The average person spends over 90,000 hours at work in their lifetime. This is obviously a huge portion of our lives. Those hours aren't just about making money anymore, they are about being a part of a team, making a contribution to your community, and feeling proud of what you do at the end of the day.

The Grounds Guys of Abbotsford respects your need for flexible scheduling, your need to feel like you are part of a great team, your need to create and maintain something beautiful, and your need to give back to the community. We have numerous positions available right now, and we are looking for great people with a positive attitude, that want to contribute to a hard working team.

As Maintenance Team Leader, you are responsible for managing a team up to 3-5 people while performing the delivery of services. Our clients trust to us to provide quality services and you are key in helping us live out our values every day.

You are a proactive leader and self-starter who can interact with the public and our employees. You have a strong work ethic and are able to manage time to effectively meet deadlines. You have experience in landscaping and previous supervisory experience, as well as proven communication skills with supervisors, employees, and customers. You are happy and enjoy coming to work most days.

Specific Responsibilities:

Manage team of up to 3-5 people while performing services; motivate, coach, and mentor team
Perform landscape maintenance duties, such as mowing, fertilizer application, weed control, aeration, spring clean-up, fall clean-up, trimming, and pruning
Operate a variety of mechanical equipment including but not limited to bed edgers, commercial mowers, blowers, dump trailers, chainsaws, line trimmers, and tillers
Perform landscape enhancement activities such as mulch application, plantings, top soil application, lawn seeding
Address clients' questions, comments, and concerns

Job Requirements:

Current and unrestricted Driver's license with a clean record
2-3 years minimum experience in this or a related field is required
Previous leadership experience
Willingness to work occasional (paid) overtime
Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds to waist level and perform all other physical requirements associated with a position of this nature

For our list of Benefits - please see below

We are actively interviewing for this position - Apply today and our hiring manager will follow up!

Compensation: $42,000.00 - $55,000.00 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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Besides working with a great team of overall happy people, our company also offers the following list of benefits:

Paid Travel Time - We meet at the shop for our morning HUDDLE every day and are paid from the shop and to the shop

Flexible Hours - We honour the need for time with family and offer part time positions as well as full time positions

Uniforms - all of our staff are easily recognized in our professional looking shirts, sweats and pants

"People Like You" - want to refer a friend? If they are as valuable as you, we will pay for that in a bonus!

Phone Allowance for Team Leads - Let us help pay for that cell and data plan when you become a team lead

Personal Wellness Benefit - our in-house benefit plan helps cover the costs of life - insurance, prescriptions, fitness memberships, dental, etc

Vacation Pay - we help you save up for some much needed time away with family and friends

Direct Deposit - sick of wondering if you are getting paid this week? We pay every two weeks and put that money directly into your account for you

Training Allowance - Been with us for 3 months or more and want to learn more about our trade? We will help cover the cost of that with our training stipend!

Documented Training Program - we have a documented program for safety, education, equipment training and industry training. And we will help pay for that....

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