Commercial Landscape - Associate Area Manager

About the role

Texscape Services is part of Monarch Landscape Companies, a leading network of landscape brands across the U.S. We proudly serve commercial clients throughout Central, North, and Southeast Texas and deliver reliable, high-quality landscape maintenance services. At Texscape, your achievements determine your rewards, your abilities define your success, and your professionalism leads to autonomy!

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Landscape Architecture or Horticulture, or at least 3 years related work experience
• Ability to read, write and comprehend English
• Ability to speak effectively before employees and clients
• Bi-lingual English/Spanish required, including ability to read, interpret and translate documents and verbal presentations
• Basic math
• Reasoning Ability
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Interpret a variety of instructions in written, oral, diagram and/or schedule format
• Certificates, Licenses and Registrations
• Valid driver license issued by the state where employed
• Commercial Pesticide Applicators License, or ability to obtain within 1 year
• Certified Landscape Technician (CLT) or ability to obtain within 1 year

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as client point-of-contact for day-to-day site issues, and expeditiously and proactively identify, address, and resolve client needs
• Conduct walkthroughs with client and other company representatives as appropriate
• Schedule, assign, and direct production teams to ensure all services are performed according to contract specifications, on budget, according to schedule and with a high standard of quality
• Effectively communicate with production teams the tasks necessary to provide a consistent, high quality product for clients
• Effectively assess labor needs and execute labor plan by hiring or terminating employees as needed
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills; develop morale and recognize employee achievements; foster opportunities for professional development of employees
• Review and approve timecards for accurate and timely submission topayroll
• Analyze and understand cost reports and budget variances related to contract projects
• Routinely monitor sites for quality, assess opportunities for potential maintenance, irrigation, and enhancement upgrades and repairs
• Collaborate with Service & Operations Support to propose, track, and resolve minor enhancement projects to current clients, including final review and approval before communicating to client
• Work closely with Project Manager on A/B client communication and expectations, including site information and capital or large-scale projects
• Meet or exceed annual sales goals
• Ensure safety on every site by conducting and enforcing safety training and meetings, as well as consistently monitor job sites for potential safety hazards
• Direct supervision of 2-4 crews
• Direct team activities, establishing task priorities, labor hour management, scheduling and tracking work assignments, providing guidance, and ensuring availability of resources
• Problem resolution
• Recommending potential clients to business development team, based on current relationships
• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands

• Constantly required to talk, hear, see, sit, stand and walk
• Frequent use of hands to manipulate, handle or feel objects, tools or controls
• Frequently required to reach, bend, twist, stoop, crouch, climb and balance
• Sometimes required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and rarely lift and/or move up to 75 pounds

Total Rewards

• The opportunity to enroll in a variety of healthcare benefit programs, including medical, dental, and vision plan options
• Flexible spending accounts
• Retirement savings plans
• Term life/ad&d
• A number of supplemental insurances
• Company Provided Life/AD&DEmployee Assistance Program
• 1% - 2% commission paid on ancillary gross margin sales.
• Paid time off starting at 2 weeks per year
• 6 Paid Holidays
• 3 Days Paid Bereavement
• 5 Days Paid Jury Duty
• Employee Equity Program
• On-Demand Pay Through A Partnership with DailyPay
• Referral Bonuses Programs
• Gym Membership and Mobile Carrier Discounts
• Education Assistance
• Best-in-Class Learning Management System
• Career Advancement Opportunities

Pay

$60,000 - $70,000