Grow LA’s Resilience – and Your Own!

This is a role leading a team that reshapes lives and beautifies Los Angeles. You’ll be appreciated for your ability to solve clients’ challenges,and lead teams’ onsite work. You will ensure your gardens and your team members reach their full potential. Several times a day, you and your team will feel pride as you look back on spaces made more beautiful, that day, and year over year, by your attentive care.

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Job Description

Our maintenance foremen lead maintenance teams onsite. They learn clients’ interests and preferences and develop plans and practices for each garden. Foremen schedule team members, organize work onsite, ensure team members have the tools they need, and help team members learn new skill sets. They also work side-by-side with their teams in garden.
 
We need you to bring:

• Excellent client communication skills
• The ability to motivate and manage a team
• An attention to detail and willingness to learn
• Horticultural care expertise – particularly if you know native plants
• Understanding of smart irrigation technology

 
In this job, you’ll:

• Be provided with the tools, equipment and PPE you and your team need to safely do your best job at every task
• Represent our company to those who approach you and your team
• Take pride in and responsibility for the growth of each garden in your team’s care
• Create quality care photo books and punch lists to set team goals
• Report all client and garden needs daily through the clock shark tool
• Suggest plant replacements, tree trimming, mulch or other upgrades to improve the aesthetic of the project overall to maintenance care managers
• Deliver seasonal tasks in addition to standard, year-round maintenance tasks
• Identify and communicate ways to improve company efficiency through all processes
• Abide by rigorous health and safety standards and ensure team members do as well

 
On average day as a maintenance team foreman, you will work hand-in-hand with your team as they:

• Dig, plant, rake, sweep, water, and weed
• Manage low-flow, subsurface drip irrigation and weather-based controllers
• Manage landscape lighting systems
• Move and reshaping soil
• Use hand and/or power tools and/or equipment to perform a wide range of duties

 
You’ll like this job if you enjoy jobs where you:

• Like to see the results of your work and feel accomplishment several times per day
• Work outside, sometimes in high-heat and/or other adverse weather conditions
• Work sometimes alone, sometimes with a team
• Bend, move, stoop, and twist continually throughout the day
• Often hear birdsong and see wildlife

COVID-19 considerations

We value your health, and our sustainable practices will protect it. Beyond that, we also keep the highest safety standards and were among the first businesses to earn LA County Public Health’s Covid-19 Safety Compliance Certificate.

Lead a Team Saving LA with Authentic Natural Beauty

Lead our new Enhancements division to reshape lives and beautify Los Angeles. You will have the opportunity to make your unique mark and create lasting impact for our clients and community, bringing your ideas and expertise to evolve and grow high-end, optimally sustainable landscapes throughout the greater LA area. You’ll be appreciated for your ability to lead teams, collaborate with our full service team, and engage with a diverse clientele.

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About the Position

In this position, your responsibilities would include:

Team Leadership:

• Create a mission-driven, positive, growth-minded, encouraging atmosphere
• Set clear expectations and consequences
• Plan and implement annual training and meeting plans with designers and foremen
• Meet and collaborate with design, maintenance, and marketing on a weekly basis

Team Management:

• Frequent, strategic coordination with co-management.
• Plan and lead monthly foremen meetings.
• Implement field training in gardens and in staff meetings.
• Dispatch and oversee enhancement projects.
• Evaluate staff performance.
• Review sales and job performance reports.
• Budget staff raises, incentives, recognition and bonuses.
• Budget sales forecasts, expense cuts, annual raises and vehicle upkeep costs.

 
Client Engagement and Service:

• Develop annual client communication plans, client affinity and referral programs
• Collaborate with both design+build and maintenance teams to serve client needs
• Educate clients about the latest rebates, incentives, and community requirements, as well as the return on investment
• and other benefits of our sustainable practices
• Build custom design packages based on client need
• Walk-through project progress with clients and follow-up with written reports
• Prepare clients with established gardens for photography and collaboration with our marketing team

Why FormLA Landscaping

We believe the authentic beauty of Los Angeles can save the city. So, we are bringing it – one lush, leafy, lovely, low-water landscape at a time. We value integrity, communication, competency, exceeding expectations and innovation. In your day-to-day, this is how our core values would translate into support for you – we:

• Provide with the tools, equipment and PPE you need to safely do your best
• Protect your rest – we work only weekdays and provide PTO
• Save your hearing – we use clean electric instead of gas-powered mowers or blowers
• Save your health – we do NOT apply toxic chemical fertilizers or pesticides
• Learn in-demand sustainable landscaping strategies and tools