Landscape Laborer

Thompson + Hanson is home to designers and architects, curators, and gardeners–creatives at heart grateful for the privilege of shaping and inspiring beautiful spaces across Houston and Austin since 1981. Our landscape design & maintenance teams specialize in the conception, construction, and continuous care for each project we undertake. Our clients trust us to create and maintain unique and beautiful landscapes that stay fresh with each season.
Our landscape design, install & maintenance teams specialize in the conception, construction, and continuous care for each project we undertake. Our clients trust us to create and maintain unique and beautiful landscapes that stay fresh with each season.
Being a part of the Thompson + Hanson team means more than just having a job. We believe in nurturing employees, providing room to grow, and offering opportunities for leadership.

Job Responsibilities:
Care for established lawns and flower beds by mulching, aerating, weeding, removing thatch, or trimming or edging around flower beds, walks, or walls
Operate powered equipment, such as mowers, chain saws, electric clippers, sod cutters, and pruning saws
Mow or edge lawns, using power mowers or edgers
Use hand tools, such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge or brush trimmers, or axes
Prune or trim trees, shrubs, or hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws
Gather and remove litter
Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, planters, or other grounds features
Water lawns, trees, or plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans
Adhere to safety policies
Maintain high quality workmanship

Qualifications:
Little experience needed; training provided
Active listening
Interpersonal skills

Physical requirements of the job: 
Bending or twisting the body; keeping or regaining balance
Making repetitive motions
Standing, sitting, kneeling, crouching, squatting, walking and/ running
Pushing or pulling objects
Bending and stooping
Climbing ladders, scaffolding, and stairs
Grasping and squeezing
Move or lift objects up to 75 pounds

Environmental Elements of the job:
Work outdoors in extreme heat or cold
Exposed to high places
Sounds or noise levels that are distracting and uncomfortable
Use herbicides, fertilizers, pesticides, and related products
Exposed to hazardous equipment
Exposed to minor burns, cuts, bites or stings
Extremely bright or inadequate lighting

Tools, equipment, and technology utilized for job:
Lawn mower
Rakes
Pruners and shears
Hedge trimmers
Weed whackers
Blowers
Power saws: chain and pruning
Hand or power tools
Tillers
Spreaders: mulch, rotary, and sand
Wheelbarrows and wagons