When it comes to landscape industry careers in Southwest Montana, there are a lot of options. This is a region where people truly value the outdoors and they want their outdoor spaces to be as beautiful as possible.
While there are a lot of different jobs in landscaping that are available, that doesn’t mean that every company is a good fit.
If you truly want to make a career out of this work, you need to find the right landscaping career pathways, from a company that is going to let you climb the career ladder and build a future. After all, chances are, you don’t want to be stuck at the starting point at which you entered your landscaping career forever.
While you might have heard some of the “horror stories” out there from those who found landscaping to be dead-end work and ultimately had to move around from company to company, that’s not how it has to be.
With the right landscaping career opportunities, you can truly build a successful career.
Of course, not all companies are the same when it comes to landscaping career opportunities. There are some companies in which you might get “stuck in a rut” or feel like you aren’t being given an opportunity to grow.
While we cannot speak to every company (landscape industry opportunities
are really going to vary from company to company) we can tell you about what Blanchford Landscape offers. We are a company that wants to help you climb the career ladder if that is something you are interested in doing.
Most of the time, when people come to Blanchford Landscape Group in search of landscaping career opportunities in Southwest Montana, they start off on a crew.
Blanchford Landscape Group has two primary landscaping career pathways: Garden Services or Design/Build.
A lot of times, people who come to Blanchford to work in maintenance (Garden Services) get started on a crew. If you are coming with a higher skill set or from another job, you might spend less time on the crew before working your way up, but we do find that starting off in the field and seeing the way in which the work is done is incredibly helpful for everyone.
Some of the work skills that we look for in a Blanchford Landscape Group Garden Services crew member include:
Some of the work skills that we look for in a Blanchford Landscape Group Garden Services crew member include:
Stepping up into a Crew Leader role and eventually, a second-tier crew leader role means having all of the skills previously discussed as well as these additional ones.
From a Crew Leader role, you can move into a GardenManager role. This role requires all of the previous skills, plus the following:
Work Skills
You can also have the opportunity to move from a Field Project Manager to a second-tier Field Project Manager. You’ll need all of the skills that you’ve developed up until this point plus the following:
Work Skills
As far as different jobs in landscaping, the other main area for Blanchford Landscape is our Design/Build team. These are the individuals involved in bringing outdoor living spaces to life.
Work Skills
Just like our Garden Services division, a Design/Build crew member has the opportunity to be promoted to a second-tier crew member. That comes with a need for some additional work skills.
The next step up would be a crew leader. Let’s look at some of the skills needed to be a crew leader.
Work Skills
This step up from the crew leader involves some extra skills.
A step up from the crew leader position is into a Field Project Manager role. Again, this comes with a need for additional skills.
Work Skills
A second-tier Field Project Manager would need the above skills as well as the following.
If you are someone who is interested in climbing the career ladder and is looking for a landscaping career that can offer growth, then it’s important you find a company that truly cares about offering you these opportunities.
At Blanchford Landscape Group, we care that our team has opportunities for advancement within the company. We want to be able to provide them with a roadmap for success so that they can actually see how they can continue to move up. We know that people don’t want to get stuck in the same role forever.
At the end of the day, we want you to find something that you love and a role in which you feel successful.
If you’re a good fit for Blanchford Landscape Group and we’re a good fit for you, we want you to succeed.
We are always looking for good people who want the opportunity to build a career with us. As we grow comes continued opportunities to add to our team.
If you’re looking for landscaping jobs near Bozeman and Big Sky, MT, and you’re interested in Blanchford Landscape Group, we invite you to connect with us and start a conversation.