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

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

1. 01Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.
2. 02Prepare service estimates based on labor, material, and machine costs and maintain budgets for individual projects.
3. 03Investigate work-related complaints to verify problems and to determine responses.
4. 04Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.
5. 05Identify diseases or pests affecting landscaping and order appropriate treatments.
6. 06Tour grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil.
7. 07Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.
8. 08Prepare or maintain required records, such as work activity or personnel reports.
9. 09Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.
10. 10Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.
11. 11Train workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf.
12. 12Direct or perform mixing or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides.

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