Enhancement Crew Member

Location: Freeport

** Description*
* ** The Best Teams are Created and Maintained Here.*
* ** Job Summary*
* + The Enhancement Laborer executes small scale landscaping operations and maintains grounds and landscape of commercial properties.

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* Duties and Responsibilities:

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* + 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 job 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 fish, plant, weed, maintain, and mow.

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* Education and Experience:

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* + 6 months of commercial landscape experience preferred but not required.

+ Knowledge to identify proper amount of water application and penetration.

+ Current driver license

+ Knowledge to adjust and regulate sprinkler heads, finish cement surfaces, prepare forms for cement pours, and weeding.

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Experience 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.

** Physical Demands/Requirements:*
* + Ability to lift and carry tools, equipment, and materials weighing up to 20 pounds. Distance carried - 50 feet maximum.

+ Ability to lift 30-35 lbs. (120 lbs. trees lifted and carried by 4 individuals) a distance of 20 feet for planting.

+ Ability to push or pull grass into rolls requiring force of up to 20 lbs.

+ Ability to push/pull, twist, and turn trees with a force of up to 35 lbs. when planting trees.

+ Be at least 18 years old (21 if operating company provided vehicles)

+ Possess strong stamina and have the ability to work outdoors in various weather conditions including extreme heat and cold.

+ Able to safely operate landscaping equipment (e.g., mowers, trimmers, blowers, edgers).

+ Able to bend, stoop, kneel, twist, stand, walk continuously throughout the day and perform repetitive motions for extended periods.

+ Able to perform manual labor using a variety of hand tools (e.g. shovels, rakes)

+ You are able to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (e.g., safety shoes, high-visibility clothing, hand protection, eye protection, hearing protection, head protection)

+ Landscapers who will be operating a Bright View fleet vehicle are required to have a valid driver's license and meet company standards as it relates motor vehicle performance identified on a state issued motor vehicle record check.

+ Ability to maintain, in your possession at all times, required medications to address any known allergic reactions should they occur.

** Work Environment:*
* + Ability to work outdoors/indoors in moderate to extreme weather conditions (e.g., temperatures more than 100°F, temperatures below 32°F, various levels of humidity)

+ Ability to work in direct sunlight for extended periods of time.

+ Work outdoors near automotive traffic, bodies of water, fumes, dust, mechanical and/or electrical hazards.

+ Ability to work in environments where extended periods of loud noise are present.

+ Ability to work in environments where exposure to allergens such as pollen and rag weed, insects such as bees and spiders and reptiles such as lizards and snakes.

** _Bright

View Landscapes, LLC is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer._*
* ** _This job description is subject to change at any time._*
* ** _Bright

View offers a suite or health, wellness, and financial benefits to full-time team members. Benefits offerings for full-time team members include medical, dental, and vision insurance, ancillary and voluntary products, a 401k savings plan with employer contributions, and 6 to 9 company paid holidays per year. Employees may also be eligible to receive paid time off for vacation and/or sick leave, tuition reimbursement, and/or potential variable pay opportunities based on position and performance.

A detailed benefits package will be provided during the interview process_
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