Project Manager - Tree Care Industry

Job DescriptionJob Description

• Do you have +/- 5 years of experience in the tree care industry as a Project Manager, Operations Manager or similar role?
• Are you up for starting your day at 5:00 a.m. PST?
• Is your commute of Richmond, CA no more than 40 minutes in 6:30 a.m. traffic?
• If so, please keep reading…

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
 As the company’s first-ever Project Manager for commercial tree care jobs, your primary goal is to keep our crews running efficiently and our projects completed on-time and on-budget.
The right person for this position is someone with either extensive tree care industry experience, extensive project management experience at a tree company, or both. The person we’ll hire has worked on a wide variety of tree-related projects in Northern California and understands the equipment and crew needed to plant, trim, or remove trees ranging from roughly 15-feet to 160-feet in height.

Our new P.M. will be an experienced manager/mentor/coach, good with computers, open to learning and training others on new software systems, familiar with working in a rustic tree care industry environment, orderly enough to keep their yard shipshape, and able to drive out to job sites to evaluate projects. 
ABOUT THE COMPANY

Since 1980, The Professional Tree Care Company has been trusted for tree services throughout Northern California. Based in Berkeley, Ca, we service commercial, residential, and public works projects from Mendocino to Monterey, and from San Francisco to Sacramento.
What makes us unique? Aside from having the staff and equipment to take on tree work of any size, we recycle 100% of material removed from job sites at our own Green Waste Recycle Yard, (see greenwasterecycleyard dot com). We also mill logs into dimensional lumber, build outdoor furniture from logs, create wood chips, mulch, and electricity from mulch in cooperations with All Power Labs. 

QUALIFICATIONS

• TREE CARE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IS A MUST. You have worked in the tree care industry for 5+ years as a PM, Foreman, Senior Climber, Trainer, Manager, or another role that has provided the experience needed to know the equipment and crew needed for large, commercial projects that last from weeks to years.
• People management skills and experience. As a member of the management team, you’re a natural mentor/trainer who enjoys helping others advance their professional careers. You routinely give out praise with an “Atta boy!” or “’Atta girl!” when deserved, know how to give constructive criticism in private, and participate in shaping a culture of optimism and accountability in which everyone on the clock is highly productive.
• Project management skills and experience. You’re a natural at running several projects at once using MS-Project or other project-related software. Ideally, you’ve been the person responsible to ensure projects are completed on-time, on-budget, and to your client’s’ satisfaction. You’re familiar with job costing and project post-mortems.
• ABW/Always Be Working. The candidate we hire is someone who moves quickly, gets a great deal of work done, and uses software or a demonstrated system to track ALL tasks. They have a good sense of what it takes to keep an entire yard running smoothly and know when to ask for help
• Customer-facing experience. You’ve worked with clients, contractors, sub-contractors, municipalities, etc.
• Available to be on call. The person who lands this role must be available by phone since, once trained, they may become the commercial operations team’s point of contact for emergency work; calls that often come in at night and on weekends
• Communication skills. The ability to communicate effectively and professionally including email and team announcements. Willing to reply to texts from colleagues within the same day.
• Clean CA DL You have a clean and current California Driver’s License and will be able to drive your vehicle or a company car to job sites from time to time as needed
• Physically fit and able to hustle. Our PYPM must be able to work at a brisk pace at least 8+ hours per day. They must also be able to ascend/descend stairs, tromp through forests and/or wilderness to evaluate projects, and lift equipment that weighs +/-40 pounds onto truck beds
• Strong computer literacy with proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, etc.) Familiarity with calendar management and clerical tasks
• Neat: If your garage is highly organized, this may be your dream job. You’ll oversee your own yard, ensuring that every facet of your office, stockrooms, meeting rooms, and the parking lot are well organized
• Sense of humor. When projects get stressful, we’ll rely on your corny jokes to break the tension
• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

BONUS POINTS FOR

• Being bilingual English/Spanish
• Living near the GreenWasteRecycleYard (dot) com in Richmond, CA
• Having a better than average memory is a HUGE plus
• Experience with Microsoft Project or another project scheduling software that can be used for tree care projects
• College coursework or a degree is a plus. Especially, construction management, accounting, or business. Please highlight your education to indicate when you graduated and the degree earned, if any. We are open to hiring folks with a G.E.D. and many years of experience in lieu of college courses.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Attend daily 5:00 a.m. scheduling meeting with our CEO & Bid Manager. Review, analyze, and schedule, projects including staffing, equipment, permits, billing, etc.
• Own the feedback loop between commercial clients, arborists/estimators, foreman, a fleet coordinator, the recruiting team, billing/job costing group, sales, and CEO
• Produce and distribute daily work production/progress reports to foremen and Ops. Mgrs.
• Lead safety meetings and serve as the point-person for field-related training
• Oversee equipment. You’ll be the point-person for our master spreadsheet of cranes, bucket trucks, Morbarks, etc.
• HR-related: interview Climbers and Grounds-people, write performance reviews, coach team members who are lacking specific hard or soft skills, and serve as the point-person for all H.R. or payroll-related issues including helping train crew to use the time-keeping application on their phone  
• Attend a bi-weekly accounting/project billing meeting
• Spend an hour daily making yard improvements.  These include moving and/or selling large-scale commercial equipment, hiring painters and builders to update and/or build offices, using staff to keep storage lockers organized and labeled.
• Checking in with our Fleet Coordinator to confirm specific equipment is ready for the next day’s/week’s jobs; reviewing maintenance and use histories, monitoring fuel use on all jobs, purchasing equipment, as needed
• Working on special projects as requested by the CEO

Who Should NOT APPLY:  

• Folks who do not have TREE CARE industry experience. Are you currently, or recently, working for one of our competitors near Berkeley, CA? GREAT! Please apply.
• Anyone living farther than 45 minutes away from our site at 2550 Garden Tract Road, Richmond, CA
• Late night-ers. Your start time is 5:00 a.m. on site, so you’ll need to arrive by +/- 4:50 A.M.
• People who cannot drive or don’t have transportation to remote sites: forests, fields, streams, etc.
• Anyone who is not physically fit enough to tromp through the forest to inspect a job.
• Folks who have a rigid schedule and/or must be on the road at a particular time. When commercial projects go sideways, our PM will be one of the first people contacted regardless of the hour
• Anyone uncomfortable using a port-a-potty as their primary loo

Benefits

• 401(k) immediately
• After 90 days of employment:

• • Medical, dental, and optical insurance with a large contribution from the company.
  • Paid holidays
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid bereavement leave
  • Employee referral bonus
  • Company phone
  • Company vehicle, as needed

Schedule

• Monday to Friday
• Few, if any, weekends

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