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Assistant Landscape Manager

The Budd Group

Location: Athens, Georgia
Type: Non-Remote, Full-Time
Posted on: October 29, 2025
Assistant Landscape Manager
The Grass is Greener with The Budd Group!
Summary
Are you passionate about creating and maintaining beautiful landscapes? Do you have a landscape degree or a deep, hands-on understanding of landscape maintenance and enhancement, and are you ready to take the next step into a leadership role? We're looking for a proactive, detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Landscape Assistant Manager!
This is a fantastic opportunity to leverage your technical knowledge and develop your people management skills by directly assisting the Landscape Manager in the day-to-day operations of our high-quality landscape program.
Core Responsibilities & What You'll Be Doing
As the Landscape Assistant Manager, you will be crucial in ensuring our landscape quality remains consistently high and our operations run smoothly. Your responsibilities will include:
• Team Leadership: Actively managing, assigning, and overseeing tasks for the landscape team to ensure efficiency and quality. This includes performing supervisory duties and occasionally filling in for workers as needed.
• Quality Assurance: Utilizing your in-depth knowledge to manage people and processes to consistently achieve a very high level of landscape quality.
• Operational Support: Assisting the Landscape Manager with daily work scheduling and creating event coverage schedules.
• Customer & Employee Relations: Maintaining a customer-centric approach and excellent professional communication with internal teams, external clients, and all laborers. Assisting in resolving employee and customer issues.
• Safety & Compliance: Actively promoting and ensuring a safe work environment, reporting incidents/accidents, and monitoring environmental conditions to perform duties accordingly.
• Technical Operations: Using your knowledge of irrigation controllers and water sources, executing and completing work requests via a mobile device work order system, and participating in snow removal activities where applicable.
• Event Support: Assisting with special event setups or breakdowns when necessary.
Qualifications: Your Skills & Experience
Education & Experience
• Associate's Degree (or higher) in Landscape Architecture, Horticulture, Turf Management, or a related field OR equivalent deep, proven understanding of landscape maintenance and enhancement.
• A minimum of 2 years of supervisory or management experience is required (or demonstrated leadership ability in a comparable role).
Certifications & Licenses
• A Valid Driver's License is required.
Key Competencies We're Looking For
• Pro-active approach to managing all aspects of the job.
• Ability to manage people and manage the details of daily operations effectively.
• A strong dedication to customer service (both internal and external).
Why Work For The Budd Group?!?
• We are a God-honoring company of excellence
• PTO - Vacation, Sick Time, 9 Major Holidays, 2 Floating Holidays, and 1 Volunteer day to go serve your community!!
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• Life, Accident, and Disability Insurance
• HSA and FSA programs
• 401(k) - We Match
• Career Advancement
• Free Online Classes for professional and personal development available to ALL employees
• Free Mental Health and Financial Assistance Programs
• Pay on Demand + Cash Back rewards program
• Classes to learn English or Spanish
• Recruit60
Check us out!!
• www.buddgroup.com
• Glassdoor
• Linkedin
The Budd Group Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or regulation.
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