Job Information
Winter Services Group Laborer – Landscape in Grandville, Michigan
ONE: Employer Name and Contact Information
Business Name: Winter Services Group, Inc.
Physical Address: 250 Quincy Street, Grandville, MI 49418
Mailing Address: 250 Quincy Street, Grandville, MI 49418
FEIN: 85-12157752
Employer Job Phone Number: 616-437-6219
Employer Job Email:
Employer Job Web Portal: N/A
TWO: This job opportunity is a temporary, seasonal, full-time position.
Number of job openings to be filled: 39
THREE: Job Opportunity
Job Title: Laborer -- Landscape
OES Code/OES Title: 37-3011 Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
Duties: Under close supervision, workers will shovel, sidewalk plow, chip ice, inspect for ice, and apply ice-melt treatments and sand to pavements.
Workers will primarily use snow shovels and walk behind drop-spreaders to apply ice-melt. Snow blowers may be utilized where appropriate.
Workers may perform common maintenance, use and operate/maneuver equipment, tools, and vehicles.
Other duties include installing/removing pavement marking stakes before and after the season, as well as light landscaping repair work such as spreading topsoil, spreading grass seed, or grading planting beds disturbed by the winter snow cleaning work.
Additionally, workers will clean up/cut and prune, from ground level, limbs/foliage damaged by snow/ice, load them into trucks and/or trailers, to be properly disposed of or recycled.
At season's end, workers will sweep and blow sand and other debris from paved surfaces.
Minimum Education Required: None.
Minimum Experience Required: None.
Work Hours & Days: Work Hours & Days: 35 to 55 hours per week, typically 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday, some Saturdays, and Sundays during the very high points in the season.
Anticipated Start Date of Job Opportunity: 10/01/2024
Anticipated End Date of Job Opportunity: 04/15/2025
Other requirements: Post-employment random drug testing and background checks may be required, at no cost to the worker. The job requires the applicant to be qualified, ready, willing, able, and available to perform during the entire employment at the designated worksites; and to follow workplace rules.
FOUR: Geographic Area of Intended Employment:
Work in various job sites in Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI areas.
FIVE: Wage that the employer is offering:
$17.18 hour/ $25.77 hour overtime
Pay raises are based on length of time on job, quantity, and quality of work produced, dependability, and adherence to procedures and policies.
(The wage offer will equal or exceed the highest of the prevailing wage or the Federal, State or Local minimum wage in effect during employment).
SIX: Overtime:
Overtime expected and mandatory.
SEVEN: On the Job Training?
On-the-job training will be provided. Position is entry level, no experience required.
EIGHT: Wage Computation.
The employer will use a single workweek as its standard for computing wages due.
NINE: Pay Frequency:
Wages will be paid on a biweekly basis.
TEN: Board, Lodging, other facilities, including fringe benefits.
For those employees who do not maintain a residence within normal commuting distance, on an optional basis, the employer will assist those employees who opt in, in securing housing and contracting for utilities.
Employer and employee will execute an agreement whereby the employer prepays the rent, utilities, security deposits and other applicable charges for the housing and utilities.
These expenses (on a prorated basis) will be deducted from