Landscape Project Manager

JLM Strategic Talent Partners; Glendale (AZ); On-site; USD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Vision

Dental

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

JLM Strategic Talent Partners is seeking a hands-on leader for landscape project support in Glendale, AZ. The role involves managing landscape staff and contractors, field work, and ensuring high-quality grounds maintenance and project site presentation.

You will guide on-site teams, coordinate schedules, and address safety concerns while fostering team collaboration in a fast-paced setting. This position emphasizes reliability and strong communication.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in project engineering and civil construction.
• Thrives in fast-paced, team-based environments.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage landscape staff, contractors, and volunteers to complete department tasks on schedule.
• Provide hands-on field leadership and mentoring on-site.
• Inspect landscape daily to ensure presentation and quality meet standards.
• Prioritize horticultural tasks and coordinate work with the team.
• Assist in preparing work schedules and job assignments.
• Lead snow and ice removal operations and be available for evenings/weekends.
• Ensure landscape health and identify unsafe conditions with corrective actions.
• Identify staff training needs and assist in developing training programs.
• Supervise contracted services and assess needs for external contractors.
• Attend managers' and planning meetings as required.

Skills

Project engineering

Civil construction

Team oriented

Communication

Job description

WHO IS JLM STRATEGIC TALENT PARTNERS & WHAT IS OUR ROLE

We partner with National & International prime contractors to provide them with qualified talent they can trust.

We accomplish this by sourcing & vetting high level career seeking candidates in the industry and match them with our partners current open roles. Our objective is to help our general contractor partners build out project teams for high level infrastructure projects across the US.

We aspire to partner with candidates who are eager to learn, grow, and progress in their career path while deepening their knowledge in their given field.

We deeply value our partnerships and place great emphasis on maintaining strong relationships and long term hires.This is reflective in our competitive offerings to our hires including:

• Ongoing HR support
• Competitive benefits packages including- Health, Dental, Vision & Life insurance
• Our very own JLM Rewards incentive program

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• The ideal candidate has a proven track record of project engineering and civil construction work.
• They thrive in a fast paced and a team oriented environment.
• They get excited about construction projects as well as completing assignments on time.
• An individual who will do well in this position is self oriented, organized, a great communicator, and approachable.
• Comfortable working within a team environment at the project site.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES/SKILLS

• Manage landscape staff (full-time, hourly and seasonal), contractors and volunteers to ensure the proper, efficient and timely completion of department responsibilities.
• Work in the field and sometimes in the office, providing hands‑on completion of work as a mentor and an example for the rest of the team.
• Daily inspection of landscape to ensure overall presentation and condition of grounds and gardens meets standards and quality expectations.
• Prioritize horticultural tasks and coordinate implementation of work assignments with the team.
• Assist in preparation of work schedules and job assignments
• Lead snow and ice removal operations, creating on‑call lists and being available to work some evenings and weekends.
• Be responsible for the health of the landscape.
• Examine potential unsafe working conditions and order corrective action.
• Identify staff training needs and assist with development of training programs, including plant care and maintenance, proper use of tools and equipment, safety, etc.
• Supervise contracted services and assist with identification of need for contracted services.
• As a manager, attend meetings as necessary, including but not limited to managers’ meetings, committee meetings and planning sessions.

PERKS OF JOINING JLM

We offer a competitive compensation package as well as benefits including Health Insurance, Vision, Dental, Life, and Paid Time Off!