The Level Green Culture Blog

Behind the scenes and insider information for landscaping careers and green industry jobs.

Don’t be surprised if Mackenzie Hyde shows up to see you, but she knows you’re busy, and won’t try to disturb you.

The business development manager at Level Green Landscaping loves efficiency, which means she doesn’t waste time. 

“When I show up I’m grabbing people in the middle of their day,” she says. “They have a full calendar. I don’t want to waste peoples’ time. I want to be a friendly face and show them I made the effort to find them and drive over and leave my business card.”

That in itself is something memorable these days, she says.

“Everybody is so used to digital everything, a lot of people aren’t used to having a person in front of them anymore,” she says. 

Why not take a couple minutes to chat? 

Caitlin Cross loves doing something that fills a lot of people with fear: she shows up at businesses unannounced, with her business card, ready to chat. 

Her goal as a business developer: drum up some new business for Level Green Landscaping. 

“I love to cold call,” Caitlin says. “I show up and introduce myself. It disarms people. It’s harder for them to turn me away if I’m there in person.”

Brittany Antolik was a field manager at a large landscaping company for six years, hoping to advance in her landscaping career.

Too bad she was stuck. 

“They kept saying they’d promote me, but I never saw the fruit of it,” she says. “It was frustrating. I wanted to move up for a long time.” She found a place to soar at Level Green.

When Level Green Landscaping recruiter Erica Cain visits college career fairs or industry conferences, she brings along other Level Green women with her to staff the table, and she has plenty of choices.

Account managers. Business developers. An operations manager. Crew leaders. The chief financial officer. The list goes on.

“I don’t just tell about how we have great women working at Level Green, I show it,” says Cain, talent acquisition specialist. “I bring women along, to show this is who we are. We’re not just men. We’re women, too.”

When your lawn is mowed and fertilized, your shrubs pruned, and your Northern Virginia property entrances blooming with colorful flowers, that didn’t happen because garden elves visited overnight.

The Level Green Northern Virginia branch team was on the job.

If you love being outdoors, working with your hands, solving problems and being part of a team, there are lots of job opportunities in the landscape and grounds maintenance field.

Crew members plant flowers, mow lawns and make landscapes beautiful. Landscape designers create artistry from the ground up. Field supervisors combine people skills with organizational know-how to make sure jobs are done just right.

Let’s take a look at some landscape maintenance jobs.

If your U.S. history is a bit rusty, or you have a question about how American government works, ask Rosvin Lara.

He was born in Guatemala, but his knowledge about this country is pretty good. He just became a United States citizen, so go ahead, ask him anything.

Everybody wants to feel good about going to work.

Lots of people go into landscaping because they love being outside.
That’s pretty rewarding, right?

Fresh air. Birds singing. No desk in sight. Sometimes an ice cream truck jingles past, so you can eat a Nutty Buddy on your break. Sweet.

If somebody offered you free money for your future, would you take it?
How about if they offered to pay for half of your health insurance premium costs to protect you and your family?

Sometimes a good deal isn’t too good to be true. It’s actually a good deal.

If you work at Level Green Landscaping, now is a great time to take advantage of the benefits the company offers.

Two new regional manager positions at Level Green Landscaping reflect the company’s continued growth as they look ahead to an expanding footprint in the industry.

Joey Schneider and Kevin Doleman will focus on training and development for team members and increasing efficiency, says Paul Wisniewski, Division Manager at Level Green and the manager who hired for the new positions.