Lawn Care Technician

Hopkinton, MA

Feel a sense of pride from seeing the beautiful lawns you’ve helped create as a Lawn Care Technician. Offering full benefits, competitive salaries, and bonus opportunities, Riverside Services is dedicated to creating a culture where team members can grow and develop in their careers.

Enjoy the achievement of helping homeowners and businesses maintain a beautiful and well-kept landscape by joining the Riverside Services team. We are known for our high-quality landscape, tree maintenance, and snow removal services, and our team takes pride in pursuing excellence in every endeavor.

If you are a high-energy, self-motivated individual who takes pride in anticipating lawn care needs, a position at Riverside Services may be the next best step in furthering your career!

Job Type: Full-Time

Pay: Commensurate with experience. Up to $2500 sign on bonus.

Here is what working as a Lawn Care Technician at Riverside Services will entail:

  • Demonstrating your expertise and understanding of all aspects of lawn care management

  • Experience applying planting health care treatments, including granular and liquid applications to turf and ornamental plantings

  • Safely operating equipment including z-sprayers, push spreaders, sprayers, backpack blowers, trucks, and trailers

  • Ordering the materials needed for your job and managing fertilizer inventory

  • Completing the necessary paperwork, including keeping records accounting to Massachusetts pesticide laws

  • Providing excellent customer service to homeowners, business owners, subcontractors, architects, and more

  • A sense of freedom by working with minimal supervision as you are trusted to get the job done right

  • Creating and maintaining a professional job atmosphere, including keeping the lawn care service vehicle and trailer neat and properly stocked

  • Taking pride in keeping the area/site in excellent condition

  • Reporting directly to the Lawn Care Manager and eager to learn from them

  • Interacting professionally with other employees, including presenting yourself in a professional manner

  • Maintaining clear, concise, and punctual reporting of daily work

  • Keeping jobs on schedule and on budget

We ask that you have these qualifications:

  • 1+ years of experience performing fertilizer and pesticide applications

  • Ability to diagnose issues with turf in the landscape and present a solution

  • Pesticide license

  • Liquid fertilizer and pesticide mixing capabilities

  • Driver’s license

  • DOT certification

  • Insurable on the company’s insurance policy

  • Clean criminal record

  • Legal documentation to verify employment eligibility

  • Ability to lift 50+ lbs. without assistance

  • Ability to read and understand fertilizer and pesticide labels

  • Positive, solutions-driven attitude