Project Manager
(Paid Opportunities) Return to Paid Opportunities
Start Date: 9/2/2025 Compensation: $75,000 - $115,000 per year
Ensure that assigned projects are run in an efficient, safe and professional manner. Summerhill’s attention to detail, knowledge, proper planting techniques, professional and thorough execution of work distinguishes us from the rest, which is ultimately part of your responsibilities to execute and enforce:
- Manage field staff and subcontractors to ensure assigned jobs are being executed with a sense of urgency, while adhering to cost and man hour budgets
- Responsible for day-to-day oversight of assigned jobs, including working on site daily to ensure jobs are executed to the highest standard
- Responsible for submitting a detailed production schedule for the coming week by Friday afternoon of the week prior and communicating any deviation from that schedule in a timely manner
- Ensure daily jobs sheets are accurate and submitted every morning for processing by the landscape construction administration team
- Coordinate with subcontractors, 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 between office and field operations
- Monitor crews at the start and end of their workday
Responsibilities/Duties
- Responsible for the efficient, on budget execution of each assigned job to the highest standard
- Assist with plant sourcing including visiting nurseries to tag plant material for Summerhill Associates and Summerhill Landscapes
- Assist in the execution of all safety training for landscape construction crews. Ensure that training is executed on a frequent basis and reinforce on job sites
- Responsible for the training of landscape crews in accordance with best management practices in all facets of landscape construction
- Review construction documents and specifications to accurately plan out each assigned job prior to commencement
- Communicate production schedule for each job with all involved parties for each job daily. This includes any entity involved in an assigned job including Summerhill staff, all outside contractors, sub-contractors, local authorities, and regulatory bodies
- Ensure job sites are organized and clean
- Effectively work, communicate and follow-up with landscape architects, designers, clients and builders to clarify construction drawings
- Responsible for coordination of project work with associate project managers. This includes clear communication
- Perform site inventories, analyses, and take field measurements as needed
- Responsible for tracking of all extra to contract work from construction to completion of assigned jobs and making sure change orders and or invoiced are issued with a sense of urgency
- Help achieve Landscape Team performance standards and levels against agreed targets and budgets
- Responsible for maintaining up-to-date set of construction plans for each assigned job
- Assist in scheduling all field-related activities to be performed per contract and or proposal specifications and within established budgets
- Perform job start up inspections and recommendations with foreperson/field PM
- Verify contract specifications are being met
- Leverage Landscape Architecture license to enhance business development, contract and estimate literacy and operational efficiency
Qualifications/Requirements
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to oversee and coordinate a variety of people in different roles
- Extremely detail-oriented
- Ability to read, understand, and execute drawings, and plans
- Ability to quickly identify problems and efficiently solve them
Contact Information
Summerhill Landscapes
Contact Name: Jennifer Gutierrez
Email: Jennifer@summerhilllandscapes.com
Phone: 631-725-0005