Landscaping job descriptions
Every role a $20M business in this industry hires for: 23 Role Blueprints, from leadership to the field. Open any role for its full template and a free Word file.
Leadership 5
Chief Executive Officer
A landscaping chief executive officer settles which services, neighborhoods and customers a lawn and landscape company goes after next, and works out how to fund that push.
Chief Operating Officer
A landscaping chief operating officer writes the rules every crew and yard works by: route design, the install process, and who may spray, climb or tow.
Chief Financial Officer
A landscaping chief financial officer's main job is making sure the company can pay its bills all year, even though most of the work happens between spring and fall.
General Manager
A landscaping general manager runs one yard as its own business: the maintenance and install crews, the salespeople and office team.
Director of Admin & Operations
A landscaping director of admin and operations runs the work behind the crews: the schedule, dispatch, customer service, HR, billing and the books.
Managers 8
Field Supervisor
A landscaping field supervisor drives between your crews all day, checking mowing routes, landscape installs and safety on site.
HR Manager
A landscaping HR manager staffs the crews and office for each spring rush, including any seasonal workers brought in on H-2B visas.
Marketing Manager
A landscaping marketing manager fills mowing routes with weekly maintenance customers and the spring calendar with landscape design, install and irrigation jobs.
Office Manager
A landscaping office manager keeps billing, crew schedules, customer calls and job paperwork moving while the crews are out.
Operations Manager
The operations manager at a residential landscaping company runs every crew that leaves the yard: mowing routes, install jobs, sprinkler service and the tree crew.
Production Manager
A landscaping production manager turns sold landscape installs and enhancements into finished yards.
Sales Manager
A landscaping sales manager heads a sales staff that sells two kinds of work: weekly maintenance agreements and one-time installs like patios, plantings and irrigation.
Warehouse Manager
In landscaping, the warehouse manager runs the yard and shop the crews work from.
Office and sales 6
Customer Service Representative
A landscaping customer service representative takes the calls, texts and emails homeowners send about mowing, cleanups, tree work, sprinklers and new installs.
Dispatcher
Landscaping dispatchers build the weekly routes for mowing and maintenance crews and send install, irrigation and tree crews to the right jobs.
Bookkeeper
A landscaping bookkeeper records the money moving through a company that mows, plants, waters and trims for homeowners.
Inventory Specialist
A landscaping inventory specialist keeps track of everything the crews use: mulch and stone in the yard bins, nursery plants waiting to go in the ground, fertilizer and weed control, sprinkler parts and mower supplies.
Sales Representative
A landscaping sales representative meets homeowners at their property, measures the yard, and prices weekly maintenance, cleanups and install projects such as patios, plantings and sprinkler systems.
Rehash Specialist
A landscaping rehash specialist works the leads that didn't buy: patio, planting and sprinkler proposals that stalled, mowing quotes that never signed, and last year's customers who didn't renew.
In the field 4
Arborist
A landscaping arborist checks the trees on your customers' properties, prunes them, and plans treatment for pests and disease.
Crew Leader
A landscaping crew leader drives the truck, runs a small crew through a day of weekly yards or a landscape install, and does the work alongside them.
Laborer / Helper
A landscaping laborer helps a crew with the physical work: loading the trailer, moving mulch, stone and sod, digging, planting, and cleaning up.
Landscaper / Gardener
A landscaper keeps homeowners' yards healthy week after week by mowing, pruning shrubs, weeding and mulching beds, planting, and fixing small sprinkler problems.
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