Area Manager
Company: Monarch Landscape Companies
Location: Fairfield
Posted on: January 28, 2023
Job Description:
Area Manager Maintenance
Seeking Area Manager/Supervisor for our Fairfield, CA location.
Nature of Work:
Manage daily operations of sites within assigned territory.
Responsible for client and employee retention, crew productivity,
and workplace safety.
Essential Functions of the Job :
- Serve as client point-of-contact for day-to-day site issues,
and expeditiously and proactively identify, address, and resolve
client needs
- Conduct walkthroughs with client and other company
representatives as appropriate
- Schedule, assign, and direct production teams to ensure all
services are performed according to contract specifications, on
budget, according to schedule and with a high standard of
quality
- Effectively communicate with production teams the tasks
necessary to provide a consistent, high quality product for
clients
- Effectively assess labor needs and execute labor plan by hiring
or terminating employees as needed
- Demonstrate strong leadership skills; develop morale and
recognize employee achievements; foster opportunities for
professional development of employees
- Review and approve timecards for accurate and timely submission
to payroll
- Analyze and understand cost reports and budget variances
related to contract projects
- Routinely monitor sites for quality, assess opportunities for
potential maintenance, irrigation, and enhancement upgrades and
repairs
- Collaborate with staff to propose, track, and resolve minor
enhancement projects to current clients, including final review and
approval before communicating to client
- Work closely with Project Manager on A/B client communication
and expectations, including site information and capital or
large-scale projects
- Meet or exceed annual sales goals
- Ensure safety on every site by conducting and enforcing safety
training and meetings, as well as consistently monitor job sites
for potential safety hazards
- Responsible for creating contemporaneous, prompt, and thorough
documentation of all coaching, conversations, counseling, and
performance management discussions with employees.
- Constantly promote and encourage adherence to company policies
and best practices
- Direct supervision of 2-4 crews
- Direct team activities, establishing task priorities, labor
hour management, scheduling and tracking work assignments,
providing guidance, and ensuring availability of resources
- Problem resolution
- Recommending potential clients to business development team,
based on current relationships
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications - required knowledge, skills and abilities:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Landscape
Architecture or Horticulture, or at least 3 years related work
experience
- Ability to read, write and comprehend English
- Ability to speak effectively before employees and clients
- Bi-lingual English/Spanish strongly preferred, including
ability to read, interpret and translate documents and verbal
presentations
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and
draw valid conclusions
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in written,
oral, diagram and/or schedule format
- Strong relationship building and customer relations skills
- Strong management and leadership skills
- Experience working the commercial property managers a plus
- Effective oral and written communication
- Ability to operate commercial landscape equipment and
tools
- Have a working understanding of irrigation repairs and
familiarity with irrigation controller monitoring and
adjusting
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and perform well under
deadlines
- Organizational skills
- Flexibility
- Basic understanding of Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook
Certificates and Licenses
- As required by state and federal law
- Valid driver license issued by the state where employed
- Commercial Pesticide Applicators License, or ability to obtain
within 1 year
- Certified Landscape Technician (CLT) or ability to obtain
within 1 year
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those
that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the
essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
essential functions of this job.
- Constantly required to talk, hear, see, sit, stand and
walk
- Must be able to see at close vision, distant vision, in color,
peripherally, have depth perception and have the ability to adjust
focus
- Frequent use of hands to manipulate, handle or feel objects,
tools or controls
- Frequently required to reach, bend, twist, stoop, crouch, climb
and balance
- Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and
seldom lift and/or move up to 75 pounds
Work Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are
representative of those an employee encounters while performing the
essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
essential functions of this job.
- Occasionally works with mechanical objects and outside in all
weather conditions
- Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic
or caustic chemicals
- Occasionally exposed to loud noise levels
Keywords: Monarch Landscape Companies, Fairfield , Area Manager, Executive , Fairfield, California
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