Job Description
If you have solid landscaping experience and are ready to grow into more specialized, purpose-driven project work, this is where you belong.
Natural Areas Maintenance Technician
Company: Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc.
Locations: Manheim, PA
Additional Locations: n/a
Work Site: On Site
Req ID: 224813
Position Overview
Position: Full-time (Part-time considered), Seasonal
Compensation: $19.00 – $25.00/hr + Time-and-a-Half Overtime
Expected Annual Earnings: $38,000 – $52,000 (depending on hours/workload)
You know how to install and maintain a landscape—but are you ready to build something designed to last? Since 1989, LandStudies, a Davey company, has been expanding what landscaping can be by creating and restoring thriving, self-sustaining ecosystems, floodplains, and wetlands.
If you have solid landscaping experience and are ready to grow into more specialized, purpose-driven project work, this is where you belong.
Why Bring Your Experience to LandStudies?
- Premium Pay & Overtime: Earn a competitive hourly wage with dependable time-and-a-half overtime.
- Solid Benefits: Health benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and 401(k) eligibility after one year.
- Level Up Your Skills: We invest in your professional growth. You’ll get ongoing, specialized training in ecology and advanced land management to make you a highly sought-after specialist.
- Better Work Environment: Move into a more rewarding pace of work with a supportive, mission-driven team.
What You'll Do
We need your hands-on field expertise to help manage and maintain large-scale restoration projects:
- Advanced Weed & Vegetation Control: Utilize your knowledge of weed management and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to control invasive species in meadows, floodplains, and stormwater basins via targeted herbicide application and mowing.
- Equipment Operation: Put your skills to use operating backpack sprayers, trimmers, blowers, and chainsaws. You will also occasionally operate heavier equipment like RTVs and compact tractors.
- Fine Gardening & Installation: Use your eye for detail for hand weeding, mulching, aesthetic pruning, and planting trees, shrubs, and perennials.
- Site Monitoring: Assist with site assessments, vegetation surveys, and checking on stormwater facilities to ensure our installs are thriving.
Who We're Looking For
This isn't an entry-level gig; we need someone who already knows their way around a job site and a trailer.
- The Landscaping Foundation: 2–5 years of hands-on experience in landscaping, horticulture, or grounds maintenance. (An Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in horticulture/landscaping is a huge plus, but we value field experience!)
- Plant Knowledge: You know your plants by name and understand basic horticulture. You can read a site plan/design and execute it accurately.
- The Right Credentials: A valid driver’s license is required (experience pulling a trailer is a major plus). A Pennsylvania Pesticide Applicator or Technician Certification is required.
- Physical Stamina: You’re used to the grind. You are comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions and can regularly lift and carry up to 75 lbs.
- Professionalism: You take pride in your work, show up on time, and communicate effectively with the crew and clients.
- Age: Must be 18 years or older.
Additional Information
What We Offer:*
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Opportunities for advancement.
- All job specific equipment and safety gear provided.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match.
- Employee-owned company and discounted stock purchase options.
- Group Health Plan.
- Employee Referral Bonus Program: Send-A-Friend.
- The Davey Tree Family Scholarship for children of employees.
- Charitable matching gift program.
*All listed benefits available to eligible employees.
