Senior Landscape & Irrigation Project Lead

Hittle Landscape; Westfield, Northern (IN, KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hittle Landscape in Indiana seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead landscape and irrigation installation programs for production homebuilders, including Pulte and Lennar. You will own builder relationships, manage multi-community execution, and develop the Assistant Project Manager.

You will establish readiness, scheduling, quality, documentation, and closeout processes, while controlling budgets, schedules, and safety across sites.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of construction project management or field leadership experience.
• Experience coordinating multiple crews, subcontractors, or concurrent jobs.
• Strong budget management, prioritization, documentation, negotiation, and follow-through skills.
• Proficiency with project or ERP systems and Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and Teams.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel among local communities and job sites.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary operational contact for builder construction leadership; establish clear commitments and promptly resolve escalations.
• Manage the portfolio by community, lot, scope, and required completion date; maintain a forward view of demand, capacity, and risks.
• Validate scope, plans, quantities, budgets, and installation requirements before mobilization; identify estimate or work-ticket discrepancies early.
• Confirm lot readiness, access, grading, utilities, and coordination with other trades before committing crews and materials.
• Coordinate landscape crews, irrigation teams, subcontractors, vendors, and the shared scheduler to deliver work safely and on time.
• Manage labor, material, and subcontractor costs against budgets; review job-cost trends and forecasts, investigate overruns, and implement corrective action.
• Document scope changes and obtain required approvals before additional work; provide complete information for timely, accurate billing.
• Establish quality checkpoints, builder acceptance standards, punch-list ownership, and warranty follow-through; reduce avoidable rework.
• Ensure accurate job and lot status, labor coding, material records, and completion documentation in company systems, including Aspire as applicable.
• Coach the Assistant PM, clarify field accountability, and lead regular production reviews covering safety, schedule, cost, quality, and constraints.
• Identify and address watering, establishment, and post-installation obligations in the scope, schedule, and approved pricing.
• Escalate capacity gaps, unresolved builder issues, and material financial risks with a recommended action.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Schedule management

Communication

Reading plans

Tools

Excel

Outlook

Teams

ERP systems

Job description

Hittle Landscape in Indiana seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead landscape and irrigation installation programs for production homebuilders, including Pulte and Lennar. You will own builder relationships, manage multi-community execution, and develop the Assistant Project Manager.

You will establish readiness, scheduling, quality, documentation, and closeout processes, while controlling budgets, schedules, and safety across sites.