Grounds Supervisor — Hotel & Events Properties

Responsibilities

• Supervise grounds team across hotel property or properties: schedule daily maintenance tasks, zone rotations, and seasonal programs for a team of 3–5 gardeners
• Manage colonial courtyard garden programs: oversee flowering plant rotations, bougainvillea and jasmine training programs, fountain surround maintenance, and seasonal events preparation
• Direct rainy-season growth management (June–September): accelerated pruning schedule for vigorous tropical shrubs; drainage management in courtyard and patio areas; fungal prevention program for humid-season disease risk
• Coordinate landscape preparation for events calendar: weddings, quinceañeras, corporate events, and cultural celebrations hosted in hotel gardens require pre-event landscape in peak condition
• Manage plant procurement from Jalisco nurseries: Zapopan area nurseries, Tlaquepaque plant markets, and specialty suppliers for event-quality flowering plants
• Oversee chemical input program: fertilizer, pest control, and herbicide scheduling per STPS compliance
• Prepare landscape maintenance calendar and present to hotel director of operations on seasonal schedule

Requirements

• 4+ years hotel landscaping with team leadership experience
• Colonial garden management knowledge — courtyard, fountain, and formal garden elements
• Events preparation experience — high-occupancy and event-readiness landscape planning
• Rainy season operational planning in Jalisco climate
• Communication with hotel management and events team

Benefits

• IMSS, aguinaldo, paid vacation + premium
• Grocery vouchers MXN 750/month
• Staff canteen
• Wedding & events season bonus
• Work phone
• Executive uniform

Work environment

Grounds supervision in Guadalajara. Team management role in a hotel property where colonial garden presentation and events-calendar landscaping are key operational priorities.

About the role

Guadalajara's boutique hotel event calendar creates a specific kind of pressure on the grounds supervisor: the expectation that the garden will be exactly right on a date that was set six months ago. The supervisor who manages the bougainvillea pruning cycle with November wedding season in mind — who knows that the plants cut back in September will bloom exactly when the bridal party arrives — is providing a service that the events team sells and the couple experiences. That timing is the real expertise.