Landscape Manager

Landscape ManagerAs 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, she/they/he 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; someone who genuinely enjoys coaching, training, and celebrating the growth and success of their staff.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.Qualifications/RequirementsIndustry Experience. You have worked in the landscaping industry for 5+ 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 possibleStrong computer literacy with proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, etc.), familiar with calendar management, clerical tasks, and able to learn billing and timekeeping software. You will create your own estimates/bids and be responsible for delivering them to clients.Communication skills. You enjoy communicating effectively and professionally with a wide variety of folks including clients, colleagues, and vendors. This including email team announcements in both English and Spanish. (Being bilingual is strongly preferred for this role.)Customer-facing experience. You've worked with clients, homeowners, contractors, sub-contractors, etc. and enjoy establishing rapport.Hardworking. The person we hire will always be available by phone as neededLikeable. You have a long list of clients and former co-workers who think you're an awesome personClean 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 plusPhysically 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 bedsSense of humor. When projects get stressful, we'll rely on your corny jokes to break the tension. We'll also reply on your strong EQ (Emotional Intelligence)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 assistanceAuthorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.Bonus Points ForBeing bilingual English/SpanishExperience using CAD or another design software used in the landscape industryExperience with Microsoft Project or another project scheduling software that can be used for tree care projectsHaving a better than average memory is a HUGE plusCollege degree is a plus. Especially, construction management, accounting, or business. Please highlight your education to indicate when you graduated, and the degree earned, if any.Living near the GreenWasteRecycleYard (dot) com @ 2550 Garden Tract Rd., Richmond, CAResponsibilities IncludeServe as your team's point of contact for our clients, landscape foreman/fore-people, the billing/job costing group, arborists/estimators, your recruiting team, our residential scheduler, Director of Field Operations and CEO.Visit client's properties throughout the Greater Bay Area as assigned by our Scheduler to develop project estimates, maintenance contracts, and special projects bidsLearn about the East Bay's Fire Hazard Zones and create bids for upcoming projectsWalk clients through solutions to landscaping issues and/or proactively suggest P.H.C. (Plant Health Care) measures that could solve their issuesHR/People -related: Interview crew candidates, write performance reviews, coach team members who are lacking specific hard or soft skills, and serve as the point-person for all H.R. or payroll-related issues including helping train crew to use the time-keeping application on their phoneWork alongside our Plant Health Care Specialist to ensure you are up to date on the most recent non-toxic solutions we have to offerLine your crew out daily: Meet them each morning to outline the day's work. Produce and distribute work production/progress reports to foremen/fore-peopleTrain and mentor the staff you oversee; provide weekly positive feedback for jobs well done, and determine what went wrong when projects went over time or over budget.Lead safety meetings and serve as the point-person for field-related trainingTrain staff on plant identification, pruning techniques, fertilization practices and P .H.C. (Plant Health Care) solutions that may include low-toxicity pesticidesWork on special projects as requested by the CEOWho Should Not ApplyFolks who do not have either: 1) LANDSCAPING industry experience or 2) HARDSCAPING experienceAnyone living farther than 45 minutes away from our site at 2550 Garden Tract Road, Richmond, CALate night-ers. Your start time is 6:15 a.m. on site, so you'll need to arrive by +/- 6:00 A.M. and may need to hold phone meetings with our CEO even earlierPeople who do not have a CURRENT and CLEAN CALIFORNIA driver's license, cannot drive or don't have transportation to remote sites: forests, fields, streams, etc.Anyone uncomfortable using a port-a-potty as their primary looCompensation and BenefitsBase salary of $85,920.00 to $95,000 salary on salaryCompany vehicle, gas card, phone, laptop, and gearImmediately: Participation in our 401(k) program, worker's compensation and auto insuranceAfter 90 days of employment:Medical, dental, and optical insurance paid at 100%5 Paid holidays5 Paid sick daysPaid time off. PTO is earned as one goes.Schedule:+/-9-hour shifts: 6:00 a.m. to +/- 3:00 p.m.Monday through Friday. Rare weekends