SavATree has partnered with Aspen Tree Service to bring on landscape technicians in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. As a Landscaping Specialist, you use your knowledge of plants, trees, and grasses to grow, prune, and fertilize shrubs, lawns, bushes, trees, and flowers. You also bring a sense of design to gardens, walkways, sitting areas, bridges, and other outdoor spaces, and you keep client properties tidy by cleaning up debris. The job is outdoors, on properties in your community, with the goal of keeping each client’s landscape healthy and attractive over time. Benefits listed include health and dental coverage, paid time off, a vehicle program, and a matched 401(k). The post is four hours old and has fewer than 25 applicants.
About SavATree
Mission: To take its passion for nature and keep the country’s outdoors beautiful and flourishing
Services: Comprehensive lawn and tree care so customers have attractive, healthy, well-cared-for green spaces
Growth: Over the last thirty years it has opened new offices across the country and is looking for people to grow with it
Training: The company says it invests heavily in training and continuing education and supports staff even when help comes from the other side of the country
Workplace: Equal opportunity employer and a Drug Free Workplace
Why This Landscaping Specialist Role in Vineyard Haven Stands Out in 2026
Outdoor Work You Can See: Plants you prune and lawns you care for show the result of your work
Training and Development: SavATree says it supports continuing education in the industry
Equipped Teams: You work alongside well-trained, well-equipped crews with an emphasis on quality and safety
Real Benefits: Health and dental, paid time off, a vehicle program, and a matched 401(k)
Posted 4 hours ago with fewer than 25 applicants — a good moment to apply before the pool grows.
Position Overview
The Landscaping Specialist applies knowledge of plants, trees, and grasses to grow, prune, and fertilize shrubs, lawns, bushes, trees, and flowers. Beyond routine care, the role uses a feel for aesthetics to design gardens, walkways, sitting areas, bridges, and other functional parts of an outdoor space. Your duties include making sure plants thrive in your assigned area and cleaning up debris around yards and other outdoor spaces. You work outside on properties in your community, and your aim is to protect the ongoing health, beauty, and well-being of each client’s landscape. It is physical, hands-on work that suits someone who likes being outdoors, enjoys problem solving, and wants steady training and a path to grow in the industry.
Why This Role Matters: A landscape only looks good when someone is paying attention to it all year. Plants need pruning at the right time, lawns need feeding and care, and small problems like pests or poor soil need spotting early. The landscaping specialist is the person on site who does that work and notices what a client might miss. A good technician also helps clients see what their space could be, from a neater walkway to a better seating area. Because the work happens on real properties in the local community, reputation matters, and clients tend to remember crews who are careful, safe, and reliable. For people who enjoy practical, outdoor work, it is a role where effort turns into something visible.
Key Responsibilities
Plant & Lawn Care
- Apply knowledge of plants, trees, and grasses to grow, prune, and fertilize shrubs, lawns, bushes, trees, and flowers
- Make sure plants grow well in your assigned area
Design & Outdoor Spaces
- Use a sense of aesthetics to creatively design gardens, walkways, sitting areas, bridges, and other functional outdoor features
Site Care
- Clean up debris around yards and other areas
- Work on properties in the community to protect the ongoing health, beauty, and well-being of each client’s landscape
Equipment & Safety
- Operate hand tools, small and large engine equipment, skid steers, and loaders safely
- Work with and near heavy equipment and other vehicles on a regular basis, using protective equipment such as hearing protection where needed
What a Day Is Like — Physical Demands
- Frequent standing, kneeling, walking, pulling, reaching, stooping, and bending
- Walking mainly on uneven turf or rocky ground at job sites
- Ability to lift at least 50 lbs repeatedly through a full shift
- Exposure to dust, dyes, grease, odors, mechanical and electrical hazards, and all kinds of weather and temperature
- Moderate to loud work environments, with hearing protection when required
- Fast-paced work that needs good manual dexterity and excellent stamina
- Flexible hours, including occasional weekend work
The company notes that reasonable accommodations may be made so individuals with disabilities can perform the essential functions.
Qualifications & Requirements
Who SavATree Is Looking For
- A desire to grow, a love of opportunity, and a taste for problem solving and process improvement
- Ability to run various types of equipment and comfort with heavy lifting in different weather
- A degree in Turf, Entomology, Plant Sciences, or Horticulture, or equivalent experience
- 1–2 years of hands-on experience in lawn care maintenance and turf application
- A minimum of 2 years of experience in a landscape-related field
- Ability to operate equipment safely, and a valid driver’s license
- The responsibility and independence to work autonomously
- Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills to understand and meet client needs
- Horticulture or arboriculture trade certification is a bonus
About SavATree and Aspen Tree Service
SavATree describes its mission as taking its passion for nature and keeping the country’s outdoors beautiful and flourishing. Through comprehensive lawn and tree care, it works to make sure customers have attractive, healthy, and cared-for green spaces. Over the last thirty years it has opened new offices across the country, and it says it is looking for people who want to grow with it. For this opening it has partnered with Aspen Tree Service to bring on landscape technicians. The company says it wants everyone to be able to define and reach their own version of success, invests heavily in training and continuing education, and builds a collaborative culture where employees can become go-to subject matter experts. SavATree is an equal opportunity employer and a Drug Free Workplace.
Good to Know: The listing is tagged entry level, yet it also asks for 1–2 years of lawn care experience and a minimum of 2 years in a landscape-related field, so check how the company counts experience if you are early in your career. No pay rate is stated, only that the salary is competitive. Ask about hourly rate, seasonal hours, and the vehicle program at the interview stage.
Who Should Apply?
- Landscape Technicians: With two or more years in landscaping who want a company with training and benefits
- Lawn Care and Turf Applicators: With 1–2 years of hands-on experience in maintenance and application
- Horticulture and Plant Science Graduates: Ready to apply what they studied on real properties
- Equipment Operators: Comfortable with skid steers, loaders, and engine-powered tools
- Vineyard Haven Area Candidates: Who like outdoor work and hold a valid driver’s license
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