Operational Field Manager — Landscape Installation

The Project

Samara Lombok is a three-site luxury estate on the south coast of Lombok — Samara Beach, Samara Bay and Samara Hills — opening Q1 2028. The landscape package is one of the largest work packages on the entire project: full softscape and hardscape installation across all three sites, supplied in large part from our own on-site nursery and organic gardens.

The Role in One Line

We are hiring a field operator, not a designer. Someone who lives on site, moves plants and people at scale, and closes out a landscape package from nursery bed to signed handover — on programme, every time.

Reporting & Scope

Reports to:  General Manager, Samara Lombok

Directly leads:  100+ field crew, supervisors and subcontracted installation teams

Based:  Full-time on site, South Lombok. This is a field role, not an office role.

Contract:  Full-time, pre-opening mobilisation through opening and establishment period

Key Responsibilities

1. Nursery & Plant Supply

• Own the day-to-day operation of the on-site nursery: propagation, potting-on, hardening off, staging and holding areas

• Sequence plant availability against the installation programme — right species, right size, right condition, right week

• Control plant health, losses and shrinkage; set and enforce acceptance standards for all bought-in stock

• Manage sourcing trips, off-site holding nurseries, supplier inspections and pre-purchase tagging of specimen trees

2. Deliveries & Site Logistics

• Plan and control all inbound landscape deliveries: plants, specimen trees, topsoil, growing media, aggregates, hardscape materials, irrigation components

• Coordinate craning, heavy transport, access routes, laydown and staging areas with construction and site logistics

•  Run goods-in inspection, quantity verification and rejection of substandard material — nothing enters site unchecked

• Keep nurseries and material yards clean, counted and reconciled against the BOQ

3. Installation & Site Execution

• Drive daily execution of softscape and hardscape installation across all three sites simultaneously

• Set out works from landscape drawings; verify levels, grading, drainage and irrigation before a plant goes in the ground

• Enforce planting specification: pit sizes, soil mixes, backfill, staking, mulching, initial establishment care

• Solve site problems on the spot — access, weather, sequencing, clashes with other trades — without waiting to be told

4. Manpower & Crew Leadership

• Lead, deploy and hold accountable 100+ field staff, supervisors and mandors across multiple work fronts

• Build and issue the daily labour plan: who is where, doing what, with what tools and equipment, to what target

• Recruit, train and develop supervisors; run toolbox talks, skills coaching and succession for key crew leaders

• Manage subcontractors on output, quality and safety — measured on delivery, not on explanations

5. Programme, Handover & Establishment

• Own the landscape installation programme and report progress against it weekly

• Drive zone-by-zone completion: snagging, internal inspection, client walk-through and formal handover

• Manage the defects and establishment period — replacements, watering regimes, transition to the maintenance team

• Hand over complete records: as-installed plans, plant schedules, warranties, maintenance instructions

6. Safety, Cost & Reporting

• Enforce safety on every crew, every day: plant and machinery, manual handling, heat exposure, and fall protection.

• Track labour productivity, plant losses and material consumption against budget; flag variances early, not at month-end

• Weekly written report to the General Manager: progress, manpower, blockers, two-week look-ahead, risk register

What We Are Looking For

• 8+ years leading large-scale landscape installation on major resort, estate, township or development projects

• Proven experience directly managing 100+ field staff — personally, not through a layer of contractors

• Deep practical horticulture: tropical species, specimen tree transplanting, nursery operations, soils and irrigation

• Able to read and set out from landscape drawings, planting plans, grading, drainage and irrigation plans

• Demonstrable track record of delivering to programme and closing out to formal handover

• Fluent Bahasa Indonesia; working English sufficient to report to executive management

• Valid driving licence

Attitude — Non-Negotiable

• “Make it happen” mentality. Owns the outcome, never the excuse.

• Calm under pressure, hard on standards, fair with people.

• First on site, walks every front daily, knows every crew leader by name.

• Comfortable being held to a number — and holding others to theirs.

• Thrives in a remote, physically demanding, fast-moving pre-opening environment.