Landscape Laborer Details

Landscape Laborer

Topside Landscaping - Avondale, PA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Are you looking to learn a essential trade and grow with a local company? Join the Topside Landscaping, LLC team! We’re looking for several determined individuals to join our Landscaping crew, including Crew Leaders and laborers. Experience is a plus but with the right candidate we will train.

We’re looking for someone who will fit our team with the following traits:

• Team player
• Strong work ethic
• Willing to learn and take direction
• Desire to grow into a leadership position preferred

What you'll do:

• You’ll contribute to the many activities that make grass, flowers and client relationships bloom. Using a variety of equipment such as mowers, blowers, clippers, and edger's to create and prep soil for plant placement.
• Team members are also responsible for set up and clean up, and taking good care of our trucks and machinery.

Skills we're seeking:

• Applicants must be able to work outdoors, in all weather conditions, doing very physical work, able to lift/carry 35-80 pounds often.
• You must be at least 18 years old, enthusiastic and dependable, and able to safely work with equipment like power saws and cutters.
• Previous experience is helpful, but you must have an understanding of landscape basics.

Physical Demands:

• Safely perform heavy lifting/pushing/pulling of various landscaping equipment and materials, including, but not limited to backpack blowers, large containers of mulch/plant material, various sizes of lawnmowers, etc.
• Safely operate hand and power equipment, including but not limited to manual and powered sawing and cutting equipment
• Leverage 80 lbs. of a walk behind mower over curbs
• Lift and carry up to 50 lbs.
• Lift branches and limbs
• Push, pull, grip and squeeze various tools, products and/or items (e.g., pruning
• Walk up to 10 miles a day, sometimes uphill and on uneven terrain, often while carrying, pushing, or pulling equipment, materials, or debris.
• Must be able to work in all weather conditions
• Bend and kneel up to 9 hours or more a day
• Use hand saw

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00 - $23.00 per hour

Experience:

• Landscaping: 3 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Required)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Required)

Work Location: Multiple Locations