Overview

Kildare, Ireland
HortiRecruit

Our client is an established garden design, landscape build and garden maintenance company working mostly in the Greater Dublin area. They require a Maintenance and Small Works division Manager for their landscape maintenance division.

 

The role

  • Maintenance management: To ensure that your sites are managed in a timely and professional manner, as per the Maintenance Schedule, Identify any items that may accelerate or delay the schedule
  • Resource Scheduling: Provide schedules material, machinery and Human resource requirements.
  • Quantify material requirements: Prepare Bills of quantities for material requirements to minimize waste and delays. 
  • Health & Safety: Ensure a safe working environment for your team, provide site inductions, Toolbox talks and safety briefings. Assist in the production and management of RAMS.
  • Contract Paperwork & Procedures: Maintain the implementation of the company’s site record Procedures.
  • Design interpretation – Identify any potential design / Site issues.
  • Team Management: Maintained strong communication with your construction team to ensure a positive and safe working environment, in order to maintain a positive work environment leading to high productivity.
  • New Business Development: Develop the Maintenance and small works division in accordance with the business and marketing plans to keep in line with budget projections.
  • Customer Care – To maintain strong relationships with existing customers, deal with any issues or complaints in a professional and timely manner. Uphold the company’s high standards.
  • Site Supervision:  Represent the company on site and at site meetings, taking notes and keeping records of meetings. Detailing and recording any work requests.
  • Financial – Responsibility for the maintenance of our minimum gross margin on sales – This is achieved by delivering on schedule without waste.
  • Site works: Assist in implementing projects as required, for soft landscape and irrigation instillations.
  • Other duties – We provide exceptional levels of customer care and operate at the very to end of international domestic landscape construction. We operate a small business with a close team, and you will be expected to assist other team members as required to ensure the smooth running of the company. 

 

You will ideally be.

  • You will preferably have a 3rd level qualification in Horticulture or Construction Management. But not essential
  • Excellent Knowledge of Plants, Soil, Planting & establishment techniques. 
  • A Minimum of 5-6 years’ experience in landscape construction
  • Experience working as part of a team in a fast paced, multi-faceted environment
  • Honest and straight forward communication is essential with our customers and team.  A pleasant and positive manner with team members & Customers
  • Willingness to travel
  • A full driving licence

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