Landscaping / Grounds Supervisor
Quick Facts
What They Do
A Landscaping or Grounds Supervisor supervises the staff that provide landscaping for residences, parks, public gardens, college campuses or building or office park grounds. Supervises work to care for plants and trees, including mowing, trimming and planting, and work to repair driveways, walks, benches or other structures. Oversees equipment maintenance and transportation, and communicates with residential customers.
Core Tasks:
- Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
- Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.
- Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.
- Tour grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil.
- Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.
- Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.
- Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.
- Train workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf.
- Direct or perform mixing or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides.
- Identify diseases or pests affecting landscaping and order appropriate treatments.
- Prepare service estimates based on labor, material, and machine costs and maintain budgets for individual projects.
- Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.
- Perform personnel-related activities, such as hiring workers, evaluating staff performance, or taking disciplinary actions when performance problems occur.
- Maintain required records, such as personnel information or project records.
- Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.
- Prepare or maintain required records, such as work activity or personnel reports.
- Confer with other supervisors to coordinate work activities with those of other departments or units.
- Review contracts or work assignments to determine service, machine, or workforce requirements for jobs.
- Investigate work-related complaints to verify problems and to determine responses.
- Direct or assist workers engaged in the maintenance or repair of equipment, such as power tools or motorized equipment.
- Perform administrative duties, such as authorizing leaves or processing time sheets.
- Order the performance of corrective work when problems occur and recommend procedural changes to avoid such problems.
- Confer with managers or landscape architects to develop plans or schedules for landscaping maintenance or improvement.
- Recommend changes in working conditions or equipment used to increase crew efficiency.
- Answer inquiries from current or prospective customers regarding methods, materials, or price ranges.
- Install or maintain landscaped areas, performing tasks such as removing snow, pouring cement curbs, or repairing sidewalks.
- Design or supervise the installation of sprinkler systems, calculating water pressure, or valve and pipe coverage needs.
What to expect as a Landscaping / Grounds Supervisor
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