Foliage Outside Matters
Adress of Shop:336 Burnett Ave, North York
Position: Supervisor/ Crew lead position
Experience required 1-2 years plus of Applicable Professional Garden/ Turf Maintenance
Wage and Benefits
Competitive wages offered based on knowledge, experience and demonstrated skills: $27.5 base
Health spending account after 3 months (RMT, Dental, Prescription drugs, Physio)
Paid sick/personal day program after 3 months with top ups after 6 months
About Foliage Outside Matters:
You will play a crucial role in the movement of the Crew, equipment and material throughout the day in order to service our client’s property in a professional, safe, efficient manner.
You will role model the company vision of professionalism and represents our values for delivering a high standard of lawn, garden and planting service that our company can be proud of.
The season starts end of March through to the Beginning of December.
Monday to Friday schedule (no weekend work scheduled, unless backed up by weather)
Our work takes us to residential properties in the neighborhoods of the Beaches, Rosedale, North York, and downtown Toronto.
We have great equipment: from our fleet of well-kept vehicles to some of the latest battery powered equipment.
The shop is TTC accessible near Yonge and Sheppard at Senlac and Sheppard in North York. We are a few minutes away from Yonge and #401
Job description
1-2 years+ experience: a true professional in most aspects of supervising and leading by example: garden and lawn maintenance (Blowing, Line Trimming, hedge trimming/shearing, edging, pruning, annual, perennial and tree planting, irrigation monitoring)
A high gardening/Horticulture knowledge base
Remarkable attention to details
Knowledge of all local health, safety laws and regulations
You have professional skills and high expectations for self and crew in: Landscape Maintenance, Pruning, Hedge trimming, Plant Health Care, and Planting
Ability to work up to 11-hour days during the high season, Monday through Friday
Valid G class “Ontario” license, clean drivers abstract and experience driving in the city (preferred)
The leadership responsibilities and management duties for 3-5 staff of this position are as follows:
-attention to detail, excellent record keeping, excellent time management skills
- Reflect and promote Foliage core values
- Work to improve buy in for team members
- Participate in training process on small landscape machinery used in a maintenance setting
Participate in training process on annual planting and perennial plants and shrubs
- Follow up the Greenius training when completed with new employees
- Supervise and organize tasks according to daily/ weekly/ monthly schedule.
- Manage/train and safely lead the crew on every job
- Participate in the morning task list for crew
- Check material logs daily to ensure accuracy with material usage/task list
- Co-manage shop; equipment and material inventory
-Excellent in Written and Oral English Language