We sat down and wrote 5 pages of notes relating to the General Manager that we want to hire for our landscaping division, then winnowed it down to this list.
Job Duties
- Lawn crews
- Estimate and chase new work
- Review and renew contracts
- Order materials and equipment for jobs
- Schedule work—efficient routes using GPS
- Job costing, manhours, direct and indirect costs
- Establish yearly budgets
- Inspect sites and meet with customers
- Equipment purchases & maintenance
- Snow crews
- Set up snow routes: schedule, labor, and equipment to routes
- General dispatch: weather, crews, drive and inspect lots at night
- Review and renew contracts
- Customer relations—The quarterback for all snow-related calls
- Fuel/salt surcharges
- Review equipment needs
- Purchase all ice melt products
- Track/ job cost work
- Budgets
- General
- Licensing & certifications
- Advertising
- New business opportunities
- Tree trimming work
- Private work
- Irrigation work