Landscape Laborer

  • Full-Time
  • Avondale, PA
  • Topside Landscaping
  • Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Description

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

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