Manager Landscape Maintenance

About Red Sea Global and Botanica

Red Sea Global is a visionary developer focused on redefining sustainability and creating lasting impact. Botanica, a subsidiary of Red Sea Global, specializes in providing sustainable greenery across Red Sea Global’s destinations, ensuring the careful integration of new species with local flora. Botanica aims to cultivate 30 million plants by 2030, shaping the natural landscapes of The Red Sea and Amaala, with a team committed to ecological harmony and pioneering new global benchmarks in sustainable development.

Role Overview

The Manager Landscape Maintenance will oversee landscape maintenance operations across assigned sites in Umluj and Tabuk, ensuring high-quality landscape presentation, plant health, irrigation performance, and operational efficiency. This full-time role involves leading Supervisors and field teams, managing resources, monitoring performance, and coordinating with internal stakeholders and clients to achieve service standards and HSE compliance. The position requires 5-10 years of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage daily landscape maintenance operations and develop weekly/monthly maintenance plans.
• Lead and supervise Landscape Maintenance Supervisors, technical teams, gardeners, and field workforce.
• Oversee softscape and horticultural activities, including pruning, mowing, planting, fertilization, weeding, mulching, and plant replacement.
• Monitor plant health and landscape quality, implementing corrective actions for pests, diseases, and plant stress.
• Oversee irrigation performance, coordinate with irrigation teams, and improve water-use efficiency.
• Conduct regular site inspections to ensure landscape areas meet quality and service standards.
• Manage manpower planning, workforce deployment, productivity, attendance, and utilization.
• Monitor landscape maintenance KPIs, work orders, service requests, and client observations, ensuring timely closure.
• Manage requirements for plants, fertilizers, chemicals, soil, tools, machinery, and other landscape materials.
• Coordinate purchase requisitions, material requirements, and service requests with Procurement and support functions.
• Review and validate operational invoices and supporting documentation.
• Monitor contractor and service-provider performance, ensuring compliance with scope, quality, and safety.
• Ensure effective utilization and maintenance of landscape machinery, tools, vehicles, and equipment.
• Ensure full compliance with HSE requirements, environmental standards, and safe working practices.
• Coordinate with Nursery, Irrigation, HSE, Procurement, Finance, Logistics, Facilities, HR, and other operational teams.
• Maintain effective communication with clients and stakeholders, addressing operational concerns and service issues.
• Prepare and review daily, weekly, and monthly operational reports.
• Monitor operational costs and resource consumption, identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Support mobilization and operational readiness for new landscape maintenance areas and projects.
• Identify operational risks, manpower gaps, quality concerns, and resource constraints, escalating critical matters to the Senior Manager.
• Coach and develop Supervisors and field teams to strengthen technical capability and team performance.
• Drive continuous improvement in landscape quality, sustainability, water efficiency, and service delivery.
• Ensure all landscape maintenance activities achieve business objectives, client expectations, and quality standards.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in landscape maintenance management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and oversee landscape operations, ensuring high standards.
• Experience in leading and supervising field teams and managing resources effectively.
• Strong understanding of softscape and horticultural practices, plant health, and irrigation systems.
• Knowledge of HSE requirements and environmental standards.

Work Environment

This role involves close coordination with various internal departments including Admin, Legal, Finance, Projects, Procurement, Compensation, IT, Marketing, Audit, and HR. The position is based in Tabuk, specifically covering sites in Umluj and Tabuk, and is a full-time commitment.

Application Process

Join Red Sea Global and contribute to world-class projects in sustainable development. We are seeking professionals ready to make a significant impact.