Experienced Landscape Maintenance Team Lead

**Experienced Grounds Maintenance Team Lead**

**Why you should work with us**
- Manage the day-to-day logistics and tasks required of a team of three gardeners to competently execute all the seasonal plant care and landscape needs for a scheduled route of residential and commercial landscape properties.
- Build competency amongst your team through teaching seasonally appropriate maintenance tasks and teaching appropriate use and maintenance of all company tools and equipment.
- Create enthusiastic clients by fostering an efficient, knowledgeable, and positive workspace for your team to excel at their work through proper delegation and quality checks.
- Maintain healthy landscapes through recognizing pests and diseases, observing plant stress and plant damage, monitoring and managing water stress, and utilizing company resources to correct them.
- Contribute administrative support to MHS by capably understanding and using our landscape software to track your team’s hours, log completed tasks, and document pictures notes as needed.
- Grow our Company Culture by building strong relationships with our clients and your co-workers in a professional, supportive, and cooperative manner.

**What Mountain Home Services brings to the table**
- **Knowledge and Passion** - Our goal is to provide a culture of knowledge, support, and passion within the horticultural industry. We work to build long-term relationships with our staff, clients, and their landscapes. We accomplish this by providing you a robust training program, supplying you with well maintained tools and equipment to carry out your work, offering a 40-hour Monday to Friday work week, a full benefits package, year-round employment opportunities, and competitive wage structure.
- **Training **- Our Maintenance Manager has 20 years of combined education and passionate experience in Horticulture and training. You will enjoy regular and in-person training on work sites, and support in completing our Core Competency Training Program. Opportunities to attend training seminars and working towards industry certificates are regularly encouraged and paid for by the company to support your journey.
- **Fair and Balanced Workload** - Our contracts allow for enough time to maintain our properties to standard throughout the year. At MHS we flex time on site to ensure that all work can be completed to standard. All our teams enjoy a balanced mix of properties that keeps the overall workload consistent for everyone.
- **Supportive Management** - Our operation is supported with dedicated management people tasked to ensure the even flow of our operations. We manage all our communications and provide feedback and guidance in a supportive, professional, and respectful manner.
- **Compensation** - Our employees enjoy inclusion into our full benefits package and enjoy a competitive wage that is adjusted throughout their time with MHS based on successful completion of our training programs with fair consideration for work and efforts that exceed our expectations.
- **Work-Life Balance** - Landscaping and garden maintenance is hard work. We respect that by ensuring we provide a predicable, fair, and consistent work schedule. Our typical teams operate Monday to Friday, 7am - 3:30pm. Time worked is time paid, with no exceptions to this important company philosophy.
- **Community Connection and Give Back** - MHS participates in a range of volunteer work that supports and gives back to our community. In 2022 we participated in a sustainable food program for less fortune people, supported 2 families in need over the Christmas holiday, participated in rescue programs for dogs in need, volunteered time and equipment to build trails in Lake Country, and engaged in various incentives and rewards to thank our crews for their excellent work.

**Required Skill Set**
- Minimum 2 years of direct team lead experience.
- **Driving** - Hold a valid drivers license and be able to drive a truck and trailer safely.
- **Attendance** - Team leads are essential to our operation, and our expectation of timely and regular attendance at work is not negotiable. Important personal and medical appointments will always be accommodated. Vacation time can be accommodated but will be limited due to the seasonality of our business.
- **Safety** - A mindfulness to ensure you and your team is working safely by following all company safety protocols. Communicate all safety concerns immediately to management and make suggestions to improve safety based on experience.
- **Plant Knowledge** - A successful team lead will accurately identify common plants and know their required seasonal maintenance needs. Possess knowledge of plants up to zone 6A.
- **Ownership of work** - Treat your client’s landscapes as if they were your own. That sense of ownership builds pride in the work your team carries out and builds client loyalty.
- **Exceptional attention to detail** - You will visually inspect every property every visit a