Landscape Internship Program, Chicago locations

Hiring Organization: Yellowstone Landscape
Employment type: Internship
Job Location: Florida, Georgia, South & North Caroline, Virginia & Texas
Application Due Date: May 15, 2022

Building your career!

Creating premier properties.

Module 1 Orientation

Introductions and orientation, safety and equipment training, review of in- ternship goals and objectives, tour of facilities, introduction to industry certi- fications, shadow Mentor and Project Managers

Module 2 Project Management

Field work including; softscape, hard- scape, irrigation, management and scheduling of projects, attend internal pre-con and post-con meetings, attend client pre-con meeting, permitting process, punch list walk. Learn Aspire software for enhancement work bidding

Module 3 Estimating

Basic irrigation design/layout, training on bidding concept, vendor sourcing, attend a pre-bid conference and bid opening, participate in a pre-bid site review, understand the bidding process

Module 4 In House Rotation

Landscape and Turf Management Arbor Care

Landscape Design

Management Shadowing - Weekly

Spend time with mentor on morning start up, client calls with mentor, scheduling, customer relations training (by observation), management of crews, safety

Module 1 Orientation

Introductions and orientation, safety and equipment training, review of internship goals and objectives, tour of facilities, introduction to industry certifications.

Module 2 Field Work

Brush clean-up, stump grinding, tree ropes basics, chemical application, bucket truck crew, chain saw, chipper blade replacement

Module 3 Industry Certifications

Understanding

--ASI Tree Climbers Guide

--ASI BMP Trees and Shrub Fertilization

--Arborist Certification Study Guide

Module 4 Sales

Lead generation, building a book of business, bidding, pricing, estimating, closing a sale, setting proper client expectations

Module 5 Management Training

Shadow AM, observe management of crews, morning start up, scheduling, customer relations, shadow HSE Officer and Arbor Branch Manager, understand Profit and Loss, monthly forecasting, tracking tools, pay and commission structure