Position Overview
EcoPro Crewpersons are responsible for the upkeep of customers’ lawn, landscaping, and irrigation systems.
Pay
- Salary with commission, plus incentives
- Estimated Annual Income: $16,640 - $24,960
Responsibilities
- Answering phone calls and emails from the office
- Operating lawn machinery and equipment
- Mixing, applying, and documenting the use of herbicides and fertilizers
- Scheduling appointments with customers
- Scheduling, routing, and servicing 100+ customer accounts each week.
Preferred Skills, Qualities & Experience
- Ability to work outside in heat and cold
- Adaptability
- Communication skills
- Cooperative work ethic
- Organizational skills
- Prioritization skills
- Problem-solving abilities
- Self-motivation
- Time-management skills
- Experience in customer service preferred
Job Tasks
- Operate vehicles and powered equipment such as: mowers, chain saws, electric clippers, sod cutters, and pruning saws.
- Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers.
- Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls.
- Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers.
- Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws.
- Gather and remove litter.
- Mix and spray or spread fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto grass, shrubs, or trees, using hand or automatic sprayers or spreaders.
- Maintain irrigation systems, including adjusting, clean and replacing individual sprinklers.
- Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, planters, burial sites, or other grounds features.
- Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans.
- Trim or pick flowers and clean flower beds.
- Rake, mulch, and compost leaves.
- Use irrigation methods to adjust the amount of water consumption and to prevent waste.
- Plant seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, or shrubs and apply mulch for protection, using gardening tools.
- Decorate gardens with stones or plants.
- Haul or spread topsoil or spread straw over seeded soil to hold soil in place.
- Advise customers on plant selection or care.
- Plan or cultivate lawns or gardens.
- Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes.
- Install rock gardens, ponds, decks, drainage systems, irrigation systems, retaining walls, fences, planters, or playground equipment.