Job Description
Job Description
Join a creative and dynamic team shaping extraordinary outdoor spaces in the Hamptons. As a Landscape Designer, you’ll bring ideas to life—from concept to completion—through inspired design, hands-on collaboration, and attention to detail. You’ll work with talented designers and builders to craft beautiful, functional landscapes that reflect Summerhill’s commitment to excellence and innovation.
Responsibilities:
Design:
- Provide weekly reports to the Senior Landscape Designer
- Conceptual Landscape Design using AutoCAD
- Site evaluation, measurements and prepare graphic representations or drawings of proposed plans or designs
- Assist Landscape Designers in managing and making sure site plans and site evaluations are implemented correctly and reviewing projects on-site with landscape forepersons
- Plant selection and arrangements for design
- Assist with preparing presentations for client meetings, preparation of site plans, specifications, or cost estimates for landscape projects
- Analyze data on conditions such as site location, drainage, or structure location for or landscaping plans
- Assist with the development of marketing materials, proposals, or presentation to generate new work opportunities
- Assist with the inspection of landscape work to ensure compliance with specifications, evaluate quality of materials
Project Management:
- Review construction documents and specifications, including take-offs to create accurate estimates
- Effectively work, communicate and follow-up with landscape architects, designers, and builders to clarify construction drawings
- Create construction budgets that detail total costs for approved landscape jobs prior to their commencement
- Using historical data, create man hour budgets for approved landscape jobs prior to their commencement
- Responsible for maintaining up-to-date set of construction plans for each assigned job and ensuring field project manager has a matching set
- Request and review subcontractor and vendor quotes for various work items
- Communicate with Purchasing departments on materials costings and create vendor markups from historic data
- Work closely and delegate tasks to the Landscape construction office team
- Perform site inventories, analyses, and take field measurements as needed
- Create Landscape Management Reports and minutes for site meetings
- Maintain and record “as-builts” for projects
- Verify contract specifications are being met
- Manage and drive the punch list process to ensure each assigned job is thoroughly completed to the highest standards
Qualifications:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or related software
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Basic understanding of clerical and payroll procedures and systems such as recordkeeping and filing
- Ability to work independently
Job Tags
Contract work, For subcontractor, Work at office,