Landscaping Manager Jefe

Interview Questions

• Have you worked in the landscaping industry for 4 or more years at a supervisory level?
• Do you have experience reading blueprints and working with landscape designers?
• Would you be entirely happy with an annual compensation of between $75,920.00 and $ per year all-in including your benefits? (
  
  NOTE:
  
  Significant managerial, industry, and hands‑on experience is required for the higher‑end of this salary range.)
• 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 and to build a profitable (new) division of our company.

The right person for this position is someone with extensive landscaping, or horticultural experience and, ideally, 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 greenwasterecycleyard dot com). 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 5+ years, ideally as a Landscape Manager or Foreman/Foreperson.
• Basic design and site assessment skills; reading blueprints/plans, understanding grades, drainage, and the fundamentals of landscape design & sustainability.
• 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 girl!” or “’Atta boy!” 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.
• Horticulture and plant care knowledge including plant biology, plant identification, fertilizing, turfgrass management, weed and disease recognition, and soil management.
• Communication skills. The ability to communicate effectively and professionally including email, team announcements in both English and Spanish to your colleagues via text, email, and in person.
• 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. You are also the person who helps your employees enter their time into an app on their smart‑phone(s).
• 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. This is a hands‑on position, meaning you will bid jobs then work alongside/direct your crew on site. The LM must be able to work at a brisk pace at least 6+…