The Residential Landscape Operations Manager is responsible for managing the Grounds Guys workforce and ensures that we are delivering an excellent experience of grounds care services to our customers.

A qualified candidate should have:

o Minimum of 5 - 7 years of hands-on field experience in Landscaping

o 3 years of prior management and supervisory experience in Landscaping

o Landscape Business development experience

o Landscape Installation and Design experience

Required Capabilities:

Effective communication skills (both verbal and written) for existing customer base as well as new leads
Time Management for meeting and exceeding budgeted hours on jobs as well as scheduling self effectively for the week
Leadership skills
Excellent problem-solving abilities and adaptability
Responsibility and dependability
Requires a high level of decision making each day
Ethics and integrity that represent professionalism in self and company

Operational Requirements: 75% of job duties

The Operations Manager must possess a valid Georgia Driver’s license and maintain a safe driving record.
Oversees the daily operations of crew and clients for the jobs
Daily opening of facility and conducting morning HUDDLE
Plant, disease, and insect knowledge for maintenance quality control audits
Assist Owner to set up safety, and training.
Supervise daily tracking and posting of actual job hours to budgeted hours and report to the Owner for jobs running over and how to correct.
Schedule labor and equipment for crews
Oversee safety for trucks, equipment, and crews in the field
Conduct site visits and include punch listed items for crews to address when in routes for the day or week.
Adaptive knowledge in LMN Time Proprietary Software for field operations.

Design, Installation and Business Development Requirements: 25% of job duties

A two- or four-year degree in a landscape related field, general degree with coursework in the landscape field, or certification by a landscape association preferred
Schedule follow up on all new business leads through company marketing programs to include evaluating and qualifying needs of prospective customers, supplying and delivering bid proposals.
Adaptive knowledge in LMN Time Proprietary Software for bids, and proposals
Meet with potential prospects and discuss budgets and scope
Design residential landscapes
Write proposals for new landscape construction projects.
Review new bids with Owner to ensure successful project estimating, completion and installation
Extensive Plant Identification knowledge in following design implementation on job site
Procure special materials required for project execution
Perform site visits to ensure the quality of work and the scope are in line with customer expectations. Advise construction Crew Leader as needed beforehand and as needed on site.

Compensation: $65,000.00 per year

When you put on The Grounds Guys® uniform, you become part of a team—local experts who strive to treat everyone with respect, do the job the right way, and simply enjoy life in the process. Working for our franchises means they’ll take care of you the way they take care of their own family and friends. And cultivating a culture of CARE, among the team and within the communities, is as important as trimming hedges and planting flower beds—it’s part of everything The Grounds Guys do.

*All independently owned and operated franchised businesses operate under the service brands’ marks, trademarks, trade names, logos, emblems, slogans, or other indicia of origin in connection with The Grounds Guys® franchise system within a specified geographical area. Only the independently owned and operated franchised business shall have any interaction with or authority for its business and make all employment related decisions related to its franchised business.

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