Groundsperson

BrightView Landscapes, LLC•Memphis, TN

67d

About The Position

The Best Teams are Created and Maintained Here. Looking for an opportunity where success comes naturally? Then you may have found your crew. We're looking for a Groundsperson to join our team. Here's what you'd do: You love to spend your day outdoors cultivating amazing landscapes. You treat grass, trees and plots with great care and attention, doing whatever it takes to help them thrive. Here at BrightView, we appreciate people with such love for landscaping and greenery.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

CDL Driver's License would be a plus
Bilingual (Spanish) a plus

Responsibilities

The many activities that make grass, flowers and client relationships bloom.
Using a variety of equipment such as mowers, blowers, clippers, and edgers to create and prep soil for plant placement.
Set up and clean up, and taking good care of our trucks and machinery.
Working as part of a team.
Setting up safety items including positioning cones and signs and roping or taping off crew work areas
Handing tools to the climber and receiving tools from the climber using a rope to hoist them up into the tree
Gathering branches into piles, transporting to the chipper, feeding them into the chipper and unloading tree trunks and chips at the appropriate facility
Ensuring that all operations, job sites and employees are safe and that the general public which might come into contact with the area will be safe
Communicating effectively with other crew members and the public