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Green industry operations leader on a corporate campus, Bloom Talent Solutions executive search

Field Service & Green Industry Talent

Great companies. Great careers. Built in the field.

The search firm trusted by the people who run the field. Bloom builds relationships with proven managers and executives years before a search opens, so companies gain access to leaders they could never reach on their own, and operators gain a representative who protects their name.

90%+

In seat at one year

500+

Placements

100+

Clients signed

30+

States with placements

Emerging landscape operations leader on a maintained commercial property

The next generation of operators

One
Operating world. All we do.

Why Bloom

We get your world. We study it for a living.

Bloom Talent Solutions is a boutique executive and management search firm that recruits exclusively for the green industry and the field services around it, placing managers and executives from branch manager to the C-suite across landscaping, tree care, pest control, and facilities.

Our recruiters are recruiters first, trained in the craft, most carrying real recruiting experience.

What separates us is focus. We pour that craft into one world: the green industry and the field services around it.

We stay close to the operators who run these companies, so when we call, we already understand your role, your busy season, and what a real step up looks like, not from reading a job spec but from knowing the industry we serve.

We don't fill seats. We place leaders who perform and stay.

The engine

Most recruiters start when the requisition opens. Bloom starts years earlier.

By the time you need us, the work is already done. We've mapped the market, we know the operators, and we know who's ready for the next step.

The best operators respond to Bloom because Bloom has earned their trust. That trust is what gives our clients access to leaders they can't reach on their own.

  • We maintain relationships with field leaders continuously — not only when a role opens.

  • Candidates are evaluated before they're marketed, not after your requisition lands.

  • Their motivation, mobility, and compensation are already understood.

  • Nothing is shared without their permission — representation is explicit.

  • You receive a qualified market, not a stack of inbound résumés.

One operating world

One operating world. Every leader who runs it.

Built in the green industry, expanding selectively into the field services around it. We know the operations, the seasons, and the leadership these businesses demand, not a generic job spec.

Heritage

Green industry

Our heritage and deepest bench: landscape, tree care, lawn & turf, irrigation, snow & ice, and pest control.

HVAC & mechanical

Commercial HVAC, mechanical, and building-systems leadership.

Critical power

Mission-critical and data-center power operations.

Facilities services

Integrated facilities management and route-based service.

Tito Caceres

Tito Caceres

Founder & CEO

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From the founder

I started Bloom on a simple belief: people make better moves, and companies make better hires, when someone who truly knows this industry is in the middle of it.

Tito writes the talent column in Landscape Management and is a regular voice on the industry's podcasts and stages. Bloom is the team he built around that work.

See where we show up

An institutional standard

The founder set the standard. A full team delivers it.

Every search runs the same disciplined process, no matter who leads it. You don't depend on one person's calendar — you depend on a search function built to repeat the result.

Search leadership

Senior ownership of every mandate, accountable for the outcome.

Client strategy

Defining the profile, the market, and the case that attracts the best.

Market mapping & sourcing

Systematic coverage of every relevant operator, not just the active ones.

Candidate qualification

Structured evaluation against the Field Performance Index.

Search operations

The coordination, follow-through, and communication that keep a search alive.

Interview & offer management

Running the process to close — no surprises in the final stretch.

So if the founder isn't personally running every step, does the standard still hold? It does. The standard lives in the process, not in one person.

Wherever you're starting, we know the way.

For Candidates

Be Represented

For leaders who aren't looking but would move for the right opportunity. Confidential, free, and handled by specialists who know your work and your worth.

  • Always free for you. Companies pay
  • Quietly represented, on your terms
  • Mid-level management through the C-suite

For Employers

Hire Leaders

Scaling, replacing a leader quietly, or filling a critical seat, we run the search with total discretion. We don't send resumes. We send the right leader.

  • Passive, pre-vetted leaders, approached discreetly
  • First slate in weeks, from a standing bench
  • A replacement guarantee on every engagement

Let's be honest

What is standing still costing you?

Both sides of this feel it. Neither likes to say it out loud.

