About The Role

Grey Barn | Northwest Arkansas

$66,000 Base Salary + Up to $16,000 in Starting Bonus Opportunity

Grey Barn is looking for someone who actually knows landscaping.

Not someone who has simply managed landscaping crews from an office.

We are looking for a person who can walk onto a property and understand what needs to happen — from turf, beds, plants and drainage to design, installation, maintenance processes and crew execution.

You should be equally comfortable

Walking a property with a customer
Designing and estimating a landscape project
Selling the work
Showing a crew exactly how it should be completed
Jumping in and demonstrating the right process when necessary
Inspecting the finished product
Improving the systems so the next job gets done faster and better

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone with deep landscaping experience who wants to help us build a best-in-class commercial landscaping operation.

THE ROLE

The Landscape Production & Design Expert will help Grey Barn improve how we design, sell, install and maintain landscapes across our portfolio.
You will work closely with our operations, sales and field teams to make sure our people understand not only what to do, but how and why it should be done.

This position will have responsibility across three major areas

Landscape Expertise & Design

You should be able to evaluate properties and create practical landscape solutions involving

Landscape renovations
Plant and bed design
Tree and shrub selection
Turf and grass management
Mulch and rock installations
Drainage improvements
Seasonal color
Bed cleanup and restoration
Property enhancement projects
Landscape installation and replacement projects

You do not need to be a landscape architect, but you should have enough experience to confidently recommend solutions and explain them to customers and crews.

Sales & Estimating

You will help turn property needs into profitable work.

This includes

Meeting with customers
Identifying enhancement opportunities
Developing scopes of work
Estimating labor, materials and equipment
Presenting recommendations
Helping close projects
Ensuring sold work can actually be produced profitably

You must be comfortable talking to customers and asking for the sale.

Production, Training & Quality

This is not a desk-only position.
You will spend significant time working with our crews and leaders in the field.

You will

Train employees on landscaping best practices
Create repeatable installation and maintenance processes
Demonstrate proper techniques
Help crews diagnose landscaping problems
Inspect completed work
Correct quality issues
Develop SOPs and training materials
Improve productivity and job costing
Help develop crew leaders into stronger landscaping professionals

We want someone who can take years of landscaping knowledge and teach it to other people in a simple, repeatable way.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

You must have

5+ years of professional landscaping experience
Strong hands-on knowledge of landscape maintenance
Experience with landscape installation
Experience designing or laying out landscape projects
Experience estimating landscaping work
Experience leading or training landscaping employees
Strong understanding of plants, turf, beds and landscape materials
Ability to identify common landscape problems and recommend solutions
Ability to communicate professionally with commercial customers
Comfort selling recommended work
Ability to manage several projects or properties at the same time
Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record
Ability to work outdoors and physically participate in landscaping work when necessary

STRONGLY PREFERRED

Experience with any of the following is a major plus

Commercial landscaping
Irrigation systems
Irrigation troubleshooting and repairs
Fertilization
Weed control
Herbicide and pesticide applications
Plant health
Drainage
Hardscape installation
Landscape lighting
Estimating software
Job costing
Managing multiple crews
Creating SOPs or training programs

Licenses or certifications related to landscaping, irrigation, horticulture or chemical applications are also a plus.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

A strong person in this role should help us

Improve the quality of our landscaping work
Develop better field processes
Train stronger crews and crew leaders
Reduce callbacks and rework
Improve estimating accuracy
Increase profitable enhancement sales
Build repeatable standards for landscape maintenance and installation
Make our field team more knowledgeable and independent
Deliver landscapes our customers are excited about

COMPENSATION

Base Salary: $66,000 per year
Starting Bonus Opportunity: Up to $16,000 annually based on agreed performance goals.

Bonus opportunities may be tied to areas such as

Profitable enhancement sales
Gross profit performance
Production quality
Training completion
Reduction in callbacks/rework
Successful implementation of field processes
Team development

There is significant opportunity for this role to grow as Grey Barn grows.

SCHEDULE

This is a full-time, field-oriented leadership position.

Typical schedule

Monday–Thursday: 6:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday: 7:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Some projects, customer needs, weather events or seasonal workloads will require longer days.
Candidates should understand that landscaping is a seasonal operating business and be comfortable doing what is necessary to get the job completed properly.

WHO SHOULD APPLY

This could be a great fit if you are the person other landscapers come to when they don't know how to solve something.
You have spent years learning the trade.
You know what good landscaping looks like.
You can diagnose problems quickly.
You enjoy teaching people.
You are comfortable talking with customers.
And you want an opportunity to use your knowledge to help build a growing landscaping company instead of simply running another mowing route.
If that sounds like you, we want to talk.
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