As a leading landscape design, build, and maintenance company, Riverside Services offers competitive pay, health and dental insurance, and company-provided uniforms. We are dedicated to creating a safe and supportive environment that offers career advancement opportunities for talented employees.
Enjoy the achievement of helping homeowners and businesses maintain a beautiful and well-kept landscape by joining the Riverside Services team. We are known for our high-quality landscape, tree maintenance, and snow removal services, and our team takes pride in pursuing excellence in every endeavor.
If you are a passionate, creative, and responsible individual who takes pride in your work, a position at Riverside Services may be the next best step in furthering your career!
Job Type: Full-Time, Seasonal (March - Mid to late December)
Pay: $20.00 - $27.00 per hour
Here is what working as a Fine Gardening Crew Leader at Riverside Services will entail:
- Demonstrating your strong work ethic by working in the great outdoors in various weather conditions amongst moderate noise levels
- Enjoying the freedom of working with little to no supervision
- Taking pride in procuring annuals, perennials, and shrubs
- Enjoying the satisfaction of maintaining established perennial gardens, planting bed and property cleanups, weeding, edging, and mulching
- Showing your attention to detail by hand pruning shrubs and ornamental trees (up to 15’)
- Expressing your creativity in thoughtful design and installation of seasonal container and border plantings and holiday decorating
- Demonstrating your expert knowledge with winter plant care
- Taking pride in your professional presentation, organization, and positive attitude
- Having Sundays off each week
- Earning overtime pay when your expertise is required
- Having the opportunity to work as a snow operator
We ask that you have these qualifications:
- Two years of fine-gardening experience
- Working knowledge and ability to identify plant materials
- Tree, shrub, and corrective pruning skills
- Ability to lift 50 lbs., and pulling/pushing materials and equipment
- Full range of upper and lower body mobility: reaching overhead, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, and squatting for extended periods of time
- Excellent communication skills
- Valid driver’s license with a clean driving record
- Willingness to learn and obtain industry certifications