Senior Gardener & Landscape Maintenance Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead daily grounds team operations: task assignment, quality inspection, and coordination for a team of 3–5 gardeners
• Plan and manage seasonal landscape programs: pre-high-season refresh, hurricane preparedness planting (secure specimens, remove hazard growth), rainy season fungal management
• Source and manage plant procurement from Yucatán and Quintana Roo nurseries
• Maintain landscape budget records: plant purchases, chemical inputs, equipment costs
• Coordinate with hotel maintenance and operations teams on any infrastructure affecting landscape areas
• Prepare landscape condition reports for hotel management; photograph and document major planting changes

Requirements

• 3+ years hotel landscaping experience with team lead responsibility
• Plant sourcing and nursery management
• Basic administrative and record-keeping ability
• Strong communication with hotel management

Benefits

• IMSS, aguinaldo, paid vacation + premium
• Staff canteen
• Grocery vouchers MXN 700/month
• Semi-annual performance bonus
• Work phone

Work environment

Large Riviera Maya resort, landscape team lead position. Direct responsibility for grounds presentation in a property with high occupancy levels and significant garden investment.

About the role

Senior landscape roles in the Riviera Maya are earned through knowing the environment — which plants survive hurricane season, which soil amendments work in the Yucatán karst substrate, how to recover a damaged tropical bed in the week before high season opens. That knowledge makes an experienced Riviera Maya landscaper genuinely difficult to replace.