If you're not looking

  • You're good at what you do, but you haven't tested what you're worth in years.
  • The people who got promoted past you weren't more talented. They moved.
  • Every season you stay “comfortable,” someone newer is being groomed for the seat you wanted.
  • You'll look “when things settle down.” Things never settle down.

Comfortable is the most expensive place to park a career.

Find your next move

If you're the one hiring

  • Your best operator is one rough week from a competitor's call, and you'd be the last to know.
  • That seat's been open for months. Your team is quietly covering, and quietly burning out.
  • A mis-hire costs you a year, a budget, and the trust of everyone who watched it happen.
  • Your bench is one resignation deep, in the hardest market for proven leaders in a generation.

An empty seat or the wrong one, both bleed you while you wait.

Talk to us about a search

Waiting isn't neutral. For a career or a company, standing still in this market is moving backward, quietly, then all at once.

One system, two sides

How a placement actually happens

The Field Performance Index reads the leader. The Search Readiness Index reads the company. Built on the same eight-point diagnostic, they line up — so a match is a fit that will hold, not a hope.

Field Performance Index™

Qualified leader

Sample profile
86/100

Field Performance

ReliabilityGrowthSafetyFitCompetencePresenceTenureReadiness

Top 15% of the field leaders we've assessed.

Strengths

  • Trade competence and reliability that hold up under pressure
  • Clear upward trajectory — ready for a bigger seat

Risks to probe

  • Some past mobility — worth understanding what moved them

Recommended action

The capability is proven. Move to a motivation-and-fit conversation.

See the index

Search Readiness Index™

Search-ready company

Sample profile
78/100

Search Readiness

CompensationAuthorityProcessAccessPropositionDecisionInterviewClarity

Search-ready — ahead of two-thirds of employers.

Strengths

  • Role clearly defined against year-one outcomes
  • Decision-makers engaged and reachable

Gaps to close

  • Compensation flexibility is tight for a passive candidate
  • The employer proposition needs sharpening

Recommended action

Firm up the comp range and the pitch before going to market.

Assess your readiness
Qualified leaderSearch-ready companyA placeable opportunity

Two profiles, one proprietary read. When both clear the bar, the placement sticks.

Who we serve

Deep in field services. Rooted in the green industry.

We don't recruit everywhere. We go deep in the field service verticals we specialize in, led by the green industry.

Field ServicesThe operators who keep critical outdoor and building systems running.
Primary focus

Green Industry

Our heritage and deepest bench. From the field to the C-suite.

  • Commercial Landscape Maintenance
  • Design-Build & Construction
  • Lawn & Turf Care
  • Tree Care / Arboriculture
  • Irrigation & Water Management
  • Snow & Ice Management
  • Pest & Lawn Care
  • Hardscape & Outdoor Living

HVAC & Mechanical

Comfort and process systems, commercial to residential.

  • Commercial HVAC
  • Residential HVAC
  • Refrigeration
  • Building Automation & Controls
  • Plumbing & Mechanical Contracting

Critical Power

Keeping the lights on where downtime isn't an option.

  • Data Center Power
  • Standby & Backup Generation
  • UPS & Battery Systems
  • Switchgear & Power Distribution

Facilities Services

The teams that keep buildings and campuses running.

  • Janitorial & Building Services
  • Integrated Facilities Management
  • Maintenance & Operations

Who we partner with

Built for operators at every stage

From founder-led family businesses to PE-backed platforms executing roll-ups. We recruit the leaders each stage needs.

Privately & Family-Owned

Owner-operators scaling with intention.

  1. 1
    Emerging
    $1-10M · founder-led
  2. 2
    Growth
    $10-50M · building the bench
  3. 3
    Scaling
    $50-250M · professionalizing
  4. 4
    Enterprise
    $250M+ · market leader

PE-Backed Platforms

Portfolio companies executing the thesis.

  1. 1
    Platform
    Anchor investment & leadership build-out
  2. 2
    Add-on / Roll-up
    Integrating acquisitions at speed
  3. 3
    Carve-out
    Standing up standalone teams
  4. 4
    Exit-ready
    Bench depth that de-risks the sale

Open roles

Find your next role

A few of the roles we're hiring for right now. From branch and operations managers to the C-suite.

