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Responsibilities:

Timely communication during the work day:

• Keep phone fully charged and on your body with alerts.

• Check hourly for updates if doing noisy activities.

• Answer and respond to questions.

• Provide a video with audio of work completed twice a day with the same view of a person able to turn 360 degrees so Dane can see everything.

• Prepare a job plan for the following day.

• Review videos, plan and bring all needed materials from the garage and on the way to work.

• Submit the hours the day before.

Tools:

• Keep all tools in the designated area of the truck.

• Charge all batteries at the end of the day that are 50% or less in power and put fresh batteries in the tool.

• Keep power tools out of the dirt/rain.

• Any tools that can be returned to the truck/garage should be returned after use that day.

• Any blades/gas that is used should be replaced.

• Report any broken or stolen tools and buy new ones using the order history on Amazon the same day.

• Switch out chains on chainsaw and fill with oil if the saw is dull. Tighten any loose saw.

Keep adequate Supplies in both trucks:

• PVC pipe caps for 3", 4" 1" and 3/4" pipe.

• Full can of pvc glue

• Roll of paper towels

• Four or more garbage bags

• 10 pairs of gloves.

• Two cans of blue striping paint

• Keep 10x 90s, Ts and Couplers 3/4"

• Keep 3' of 3/4" PVC pipe for small repairs.

• 100' of lighting wire

• 20 lighting couplers.

Beginning a job:

• Take before photos.

• Learn where the gas, water and electrical shut-off is for anything in the garden.

• Bring shovels and wheelbarrows needed to do the job.

Priorities on the job site:

• Keep the sidewalk and street clean with sweeping and blowing. Have a broom and blower on site.

• Turn off all water at the end of the day.

• If we are working on the irrigation, turn off the main valve so the timer can't turn on a leaking pipe at night.

• Pick up all garbage - including water bottles - daily.

Job Descriptions:

• All dirt should be 4" below house siding, edging, sidewalks and driveways both before and after amending soil.

• After bark is added it should be 2" below edging, sidewalks and driveway and house siding.

• 1.5"-2" of grapeseed compost should be spread evenly before rototilling well, looking at the color of the dirt after rototilling and adjusting soil to be even.

• All drippers should be 1" away from the plant and two more drippers 6" away from the plant on trees and shrubs.

• Where possible bring the 1/2" drip line to every plant.

• Before pouring concrete or patios or doing gravel paths put a bit of lighting wire and irrigation hose.

• Put brass hose ends level with the ground to start all half inch drip lines.

• Up to 300 plants can be on one valve.

• The timer should be set to turn on between 8:30am-10am but can start earlier so that the valves are not watering after sitting in the summer sun.

• Put 2' of lighting wire to allow light fixtures to be moved later and put lighting in before bark.

• All spotlights should not point at windows of house or in anyone's eyes on the street, driveway or paths.

• Hammer all edging stakes fully down or cut the rest off with the grinder.

• Throw away any dirty pipe and keep the irrigation box clean.

• Twist all lighting wire couplers clockwise until they cannot be tightened any more and cannot be pulled off.

• Always use the 10% coupon at American soils.

At the end of the job give clients:

• Two of each of the bulbs used in lighting.

• 15 drippers and 1 of each type of fitting and 3' of pipe.

• A map of the irrigation system e-mailed to them and put in the valve box.

• Photos of anything buried underground, such as drain pipes.

At the end of the job:

• Check all drippers.

• Check timer.

• Take after photos.

• Sort through the best 10 before photos and after photos and e-mail them to Dane.

• Review this list at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the job with the crew and mark X next to each thing not done at that time and check mark next to each thing done at that time.

• Check the truck for glue etc.

Education:

• Each employee should read the entire book once a year.

• Before doing anything unusual watch youtube videos about it at night, prior to the job and during the job so you know what you are doing.

• Study useful tools and suggest them by e-mail.

• Study useful techniques and send them by e-mail for approval before using them.

Marketing:

• Give any possible client interested in work a copy of the green landscape book and show them my e-mail address.

• Keep three copies of the green landscape book in both trucks and one copy of the bigger book.

• Reply on Nextdoor any time you see something.

Engagement with Dane:

• Never interrupt.

• Inform of any questions/request by client as soon as they are made by watsapp or "please tell Dane directly" to the client.

• Take notes of anything said to remember.

• Send job-plan before leaving or when getting home by 6pm.