Landscaping Specialist

seasonal opportunity August- November, 40 hours a week

Looking for a place where you can thrive and grow?

Central CT Lawn Services landscape technicians are responsible for maintaining and enhancing outdoor spaces, ensuring that landscapes are visually appealing, healthy, and environmentally sustainable. A Landscaping specialist is responsible for providing aeration services that improve soil health and promote healthy grass growth by using specialized equipment to perforate the soil, allowing better air, water, and nutrient flow to plant roots. Duties can include performing lawn aeration services, making sure plants grow well in their assigned area as well as cleaning up debris around yards and other areas.

In this role you will have you will have the opportunity to work outside on beautiful properties in your community, You will apply your expertise to ensure the on-going health, beauty and well-being of each client’s landscape.

What a day is like:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Requires frequent standing, kneeling, walking, pulling, reaching, stooping and bending.
• Requires walking primarily on uneven turf or rocky areas while on job sites.
• Use lawn aeration and overseeding equipment
• Clean up debris in flower beds and leaves on lawns
• May be exposed to moderate to loud work environments. These areas will require the use of personal protective equipment such as hearing protection.
• Will be exposed to dust, dyes, grease, odors, mechanical and electrical hazards, and all types of weather and temperature conditions.
• Job requires ability to work with hand tools, small and large engine equipment
• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs. repeatedly through an entire work shift.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Requires good manual dexterity.
• Excellent stamina is required.
• Work with and near heavy equipment and other vehicles on a regular basis

 What kind of person are we looking for?  Someone with:

• A desire to grow, craves opportunity, loves problem solving and process improvement.
• The ability to run various types of equipment, who enjoys heavy lifting in various weather conditions.
• Horticulture/Arboriculture Trade Certification a bonus
• Must be able to operate equipment safely.
• The responsibility and independence to work autonomously.
• Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills to understand and meet client needs.
• Valid driver's license

Why you might love working here:

• We have lots of training and development opportunities and will support your continuing education in the industry.
• You’ll work alongside some of the best trained and equipped teams in the industry, with an emphasis on quality and safety.
• We’re collaborative, so you’ll have the ability to connect and collaborate with people in experts in the field.
• We offer a competitive salary and benefits, including health and dental, paid time off, vehicle program, and a matched 401(K)
• The opportunity to advance your knowledge in the field as well as in the company.

Physical demands of this role:

These physical demands described must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of the job, the employee is subject to frequently lift and/or move up to fifty (50) pounds. 

Thrive's mission is to take our passion for nature and keep this country’s outdoors beautiful and flourishing. Through our comprehensive lawn and tree care, we work hard to make sure our customers have attractive, healthy and cared-for green spaces to enjoy. Over the last thirty years, we have opened new offices across the country, and we are looking for people who want to grow with us.

We want everyone to be able to identify and achieve their own version of success, which means giving each employee the room and opportunity to grow. To ensure that everyone has the best chance to succeed, we invest heavily in training and continuing education. We make it easy for you to reach out and get the help you need, even when it’s from the other side of the country. This means actively fostering a collaborative culture where we come together to learn from each other and help each other succeed. We pride ourselves on creating an environment where each employee has the resources and opportunities to advance his or her career and become a go-to subject matter expert. That’s why we often say that when you work here, you thrive here.

Thrive is an equal opportunity employer and a Drug Free Workplace

This position pays $18-22/hr.