ONE: Employer Name and Contact Information
Business Name: Winter Services Group, LLC
Physical Address: 250 Quincy Street, Grandville, MI 49418
Mailing Address: 250 Quincy Street, Grandville, MI 49418
FEIN: 85-1215772
Employer Job Phone Number: 616-437-6219
Employer Job Email: [email protected]
Employer Job Web Portal: N/A
TWO: This job opportunity is a temporary, seasonal, full-time position.
Number of job openings to be filled: 47
THREE: Job Opportunity
Job Code & Title: 37-3011, Laborer – Landscape Workers
Duties:
Under close supervision, workers will shovel, sidewalk plow, chip ice, inspect for ice, and apply ice-melt treatments and sand to pavements.
Workers will primarily use snow shovels and walk behind drop-spreaders to apply ice-melt. Snow blowers may be utilized where appropriate.
Workers may perform common maintenance, use and operate/maneuver equipment, tools, and vehicles.
Other duties include installing/removing pavement marking stakes before and after the season, as well as light landscaping repair work such as spreading topsoil, spreading grass seed, or grading planting beds disturbed by the winter snow cleaning work.
Additionally, workers will clean up/cut and prune, from ground level, limbs/foliage damaged by snow/ice, load them into trucks and/or trailers, to be properly disposed of or recycled.
At season’s end, workers will sweep and blow sand and other debris from paved surfaces.
Minimum Education Required: None.
Minimum Experience Required: None.
Work Hours & Days: Work schedule 40 hours per week, up to 10 hrs/OT. typically 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday, some Saturdays, and Sundays during the very high points in the season.
Anticipated Start Date of Job Opportunity: October 1, 2026
Anticipated End Date of Job Opportunity: April 15, 2027
Other requirements: Post-employment random drug testing and background checks may be required, at no cost to the worker. The job requires the applicant to be qualified, ready, willing, able, and available to perform during the entire employment at the designated worksites; and to follow workplace rules.
FOUR: Geographic Area of Intended Employment:
Various job sites in Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI areas.
FIVE: Wage that the employer is offering:
$19.46 hour/ $29.19 hour overtime
The employer will comply with applicable Michigan state law, including but not limited to the Earned Sick Time Act 338. The employer will provide workers with paid sick leave in the amount required by law.
Pay raises are based on length of time on job, quantity, and quality of work produced, dependability, and adherence to procedures and policies.
(The wage offer will equal or exceed the highest of the prevailing wage or the Federal, State, or Local minimum wage in effect during employment).
SIX: Overtime:
Overtime expected and mandatory.
SEVEN: On the Job Training?
On-the-job training will be provided. Position is entry level, no experience required.
EIGHT: Wage Computation.
The employer will use a single workweek as its standard for computing wages due.
NINE: Pay Frequency:
Wages will be paid on a biweekly basis.
TEN: Board, Lodging, other facilities, including fringe benefits.
For those employees who do not maintain a residence within normal commuting distance, on an optional basis, the employer will assist those employees who opt in, in securing housing and contracting for utilities.
Employer and employee will execute an agreement whereby the employer prepays the rent, utilities, security deposits and other applicable charges for the housing and utilities.
These expenses (on a prorated basis) will be deducted from the employee’s paycheck as per the executed agreement.
ELEVEN: Deductions from Pay:
The employer will make all deductions from the worker’s paycheck required by law. In addition, the employer intends to make the following deductions from the worker’s paycheck which are not required by law:
For those employees who do not maintain a residence within normal commuting distance, on an optional basis, the employer will assist those employees who opt in, in securing housing and contracting for utilities. Employer and employee will execute an agreement whereby the employer prepays the rent, utilities, security deposits and other applicable charges for the housing and utilities. These expenses (on a prorated basis) will be deducted from the employee’s paycheck as per the executed agreement.
TWELVE: Initial transportation and subsistence.
If the worker completes 50% of the work contract period, the employer will, consistent with applicable regulatory requirements, arrange and pay directly for transportation and subsistence. Daily subsistence will be provided either at a rate of $16.78 per day during travel without receipts to a maximum of $68.00 per day with receipts or the applicable USDOL mandated fee in effect on the date of travel.
THIRTEEN: Return transportation and subsistence.
Workers will be provided with or reimbursed for outbound transportation and subsistence consistent with applicable regulatory requirements if the employee completes the period of employment or is dismissed from employment before the end of the period of employment. If transportation is provided, it will be by common carrier land or air conveyance at the option of the employer. Daily subsistence will be provided either at a rate of $16.78 per day during travel without receipts to a maximum of $68.00 per day with receipts or the applicable USDOL mandated fee in effect on the date of travel.
FOURTEEN: Daily Transportation to and from Worksite.
Round trip transportation from business address to the job sites daily at no cost to the worker.
FIFTEEN: Reimbursement to H-2B worker of visa and other related fees.
H-2B workers will be reimbursed in the first workweek for all visa, visa processing, border crossing, and other related fees, including those mandated by the government (excluding passport fees).
SIXTEEN: Tools, Supplies and Equipment
The employer will provide to the worker, without charge or deposit charge, all tools, supplies, and equipment required to perform the duties assigned.
SEVENTEEN: Application Instructions.
Please inquire about the job opportunity or send applications, indications of availability, and/or resumes directly to the nearest local office of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. Applicants can locate their nearest MI Office at: West Michigan Works! Grand Rapids Service Center, 215 Straight Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504, Phone: 616-336-4460, and can apply for the position here: https://www.mitalent.org/, refer to Job Order Number: 393953437
EIGHTEEN:
This job order, including its wage and working terms and conditions, is contingent upon prevailing legal interpretations of federal H-2B immigration and FLSA employment law, including Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security regulations. If any such prevailing law is rescinded, superseded, vacated, or substantially modified, then any affected portion of this job order will be similarly modified.
