Chalet’s Landscape Services group in North Chicago, IL (near Gurnee) has an opportunity for interns to explore multiple disciplines in Spring or Summer 2024. Come and learn about rewarding career opportunities for your future and gain hands-on experience, all while you are being mentored by the green industry’s top professionals.

Internship Opportunities (could include one or multiple of the following areas of focus):

• Residential Maintenance - work with Foremen, Production Coordinators and Maintenance Managers to learn the aspects of residential landscape maintenance including proper maintenance policies and procedures, use of equipment, and safety. Additionally, gain exposure to best practices for keeping accurate and updated site information, developing job schedules, monitoring productivity of assigned crews, checking tools and equipment and inspecting maintenance work.
• Residential Design Build – play a part in bringing landscape designs to life. Work on teams that coordinate the installation of high end residential outdoor living spaces. Learn about laying out designs on site from scaled plans for construction, field conditions, change orders, subcontractors, and punch lists from Project Managers, Superintendents, and Landscape Architects and Designers.
• Turf & Plant Healthcare – learn the best IPM practices and about maintaining the highest quality of plants and turf for our residential customers. We will help you prepare for standards licenses.

 The qualities we’re looking for to be successful in this role are:

• Students pursing associates or bachelor’s degrees in Horticulture, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Plant & Soil science, Forestry, Landscape Design, or related discipline.
• Someone who will embrace and live our values of respect, accountability, vision, service, listening, learning & teaching, and gratitude.
• An outgoing personality, a trustworthy approach, and flexibility to take on different tasks, all with a track record of accountability and a hands-on approach to getting things done.
• Bilingual Spanish is a plus. Able to lift 20 to 50+ pounds and enjoys active work outdoors.

These are paid internships. Paychecks are issued weekly. While our ideal schedule would be for you to work 7 am to 5 pm five days a week, we have flexibility if you are balancing summer school or other responsibilities, and you can work at least 3 full days per week.