Landscape Engineer

Role purpose

Nursery operations and supervision

• Schedules daily work routes and coordinates activities with departments, project staff, foremen, and lead personnel.
• Supervises propagation areas and the proper use of manpower, tools, and equipment.
• Ensures propagation tools are sterilized before use.
• Maintains and repairs tools, equipment, shade houses, greenhouses, fences, benches, and propagation structures.
• Enforces safe tool use and PPE requirements.
• Ensures nursery plants are pruned, hedged, trimmed, weeded, and cleaned.
• Checks automated irrigation systems for proper operation and adequate coverage.
• Monitors plants and palms for insects, fungi, nematodes, and red palm weevil.
• Supervises nursery plumbing, irrigation, operating, gardening, and labor teams and checks completion of assigned work.
• Provides horticultural improvements and customer service to nursery outlet plant buyers.

Qualifications and experience

• Engineering degree in horticulture, agriculture, botany, or a related field.
• Good written and spoken English.
• At least five years of supervisory experience cultivating and protecting trees and plants from diseases and insect infestations.
• Experience pruning or shearing mature plants in a nursery or landscape area.
• Extensive knowledge of palms, trees, shrubs, climbers, hedges, ground covers, and seasonal plants.

Knowledge and abilities

• Knowledge of plant diseases, insects, fertilizers, nutrients, botany, growing seasons, and climate zones.
• Knowledge of hardscape, masonry, carpentry, excavation, grading, drainage systems, and sand dune removal.
• Ability to communicate, provide customer satisfaction, train subordinates, organize work, multitask, and prioritize with minimal supervision.