Project Manager

About Us

Natural Habitats is a leader in the landscaping industry in New Zealand, with over three decades of experience delivering bespoke, award-winning landscape projects. We take pride in transforming outdoor spaces into captivating, sustainable environments that enrich the lives of our customers and their loved ones. Our commitment to quality craftsmanship, innovation, and sustainable practices has positioned us at the forefront of our industry.

Position Overview

This position is based in Queenstown where we have our yard/office, but will take you to our clients around the region.

As a Project Manager you will be ready to hit the ground running. Your primary focus is on providing direction to Team Leaders and their Landscapers by ensuring the successful delivery of landscape projects within or above budgeted margins and expectations. You will also empower your Team Leaders, foster profitable, efficient, and ethical project execution, and build and maintain lasting client relationships.

Key Responsibilities to Cultivate Success:

Project Delivery: ensure project deliverables align with client expectations, control costs, develop work programs, strategize corrections for deviations, and promptly address variations with Team Leaders.

Client Relations: build, craft and maintain strong client relationships, ensuring exceptional customer satisfaction.

Leadership: gain commitment from Team Leaders by addressing concerns and establishing non-negotiable objectives, educate team members on deliverables, timelines, budgets and foster a collaborative team environment with open communication.

Procurement: adhere to procurement procedures, create schedules, and uphold negotiated pricing, while also analyzing actual quantities against quotes to address overruns and ensuring precise tracking of team hours chargeable to projects.

What You’ll Bring to the Table

You’ll have a track record of managing landscaping projects across commercial and residential clients, have a passion for growing people and building excellent client and team relationships.

You’ll also need

• Strong technical expertise in landscape construction – minimum of five years’ experience within the industry.
• Exceptional communication, problem solving, interpersonal, and time management skills.
• Outstanding team management capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple moving parts in a fast-paced environment
• Strong experience in managing project budgets and estimates.
• It is advantageous if you have a Project Management, Landscape / Horticulture or Construction qualification.
• Benefits

As an employee of Natural Habitats, you’ll get access to

Competitive Rewards: A salary that matches your skillset and access to tools of the trades including a company vehicle.

Collaborative Environment: Join a supportive workplace that nurtures your growth.

Path to Greatness: Career development within an industry leader.

Diverse and high-quality projects

We know good people are hard to find - so we value our team properly. We are looking for someone who wants to build a career, enjoy where they live, and be part of a company doing exciting work in one of the most beautiful parts of the country! If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you...

Email us a current CV and Cover Letter to [email protected] or apply online via Seek by Friday 23rd October 2026.

Natural Habitats is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.