Landscaping Manager

The Professional Tree Care Company • Richmond, CA

4d

About The Position

As the company’s newest Landscape Manager, your primary goal is to make sure our clients are thrilled with the work your team does and to build a profitable (new) division of our company.

The right person for this position is someone with extensive landscaping, or horticultural experience; someone who has led a bilingual English/Spanish-speaking team and who wants to serve as “La Jefa” or “El Jefe.”

Ideally, he/they/she has worked on landscaping- and hardscaping-related projects in Northern California and understands the equipment and crew needed to plant, maintain or remove a wide variety of species ranging from shrubs, hedges, and screens to perennials, grasses, flowers, and trees.

Our new Landscape Manager will be an experienced mentor/coach, good with training her/his employees on landscaping techniques including P.H.C. (Plant Health Care), able to learn new software systems, familiar with working in a landscaping industry environment, orderly enough to keep their yard area shipshape, and able to respond to emergency calls as needed.

Requirements

• Industry Experience. You have worked in the landscaping industry for 3+ years, ideally as a Landscape Manager or Foreman/Foreperson.
• People management skills and experience. You’re a natural mentor/trainer who enjoys helping others advance their professional careers by your efforts. You routinely give out praise with an “Atta girl!” or “’Atta boy!” when deserved, know how to give constructive criticism in private, value a culture of accountability and optimism in which everyone on the clock is as productive as possible
• Communication skills. The ability to communicate effectively and professionally including email, team announcements in both English and Spanish to your colleagues via text, email, and in person. (Being bilingual is an ABSOLUTE MUST for this role.)
• Strong computer literacy with proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, etc.) Familiarity with calendar management, clerical tasks, and able to learn billing and timekeeping software. You will create your own estimates and be responsible for delivering them to clients
• Customer-facing experience. You’ve worked with clients, contractors, sub-contractors, etc.
• Hardworking. The person we hire will always be available by phone as needed
• Clean CA DL You have a clean and current California Driver’s License and will be able to drive a company vehicle to job sites. Experience hauling a trailer is a plus.
• Physically fit and able to hustle. This is a HANDS-ON POSITION, meaning you will bid jobs then work alongside your crew ON the job itself. Our LM must be able to work at a brisk pace at least 6+ hours per day. They must also be able to ascend/descend stairs, tromp through forests, vineyards, and/or wilderness to evaluate projects, and lift equipment that weighs +/-40 pounds onto truck beds
• Neat: If your garage is highly organized, this may be your dream job. You’ll oversee ensuring that every facet of your stockrooms, storage area, team vehicles, and the yard are well organized
• Sense of humor. When projects get stressful, we’ll rely on your corny jokes to break the tension
• ABW/Always Be Working. The candidate we hire is someone who moves quickly, gets a great deal of work done, and uses software or a demonstrated system to track tasks/daily to-dos. They have a good sense of what it takes to keep an entire team running efficiently and know when to request assistance
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Irrigation Expertise. You have experience inspecting, diagnosing, repairing, and maintaining irrigation systems for residential and commercial properties. You know irrigation tools, controllers, valves, and water management principles.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or another project scheduling software that can be used for tree care projects
• Having a better than average memory is a HUGE plus
• College degree is a plus. Especially, construction management, accounting, or business. Please highlight your education to indicate when you graduated, and the degree earned, if any.
• Living near the GreenWasteRecycleYard (dot) com @ 2550 Garden Tract Rd., Richmond, CA

Responsibilities

• Work alongside the Strategic Assistant to the CEO to launch a new division of the company
• Serve as your team’s point of contact for our clients, landscape foreman/fore-people, the billing/job costing group, arborists/estimators, your recruiting team, our residential scheduler, and CEO. If you don’t yet have experience bidding jobs, we will happily train you.
• Line your crew out daily: Meet them each morning to outline the day’s work. Produce and distribute work production/progress reports to foremen/fore-people
• Visit client’s properties throughout the Greater Bay Area as assigned by our Scheduler to develop/write project estimates, maintenance contracts, and special projects bids
• Educate clients. Walk clients through solutions to landscaping issues and/or proactively suggest P.H.C. (Plant Health Care) measures that could solve their issues
• Learn then sell P.H.C. Work alongside our Plant Health Care Specialist to ensure you are up to date on the most recent non-toxic solutions we have to offer
• Work alongside the company’s recruiting & HR team on staffing: productivity projections, behavioral write-ups, PIPs (Performance Improvement Plans) and separations/terminations. Interview and train the staff you oversee. Serve as the point-person for all H.R. or payroll-related issues including helping train crew to use the time-keeping application on their phone
• Lead safety meetings and serve as the point-person for field-related training
• Train staff on landscaping and hardscaping practices plus plant identification, pruning techniques, fertilization practices and P.H.C. (Plant Health Care) solutions that may include low-toxicity pesticides.
• Chime in on marketing efforts, when asked, that relate to work your team does. Specifically, our Defensible Space efforts, which kicked off in mid-2025.
• Work on special projects as requested by the CEO

Benefits

• Immediately: Participation in our 401(k) program, worker’s compensation, company auto insurance, a company vehicle and company gear.
• Medical, dental, and optical insurance paid at 100%
• 5 Paid holidays
• 5 Paid sick days
• Paid time off. PTO is earned as one goes.
• Employee referral bonus of $400.00 for anyone who stays at least 90 days
• Tuition reimbursement for coursework that will make you better at your job (with prior approval from the Strategic Assistant to the CEO)
• Employee discounts for tree and landscaping work at your home

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees