Job Description

The Landscape Manager is responsible for the overall success of the Viridity landscape division. They manage the division from start to finish, planning and ensuring proper coordination of various jobs. The Landscape Manager is the direct contact for the client and is responsible for planning, budgeting, estimating, and delivering all projects and maintenance programs. This may include many simultaneous tasks at different locations. The Landscape Manager is additionally responsible for working in conjunction with subcontractors to maintain the quality of work when needed.

Essential Functions

• Oversee maintenance programs and landscape projects to ensure they meet plans and specifications, addressing any unforeseen issues in budgeting, design, engineering and maintenance/construction.
• Responsible for seeking out and landing maintenance contracts/ landscape projects. Developing long-term relationships with home and business clientele, architects, general managers and owners.
• Meet with clientele to define maintenance/project scopes, complete bid forms and proposals, and deliver projects on schedule.
• Coordinate staff in a manner that allows for high quality and fast track techniques, detailing daily activities in order to ensure forward progress efficiently.
• Manage direct reports on each jobsite to ensure tasks are progressing as planned and communicating any delays or changes.
• Create reports and progress tracking for Executive Leadership and Ownership.
• Ensure that all elements of landscape division interlock into Executive Leadership and Ownership vision.
• Ensure that all maintenance practices are exceeding all required federal, state, county and city rules and regulations.
• Responsible for quality control management for all aspects of projects.
• Represent Viridity and its related affiliates in a professional manner at all times.

Personal Attributes

• Strong organizational, communications and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to organize work effectively, conceptualize and prioritize objectives and exercise independent judgment based on an understanding of organizational policies and activities.
• Highly motivated and energetic.
• Dependable.
• Detail oriented.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting ability.
• Excellent public speaking and leadership skills.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Horticulture or other related field preferred.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in landscape or golf course maintenance.
• Expert in time management, coordinating multiple projects and job sites at once.
• Well rounded in budget development and management.
• Proficient in Spanish speaking ability.
• Experience with operation and minor repair of equipment.
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Calendar.

Physical Abilities

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Required to sit, stand and walk for long periods of time.
• Use hands to finger, hand or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Frequent stooping, bending, pulling and pushing.
• Reach with hands and arms.
• Required to talk and hear consistently.
• Ability to occasionally lift, carry and/or drag up to one-hundred (100) pounds if necessary.
• Specific vision abilities required by the role include the ability to distinguish the nature of objects by using the eye, including close vision, distance vision, the ability to identify and distinguish colors, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Occasional exposure to fumes or airborne particles, as well as toxic and caustic chemicals.
• Will be utilizing and working near moving mechanical parts.
• Ability to work non-traditional hours, including evenings, weekends and holidays as necessary.

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