Oak Avenue is a small all-electric landscaping crew based in Dunwoody. We build patios, walls and drainage, and we look after gardens and commercial grounds across the north side of Atlanta. Every mower, trimmer, blower and hand tool we own runs on batteries, and the batteries are charged on a solar trailer. There is no gas can on the truck.
We are not hiring in volume and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we are doing is looking, steadily, for the two or three people who would be good at this and would want to stay. If that might be you, the rest of this page is written so you can work out whether it is worth a phone call.
What the work actually is
Some weeks it is installation: moving base stone, cutting and laying pavers, setting wall block, digging in drain lines, planting. Some weeks it is maintenance: a route of residential gardens and commercial properties, mowing, edging, bed work, pruning, seasonal cleanups. Most people end up doing both, because a crew this size does not have the luxury of specialising and because the install weeks are more interesting if you have spent the winter on a route.
It is outdoor work in Georgia. It is hot in July, it is muddy in February, and red clay does not care how you feel about it. The days start early, they usually finish at a sensible hour, and the schedule is predictable enough that you can plan a life around it.
What we are looking for
- A regular driver’s license and a clean record. There is no CDL involved — it is a half-ton pickup and a trailer, and if you have not towed before we will teach you properly rather than hand you the keys and hope.
- Someone who turns up. On a crew of this size one person not showing on a Tuesday is the whole day, not a percentage.
- Enough care with equipment that it comes back in the same condition it left in. Battery gear is expensive and it does not forgive being thrown in a trailer.
- The ability to talk to a client. You will be in somebody’s garden, or outside somebody’s office window, and being pleasant about it is part of the job.
- Landscape, construction, farm or grounds experience helps. Bilingual English and Spanish helps a lot. Neither is a hard requirement if the rest is there.
What is different about working on an all-electric crew
Ask anyone who has run a gas backpack blower for six hours what their ears and hands feel like at the end of it. That is the part of this job that is simply gone. No two-stroke exhaust in your face, no vibration white finger, no ringing at dinner. You can hold a conversation across a lawn without shouting, which sounds like a small thing until you have worked both ways.
The honest side of it: the batteries need managing. Charging is planned into the day, packs get rotated, and running out on the far end of a route is a real thing that happens if nobody is paying attention. And a plate compactor or a masonry saw is loud whatever powers it, so on hardscape days you still wear the ear protection.
If the environmental side of this matters to you, it is not a marketing line here. The City of Dunwoody gave Oak Avenue its 2023 Sustainability Hero Award in the business category, and the equipment decision came before the award, not after it.
What we offer
Pay is set on what you can already do and what you are prepared to learn, and it is discussed honestly on the first call rather than buried in an ad. Beyond that: year-round work rather than a seasonal lay-off, real training on the equipment and on the trailer, and the kind of growth path that only exists in a company small enough for you to be visible in it. If you want to run a crew eventually, that is a conversation we can actually have.
You will be working with the owner, not for a branch manager. That cuts both ways — the standards are high and there is nowhere to hide — but it also means good work gets noticed the same week you do it.
How to apply
There is no application portal. Call (404) 369-0989 or send a note through the contact page telling us what you have done, what you can drive, and when you could start. A résumé is welcome and not required — a couple of honest paragraphs and a reference we can call is worth more.
If you want to know more about us first, the about page covers how the business started and why it went electric, and the services page shows the range of work. The reviews page is probably the fastest way to get a sense of what our clients are like.
Questions people ask before they call
Do I need my own tools? No. Hand tools, power equipment, batteries and PPE are provided. Bring your own boots and your own gloves if you have a pair you like.
Do I need to speak English? Enough to be safe on a job site and to be understood by a client. Spanish is genuinely useful here and we would rather have a good worker with imperfect English than the reverse.
Is this seasonal? No. Leaf season and cleanup work carry the late autumn, and January and February are when hardscape and drainage jobs get done because the turf is dormant. The winter is quieter, not empty.
What if I have never used battery equipment? Almost nobody has when they start. It takes about a week. The mower is the easy part; managing charge across a full day is the part that takes a season to get right.
Where would I be working? Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Brookhaven, Chamblee, Doraville and Peachtree Corners, plus the Perimeter Center office corridor. Routes are built to keep the driving down, so you are not crossing the city twice a day.