TROY KNEEBONE

• Independently work to install optic fibre to premises
• Financial forecasting
• Time management of daily jobs
• Inventory tasks
• Communication with customers at residential installations.

• Tender all landscape works – Residential, commercial, government, industrial, wetlands and parks
• Success in securing million dollar contracts
• Excel proficient for quotations
• Compiling prices from contractors
• Negotiating pricing
• Creating construction programs
• Ordering of materials and specialty items to create upcoming projects
• Sourced and managed contractors for upcoming work
• Meeting with clients to discuss upcoming projects to negotiate success in gaining contract
• Meeting with council and architects during job construction
• Working alongside other team members to build the project efficiently
• Working on multiple projects at once
• Pricing future works while seeing out current projects
• Management of more than 6 projects at one time
• Working with team members to see projects to completion
• Troubleshooting when any issues arise.

• Quote all landscape works
• Collaboratively design landscape works with clients
• Organise materials for all sites
• Liaise with clients during the build
• Arrange all sub contractors
• Schedule work for two domestic crews
• Manage Landscape staff.

• Manage large commercial sites
• Conduct daily team meetings
• Implement OHS policies
• Sign in contractors and their machinery
• Ensure site is running to schedule and budget
• Oversee OHS on 5 different commercial sites
• Conduct mock emergencies on sites
• Prepare weekly schedules for workers and machinery with co workers for 15 sites
• Prepare reports for construction manager and company director
• Meet with Site Managers to ensure plans are understood and adhered to
• Weekly check ins to ensure site is running on schedule
• Work with Project Managers to ensure project runs successfully and are resourced adequately

• Manage 2 – 5 jobs at once
• Arrange and supervise subcontractors where required
• Supervision of 7 staff members
• Coordinate equipment and materials
• Liaise with clients and measure jobs for quotations
• Purchasing supplies
• Meeting agreed to timelines
• Organise required materials
• Oversee and comply with OHS policies and workplace safety procedures
• All aspects of soft and hard landscaping
• Complete paving, turf, pebbles, plants, cladding, mulch, irrigation, drainage and concrete.

• Working independently and as a team
• Installation of fence, paving, concrete and plants
• Assisted with AutoCAD plans and quotes
• Trained and Mentored a 1st Year Apprentice
• Worked independently and in a team
• Laid paving, turf, pebbles, plants, mulch and concrete
• Irrigation instalment
• Complied with OHS policies and workplace safety procedures
• Followed instructions and procedures from start to finish
• Exterior and interior cladding
• Install retaining walls, irrigation and steps
• Garden edging and boxes
• Drainage
• Site set up and clean up
• All aspects of soft and hard landscaping
• Basic labouring tasks
• Bobcat and Excavator Operation
• Fence Construction
• Managed jobs.

• Established the business and developed a substantial client base
• Coordinated day to day business activities and landscaping projects including delegation of staff/contractors, organising materials and hiring plant equipment
• Prepared creative, cost effective landscaping designs
• Interpreted site plans and prepared accurate quotations for labour and materials
• Created and maintained positive working relationships with domestic and commercial clients and local builders and other trades
• Installed water features, retaining walls, garden beds, decks and pergolas
• Laid paving, turf, synthetic grass, mulch and pebbles
• Performed vegetation maintenance tasks and planting of shrubs in garden beds
• Installed lighting and irrigation systems
• Operated bobcat and excavator for site clearance and pool installations
• Ensured all staff, contractors and apprentices complied with OHS policies, workplace safety procedures and relevant legislation
• Trained and mentored 4 apprentices
• Purchased business supplies, materials, tools and equipment
• Serviced and maintained vehicles, tools and equipment
• Managed all financial aspects of business and kept accurate records for taxation purposes
• Organised business advertising and promoted business at every opportunity
• Liaised effectively with architects, suppliers, co-workers, apprentices, business associates and other stakeholders
• Conducted site inspections after works completed to ensure high quality standards were consistently being met
• Complete Garden Maintenance on residential and commercial scale.

• Assigning and supervising tasks to staff
• Coordinating staff, equipment and materials
• Liaise with clients and prepared quotations and landscaping designs
• Purchasing supplies
• Estimating job sites
• Install paving and concrete
• Exterior and interior cladding
• Install retaining walls, irrigation and steps
• Garden edging and boxes
• Drainage
• Turf and Plant instillation
• Lighting construction
• Construction of water features
• Soil works
• Follow procedure for each job from start to finish
• Safely operate Bobcats and Excavators
• Installation of fibreglass pools in accordance with industry requirements and council regulations.

• Customer service (in store and via phone)
• Sales
• Orders in person and by phone
• Stock take
• Banking.

2004 – 2005 Labourer

Cotswold Gardens and Landscapes, Mordialloc

2002 – 2004 Removalist

King and Wilson Removalist, Dandenong

2001 – 2002 Horticulturist Traineeship

Rose Root stock and Native Australian Plant Farm Ellinbank