**Hardscape Crew Lead / Foreman — $35–$45/hr — 4-Day Workweek**
**Maine Outdoor Spaces | Standish**
Maine Outdoor Spaces is hiring an experienced hardscape professional to manage an installation crew and build high-end residential outdoor living projects.
**This is a hands-on field management position.** You will be accountable for your crew’s daily work, productivity, workmanship, and communication while actively performing skilled installation work.
**More than five years of professional hardscape installation experience and demonstrated crew leadership experience are required.**
**The work**
We design and build custom outdoor spaces, including natural stone and paver patios, retaining walls, granite steps, walkways, outdoor kitchens, fire features, and integrated landscape construction.
These projects require accurate layout, sound construction practices, careful detailing, and the ability to coordinate multiple phases of work from excavation through completion.
**Your responsibilities**
- **Manage the crew:** Plan daily work, assign clear responsibilities, keep people productive, and adjust assignments as conditions change.
- **Lead installation:** Read plans, establish layouts and elevations, and lead excavation, drainage, base preparation, and finished installation.
- **Produce at a high level:** Work alongside your crew, perform technically demanding tasks, and maintain strong production without sacrificing workmanship.
- **Manage progress:** Work toward project schedules and estimated labor hours. Recognize when production is falling behind and communicate the cause and a proposed solution.
- **Keep management informed:** Provide daily project updates covering completed work, upcoming needs, site conditions, and issues affecting cost, quality, or schedule. Report urgent problems promptly.
- **Plan ahead:** Anticipate materials, equipment, deliveries, and crew needs so work can continue efficiently.
- **Develop your team:** Demonstrate proper methods, give clear feedback, and hold crew members accountable respectfully and consistently.
- **Own the quality:** Check work throughout construction, address deficiencies early, and maintain a safe, organized jobsite.
- **Represent MOS professionally:** Communicate respectfully with homeowners, vendors, and trade partners. Bring scope changes and customer requests to the Operations Manager for approval.
**Required experience and skills**
- More than five years of professional hardscape installation experience, including substantial residential patio and retaining wall work.
- Demonstrated experience directing a crew and taking responsibility for its production and finished work.
- Ability to carry a project from construction plans through layout, installation, and completion.
- Strong working knowledge of grades, elevations, drainage, excavation, base preparation, compaction, paver installation, and retaining wall construction.
- Experience installing natural stone and executing detailed cuts, transitions, and finishes.
- Ability to operate excavators, loaders, compactors, saws, and related equipment safely and efficiently.
- Ability to identify discrepancies between plans and field conditions and seek direction before proceeding with work that affects scope, cost, or design.
- Willingness to use JobTread for daily logs, progress photos, and project communication; training on our system will be provided.
- Valid driver’s license.
**Your experience should demonstrate both skilled installation and responsibility for leading other people.**
**Pay, benefits, and schedule**
- **$35–$45 per hour**, based on demonstrated crew leadership experience and technical skills.
- Performance incentives.
- Four-day workweek, with occasional Fridays as needed.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- 401(k) with a 4% company match.
- Medical benefits available as part of the overall compensation package; details to be determined.
**Why Maine Outdoor Spaces?**
Our work brings together thoughtful design, skilled construction, and attentive customer care. You’ll work directly with our Operations Manager, with responsibility for leading your crew and delivering projects you can take pride in.
We’re building a company where people can grow, build lasting careers, and provide for their families. We value leaders who take responsibility, treat people well, and help those around them improve.
**To apply:** Reply with your résumé and phone number. Photos of projects you’ve led are optional.
