Pro Vegetable Gardener – Team Member Installation –  Job Description

 

Department: Production – Installation

Reports To: Installation Team Foreman

 

Requirements

• Heavy lifting (+50lbs) and physical work in hot & cold conditions
• Valid driver’s license & ability to get to shop
• Passion for sharing the homegrown food experience with others

 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Backyard Eats is a small and growing company with ever changing needs. Exact position responsibilities frequently change and other duties may be assigned. Each employee has shop responsibilities in addition to their basic role

 

Daily

• Perform garden installations to specification as member of installation team
• Drive to Flourtown shop and leave for clients sites in company truck
• Communicate with clients and office daily

Weekly 

• Attend weekly team meetings
• Help maintain inventory, shop cleanliness and staging jobs

Monthly

• Maintain vehicle needs by checking fluids and servicing
• Care for tools and materials needed for job
• Meet with Foreman for performance reviews and growth opportunities

 

Pay & Benefits

• $20-25hr. Pay varies per experience; merit/performance based raises possible
• Paid vacation
• Cell phone reimbursement – $80/month (will use phone for work)
• Personal vehicle mileage reimbursement if needed (we have our own trucks)
• Tools other than cell phone provided
• Health insurance match $150/per month, vision, dental, and life insurance available
• Employee garden & food forest

 

Share the Magic of Homegrown Food

Join our team of professionals creating a new industry in Philadelphia. We design, install, and maintain attractive and functional gardens that yield high-quality fruit & produce in our clients backyards.

We are a fast paced & growing business looking for long term employees to help continue to build Backyard Eats into a key driver in broadening the participation in the homegrown food movement for our employees, clients & communities.

Our install crews build the gardens, and our maintenance team plants and maintains them. We call it full service food gardening, and it has allowed us to deliver successful gardening experiences and change lives for hundreds of clients in the Philadelphia area over the last 8 years.

We are looking to add to our team of builders and gardeners. . If your skills, experiences, and interests are geared toward building, carpentry, or landscaping installation, you’ll be a fit for our installation team.

This position is an opportunity to work alongside skilled craftsmen, designers, horticulturalists, and professional staff and management to aid in building a custom, high end product for appreciative clientele. You will learn a lot about working in a small, growing business, with all its associated fun & challenges, as you help co-invent Backyard Eats.

Employees that have worked out well at Backyard Eats are ones that are able to stick to the proven systems of our offerings and core values, while embracing change and co-creating improvements to our standards through a team and client centric approach

 

Schedule

This is a full-time position. The work day begins at our Flourtown shop, 8:00am – 4:30am with two, paid 10 minute breaks and one 30 minute unpaid lunch. Overtime is available with approval but not expected to be regular. Because we work outside, there is a chance weather would keep us from working, but this is a rare case.

Although we try our best to accommodate, time off limitations can exist between mid-March & mid-April and mid-May through mid-June as these are our busiest planting times.

 

Pay & Benefits

• Pay varies per position and experience; merit/performance based raises
• Paid vacation
• Cell phone reimbursement – $80/month (will use phone for work)
• Personal vehicle mileage reimbursement if needed (we have our own trucks)
• Tools other than cell phone provided
• Health insurance match $150/per month, vision, dental, and life insurance available
• Employee garden & food forest

 

Core Values

Our core values define the culture at Backyard Eats. They define how we behave as leaders and team members, and are a filter for how we make decisions.

We keep the core values relevant by discussing them in weekly meetings, calling on our work and personal lives to demonstrate their importance, implementation, and impact. The core values are also baked into the expectations for each role at Backyard Eats.

They also spell out the word ✨MAGIC✨

 

Make a lasting Impression

• Project our value
• Always be professional
• Engage deeply
• Exceed expectation

Appreciate others and yourself

• Listen to hear, not to speak
• Appreciate your ability to effect change
• Respect everyone’s time
• Communicate and respect boundaries

Get ahead of the problem

• Set proper expectations
• Make a plan
• Identify, discuss, and solve the problem
• Communicate proactively

Inspire Openness

• Create an inclusive and accepting environment
• Seek out and absorb honest feedback
• Provide honest feedback thoughtfully
• Demonstrate extreme ownership

Continually Evolve

• Actively seek personal growth
• Master your craft
• Embrace change
• Have an opportunistic mindset