Landscape Crew Leader - City of Homewood

TARGET CLOSE DATE:

05/02/2025

PAY GRADE:

Grade 20

TYPE:

Full time

JOB SUMMARY:

The City of Homewood is seeking a Landscape Crew Leader. This role plays a crucial role in enhancing and maintaining green spaces through effective planning and coordination. Landscape Crew Leaders oversee projects involving the planting and care of various plants flowers and shrubs aiming for beautification and environmental benefits like erosion control. In this role they guide a work crew ensuring that all work adheres to established criteria and practices. Employees in this job class are responsible for developing detailed plans executing tasks and troubleshooting any issues that arise during the project. Assignments come from multiple sources including work orders and meetings.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:

The City of Homewood provides competitive pay and comprehensive benefits packages to include medical and dental insurance employersponsored retirement plan (pension) generous paid holidays sick and vacation leave and more. The pay range for this job is listed below:


Homewood $23.99 $37.22 USD Hourly

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

To be considered for employment in this position a candidate must possess the following:

• Drivers license.

• Ornamental and Turf Pest Control Permit (Custodial or Supervisor)

• Experience in operating landscaping equipment and tools including but not limited to: tillers mowers hedge shears chainsaws edger string trimmers shovels and rakes skid steer loader tractor backhoe etc.

• Experience in planting and cutting trees shrubs hedges ground cover and turf grass on the basis of a landscape design.

• Experience training new personnel on the proper use of landscaping equipment and tools.

JOB DUTIES:

Typical job duties include but are not necessarily limited to:

• Maintains equipment and tools (e.g. mowers bobcat blower eater sprayers) by conducting pretrip inspections and scheduling regular service maintenance in order to ensure that the equipment is working correctly and downtime is minimized.

• Oversees the application of pesticides and fertilizers to ensure that the materials are used in a safe manner using various equipment such as a spray truck or back pack to maintain the health and growth of plants by eliminating unwanted weeds and pests in order to eliminate and stunt the growth of vegetation.

• Directs and participates in the installation of plants and flower beds by prepping the area removing debris planting the appropriate material and cleaning the area at completion to ensure that a high standard of quality is maintained.

• Acts as a lead worker of peer or support staff by assigning and reviewing work tasks facilitating training and providing feedback using policies procedures tools and directives from management in order to ensure tasks are completed in accordance with established requirements.

• Manages the documentation of completed work by writing daily reports completing a chemical application log and maintaining the incident report log for accidents and behavioral incidents in order to document accurate information for future reference.

• Inspects all equipment after use for damage and unusual wear prior to being loaded back on the truck.

• Maintains herbicide and pesticide licenses are maintained by attending training in spraying of pesticides insecticides fungicides and herbicides yearly to gain credits.

• Identifies training needs of subordinates and offers coaching mentoring and developmental opportunities to increase staff skills.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Job involves physical exertion required for sustained periods of moderate activity such as digging holes loading/unloading materials or extended standing. May involve frequent lifting of items or objects weighing up to 50 lbs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Work is performed primarily in outdoor settings such as gardens grounds and parks yearround. Work involves the use of gardening/landscaping tools (e.g. pruning shears shovels rakes) as well as the use of various types of heavy equipment (e.g. bobcat gator backhoe).

EEO STATEMENT:

The Personnel Board of Jefferson Countyprovides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment with the Personnel Board of Jefferson County including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. Each Merit System member city/agencyoperate its own equal employment opportunity policies available on the individual city/agency website.

ACCOMMODATION:

NOTE:

This job posting may close before or be extended beyond the listed Target Close Date based on the employment needs of the Merit System. More detail regarding this job is available by clicking Apply.

DISCLAIMER:

This job posting is not meant to be an allinclusive list of the job duties responsibilities or skills and abilities required to do the job and may be changed at the discretion of the Personnel Board at any time.