross margin, and book revenue. This includes checking timecards for accuracy and adjusting the schedule as needed.
• Meet with Account Manager, Field Operations Managers, and Crew Leaders on sites when needed.
• Provides training as needed to Green Summit Team Members.

• Demonstrates professional appearance and hygiene.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Responds to customer and colleague needs, including being tactful, respectful and considerate of others regardless of their status.
• Ability to manage people, and direct their work efforts to ensure timely project/contract completion.
• Exhibits sound and accurate judgment.
• Demonstrates flexibility and the ability to quickly adapt to change in the work environment.
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and monitors work to ensure quality.
• Responds to management direction, follows instructions and completes work in a timely manner.
• Takes personal responsibility for own actions, keeps commitments, and asks for and offers help when needed.
• Observes safety and security procedures and reports any potentially unsafe conditions.
• Is consistently at work and on time and ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge and skills required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Operational
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to operate a trencher, ability to drive a ¾ ton truck, or bigger, with a 18’ trailer hauling equipment. Must have a valid drivers license with a clean driving record. JS-6 License and backflow testing certification preferred but not required.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear and frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk.
• Work Environment: It is a professional environment working in the field alongside crews, as well as in a professional office setting. Often you will be working alone and therefore required to be self-motivated and self-starting to accomplish the job duties and responsibilities.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Seniority level: Entry level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Management and Manufacturing