Facilities and Landscaping Manager

Location: Trumbull, CT, with regular travel throughout Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and New York
Pay: Salary commensurate with experience
FLSA Status: Exempt, salaried
Job Type: Full-time
Work Setting: On-site across headquarters, day, residential, contract, community work sites, and customer locations
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Schedule:

Flexible schedule including early mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, weather events, and emergency response as operational needs require

The Kennedy Collective creates pathways for people to flourish and thrive. We provide support services and operate business enterprises that create employment opportunities, deliver professional services to customers, and generate revenue that advances our mission. Our facilities, grounds, vehicles, and service operations play a critical role in supporting the people we serve, the customers we partner with, and the employees who deliver our mission every day.

Reporting to the Director of Facilities Management, the Landscaping & Facility Manager leads the day-to-day delivery of facilities maintenance, landscaping, lawn care, snow and ice response, equipment management, contractor coordination, and related operational services across The Kennedy Collective. The position supervises facilities and landscaping employees, coordinates internal and contracted projects, maintains safe and compliant work environments, and responds to operational emergencies.

This role combines planning, leadership, budgeting, vendor management, and field operations. Success requires someone who can balance office-based planning and documentation with regular site visits, employee supervision, contractor oversight, and hands‑on operational support.

• Lead facilities maintenance, landscaping, lawn care, renovation, repair, and contracted service work across multiple organizational locations.
• Direct preventive maintenance, repairs, renovations, and emergency response activities for owned and leased facilities.
• Manage facility projects and contracted services, including scopes of work, proposal review, contractor oversight, permits, and project completion verification.
• Oversee vehicles, trailers, plows, power equipment, tools, supplies, garages, storage areas, and related operational assets.
• Develop staffing schedules and seasonal work plans that support facilities maintenance, landscaping operations, snow response, emergencies, and customer commitments.
• Hold team members accountable for work quality, safety, training completion, customer service, documentation, and follow-through.
• Maintain accurate financial, contract, equipment, workforce, inspection, and project records.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA requirements, safety standards, inspection requirements, organizational policies, and contractual obligations.
• Support customer relationships by assisting with service evaluations, quotes, project coordination, documentation, and operational communication.
• Communicate operational risks, emergencies, compliance concerns, and corrective actions to organizational leadership.

• High school diploma or GED.
• Demonstrated experience managing facilities maintenance, landscaping, grounds, construction, property operations, or a related function.
• Prior experience supervising employees and coordinating schedules, performance expectations, training, and work assignments.
• Experience coordinating maintenance, construction, renovation, landscaping, snow removal, or contracted service projects.
• Working knowledge of occupational safety practices, facility inspections, equipment safety, preventive maintenance, and emergency response.
• Ability to evaluate vendor proposals, project specifications,…