Landscaping Careers in Minneapolis, MN

Summary of Position:

Southview Design is seeking top talent to join our team as a Fine Gardener Crew Leader. The Fine Gardener Crew Leader is responsible for leading a team while upholding work schedules, procedures, and quality standards on high-end residential and commercial properties. This position oversees detailed horticultural maintenance of gardens, ensuring properties are maintained to exceptional aesthetic and quality standards while managing job sites for efficiency, client satisfaction, and expert garden care.

Duties:

• Communicate with Operations Managers, sales team, and team members to ensure exceptional communication, quality standards, and client expectations are consistently met.
• Lead, supervise, and develop crew members while assigning daily tasks based on skill level and service requirements. Monitor performance and address quality or productivity concerns.
• Oversee and perform detailed horticultural maintenance of gardens, beds, containers, and landscape features including management of perennials and annuals, pruning, shaping, deadheading, hedging, mulching, seasonal color maintenance, and other fine gardening tasks to maintain exceptional property appearance and plant health.
• Monitor plant health and identify pest, disease, irrigation, drainage, or other landscape concerns. Document findings, escalate issues, and provide recommendations as needed.
• Maintain strong client relationships through professional communication, responsiveness, and on-site expertise.
• Ensure daily administrative tasks including time entry, inventory/material tracking, DOT pre-trip inspections, and related documentation are completed accurately and timely.
• Train and mentor crew members in proper horticultural practices, pruning techniques, and fine gardening standards.
• Safely and efficiently operate landscaping equipment, hand tools, and company vehicles necessary to perform job duties.
• Ensure work areas, trucks, trailers, equipment, and uniforms are maintained in a clean, organized, and professional manner.
• Make recommendations to management regarding property enhancements, plant replacements, and opportunities to improve landscape quality.
• Know and enforce all company procedures, safety standards, and personnel policies.
• *Ability to perform seasonal snow and ice removal tasks during winter months. Plowing, shoveling, salt applications, and various other duties as assigned. Supervise or manage areas/zones as desired with direction from snow management team.
• Perform additional duties as assigned, with responsibilities and tasks subject to change as needed.

Education:

High School Diploma required. College degree, certificate, or formal education in Horticulture, Landscaping, or related field preferred but not required.

Experience

• Minimum Qualifications: Minimum 2-3 years of experience in the landscape industry with prior horticulture, fine gardening, or estate garden maintenance experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and develop team members while effectively delegating tasks and providing feedback.
• Strong knowledge of horticultural practices including plant care, pruning, pest/disease identification, and seasonal garden maintenance.
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact professionally with high-end clients.
• Strong time management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Chemical applicator license preferred but not required.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license and maintain an insurable driving record.
• Bilingual Spanish a plus.

Other:

• Physical Demands: Must be able to lift/carry materials up to 50lbs on a regular and consistent basis, move about the work site.
• Exposed to exterior elements (i.e. pollen, chemicals, cold and heat etc.).
• Requires extended periods of activity including walking, standing, kneeling, bending and lifting, up to 100% of a workday.
• Working Environment: Employee is frequently exposed to exterior elements (i.e. pollen, chemicals, cold and heat etc.).
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold, and extreme heat.

Job Overview 

Southview Design is seeking top talent to join our team as an Accounts Payable Specialist. The Accounts Payable Specialist is responsible for the end-to-end accounts payable process, including vendor set up, invoice processing and cash disbursements. Acts as a point of contact between vendors, accounting team, and operations.

Duties:

• Process all invoices daily using current operational, accounting, and invoicing software.
• Audit invoices for errors including proper sales and use tax, price discrepancies, duplicate billings, missing Purchase Orders, and discounts. Adjust as necessary.
• Distribute, monitor, and ensure invoices have proper approval. Coordinate with purchasers and suppliers to resolve discrepancies.
• Process weekly vendor payments via check, credit card, or ach either in house or via vendor portal.
• Manage credit cards including ordering new cards, canceling for terminations, and reordering damaged cards.
• Vendor set up, maintenance and completion of requested credit applications.
• Oversee sub approval process, ensuring subcontractors have submitted proper insurance, MSAs, and a W-9.
• Monitoring vendor statements with invoices to verify cost of products are the same on each invoice and all invoices have been received.
• Works with internal staff and insurance agencies to distribute COIs.
• Assist with month end close (journal entries, reconciliations, etc.).
• Assist in annual 1099 processing.
• Ad hoc reporting for month-end and year-end accounts payable spend.
• Back-up staff accountant when necessary.
• Back-up for answering incoming calls and taking phone leads.
• Additional duties as assigned. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time.

Education:

Formal post-high school education and/or certification in accounting or related field. Associates Degree or above preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum Qualifications: Minimum of 1-2 years of related experience (landscaping or construction industry preferred) or an equivalent mix of education and accounts payable experience.
• Experience with accounting processing software (Stampli or NetSuite preferred but not required).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Time management, creative problem solving, organization, and customer service skills/experience required.
• Bilingual -Spanish a plus.

