Job Description
Job Description
Wahle, Inc. is seeking a tough, reliable, and intelligent individual to join our team. We are a premier hardscaping and outside construction company, not just a lawn care service. This role begins as essential seasonal support, focusing on winter operations, and serves as a direct apprenticeship path to join our full-time hardscape crew in the spring.
If you are a physically capable individual looking to build a career as a skilled tradesman and are ready to earn your keep, we want to talk to you. We offer clear opportunities for increased pay and bonuses based on performance and commitment.
Core Responsibilities & Expectations
Winter Seasonal Operations (Immediate Focus)
- Holiday Lighting Installation & Takedown: Safely install and remove commercial and residential Christmas lights, requiring comfort working at heights on ladders. (Non-negotiable duty for this role.)
- Snow Removal & Ice Management: Perform vigorous, physically demanding snow removal using shovels and snow blowers (not heavy equipment), ensuring clients' properties are safe and clear. (There is an automatic pay increase from base rate during snow events.)
- General winter support and yard cleanup.
Hardscaping & Landscape Construction (Spring Focus)
- Hardscape Labor: Assist the crew with the physical construction of outdoor patios, retaining walls, and paver installations. This involves repeated, heavy lifting of materials like 85-100 lb blocks and bags of aggregate.
- Construction Support: Handle grading, digging, material staging, and general labor necessary for high-quality outdoor construction projects.
- General softscaping maintenance (mulch, cleanups).
Required Qualifications & Physical Demands
- Physical Strength & Endurance: Must be in healthy physical condition and capable of performing heavy, continuous labor for 8+ hours a day in all weather conditions (not just mild days). A history of physically demanding work (e.g., roofing, siding, outdoor construction) is highly valued.
- Mental Competence: Must be intuitive, smart, and reliable—someone who demonstrates common sense, takes direction well, and cares about the quality of their work.
- Transportation: Must have dependable personal transportation to commute to our shop in Council Bluffs, IA, which is an easy interstate drive for most of the Omaha Metro area.
- Availability: Must be available for flexible winter work and able to transition to a full Monday-Friday schedule in the spring.
Why Work for Wahle, Inc.?
- Clear Career Path: Success in this seasonal role leads directly to a Hardscape Crew position—a pathway to a skilled, high-paying trade.
- Performance-Based Pay: Competitive starting pay with an increased minimum pay for snow removal.
- Construction Bonuses: Employees at every level, from apprentice to foreman, are eligible for job-specific bonuses when construction projects are completed successfully.
Company DescriptionWahle, Inc. is a landscape company operating within a sixty mile radius of Council Bluffs, Iowa. As a landscape company, we specialize in commercial and residential block retaining walls, paver patios, fire pits, and outdoor kitchens. We also offer many other products including mulch beds, driveways, concrete patios, timber retaining walls, Christmas lights, commercial snow removal, fences and conservation landscaping (permeable concrete and pavers).
Company Description
Wahle, Inc. is a landscape company operating within a sixty mile radius of Council Bluffs, Iowa. As a landscape company, we specialize in commercial and residential block retaining walls, paver patios, fire pits, and outdoor kitchens. We also offer many other products including mulch beds, driveways, concrete patios, timber retaining walls, Christmas lights, commercial snow removal, fences and conservation landscaping (permeable concrete and pavers).