1) Bartlett Tree Experts is located at 900 Ken-O-Sha Industrial Park Dr SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49508, phone 616-245-9449.
2) Eight Ground Persons are needed for temporary, full-time employment.
3) Eight (8) positions available for temporary full-time Ground Persons to begin working working April 1, 2025 and continue through December 1, 2025, working 40 hours weekly from 8am to 4pm Monday through Friday at $18.65 or higher per hour, with overtime offered regularly at $27.98 or higher per hour. No education or prior experience or training required, including no on-the-job training needed, as clear and simple instructions are provided at work.
Ground Person duties include ground-level pruning and ground-level trimming; also raking and digging and weeding and planting and watering. Ground Person duties include chipping and applying protective mulches and applying safe fertilizers; also collecting and hauling out debris, and loading crew vehicles. Ground Persons observe for any shrub or plant or hedge problems and inform crew leaders. The position is entry-level and non-agricultural. Ground Persons attend a daily Safety Briefing.
4) The geographic area of this job is Grand Rapids, Michigan with daily worksites in different towns of Kent County. Bartlett crews leave each day for worksites from our Grand Rapids headquarters, and return the same day.
5) Pay is $18.65 or higher per hour.
6) Overtime is offered regularly at $27.98 or higher per hour.
7) No on-the-job training necessary. Supervision and guidance are provided to Ground Persons directly on the job by skilled Crew Managers. Ground Persons do not supervise any staff.
8) Bartlett Tree Experts uses a single work-week as its standard for computing wages due.
9) Employees will be paid each week on Friday. Payment is unconditionally free and clear.
10) Bartlett Tree Experts does not provide housing.
11) Bartlett Tree Experts will make all paycheck deductions required by law and only deductions required by law, such as income tax and social security; no other deductions are made from the worker's paycheck.
12) Bartlett Tree Experts will reimburse workers who complete 50 percent of the work period covered by this job order the cost of transportation and daily subsistence and lodging from the place which the worker has come to work for the employer, whether in the U.S. or abroad to the place of employment, consistent with 20 CFR 655.20(j)(l)(i).
13) Bartlett Tree Experts will also provide or pay for the worker's cost of return transportation and daily subsistence from the place of employment to the place from which the worker, disregarding intervening employment, departed to work for the employer if the worker completes the certified employment period or is dismissed for any reason by the employer before the employment period ends, consistent with 20 CFR 655.20(j)(l)(ii).
And where a worker must travel to obtain a visa so that the worker may enter the USA to come to work for Bartlett Tree Experts, the employer will pay for the transportation and subsistence costs of that part of travel too. The amount of transportation reimbursement will be equal to the most economical and reasonable common carrier for the distances involved. The amount of money that the worker will receive for daily subsistence will be at least $15.88 per day during travel to a maximum of $59.00 per day with receipts.
14) Bartlett Tree Experts provides daily transportation to jobsites. Our work crews leave from our Grand Rapids headquarters for jobsites each day. If a worker cannot get to the headquarters, they can be picked up at home by the work crew, and returned home the same day. No other travel is required.
15) Employees will be reimbursed in the first workweek for all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees, including those mandated by the government (except passport fees) incurred by the H-2B employee.
16) Bartlett Tree Experts will provide workers, at no charge or deposit, all tools, supplies, and equipment required to perform the job duties assigned, in accordance with 20 CFR 655.20(k).
17) Please inquire about the job opportunity or send applications and/or resumes, indicating availability, to the nearest state career-center, such as the West Michigan Works! SE Service Center, 121 Martin Luther King Jr. Street SE, Suite 120, Grand Rapids, MI 49507, phone: 616-336-4040, fax: 616-336-4015, email: [email protected] re: Job #provided by SWA.
18) Bartlett Tree Experts guarantees to offer workers employment for hours equal to at least three-fourths of the workdays in each 12-week period of the total employment period.
