Internship Program-Pacific Landscape
Hiring Organization:
Pacific Landscape Management
Employment type: Internship
Job Location: Hillsboro, OR
Application Due Date: April 30, 2024
Internship Program 2024
Milestones:
- Business Development / Estimator / Designer (1 Week).
- Completing takeoffs using Go iLawn
- Create landscape designs using Pro Landscapes
- Shadow BD, riding along, sales calls,
- Spend time with Director of Business Development, Frank Corzine (1 hour presentation) on PLM sales &marketing strategy (Jerilee coordinate).
- Attending Monthly Manager Meetings (Safety Committee, FM, AM).
- Attend Branch
- Lunch with Bob Grover,
- Meet with the Branch Manager for culture, organizational structure, career path, and share their
- Take pics of things you learn, have questions, and/or would be cool to share on social
- Landscape Features to See:
- Green
- Eco
- Water quality
- Field Operations
- Renovation Field Manager (1 day) including scheduling, ticket
- Maintenance FM (1-2 days) including scheduling, ticket
- Trainer (1-2days).
- Water Management (4 – 5 days)
- PLM
- Water Conversation Plan (WCP)
- Irrigation Technician (additional 2-3 days).
- Account
- Support Budget Letter
- Attend client
- Aspire (enhancement templates, opportunity management, ).
- Customer service understanding the philosophy and the
- Share the soft skills
- Exit Interview (liked, changes & would have liked included) by
Projects*:
- Landscape Asset
- Discuss site issues and opportunities with Account
- Visti customers’
- Gather site information such as square footage, pictures, and item
- Work with Account Manager to initiate estimates in Aspire
- Learn how proposal and annual budget letter
- Water Conservation
- Discuss site issues with Account Manager and Field
- Deploy to
- Activate all irrigation
- Utilize an outline of potential recommendations to choose those that are
- Document with photos, text issues, and
- Use web-based bidding software to generate estimates for proposed recommendations for
- Develop draft
- Review draft report with an Account Manager and/or Water
- Finalize report for client
- Water Data Project
- Contact water municipalities to obtain past, current, and future water costs to record in Excel
- Lawn
- Assist in planning and installation of various lawn conversion processes:
- Ecological
- “Meadow”
- Bark
- Rock
- Non-irrigated
- Synthetic
- Document costs for conversion
- Create documentation of conversion projects with ‘before and after”
- Monitor, document, and help develop maintenance and water savings
- Assist in reviewing and updating bidding templates (costs) for each lawn conversion
- Develop and document best practices for the design, installation, and maintenance of various lawn
- Assist in planning and installation of various lawn conversion processes:
- Create Presentation & Share at a Monthly Meeting
- What you
- What was interesting (use pics taken throughout the internship).
- One item you wished to learn more
*Above are potential projects an Intern may complete.
Additional Details
- Personal transportation to be used to mobilize to job sites (mileage will be compensated).
- Personal smartphone to be used for taking
- Ability to work outside in wet, cold, hot, or dry
- Ability to work with our Water Manager, Account Managers, and Field Managers to evaluate sites and prepare final
- Full length blue jeans in in neat, clean condition (no holes, no stains), PLM branded shirts will be provided, only PLM baseball caps,
- Personal Protective Equipment: orange rain gear, and weather-appropriate leather boots (no tennis shoes).
- $22/hour