Landscape Construction Project Manager

Landscape Project Manager

Location: Wallenstein, ON

Job Type: Full-Time Permanent (Start date ASAP)

Wage: $40.00-$50.00/hour

What We Offer

This job will offer you the opportunity to work on some of southern Ontario's most beautiful residential landscape projects. The pace, challenges, and problem-solving opportunities will mean you are never bored. You will have the chance to develop and refine a wide variety of skills in our rapidly growing business. Your colleagues are all highly skilled, with an impressive range of backgrounds and expertise. Above all, they are dedicated to Earthscape's success. We want you to be successful, and we believe in rewarding our staff for exceptional work.

In addition to excellent on-the-job training in project management and site supervision, a safe and inclusive work environment for you and your colleagues, we offer:

1. Extended health and dental benefits
2. Life insurance and AD&D
3. Profit sharing and performance bonuses
4. Participate in our employee share ownership program (ESOP) after 1 year
5. Tuition reimbursement
6. Award-winning projects and designs
7. Company events & social hours
8. Overtime pay

Who Are We?

Our company, Earthscape, is recognized as an award-winning design-build firm that specializes in high-end residential landscaping. We are a group of enthusiastic, creative dreamers and builders who work hard and are exceptionally proud of what we design and create. Our project managers aren't afraid to get their hands dirty, and our installation crews know that we trust and highly value their work. It makes for a positive, productive, fun, and rewarding environment, with enough challenges and opportunities to keep us growing.

Our focus is on designing thoughtful, creative, and innovative outdoor spaces that offer a unique vision for each client using a wide variety of materials (stone, concrete, wood, etc.). For examples of past landscape design-build projects, please visit our website at www.earthscape.ca.

Our main office and yard are located just outside of Elmira, Ontario; a second office/yard is located in Toronto.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Project Manager to support our crews in Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, and surrounding areas. In this role, you will schedule, monitor and close out landscape construction projects while providing organization, management, and logistical support to crews as well as ongoing communication with clients. You will:

1. Coordinate crews and subcontractor scheduling
2. Monitor project schedule and budget
3. Supervise, coordinate, and schedule the day-to-day work activities of landscape construction crews
4. Plan labour requirements, equipment requirements, and material deliveries
5. Maintain and enforce standards of safety, cleanliness, and organization in assigned trucks, trailers, equipment, jobsites, and shop/yard areas

Skills & Qualifications

1. Align with Earthscape core values of integrity, hard work, teamwork, the pursuit of excellence, and loving what we do
2. Have more than 5 years of construction and/or landscaping experience
3. 5+ years of experience across a broad range of landscaping construction site work, including paver and step installation, concrete, masonry, site layout, and site grading
4. Knowledge of Plant ID, as well as proper planting bed and plant installation
5. Ability to coach and train crew leaders to install landscapes to the highest standards
6. Thrive in a busy work environment and respect project timelines
7. 2+ years of experience in landscape or construction project management (PMP not required)
8. Experience reading and interpreting scaled drawings
9. Demonstrates leadership by example and the ability to engage others in the accomplishment of tasks in an efficient and organized way
10. Have great problem-solving skills
11. Recognize the importance of building to high-quality standards
12. Want to be proud of your employer and work for a highly regarded industry-recognized leader
13. Communicate effectively with supervisors, colleagues and clients
14. Have a minimum G class license

Job Type: Full Time Permanent

Compensation: $40.00-$50.00/hour depending on experience

Location: 7215 Wellington Rd 86, Wallenstein ON, with crews working around KW & Guelph

Accommodation

We are committed to treating all people in a way that respects their dignity and independence. Should you require any accommodation during the recruitment process or otherwise, please notify us of this when you apply, and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

Pre-employment Checks

As part of our selection process, successful candidates may be required to consent to background checks relevant to the role, prior to receiving a job offer. These could include: work references, education and credential confirmation, employment verification, identity check, criminal offense and driver's license record.

At Earthscape, we are committed to building an environment where everyone feels included, valued, and heard. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging are an important part of our everyday work, and it is our belief that they enable us to reach our goal of bringing incredible outdoor spaces to life. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.