HARD Landscape Team Leader/Foreman
As a Team Leader your main responsibility is to ensure that your team has all the necessary resources to complete their tasks safely, efficiently, and within budget. This includes sharing your expertise, giving continuous feedback to your team members and clients.
You’ll also get involved in doing everything from project management, site set-out, earthworks, timber work, paving, soft landscaping, irrigation and much more as this is a team-based role.
Responsibilities include but not limited to:- Landscape Construction – reading construction plans and installing as per the clients/architects specification.
- Quality - your work is of the highest standard, you are thorough and take pride in doing well.
- Health & Safety - you make sure you and your workmates go home unharmed every day.
- Teamwork - you'll be an active team member, encouraging your team to complete assigned work to a high standard, while having all the support from Project Managers in maintaining great relationships with clients.
- Time/resource management- Be able to complete your project on time and within budget
About You
You’ll have a passion for landscaping, have a strong work ethic and enjoy being on the tools or operating a machine. You're a team player, willing to learn and ideally already have extensive experience in carpentry, paving and concrete aspects, accurately working to drawings and level levels.You can use a wide range of power tools and operate machinery (loader, digger, skid steer etc). You enjoy sharing your knowledge with others and are adept at communicating and collaborating with your team, clients, and contractors.
Requirements:- At least 3 years experience with hard landscaping – Carpentry, concrete work, paving etc
- Experience in a Team Leader or similar position
- A good level of fitness and communication skills
- Willingness to learn, grow and work in a team environment
- A commitment to health and safety practices that creates a safe working environment for the team and others on site.
- Full class 1 driver's license
- Horticulture Qualification Level 4+
- First Aid & Site Safe certifications
- Ability to drive a operate digging machinery (digger, loader, skid steer etc)
- Class 2/4 driver’s license
- WTR certification
- Experience in Simpro or other job tracking software
- Playground installation
We can offer you: Competitive hourly rate plus work ute dependent on experience.
Join our team and work for one of Canterbury best landscape firms with over 38+ years in the industry.You'll get to work in a diverse work environment with locations around Canterbury, and we'll provide you with all the necessary tools to get the job done.
We actively encourage our team members to grow professionally and personally and offer on-the-job training to help you develop your skills.
About Us:Forever Green is a highly regarded provider of landscaping services across Canterbury. Our expertise is trusted for all elements of landscaping. We have our own retail bulk bin yard to supply the public/ clients with landscape products/materials and have our own tree and shrub Nursery.
Our New Landscape HQ is located in Prebbleton just off the motorway. We have been operating since 1987 and being a family run business with over 40 employees we truly value all our staff and want to see everyone grow and reach their full potential!
Applicants for this position should have NZ residency