Manager of Landscaping

Compensation Type: Yearly Highgate Hotels:
Highgate is a premier real estate investment and hospitality management company widely recognized as an innovator in the industry. Highgate is the dominant player in U.S. gateway markets including New York, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and Honolulu, with a rapidly expanding presence in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Highgate’s portfolio of global properties represents an aggregate asset value exceeding $20B and generates over $5B in cumulative revenues. The company provides expert guidance through all stages of the hospitality property cycle, from planning and development through recapitalization or disposition. Highgate also has the creativity and bandwidth to develop bespoke hotel brands and utilizes industry-leading proprietary revenue management tools that identify and predict evolving market dynamics to drive out performance and maximize asset value. With an executive team consisting of some of the industry’s most experienced hotel management leaders, the company is a trusted partner for top ownership groups and major hotel brands. Highgate maintains corporate offices in London, New York, Dallas, and Seattle.

**Location**:
Rancho Pescadero
- Journey to where your mind opens, your body heals, and your soul revives.

Rancho Pescadero is an awakening - an exploration that encompasses the free spirit, rich culture, and lyrical beauty of Baja California, Mexico. Where wellness is experienced in its most complete sense: the joy of living well. Serene, impeccably refined accommodations are infused with authentic Baja texture and character.

Locally sourced materials. Fine têxtiles. Original art. Thoughtful layouts with terraces, private plunge pools and other luxurious amenities. This is hospitality inspired by the spirit, culture and natural beauty of Baja Mexico: an effortlessly luxurious escape.

Overview:
The Manager of Landscaping will be is responsible for overseeing all outdoor activities related to the Resort landscaping, planting, maintaining flowers, grass, trees, shrubs and irrigation systems.

**Responsibilities**:

- The Manager of Landscaping is the primary person responsible for the Grounds Management and Landscape Maintenance program.
- This position interfaces on a regular basis with the department heads, suppliers, subcontractors, facility employees, and guests to ensure that the Landscaping Department is responding appropriately to the Resort's current and changing needs.
- Responsible for the day-to-day management of landscaping staff and all Resort approved grounds subcontractors providing services.
- Day-to-day work scheduling, dispatching, and supervision of landscaping staff and subcontractors, adhering to Resort's policies and procedures, and implementing policies and procedures where appropriate.
- Day-to-Day Communications, activities include alignment meetings, reporting, clarifying work requests, and providing Resort with weekly, monthly, and annual reports, and specialized reports as needed.
- Using landscape safety guidelines and programs, develop an environmental safety and sustainability program that complies with requirements.
- Arrange for providing grounds related training, equipment training, safety training, or other processes related training to promote multi-skilled work utilization.

Qualifications:

- 3+ years of experience in landscape maintenance and related fields.
- Hotel or resort experience highly preferred
- 3+ years leading a landscaping team.
- Landscaping equipment knowledge.
- Bi-lingual in English and Spanish preferred