Location: Georgetown, Massachusetts
Pay: $24.00-$30.00 per hour, based on experience and qualifications
Job Type: Full-time
Lead a Professional Landscape Maintenance Crew
ND Landscape Services has provided professional landscape maintenance, landscape construction and snow management services throughout the North Shore and Metro North area since 1980.
We are seeking an experienced Landscape Maintenance Foreman to lead a crew responsible for detailed property care at high-quality residential and commercial properties.
This role primarily focuses on planting-bed maintenance, pruning, seasonal cleanups, mulching, plant installations, landscape enhancements and overall property presentation.
The ideal candidate is a dependable, hands-on leader who can organize a crew, maintain productivity and ensure that every property is completed to ND Landscape's quality standards.
Compensation
- $24.00-$30.00 per hour
- Pay based on leadership experience, landscape knowledge, plant identification, pruning ability, equipment skills and driving experience
- Overtime opportunities
- Winter snow and ice work available
- Opportunities for advancement and increased earning potential
The higher end of the pay range is intended for candidates who can independently manage a crew, organize daily routes, communicate professionally with clients and supervisors, and consistently deliver high-quality work.
What You'll Do
- Lead and work alongside a landscape maintenance crew
- Review daily work orders and organize the crew
- Assign tasks and maintain efficient production throughout the day
- Perform spring and fall property cleanups
- Maintain planting beds at residential and commercial properties
- Weed, edge and redefine landscape beds
- Install mulch, soil and other landscape materials
- Prune shrubs, ornamental plants and small trees
- Deadhead, divide and cut back perennials
- Complete seasonal flower, shrub and plant installations
- Identify plant-health concerns and report property issues
- Operate blowers, hedge trimmers, pruning equipment and other professional landscape tools
- Train crew members on proper landscape-maintenance techniques
- Track employee time, materials and work completed
- Inspect completed work for quality and accuracy
- Maintain clean, safe and organized trucks, trailers and jobsites
- Communicate professionally with account managers, clients and other team members
- Assist with snow and ice operations during the winter season
Leadership Responsibilities
As a Landscape Maintenance Foreman, you will be responsible for:
- Setting the pace and expectations for the crew
- Ensuring daily work is completed safely and efficiently
- Coaching and developing crew members
- Maintaining professional behavior at client properties
- Protecting company tools, equipment, vehicles and materials
- Identifying additional work or enhancement opportunities
- Reporting property concerns, damage or client requests
- Following company systems, procedures and safety standards
- Ensuring each property meets ND Landscape's quality expectations before leaving the site
What We're Looking ForRequired Qualifications
- Professional landscape maintenance, gardening or groundskeeping experience
- Previous experience leading or supervising a landscape crew
- Knowledge of shrubs, perennials and basic plant-care practices
- Experience pruning shrubs and ornamental plants
- Experience with seasonal cleanups, mulching and planting-bed maintenance
- Ability to organize a crew and complete daily work orders efficiently
- Valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record
- Experience safely driving a truck and landscape trailer
- Reliable transportation to our Georgetown location
- Strong attendance, communication and organizational skills
- Ability to work outdoors in changing weather conditions
- Ability to work additional hours during busy seasons and winter storms
- Ability to perform the essential physical duties of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation
The position may include extended periods of standing and walking, as well as bending, kneeling, lifting, pushing, pulling and handling landscape tools and materials.
Preferred Qualifications - Not Required
- Three or more years of professional landscape maintenance experience
- Strong knowledge of plant identification and proper pruning practices
- Experience training and developing crew members
- Experience reading and completing work orders through mobile software
- Experience performing landscape enhancements and plant installations
- Snowplowing or snow-removal experience
- Massachusetts Hoisting License
Applicants with experience in landscaping, estate gardening, grounds maintenance, golf course maintenance, horticulture, property maintenance or related outdoor trades are encouraged to apply.
Why Join ND Landscape Services?
Everyone is hiring, but finding a company where a job can become a long-term career is different.
At ND Landscape Services, we invest in dependable employees who want to lead, improve and advance. You will work on high-quality properties, receive professional support and have opportunities to grow into positions with greater responsibility and earning potential.
Eligible full-time employees may receive:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Health Savings Account options
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Overtime opportunities
- Paid training and professional development
- Winter snow and ice work
- Opportunities for advancement
Successful foremen may have opportunities to advance into senior foreman, field supervisor, account management or other leadership positions.
About ND Landscape Services
Our mission is simple: To drive the highest standard of landscape management.
Our core values guide how we work, serve our clients and support our team. We are:
- Committed to professionalism and integrity
- Passionate about continuous improvement
- Dedicated to creating win-win relationships that achieve excellence
- A systems-driven company
- Focused on operating with a sense of urgency
We are looking for a foreman who takes ownership of their crew, pays attention to detail and takes pride in presenting every property at a professional standard.
Apply Today
Apply through Indeed with a resume or a brief description of your landscape and leadership experience. No cover letter is required.
Learn more about ND Landscape Services at www.ndlandscape.com.
ND Landscape Services is an equal opportunity employer.