Landscape Irrigator Apprentice

Are you ready to start your new career in Irrigation? DLC Resources is hiring for our Irrigator Apprentice program!

Pay Range: $14.50-$16.00 per hour DOE
Location: 3229 W Mohave, Phoenix, AZ 85009
Hours: Must be able to start at 4:30AM

*If you are interested, please text Lucy at 602-317-3901. Please make sure to explain you are applying for the Irrigator Apprentice role.

Summary of Job:

An Irrigator Apprentice will progress through our 8-10 week Irrigator training program to learn all the necessary skills to become a full time Irrigator at DLC Resources. The training program will focus on irrigation basics, repairs, and controller operation. Once the program is successfully completed, candidates will become an Irrigator at $16.50/hr.

Essential Functions:

• Regularly work in an outdoor environment
• Complete labor-intensive work including digging trenches and repairing irrigation equipment
• Perform skilled to unskilled maintenance work involving strenuous tasks often under adverse climatic conditions
• Ability to complete assigned tasks individually and as assigned
• Successfully complete each phase of the irrigator training program

Job Skills/Requirements:

• 1 year of landscape maintenance experience
• Solid performance, good attendance and safety record
• Ability to take instructions and feedback from program instructors, mentors, and managers
• Ability to work with a variety of landscape tools
• English/Spanish. Bi-lingual communication is a plus
• Driver’s license/approved driver for DLC Resources a plus (not required)

Physical Demands/Working Conditions:

• Able to lift 50 lbs. (equipment, tools, and supplies may need to be lifted, carried and/or pushed)
• Able to walk/stand for long periods of time
• Able to reach, bend, twist, kneel, stoop, squat, crouch and grasp along with repetitive movements may be part of your daily job duties
• Work in an outdoor environment and within adverse weather conditions
• Regularly work in wet landscape/environment

Environmental Factors:

• Contact with various plants, flowers and chemicals
• Must be able to work in summer and winter climates including extreme heat in the summer

Our Company:

With over 30 years of experience in landscape, water and arbor management, DLC Resources, Inc. provides superior landscape management to communities across greater Phoenix. DLC leads the industry in state-of-the-art technologies that increase efficiency while providing cost effective, expert landscape management results to our customers. DLC’s nationally recognized WaterRight© water management program improves the quality and usability of our clients’ common areas while saving millions of gallons of water each year.

Why you would love working for DLC/Benefits:

• Paid Training
• Paid Drive Time after 30 Minutes
• PPE/Tools Provided
• Weekly Pay
• Full-Time, Year Round
• Annual Available
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability & Free Life Insurance
• Paid Sick Leave
• 8 Paid Holidays
• Career Advancement
• Referral Bonus Program
• ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)
• 401K
• Product Discounts

We offer rewarding work, a great culture and we continually invest in the development of our people by supporting technical training, certification programs, workshops and stretch work experiences. We strive to support the development of our people, our most important asset, while providing the highest quality, safety and innovation in the industry.

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $14.50 - $16.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus opportunities

Application Question(s):

• Are you able to start as early as 4:30AM?
• Are you comfortable with the starting pay range for the position?

Experience:

• Landscape Maintenance: 1 year (Preferred)
• Irrigation: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• AZ Driver License (Preferred)

Work Location: In person