Student Veterans of America Jobs

Welcome to SVA’s jobs portal, your one-stop shop for finding the most up to date source of employment opportunities. We have partnered with the National Labor Exchange to provide you this information. You may be looking for part-time employment to supplement your income while you are in school. You might be looking for an internship to add experience to your resume. And you may be completing your training ready to start a new career. This site has all of those types of jobs.

Here are a few things you should know:
  • This site is mobile friendly. You do not need a log-in or password to access information.
  • Jobs on this site are original and unduplicated and come from three sources: the Federal government, state workforce agency job banks, and corporate career websites. All jobs are vetted to ensure there are no scams, training schemes, or phishing.
  • The site is refreshed daily to remove out-of-date content.
  • The newest jobs are listed first, so use the search features to match your interests. You can look for jobs in a specific geographical location, by title or keyword, or you can use the military crosswalk. You may want to do something different from your military career, but you undoubtedly have skills from that occupation that match to a civilian job.

Job Information

Backer Services, Inc Landscape Worker in Roseville, Michigan

Job Duties:. Involves landscaping or maintaining grounds of property using power or hand tools and equipment, sod laying, mowing, trimming, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation and installation of mortarless segmental concrete wall units.  

Job opportunity is temporary and full-time.  50 positions open

Position Requirements:  No prior experience or education is required

Employer's name and contact information: Backer Services, Inc., d/b/a Backer Landscaping; 15251 E. 12 Mile Road, Roseville, MI 48066; 586-774-0090; www.backerlandscaping.com.

On the job training will not be provided

Equipment/tools/supplies will be provided at no cost

Lodging, boarding and fringe benefits not provided.  Employer will make no deductions from the worker's paycheck except those required by law.

Worksite Locations: Workers will travel from our office in Roseville, MI, and to multiple client locations within Oakland and Macomb Counties, MI

Period of employment: Seven (7) + months (04/01/2024 to 11/30/2024)

Employer will offer 50 hours per week.  Full time.  Shifts are: 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.  Days of week vary.  Business is open 7 days a week.

Rate of Pay:  At least $18.00 per hour

Overtime:  At least $27.00 as applicable

Raises and bonuses available based on performance.

A single work week will be used for computing wages due

Workers will be paid bi-weekly

Employer will make all deductions from the worker's paycheck required by law.

Employer will pay for the worker's cost of return transportation, the cost of one piece of luggage, and daily subsistence from the place of employment to the place from which the worker departed to work for the employer, if the worker completes the certified period of employment or is dismissed from employment for any reason by the employer before the end of the period.

Employer will provide daily transportation to and from the work site.

If the worker completes 50% of the work contract period, employer will arrange and pay directly for transportation, one piece of luggage, and subsistence from the place of recruitment to the place of work. Upon completion of the work contract or where the worker is dismissed earlier, employer will provide or pay for worker's reasonable costs of return transportation and subsistence back home or to the place the worker originally departed to work, except where the worker will not return due to subsequent employment with another employer or where the employer reported a worker's voluntary abandonment of employment. The amount of transportation payment or reimbursement will be equal to the most economical and reasonable common carrier for the distances involved. Daily subsistence will be provided at a rate of $15.46 per day during travel to a maximum of $59.00 per day with receipts.

Employer will reimburse the H-2B worker by company check separately from payroll in the first work week for all visa, visa processing, border crossing and other related fees, including those mandated by the government, incurred by the H-2B worker (not including passport expenses or other charges primarily for the benefit of the worker).

Employer guarantees to offer the worker employment or payment for a total number of work hours equal to at least three-fourths (75%) of the workdays of each 12-week period.

This job order is placed in connection with a future application for H-2B workers.

Please apply at your local Michigan Works office, located here:  Michigan Works! 15950 12 Mile Road, Roseville, MI 48066, p. (586) 447-9200 f. (586) 447-9238 or  http://www.michiganworks.org/about-michigan-works/one-stop-service-centers

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