What we do

More than one way to build your team

From contingency to fully retained professional and executive search, plus advisory and embedded partnership. You choose the level of commitment; we match it.

Our deepest engagement, run at two levels.

Retained Search

Fully retained, fully exclusive: a senior recruiter's dedicated capacity from kickoff through onboarding, with the diligence the most important seats deserve.

  • A senior recruiter's full, exclusive capacity
  • Compensation analysis before the search begins
  • Weekly progress reports with market intelligence
  • Up to a 12-month replacement guarantee
Commit to the search, get dedicated priority.

Engaged Search

A deposit activates the search, and up to three concurrent searches. Exclusive to Bloom.

  • Worked ahead of our contingency requisitions
  • First candidate slate within 5–10 business days
  • A written update every Monday
  • 90-day replacement guarantee
Pay only when you hire.

Contingency Search

No deposit. Exclusive to Bloom, invoiced when your new hire starts.

  • Dedicated, exclusive sourcing
  • Candidate screening and qualification
  • Every submittal carries Bloom's recommendation
  • 45- to 90-day replacement guarantee

Success stories

Results that show up on the P&L

Executive Search

The problem

The value-creation plan was ready. The leadership bench to run it wasn't.

+20%Profit

PE-backed turnaround

Rebuilt the leadership bench for a private-equity-backed services group. Driving a 20% profit lift inside a year.

Embedded Talent Partner

The problem

Growth had hit the ceiling of what one founder could personally manage.

$6M → $10MRevenue

Family business, scaled

Built the management layer that took a family-owned operator from $6M to $10M without losing its culture.

Embedded Partner

The problem

Key seats kept turning over, and every exit drained margin and momentum.

90%+Retention

Turnover, solved

Replaced constant churn with a continuous pipeline. 90%+ of placements still in seat at one year.

Your team

Recruiters who speak your language

Recruiters trained in the craft, immersed in one operating world. The people who'll actually run your search.

  • Tito Caceres

    Founder & CEO

    Tito Caceres

  • Ben Molenda

    Team Lead & Executive Recruiter

    Ben Molenda

  • Roschelle Cequena

    Operations Coordinator

    Roschelle Cequena

  • Terrell Mitchell

    Recruiter

    Terrell Mitchell

  • Nancia Lombard

    Recruiter

    Nancia Lombard

  • Paige Franks

    Recruiter

    Paige Franks

Active across the industry's institutions

  • NALP
  • SIMA
  • TCIA
  • NPMA
  • Irrigation Association
  • ISA

Proof

Operators trust Bloom with their teams

  • We've placed 2 high-level positions within the company in the last 6 months with Bloom Talent Solutions. At the end of the day, time is money, and I'd recommend using Bloom Talent Solutions because they are 10x-ing the process.
    President & OwnerDiStefano Landscaping
  • Bloom has placed key leadership roles that have fueled our growth over the last decade. They know the green industry and are great to work with.
    Kyle MayerOwner & CEO, Mayer Landscape
  • Bloom Talent has taken the time to understand our hiring needs and deliver candidates who align with our company culture. Tito's background in the green industry makes it easier to speak about open positions without much explaining. They keep us well informed on current labor market trends, making them a trusted hiring partner.
    Keila ZambranoHR Director, VisualScape

A candidate's story

Sample story. A real candidate story is coming soon.

Regional operations leader, Southeast

  • Represented quietly for 18 months before the right seat opened
  • Moved into a VP of Operations role with relocation handled
  • Still in the seat, and still growing, two years later
They never pushed. They knew what I was worth, told me when to stay put, and called when it was actually worth moving for.

Let's talk

Start the conversation now

Whether you're hiring or quietly exploring a move, the fastest way to see what Bloom can do is a short, no-pressure conversation.

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The human part

You'll always be talking to a person.

From the first conversation to the offer, there's someone on the other end who knows your trade and remembers your name. When you call, a person picks up.

What brought you here?

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