Landscape Installation Technician, California

Grow Control Landscape is a small, but growing, landscape company offering landscape design, installation, and maintenance services.

We are searching for a responsible, self-starter to be a new crew member to our landscape installation crew. Crew member's responsibilities working alongside the crew on the installation of outdoor spaces and maintaining existing grounds, using machinery and equipment, ensuring all safety guidelines and protocols, and completing some simple administrative duties.

To be successful as an installation technician, you should be able to both follow and provide instructions. A top-notch crew member should constantly be expanding their horticulture knowledge, constantly expand installation knowledge, always strive for the best, be a keen problem-solver, and possess remarkable communication skills.

The technician will drive a company truck. Candidate must be able to work as a team to provide landscape services to both residential and commercial properties. Perform all work on schedule in a timely and safe manner. Take professionalism seriously and provide an excellent representation of the company.

This position will require installation, service and repair, and maintenance duties when needed.

Typical responsibilities:

Loading and Unloading of company vehicles

Maintaining company vehicles and equipment

Using machinery and equipment such as tillers, trenchers, sod cutters, chain saws, mowers, blowers, weed hackers, skidsteers, excvator, etc.

Trenching and digging

Installation irrigation systems such as controllers, sprinklers, backflows, pipes, valves, master valves, flow sensors, dripline, etc.

Installing lighting systems such as transformers, lighting wire, and light fixtures,

Hauling and dumping debris

Mulch and gravel installations

Planting

Header board installations

Some concrete work.

Create irrigation layouts and schedule programming

Irrigation repair and diagnostics

Basics of tree and shrub pruning

Fertilization

Gardening and maintenance duties when needed.

Mowing and edging lawns.

Pruning shrubs and trimming hedges.

Using leaf blowers and other power equipment.

Weeding and maintaining flower beds.

Applying mulch

Fertilization

Planting and seasonal colored flowers

Documentation of jobs

Time-tracking

Driving

Basic Equipment maintenance

Basic Vehicle maintenance

Schedule:

Full time 8 hours +

Monday through Friday.

6:30 am to 3:30 pm typical schedule.

Overtime may be needed.

Requirements

Valid CA Drivers License

Relevant certificates are recommended but not needed

Must know basic planting techniques.

Must know basic irrigation knowledge such as cutting and glueing pipe, installating sprinklers on swing pipe, mounting and programming controllers, installing dripline, wiring valves, etc.

Knowledge of tools and equipment used in landscaping.

On-the-job training as a landscape crew member.

Ability to comprehend clear written and verbal instructions.

Willingness to learn

Team players

Great communicator

Critical thinker and ability to solve problems as they arise

Independent

Bilingual preferred

On-time

Detail oriented

Ability to read landscape and irrigation plans is a HUGE plus.

Benefits

Vacation Time

Paid Sick Days

Paid select Holidays

Roth IRA