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Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers Supervisor

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AVG. SALARY

$45,890

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EDUCATION

High school (GED) +

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JOB OUTLOOK

Stable

What They Do

First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers Career Video

About This Career

Directly supervise and coordinates activities of workers engaged in landscaping or groundskeeping activities. Work may involve reviewing contracts to ascertain service, machine, and workforce requirements; answering inquiries from potential customers regarding methods, material, and price ranges; and preparing estimates according to labor, material, and machine costs.

This career is part of the Architecture and Construction cluster Maintenance/Operations pathway.

A person in this career:

  • Establishes and enforces operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
  • Schedules work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.
  • Monitors project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.
  • Tours grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil.
  • Directs activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.
  • Inspects completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.
  • Plants or maintains vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.
  • Directs or performs mixing or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides.
  • Trains workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf.
  • Identifies diseases or pests affecting landscaping and orders appropriate treatments.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

  • You would often handle loads up to 50 lbs., sometimes up to 100 lbs. You will need a lot of strength at this level.
  • Work in this occupation involves use of protective items such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, a hard hat, or personal flotation devices
  • Exposure to pollutants, gases, dust, fumes, odors, poor ventilation, etc.
  • Conditions are very hot (above 90 F) or very cold (under 32 F)
  • Work in this occupation involves using your hands to hold, control, and feel objects more than one-third of the time
  • Exposed to hazardous equipment such as saws, machinery, or vehicular traffic more than once a month
  • Sound and noise levels are loud and distracting
  • Work in this occupation requires being outside most of the time
  • Work in this occupation involves standing more than one-third of the time
  • Work in this occupation involves walking or running more than one-third of the time

Working in this career involves (physical activities):

  • Seeing clearly at a distance
  • Seeing clearly up close
  • Speaking clearly enough to be able to be understood by others
  • Identifying and understanding the speech of another person
  • Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying objects

Work Hours and Travel

  • Weekend work

Specialty and Similar Careers

Careers that are more detailed or close to this career:

  • Field Manager
  • Golf Course Superintendent
  • Grounds Crew Supervisor
  • Grounds Foreman
  • Grounds Maintenance Supervisor
  • Grounds Manager
  • Grounds Supervisor
  • Groundskeeper Supervisor
  • Landscape Manager
  • Landscape Supervisor