Landscape/Decor Specialist

About the Role

SavATree's landscape technicians maintain and enhance outdoor spaces, ensuring landscapes are visually appealing, healthy, and environmentally sustainable. This role involves creatively designing gardens, walkways, sitting areas, bridges, and other functional aspects of outdoor areas. You will work outside on beautiful properties in your community, applying your expertise to ensure the ongoing health, beauty, and well-being of each client’s landscape.

Responsibilities shift seasonally:

• Winter: Oversee the takedown, organization, and storage of all holiday décor projects.
• Spring: Prepare trucks, equipment, and shop for planting and landscape services.
• Summer: Manage the nursery and planting materials while assisting with landscape operations.
• Late Summer/Fall: Set up décor trucks, prepare tools for installs, and oversee quality holiday décor installations, including training new installers.

Additional duties include traveling to other branches within the district as needed to assist with projects or train with other crews.

Responsibilities

• Ensure plants grow well in their assigned areas and clean up debris around yards and other spaces.
• Operate hand tools, small and large engine equipment, skid steers, and loaders.
• Work with and near heavy equipment and other vehicles on a regular basis.
• Perform physical tasks including frequent standing, kneeling, walking, pulling, reaching, stooping, and bending.
• Work primarily on uneven turf or rocky areas while on job sites.
• Lift a minimum of 50 lbs. repeatedly through an entire work shift.
• Work in a fast-paced environment with good manual dexterity and excellent stamina.
• Adapt to moderate to loud work environments, requiring personal protective equipment such as hearing protection.
• Work in various weather and temperature conditions, exposed to dust, dyes, grease, odors, and mechanical/electrical hazards.
• Flexible working hours, including occasional weekend work.

Requirements

• A degree in Turf, Entomology, Plant Sciences, Horticulture, or equivalent experience.
• 1-2 years of hands-on experience in lawn care maintenance and turf application.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a landscape-related field.
• Horticulture/Arboriculture Trade Certification is a bonus.
• Knowledge of plants, trees, and grasses, including growing, pruning, and fertilizing shrubs, lawns, bushes, trees, and flowers.
• Ability to operate equipment safely and work autonomously with responsibility and independence.
• Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills to understand and meet client needs.
• Valid driver’s license.

We are looking for someone who:

• Desires growth, craves opportunity, and loves problem-solving and process improvement.
• Enjoys running various types of equipment and heavy lifting in various weather conditions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits, including health and dental insurance.
• Paid time off and a matched 401(K).
• Vehicle program.
• Training and development opportunities, with support for continuing education in the industry.
• Collaborative work environment with access to experts in the field.
• Opportunities to advance your knowledge both in the field and within the company.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is subject to:

• Frequently lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds.
• Frequent standing, kneeling, walking, pulling, reaching, stooping, and bending.
• Walking primarily on uneven turf or rocky areas while on job sites.
• Exposure to moderate to loud work environments, requiring personal protective equipment such as hearing protection.
• Exposure to dust, dyes, grease, odors, mechanical and electrical hazards, and all types of weather and temperature conditions.