Maintenance Operations Supervisor

Summerhill Associates; Town of Bedford (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Summerhill Associates seeks a leader to oversee high-end landscape maintenance for premier properties, ensuring horticultural excellence and faithful design intent. You will collaborate with clients, landscape architects, and internal teams to elevate each project.

This role drives maintenance standards, contributes to design initiatives, and coordinates with subcontractors, owners, and foremen to deliver flawless results. Strong communication and detailed planning are essential.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong horticultural knowledge.
• Proficient with AutoCAD, Lumion, SketchUp, and Rhino.
• Extremely detail-oriented and precise in execution.
• Ability to read, understand, and execute drawings and plans.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and lead weekly landscape maintenance across premier properties.
• Submit detailed reports every Friday and communicate weekly schedule.
• Design, estimate, and communicate enhancement opportunities with stakeholders.
• Assist with landscape design projects and familiarize with design technology.
• Coordinate with subcontractors, clients, and offices to ensure quality.
• Lead maintenance accounts to uphold highest standards.
• Coordinate project information between office and field operations.
• Ensure safety training for landscape crews is conducted regularly.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Horticultural knowledge

Attention to detail

Reading drawings and plans

Tools

AutoCAD

Lumion

SketchUp

Rhino

Job description

At Summerhill Associates, this role leads the delivery of high-end landscape maintenance across a portfolio of premier properties, ensuring every landscape reflects the company’s commitment to exceptional quality and horticultural excellence. The position collaborates closely with clients, landscape architects, and internal teams to preserve design intent while identifying opportunities to enhance and elevate each property.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping maintenance standards, supporting design initiatives, and influencing the long-term success.

Essential Functions:

• Oversee and lead the execution of all landscape maintenance functions including weekly landscape maintenance, plant health care, tree pruning and replenishment planting
• Responsible for submitting detailed reports every Friday afternoon and communicating completed work performed that week and the upcoming schedule to the company for all assigned accounts
• Design, estimate and communicate enhancement and planting opportunities for all landscape maintenance clients with Landscape Architects, Clients and Ownership/Client Representatives
• Assist with landscape design projects and become familiar with all aspects of design technology
• Effectively work, communicate and follow-up with landscape architects, designers, clients and builders to ensure maintenance of projects matches design intent
• Execute all work to the highest horticultural standards
• Assist in the development of a maintenance manual for all assigned projects that graphically outlines and adheres to horticultural best practices
• Lead the oversight of maintenance accounts, including coordination with sub-contractors, to ensure jobs are executed to the highest standard
• Coordinate with sub-contractors, clients and all entities involved in assigned jobs to make sure all aspects of the work are organized, efficient and effectively communicated
• Coordinate and communicate information on assigned projects between office and field operations

Role Responsibilities:

• Assist with plant sourcing including visiting nurseries to tag plant material for Summerhill Associates as needed
• Assist with phases of design projects as needed and if schedule allows. This includes design development, sourcing, plant layout and maintenance
• Assist in the execution of safety training for landscape crews on assigned projects. Ensure that training is executed on a frequent basis and reinforced on job sites
• Responsible for the training of landscape crews in accordance with the best management practices in all facets of landscape maintenance and horticulture
• Ensure job sites are organized and clean
• Perform job start up inspections and recommendations with foreperson/field PM
• Verify contract specifications for maintenance of plant material are being met

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Strong horticultural knowledge
• AutoCad, Lumion, Sketch Up and Rhino
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Ability to read, understand, and execute drawings, and plans