Landscaping Account Manager Naples - Estate Landscaping & Lawn Management

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Description
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  • In this position the Account Manager is primary client contact for all jobs in the area._

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:


Field Management

  • Develop production activity calendar
  • Review new equipment technology
  • Plant, Turf & Tree Health Care (finalize annual agronomic plans, develop selective pruning schedule
  • Schedule Summer aeration
  • Maintains familiarity with each job's specifications and insures compliance.
  • Develops and maintains schedules for maintenance work on all jobs.
  • Creates routes for crews and coordinates manpower, equipment and materials.
  • Monitors and arranges schedules for irrigation system on job sites.
  • Monitor and arrange schedule for pest control and fertilization.
  • Manages equipment needs and sees that all equipment in the area is properly maintained.
  • Manage designated work teams
  • Employee reviews, discipline & skill set assessment
  • Production & efficiency
  • Scheduling & seasonal startup
  • Solve production related issues
  • Implement agronomic plan
  • Develop & update production activity calendar
  • Equipment utilization & asset management
  • Manage asset newness
  • Oversee all support regimes (shop support, supply chain support, adm. support, resources support such as vendor, supplier, Sub Contractor, etc.), financial tool support (systems understanding & education).

Safety

  • Oversee to insure safe operations
  • Orient new employees
  • Strictly adhere to all safety policies
  • Discipline aggressively
  • Job site safety
  • Equipment utilization safety
  • Loadunload and dispatch safety
  • Sub Contractor & Vendors safe operations
  • Spring, summer & fall safety training
  • Conduct site safety

Quality Control

  • Inspect prior to crew visit
  • Perform quality walks with crew leaders
  • Perform OTJ Training
  • Manage weather related events
  • Implement technological advancements
  • Specification engineering
  • Curb appeal management

Client Relations

  • Informs clients of problems and changes concerning their properties in a timely manner.
  • Sees that client requests are responded to in a timely manner.
  • Anticipates client needs in a proactive manner.
  • Life cycle management landscaping
  • Lawn & ornamental fertilization plans with Pest Control Manager
  • Pest management plans with Pest Control Manager
  • Arbor culture plans
  • Air & light management
  • Water management
  • Life cycle replacement plan
  • Life cycle management irrigation
  • Controller upgrades
  • Valve and head retrofits
  • Understand contractual obligations & specifications
  • Review each contract specifications
  • Provide activity calendar to work team leaders
  • Reaffirm contractual understanding with customer
  • Address contractual dispute immediately
  • Re-Engineer specifications periodically (technology advancements, contractual mistakes, site learning's, market shifts & client observations
  • Develop client & work team
  • Influencing relationship
  • Managing relationship

Budget

  • Insure budget compliance
  • Post job cost daily (if applicable)
  • Review budget to actual reports weekly (if applicable)
  • Address suspected estimating errors immediately positive & negative
  • Report site condition changes immediately
  • Manage agronomic plan & watering schedules
  • Periodically adjust budgets based upon lessons learned, market conditions & technological advancements
  • Uncontrollable (uncontrollable costs, weather phenomena's, economic phenomena's & market shifts/market conditions

Personnel Development (if not a dedicated operations supervisor)

  • Screens, hires and terminates employees within their area.
  • Evaluates performance of foreman and makes recommendations regarding wages.
  • Develops training goals for all subordinate personnel.
  • Develop training matrix
  • Develop and post training board
  • Conduct weekly "refresher" training
  • Develop training library
  • Develop skill driven wage policies
  • Oversee employee policy training
  • Conduct "lesson learned" reviews
  • Insure best practice & standard practice training

Sales

  • Oversee project enhancement & landscape upgrades
  • Develop a responsible enhancement plan for each project (safety, life cycle, long term cost management, curb appeal
  • Oversee enhancement work team efficiency
  • Oversee enhancement work team quality
  • Oversee budget to actual
  • Conduct lessons learned reviews
  • Sell Enhancement projects. This includes bid preparation, submittal, and overseeing project until completion.
  • Develop new leads of Maintenance Prospects
  • Target sales for increased route density.
  • New account Sales, Be able to measure for bid estimate, create bid proposals and present /close sale
  • Manage renewals (Re-Conversion)
  • Establish trust competency, communications, corporate
  • Maintain a client management schedule
  • Set high standards
  • Provide planning tools
**Administrative

  • Oversee & administrate field related reporting
  • Time sheet reporting
  • Materials coding
  • Hire documentation
  • Employee discipline documentation
  • Dismissal document

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