Crew Leader- Landscaping, (Miramar Military Base) - The Arc of San Diego

Description

The Arc is the largest, most comprehensive provider of services to children and adults with disabilities in San Diego County. We are a diverse team of dedicated individuals who are passionate about serving and empowering children and adults to live their most fulfilling and independent lives.

We live by our Person First, Person Centered value system to create meaningful days for our clients and each other. In hiring, we look for candidates that are a strong fit with our culture, as well as bring the talent and experience required by the position. We offer a positive team-oriented work environment with opportunity for professional growth and continuous learning, flexible hours, and the chance to make an impact in someone’s life.

We are currently hiring a Landscaping, Crew Lead to join our team. You will provide support and training to participants working in group supported employment at The Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego.  The role completes landscape and grounds maintenance tasks as part of a daily work load, and ensures quality and quantity of all work completed meet employer expectations. The role utilizes standard training techniques to teach participants to perform grounds maintenance tasks according to guidelines established by the Project Supervisor and employer.  In addition, the Crew Leader provides training and support to participants to improve social, personal, and other work-related skills.

The pay range for this position is, $19:00-$19:40 based on years of service.

Location: Miramar Military Base 

Who you are:

• Enjoy teaching others
• Take pride in being a reliable and relatable member of a team
• Invested in working with adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities

A typical day will include:

• Providing direction and completing landscaping tasks including mowing, trimming, edging and minor irrigation.
• Ensuring completion of work tasks as required by the employer and/or established procedures.
• Providing on-going training to participants throughout the workday as needed.
• Collecting and recording data on participant’s goals as required.
• Communicating effectively and professionally with employer and other employees at the work site.
• Emulating exemplary work behaviors at all times.

What you’ll need to be successful:

• Experience in landscaping services including with heavy machinery (riding mower, chainsaw, trimmer)
• HS Diploma or GED
• Physically capable of performing a range of tasks; including moving and lifting equipment and materials up to 75 pounds; ability and willingness to work in adverse weather
• Valid CA Driver’s License with clean driving record; able and willing to transport participants in ARC-provided vehicle

We’d love it if you:

• Were multi-lingual (English, Spanish preferred)
• Had experience as a job coach or employment specialist for individuals with disabilities
• Previous experience in landscape and grounds maintenance.
• Knowledge of standard landscape maintenance practices and techniques.

The Arc of San Diego is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We have a strict policy against harassment and retaliation of any type and are dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.

Our goal is to provide a work environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation as well as other disrespectful or other unprofessional conduct based on any protected class: race (including natural hairstyles), color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin (including language use restrictions), age (40 and over), legally protected medical condition (including cancer and AIDS/HIV), physical or mental disability, marital status, sex (including sexual harassment, sex stereotypes and pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, reproductive health decision making, ancestry, genetic information/ characteristics, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, military and veteran status, known status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking or of certain violent crimes, or whose covered family member is a homicide victim, enrollment in a public assistance program, off duty and off-site cannabis use or any other characteristic or activity protected by law. 

We also prohibit discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disrespectful or unprofessional conduct based on the perception that anyone has any of the above characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived to have any of those characteristics.

The Arc of San Diego is a federal subcontractor and shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60- 300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, and for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing compensation. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

The Arc of San Diego will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified candidates with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If candidates need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition, they should contact the Head of Human Resources.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)