Area Manager - Houston, United States - Texscape Services

Texscape Services

Verified Company

Houston, United States

9 hours ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

TEXSCAPE SERVICES

Monarch Landscape Companies is a family of successful landscape brands in five states across the central and western United States.

We are a values-based learning organization committed to being the best place to work as a landscape professional.

At Monarch Landscape Companies, your achievements determine your rewards, your abilities define your success, and your professionalism leads to autonomy.

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 pointofcontact for daytoday 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 largescale 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 24 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
Bilingual 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