Role Overview:
- Grey Barn is looking for someone who actually knows landscaping.
- We are looking for a person who can walk onto a property and understand what needs to happen, from turf, beds, plants, and drainage to design, installation, maintenance processes, and crew execution.
- This is a hands-on leadership role for someone with deep landscaping experience who wants to help us build a best-in-class commercial landscaping operation.
Core Responsibilities:
- Walking a property with a customer.
- Designing and estimating a landscape project.
- Selling the work.
- Showing a crew exactly how it should be completed.
- Jumping in and demonstrating the right process when necessary.
- Inspecting the finished product.
- Improving the systems so the next job gets done faster and better.
Landscape Expertise & Design:
- Evaluate properties and create practical landscape solutions involving landscape renovations, plant and bed design, tree and shrub selection, turf and grass management, mulch and rock installations, drainage improvements, seasonal color, bed cleanup and restoration, property enhancement projects, and landscape installation and replacement projects.
- Confidently recommend solutions and explain them to customers and crews.
Estimating:
- Meet with customers.
- Identify enhancement opportunities.
- Develop scopes of work.
- Estimate labor, materials, and equipment.
- Present recommendations.
- Help close projects.
- Ensure sold work can be produced profitably.
- Talk to customers and ask for the sale.
Production, Training & Quality:
- Train employees on landscaping best practices.
- Create repeatable installation and maintenance processes.
- Demonstrate proper techniques.
- Help crews diagnose landscaping problems.
- Inspect completed work.
- Correct quality issues.
- Develop SOPs and training materials.
- Improve productivity and job costing.
- Help develop crew leaders into stronger landscaping professionals.
Required Experience:
- 5+ years of professional landscaping experience.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of landscape maintenance.
- Experience with landscape installation.
- Experience designing or laying out landscape projects.
- Experience estimating landscaping work.
- Experience leading or training landscaping employees.
- Strong understanding of plants, turf, beds, and landscape materials.
- Ability to identify common landscape problems and recommend solutions.
- Ability to communicate professionally with commercial customers.
- Comfort selling recommended work.
- Ability to manage several projects or properties at the same time.
- Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record.
- Ability to work outdoors and physically participate in landscaping work when necessary.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Commercial landscaping experience.
- Irrigation systems, troubleshooting, and repairs.
- Fertilization, weed control, and herbicide and pesticide applications.
- Plant health.
- Drainage.
- Hardscape installation.
- Landscape lighting.
- Estimating software and job costing.
- Managing multiple crews.
- Creating SOPs or training programs.
- Licenses or certifications related to landscaping, irrigation, horticulture, or chemical applications.
