Job description for Project Manager at Prince's Landscape Pte Ltd
Prince's Landscape Pte Ltd
One of the oldest nurseries in Singapore, Prince’s has 50 years’ experience in the industry. Started out humbly as a flower shop, Prince’s has evolved into a full-fledged landscape design and installation specialist. At the international front, our global connections ensure that Prince’s meets the needs of our customers. Strategic alliances with Europe, Australasia, and Asia have been a boon to our service-oriented culture.
Position: Project Manager
The Event Project Manager oversees daily site and venue operations, ensuring safe, compliant, and efficient running of all activities. The role is heavily focused on festive event setups such as Christmas and Chinese New Year, while also supporting other assigned events as needed.
They manage financial, people, and resource planning to ensure smooth and profitable operations. This includes coordinating maintenance of utilities, mechanical and electrical systems, rides, and equipment, while ensuring all safety and regulatory requirements are met.
The role requires strong operational oversight, data analysis capability, and hands-on leadership to guide teams on site. The manager also mentors staff, maintains a strong service mindset to anticipate guest needs, and develops emergency response procedures. Flexibility is essential, as the role involves evenings, weekends, and public holidays to provide on-site support when required.
Duties:
- Collaborate with the management team in the development of marketing collaterals for business development
- Undertake site visits to understand onsite challenges that would impact the scope of work or achievement of contract criteria
- Develop cost and effort estimates to create technical and commercial proposals to bid for tendered contracts
- Evaluate the technical and commercial feasibility of the scope of work with respect to the organisation’s technical capability and commercial considerations
- Participate in tender interviews, pitch meetings and/or marketing presentations to potential clients, building architects and building ontractors to showcase technical capability and experience
- Attend client briefings to clarify project scope and establish expectations, communication channels and related protocols
- Conduct detailed site assessments to understand complete scope of implementation work, site challenges, technical issues and business, design and safety risks
- Review event space designs to understand feasibility and propose exceptions based on practical implementation considerations to the clients and the designers
- Develop the overall project plan, the compliance and technical requirements, protocols, standard operating procedures and processes for the implementation of the event
- Create periodic budgets in accordance with overall project budget and tender specifications to be met
- Plan the requirements for manpower, materials, tools and equipment as well as site supervision
- Identify vendors for plant and material procurements, and sub-contractors for parts of work for which internal capability may not be available
- Define roles, responsibilities and expectations for all onsite staff
- Coordinate the development of implementation drawings from design team
- Establish implementation processes for softscape and hardscape based on method of statement, drawings and project plans
- Assess the risks associated with implementation on site to establish safety procedures and protocols
- Drive adherence to industry standards, legislation and guidelines relating to workplace safety and health (WSH) regulations and usage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for projects
- Establish reporting norms to be used by supervisors to report on site progress and issues
- Conduct site visits to take feedback from supervisors and coordinators and review project progress and adherence to designs and plans
- Update clients, designers, principal contractors and other project stakeholders on progress of site
- Advise on technical issues pertaining to softscape and hardscape implementation
- Review schedule-based performance of all allocated sites through site reports to evaluate overall project performance
- Evaluate schedule-based performance of allocated sites against key established metrics
- Analyse reports of previous work done to avoid mistakes and improve performance
- Deploy measures to mitigate key anticipated challenges in reaching expected project performance levels
- Develop measures to improve performance in terms of quality, productivity, timeline and cost of maintenance
- Communicate common goals, direction and accountability among staff
- Develop staff through capability development and coaching
- Implement effective performance management practices within department in accordance with company policies and procedures
- Monitor budgets, forecasting, work allocations and staffing of the various departments
Candidate Profile:
- Degree in Horticulture, Arboriculture or other related fields with minimum of 5 yrs experience in landscaping projects or full-scale event setup
- Have knowledge and experience in health and safety regulations
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Good team player with ability to lead and multi-task
- Good track record of projects completion
- Have a passion in landscaping , floristry and good scheduling, planning and execution skills
- Strong anticipation and problem solving skill on site problems to avoid complication
- Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
- Well verse in computer literacy
We regret to inform only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest to join the Prince’s family.
