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Assistant Project Manager
Love & Carrots is DC’s foremost urban farming and edible landscaping company. We design, install and maintain organic urban farms, vegetable gardens, and native landscapes across DC, MD, and VA. Love & Carrots is a fun, flexible and casual yet professional workplace. We love what we do and have fun doing it!
Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly organized individual to assist our Project Manager (PM) in handling our installation pipeline. Our PM creates and manages our installation pipeline; estimating, procurement, schedules for multiple crews, client communication, and post job data. We run a tight ship and use a combination of landscaping operations software and Google Workspace to make that possible. Your project management experience, your organizational skills, your can-do attitude and love for problem solving and innovation will be an asset to success in this role, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations for our crews. The specific tasks and responsibilities for this position may evolve over time to meet office needs.
Assistant Project Manager will report directly to the Project Manager, with oversight from upper management as needed.
This is a growth position as we hope to expand the number of installation crews we are operating. The right individual will grow into a secondary PM position, independently managing an additional set of projects and crews.
Responsibilities:
Assist in Project Planning:
Understand project requirements and sequencing needs.
Assist in mapping out project schedules considering project sequencing, and staffing and resource allocation. Track progress, anticipate needs, and help resolve any issues during the project.
Assist PM with materials ordering, scheduling, and organization, including perennial orders, bulk materials, specialty materials and others.
Coordinate with designers, crew, and client to ensure seamless communication through project completion.
Cost Estimation and Budgeting:
Learn our estimating systems and installation capabilities to help prepare accurate and comprehensive cost estimates for garden installations. This may include time in the field.
Assist with timely data collection and entry important for productivity targets and helping keep our product offerings up to date in company software.
Operational Strategy and Planning:
We are a collaborating team and encourage everyone to come forward with ideas and innovations to help improve our processes.
Maintain current systems with up-to-date data
Vendor and Client Relationships:
Build and maintain strong relationships and rapport with vendors and clients
Address client concerns promptly and with care, troubleshoot tricky situations ensuring high levels of satisfaction with our services.
Foster positive relationships with team members, maintaining a high level of professionalism and customer service.
Requirements:
Strong work ethic and positive attitude.
Ability to safely do strenuous activities- bending and lifting- in high heat environments.
Excellent organizational abilities, with the ability to prioritize tasks, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with clients, vendors, and team members.
Expertise in construction or landscaping, with a strong understanding of construction techniques, materials, and landscaping principles is a major plus.
Proficiency with Google Workspace suite
Proficiency in Excel
Experience with enterprise software, CRMs is a plus
Compensation and Benefits:
Schedule: 7:30 AM-6 PM, Monday - Thursday (mid February - November)
Mid-season start times may vary and can be earlier due to weather
Winter schedule 8:30 AM - 5PM, Monday - Friday
Rate commensurate with experience, starting at $24- $28/hr
Health and Dental insurance, 401k, PTO
Biweekly smartphone reimbursement
Vegetables to take home - our headquarters has a large on-site vegetable garden for staff use
To apply, please email a brief cover letter and your resume to: [email protected]
Installation Crew Member
Our installation crew is the skilled team that crafts our many diverse foodscapes. Working for Love & Carrots is a great opportunity to learn how to build gardens and urban farms and break into the urban gardening industry. Installations can include the following:
Perennial landscape installation
Includes planting perennials, shrubs, and trees, soil amendment, edging and mulching
Garden structure carpentry: raised beds, arbors, garden fencing
Drip irrigation system installation
Dryset hardscaping, drainage solutions
Includes flagstone and riverstone paths, patios, french drains and dry riverbeds
Necessary Qualifications:
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States permanently without employment visa sponsorship
Prior experience working in a labor-intensive role.
The ability to work as part of a close knit team.
Ability to work independently, take initiative, trouble-shoot, and lead as necessary.
High attention to detail and organization
Ability to lift heavy (75lbs +) objects throughout the day.
Ability to perform frequent high-intensity manual labor including pushing, pulling, and lifting various equipment and materials.
Ability to work on their feet for the entire day in all weather conditions
Must have a valid driver's license and the ability to drive larger vehicles/medium duty trucks
We require that employees have received their initial Covid-19 vaccination - additional boosters not required
Preferred Experience in: (not required, but strongly favored)
Landscape construction
Carpentry
Heavy equipment, medium-duty trucks, skid steer
Schedule:
Installation crew members work 10 hour days, 4 days/week 7:30AM - 6:00PM Monday - Thursday during the regular season. The crew works 5 days/week in the winter 7:30AM - 4:45PM Monday - Thursday and 7:30AM - 12:30PM Friday).
Compensation:
Starting rate: $20/hr +, commensurate with experience
$100 annual gear stipend
Annual phone stipend
Benefits include health and dental insurance, 401k, and a generous paid time off package
Our office/headquarters has a large vegetable garden for staff to enjoy and take produce home from
Interested? Email a brief letter of interest and resume to: [email protected]
Freelance Landscape Designer
We rely on our experienced and dynamic design team, and we frequently need to contract additional freelance designers on a part time basis throughout the year. Our design needs range from small row homes and pollinator gardens to property master plans. If you have several years of landscape design experience working directly with clients in the DC/MD/VA region and would be interested in opportunities to join our team, please share your resume and a portfolio with 1-2 work samples in an email to [email protected].
Community Partnerships:
We love living here and being involved in the DC Metro Area urban agriculture movement. We've partnered with local organization, schools, and non-profits on a number of great projects for our community.
We’re open to new ideas and projects– If you would like to partner with us, send us an email and let’s chat!
Interested? Email with your interest in the subject line: [email protected]
