What You'll Do

  • Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
  • 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.
  • Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.
  • Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.
  • Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.
  • Train workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf.
  • Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.
  • Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.
  • Confer with other supervisors to coordinate work activities with those of other departments or units.

Essential Skills

Monitoring 4.0/5
Time Management 4.0/5
Active Listening 3.88/5
Management of Personnel Resources 3.88/5
Speaking 3.75/5
Critical Thinking 3.75/5
Coordination 3.75/5
Social Perceptiveness 3.25/5
Instructing 3.25/5
Judgment and Decision Making 3.25/5
Reading Comprehension 3.12/5
Active Learning 3.12/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to sense whether the day to day rhythm and focus of this path line up with what energizes you.

Top passions

  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.
  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.

Common styles

Dependability, Leadership, Adaptability/Flexibility, Cooperation, Self-Control

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 4.0/5
Oral Expression 3.88/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.75/5
Near Vision 3.38/5
Written Comprehension 3.25/5
Visualization 3.25/5
Speech Recognition 3.25/5
Speech Clarity 3.25/5

Technologies & Tools

Facebook Inventory management software Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office software Microsoft Outlook Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Word Payroll software Work order software

Work Environment & Style

Common Styles for This Career

  • Dependability (High importance: 4.44/5)
  • Leadership (High importance: 4.32/5)
  • Adaptability/Flexibility (High importance: 4.22/5)
  • Cooperation (High importance: 4.18/5)
  • Self-Control (High importance: 4.16/5)

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How to Become One

This career typically requires vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some specialized training or certification may also be required.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Arborist Crew Leader Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Cemetery Workers Supervisor Field Manager Gardening Manager Gardening Supervisor Golf Course Manager Golf Course Superintendent Greens Superintendent Greenskeeper Supervisor Grounds Crew Supervisor Grounds Foreman Grounds Maintenance Supervisor Grounds Manager Grounds Superintendent Grounds Supervisor Groundskeeper Supervisor Horticultural Services Supervisor Junior Landscape Crew Leader Landscape Account Manager Landscape Construction Foreman Landscape Crew Leader Landscape Foreman Landscape Installation Foreman Landscape Maintenance Foreman Landscape Maintenance Manager Landscape Manager Landscape Market Manager Landscape Project Manager (Landscape PM) Landscape Supervisor Landscaping Crew Leader Landscaping Foreman Landscaping Manager Landscaping Supervisor Lawn and Tree Service Spray Supervisor Lawn Services Manager Lawn Services Supervisor Nursery Supervisor Service Manager Tree Trimming Supervisor Turf and Grounds Supervisor Turf Manager