Landscape Positions 2025 (Hardscape, Horticulture, Design/Build)

At Aspen Garden & Landscape, we’re about creating spaces for life. For nearly a decade, we’ve built a reputation for exceptional work, and we’re looking for the next great people to join our team for the 2025 season.

The ideal candidate will know how to communicate well with all types of people, like working outdoors, value teamwork, and make the people around them better. They will know how to laugh, know how to be humble sometimes, and be open to thinking through processes and projects. They'll also know how to get things done.

We're looking for:

• Crew Members - Willing worker to help install our various landscape and hardscape projects
• Crew Leaders- Someone who wants to take that next step - running landscape projects, managing crews, and working with clients.
• Gardeners / Horticulturists– We want to expand our gardening division and need someone who can help manage planting projects.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Safety-conscious
• Able to lift and move 50 -70lb safely and repeatedly - extra points if you can use equipment and save your back
• Respectful of clients, coworkers, and tools
• Adaptable - sometimes despite the best planning, the plans will change
• Able to safely drive a medium duty dump truck (below CDL) or truck and trailer
• Able to operate equipment safely

BENEFITS

* Bonus Plan - we offer really aggressive bonuses for performance of field work. This helps incentivize quality work and keeps the best employees around.

* Profit Sharing Program for management team.

*Hiring Bonuses - help us find co-workers! Get paid for it AND have a big say in the feel of the place!

* Stipends - for purchasing landscaping gear.

* Paid holidays

* Flexibility - We can be flexible on schedule (to some extent). As parents, we understand that you may have school, a family, or other interests that you need to work around.

* Fun Work Environment - We have a great team of people that are awesome to work with and make the hard work we do a lot more fun to do together.

* Development Opportunities - Whether you are a career landscaper or this is only a stepping stone to something else we really enjoy working with employees to achieve their longer-term goals.

* Good Reputation - Good Reviews- For an employee who takes pride in their work, I think it’s important that their company is respected in the community and amongst peers.

* Job Advancement - We're looking for someone with a vision for where they want to be in 3 years. If you are the right person we’ll do what I can to help you get there. We're growing and that means opportunities will grow.

* Professional Development Assistance - Whether you are a career landscaper or this is only a stepping stone to something else, we really enjoy working with employees to achieve their goals.

****Benefit Flexibility - If you prefer certain benefits, let us know.... nearly all of our employees have preferred cash bonuses to benefits. We are willing to explore / build benefits programs for the right employees.

ABOUT US

We’re a high-end, sustainability-minded landscape design/build company that works in and around Madison, Wisconsin. Most projects are for older upscale homes in need of patios, walkways, plantings, etc. and clients looking for landscapes that are both ecological and, when possible, beautiful. We also do a fair amount of small-scale stormwater / grading work and rain gardens. Our focus is on local and natural materials rather than concrete block walls and spireas, so projects often take patience, thoughtfulness, and creativity, and along with hard physical work. It’s not a perfect fit for everyone.

We do landscape work because we love it. Our three year goal is to have a small, fun business with great employees who know what they are doing so we can focus on enhancing our lives, our communities, and our craft. With the right team, we can take this business about anywhere we want.

WORK HOURS

Potentially year-round, though the heart of our season is from late March until things are too cold or frozen to work. We work 40-45 hours/week mostly around 7:30am-5:30pm Monday through Thursday, with the occasional Friday or Saturday if it rains throughout the week. We encourage employees to take some time off throughout the work season for travel, family and play.

LOCATION

Our shop is in Oregon, and our work is mainly in Madison.

PAY RATE

$18.00 - $30.00 per hour to start based on experience and fit - We’re willing to make it work for the right person. Expect more for after Thanksgiving production.

SOME THINGS I KNOW
Surround yourself with good people and good things will happen.
Good intentions plus superior effort will take you far.
Charge enough so you can afford to do nice things for people you love - then charge a little more.
If everyone had a bit of beauty in their day-to-day maybe it would make their life better. And maybe they would be nicer to other people. And then they would have a nicer day.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Sometimes winging it is all you can do.
Work can be fun.
I enjoy working with other people - especially when they are having fun.
I feel healthy when I work hard. And when I’m in the woods.
The better a project turns out, the more happy I am.
Reggae Monday’s are a good thing.
People can only have fun if they aren’t worried about money.
Burritos are delicious.
Sustainability is worth striving for - don’t be cynical.
The things that got me to this point in business won’t get me to the next place - I need to keep learning.
If everyone grew some food at home everyone would likely be more fulfilled.
You can count the seeds in an apple, but you can’t count the apples in a seed.
Most things in life will work out if you let them.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $18.00 - $30.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18 - $30