Other:

• Physical Demands: Position is primarily administrative in nature with extended periods of sitting.  Should be able to lift under 20 lbs.
• Work Environment: Primarily inside a temperature-controlled office building. Occasional exposure to exterior elements (i.e., pollen, chemicals, cold and heat etc.).

Job Description:

Southview Design is seeking top talent to join our team as a Carpentry Supervisor. The Carpentry Supervisor oversees and leads a crew responsible for the construction, repair, and maintenance of residential and commercial decks and related outdoor structures. This role combines technical carpentry expertise with leadership, ensuring projects are completed safely, on time, within budget, and to the company’s quality standards. The Carpentry Supervisor will train, mentor, and direct crew members while maintaining strong client and internal team communication.

Duties:

• Communicate effectively with project managers, clients, and subcontractors regarding schedules, progress, and issues.
• Supervise and coordinate daily activities of deck construction crews, including apprentices and crew members.
• Assign tasks, monitor progress, and ensure adherence to project plans, timelines, and safety standards.
• Train and mentor apprentices and crew members in carpentry skills, proper tool use, and company procedures.
• Read and interpret blueprints, drawings, and construction plans; translate specifications into clear crew instructions.
• Oversee and participate in the measuring, cutting, and installation of decking, framing, stairs, and rail systems.
• Inspect work for accuracy, quality, and compliance with specifications and building codes.
• Maintain equipment, tools, trucks, and trailers in safe and organized condition.
• Maintain a clean, organized work area and job site; ensure tools and equipment are stored properly.
• Enforce company safety procedures and ensure all crew members follow established protocols.
• Conduct daily safety checks and job site inspections; address hazards immediately.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, OSHA standards, and local building regulations.
• Ability to perform seasonal snow and ice removal tasks during winter months. Plowing, shoveling, salt applications, and various other duties as assigned. Supervise or manage areas/zones as desired with direction from snow management team.
• Perform additional duties as assigned, with responsibilities and tasks subject to change as needed.

Education:

High School Diploma or GED required. Technical training in carpentry or construction is preferred but not required.

Experience:

• Minimum Qualifications: 3-5 years of carpentry or construction experience preferred. 1-2 years in a lead or supervisory role, preferably in deck or outdoor structure construction. Willingness to learn, follow direction, and work collaboratively. Strong work ethic and attention to detail. Bilingual -Spanish a plus.

Other:

Physical Demands: Must be able to lift/carry materials up to 50lbs on a regular and consistent basis, move about the work site.  Exposed to exterior elements (i.e. pollen, chemicals, cold and heat etc.). Requires extended periods of activity including walking, standing, kneeling, bending and lifting, up to 100% of a workday.

Working Environment: Employee is frequently exposed to exterior elements (i.e. pollen, chemicals, cold and heat etc.). Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold, and extreme heat.

Job Description:

The Landscape Design Associate assists designers with crucial tasks such as site measuring, base mapping, creating and assisting with design revisions and creating estimates utilizing design and operating software programs.

Responsibilities:

Typical job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Gather Certificate of Surveys from local city offices
• Work as a team to perform site visits, measure property, take photos, record elevations, and site constraints of scheduled construction client’s property.
• Generate initial base map drawing and ideas using computer-aided design (CAD) software based on client requirements and site analysis.
• Create detailed drawings including plant layouts, hardscape elements, grading plans, and elevations using CAD software.
• Collaborate with designers to revise landscape and irrigation plans for clients to address concerns throughout the design process.
• Ability to perform take-offs for estimates, including counting, calculating areas, and entering data into the operational software program.
• Produce detailed construction drawings and specifications for construction team.
• Assist the construction production team with the coordination of permits as needed for landscape installation projects as needed.
• Perform additional duties as assigned, with responsibilities and tasks subject to change as needed.

Education:

Four-year College or University program degree or certificate preferred, or four (or more) years related experience and/or training.

Experience:

• Minimum Qualifications: Proficiency in written and oral communication. Proficiency in reading, creating, and understanding scaled plans. Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Excel. Skills required include mathematics, organization, customer service, and creative problem solving. Must understand or be capable and willing to learn the CAD based software, specifically Vectorworks & AutoCAD. Driver’s License required.

Other:

• Physical Demands: Exposed to exterior elements (i.e. pollen, chemicals, cold and heat etc.).  Requires periods of activity including walking, standing, kneeling, bending and lifting, up to 50% of a workday. Time in the field will vary depending on measures scheduled, which may equal up to or more than 50% of time, but could be less than 30% of the time.

• Work Environment: Primarily inside a temperature-controlled office building. Occasional exposure to exterior elements (i.e., pollen, chemicals, cold and heat etc.).  May require travel between offices within the Twin Cities Metro Area but will primarily report to Mendota Heights office. External environment with all weather and terrain exposure.  Exposed to equipment that may cause cuts and significant bodily injury.
• Schedule: LANDSCAPE SEASON: (March – December) Workload may be heavy, during landscape season, you will work between 45-50 hours/week. SNOW SEASON: (January-March) During snow season, you will work a minimum of 32 hours/week.